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55 years ago

Politics: Why the drone hysteria has carried on

Slate

For this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode, Emily, John, and David discuss the objects in the skies over New Jersey. Tara Suter for The Hill: Drone sightings a combination of ‘lawful’ drones, other aircraft and stars, officials say Bryan Walsh for Vox: The drone hysteria is a glimpse of the future The Bulwark: IT’S JUST A PLANE! Atmospheric Scientist shoots …

3 weeks, 5 days ago

Teenage girl gang filmed attacking train staff and police walk free from court - after blaming it on 'mass hysteria'

Daily Mail

A teenage girl gang who went viral on social media after they were filmed attacking train staff, passengers and police officers in an alcohol-fuelled rampage have been spared jail. A teenage girl gang who went viral on social media after they were filmed attacking train staff, passengers and police officers in an alcohol-fuelled rampage have been spared jail The five …

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4 weeks, 1 day ago

White House national security spokesman gives major update amid drone hysteria

Raw Story

After sifting through the reports over the past few weeks of reports of drones over New Jersey, National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said Monday the truth is not out there. "Having closely looked at the tips and collated them as best we can from concerned citizens, we assess that the sightings to date include a combination of lawful commercial …

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4 weeks, 1 day ago

World Chess Champion Gukesh receives hero’s welcome in Chennai amid chaos and hysteria

The Hindu

The atmosphere was charged with anticipation at the T2 international arrival gate of the Chennai airport. The chess prodigy, who had etched his name in history as the youngest World Chess Champion after dethroning Ding Liren of China in a gruelling 14-game match in Singapore, was returning home to a hero’s welcome. But the long wait eventually proved worthwhile when …

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4 weeks, 2 days ago

'A Pearl Harbor moment': Fox News host amps up hysteria over drone sightings

Raw Story

Rep. Jim Himes disputed Fox News host Jacqui Heinrich after she suggested drone sightings were a "Pearl Harbor moment" for Americans. During an interview on Fox News Sunday, Himes agreed that the federal government was responsible for ensuring drones were not flying over sensitive government facilities. "And all I'm saying is we should be sober about it and not start …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

College football Week 13 oddly specific predictions: Hoosier Hysteria ends, Ohio State rolls

New York Times

Can anybody stop Kansas? Dave Clawson’s Demon Deacons rank 130th in passing yards allowed per game, and it’s probably a safe bet Miami’s leaky defense won’t be able to halt Wake’s slow mesh offense enough to cover the 24.5-point spread. Most rushing yards Jacksonville State’s Tre Stewart ranks seventh nationally with 1,219 rushing yards for the team sitting atop the …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

Bruce Campbell talks "Hysteria!" and the changes in filmmaking since "The Evil Dead"

Salon

"Believe it or not, I am more pigeonholed by fans than within my own industry." I'm not in favor, though, of luring somebody into a movie they didn't suspect, like “Evil Dead.” It was unrated, but we put, “The producers strongly recommend no one under 18 see this film” to let people know what you're getting into. We need your …

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3 months, 1 week ago

GOP's voter fraud 'hysteria' bears 'striking' resemblance to 1880: columnist

Raw Story

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, long at the forefront of efforts to prevent any expansion of voter access in America's second-largest state, is under fire after the state sent law enforcement to search and intimidate Latino activists, including a candidate for state House, as part of an investigation into "ballot harvesting." Tensions erupted in 1880, when Texas backed Democratic presidential …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Letters to the Editor: Ronald Reagan fueled the dangerous anti-government hysteria crippling us today

LA Times

Then-President Reagan sits in the Oval Office after delivering his farewell address on Jan. 11, 1989. He famously said, “Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem,” and, “I’ve always felt the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.” Healthy distrust and skepticism of any …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Anti-China hysteria could prove self-defeating for US

China Daily

The US Capitol on Capitol Hill in Washington, US. A latest bill passed by the House of Representatives tightens rules limiting Chinese content in vehicles qualifying for US EV tax credits, showing a clear intention to cut China from America's EV supply chain. In fact, despite pressure and threats from politicians, Ford Motor and some other US companies are seeking …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Inside Trump's new front in the Haitian hysteria push: Charleroi

Raw Story

During a campaign rally in Tucson, Ariz., earlier this month — his first since debating Vice President Kamala Harris — former President Donald Trump doubled down on his false claims that Haitians are stealing and eating people’s pets in Springfield, Ohio. Hochman said on a December 2021 Twitter Space chat that Fuentes had “gotten a lot of kids based, and …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Lily Allen's recollection of mid-air sex in an aeroplane TOILET with then-married Liam Gallagher in 2009 resurfaces as he prepares for multimillion pound Oasis reunion

Daily Mail

Lily Allen's wild 'toilet sex romp' story with Liam Gallagher has resurfaced as Oasis gear up to embark on their highly-anticipated reunion tour. Lily Allen's recollection of mid-air sex in an aeroplane TOILET with then-married Liam Gallagher in 2009 has resurfaced as he prepares for his multimillion pound Oasis reunion, According to the 39-year-old Smile hitmaker's 2018 autobiography, My Thoughts …

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5 months ago

Mass hysteria is an inexplicable illness that’s still contagious.

Slate

“Hysteria” is an ancient word carrying thousands of years of baggage. In today’s episode Dan Taberski, the host of Hysterical, a new podcast about mass hysteria, walks us through the past and present of this phenomenon, why it’s so stigmatized, and why it shouldn’t be. Slate Plus members get to listen to Decoder Ring and every other Slate podcast without …

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6 months, 1 week ago

North Korean leader’s sister Kim Yo Jong calls South Korea’s live-fire drills ’suicidal hysteria’

The Hindu

The sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called South Korea’s recent front-line live-fire drills “suicidal hysteria” as she threatened unspecified military steps on July 8 if further provoked. The warning by Kim Yo Jong came after South Korea resumed firing exercises near its tense land and sea borders with North Korea in the past two weeks. But its …

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6 months, 1 week ago

Sister of North Korean leader Kim calls South Korea’s live-fire drills ‘suicidal hysteria’

Associated Press

SEOUL, South Korea — The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called South Korea’s recent front-line live-fire drills “suicidal hysteria” as she threatened unspecified military steps Monday if further provoked. She said the riskiness of the South Korean drills is clear to everyone as they happened amid “a touch-and-go situation” established after the U.S., South Korea and …

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7 months ago

The meaning of the hysteria over Taylor Swift

Hindustan Times

As every paid-up conspiracist knows, the NFL was rigged to ease the Kansas City Chiefs into the Super Bowl on February 11th—ensuring the attendance of Taylor Swift, girlfriend of one of the players, or so they say. Claims that starry love affairs are shams, such as Ms Swift’s with Travis Kelce of the Chiefs, are a common strand of conspiracy …

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7 months ago

Drag Artists Create Qommittee To Stop Anti-LGBTQ+ Violence

Huff Post

Tiara Latrice Kelley remembers the shock and confusion that rang through her body when she received a text from her friend the night of June 12, 2016. But now, we’re also battling a tidal wave of hate-doxxing, harassment, death threats, armed protests, bombings, and even shootings.” Among Qommittee’s members are Sairen Strange, who had an event canceled due to armed …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

Israel-Gaza student protests: Tom Cotton calling for the National Guard at Columbia University is dangerous hysteria.

Slate

This is Totally Normal Quote of the Day, a feature highlighting a statement from the news that exemplifies just how extremely normal everything has become. If Eric Adams won’t send the NYPD and Kathy Hochul won’t send the National Guard, Joe Biden has a duty to take charge and break up these mobs.” —‍Republican Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton, in a …

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10 months, 1 week ago

Biden administration's China fear borders on hysteria

China Daily

Photo taken on Oct 28, 2021 shows the White House in Washington, DC, the United States. Last week, the United States launched an investigation to find out whether Chinese vehicle imports pose national security risks and it could impose restrictions because of concerns about "connected" car technology. In the 2010s, the US resorted to "extraterritorial jurisdiction" to dissect the French …

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1 year ago

Gen Z trend forecaster claims that viral Stanley cups 'are on their way OUT' - despite Target customers rioting over new Starbucks collaboration - because 'cool youths' will abandon them now that adul

Daily Mail

Casey, from New York, believes that such fads drop off when adults get involved The Gen Z forecaster says: 'This is peak Stanley. A Gen Z trend forecaster has claimed that the Stanley cup is 'on its way out' with the furor around the travel tumblers finally reaching its peak Casey Lewis, based in New York, spoke to Business Insider …

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1 year, 2 months ago

'I had no idea I'd become a national event': Orson Welles on the mass hysteria of The War of the Worlds

BBC

'I had no idea I'd become a national event': Orson Welles on the mass hysteria of The War of the Worlds On 30 October 85 years ago, the population of the US was – according to Orson Welles – overwhelmed by mass panic, terrified by the all-too-real broadcast of his alien-invasion drama The War of the Worlds. It's an incident …

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1 year, 4 months ago

How anti-gay hysteria in Ethiopia changed its culture of physical touch

LA Times

I knew a monkey once. In the small town where I grew up, my classmates at school would put an arm around my shoulder without asking for permission and we would sit like that for the whole duration of recess. I struggled to make friends in America and, when I did, none were like the friends I had in Ethiopia, …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Black dean to be paid $1M after diversity 'hysteria' botched hiring at Texas A&M

Raw Story

Several high-level Texas A&M University System officials — including the board of regents and the flagship campus’ president — were involved in discussions about how to handle a Black journalism professor’s job offer after conservatives criticized her hiring, according to an internal report released Thursday. She told the Tribune she felt judged for her race and gender and said an …

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1 year, 5 months ago

It's "Uncle Tom's Cabin," but for QAnon: Film spreading child trafficking hysteria is making bank

Salon

During a post-movie visit to the women's restroom, I overheard a woman sobbing in a stall. Regardless of whether you agree with the partisan forces that have attached themselves to "Sound of Freedom," the child trafficking thriller starring Jim Caviezel is an unmitigated box office hit. More than this, "Sound of Freedom," which had a $14.5 million budget, is now …

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Politics: Why the drone hysteria has carried on

Teenage girl gang filmed attacking train staff and police walk free from court - after blaming it on 'mass hysteria'

White House national security spokesman gives major update amid drone hysteria

World Chess Champion Gukesh receives hero’s welcome in Chennai amid chaos and hysteria

'A Pearl Harbor moment': Fox News host amps up hysteria over drone sightings

College football Week 13 oddly specific predictions: Hoosier Hysteria ends, Ohio State rolls

Bruce Campbell talks "Hysteria!" and the changes in filmmaking since "The Evil Dead"

GOP's voter fraud 'hysteria' bears 'striking' resemblance to 1880: columnist

Letters to the Editor: Ronald Reagan fueled the dangerous anti-government hysteria crippling us today

Anti-China hysteria could prove self-defeating for US

Inside Trump's new front in the Haitian hysteria push: Charleroi

Lily Allen's recollection of mid-air sex in an aeroplane TOILET with then-married Liam Gallagher in 2009 resurfaces as he prepares for multimillion pound Oasis reunion

Mass hysteria is an inexplicable illness that’s still contagious.

North Korean leader’s sister Kim Yo Jong calls South Korea’s live-fire drills ’suicidal hysteria’

Sister of North Korean leader Kim calls South Korea’s live-fire drills ‘suicidal hysteria’

The meaning of the hysteria over Taylor Swift

Drag Artists Create Qommittee To Stop Anti-LGBTQ+ Violence

Israel-Gaza student protests: Tom Cotton calling for the National Guard at Columbia University is dangerous hysteria.

Biden administration's China fear borders on hysteria

Gen Z trend forecaster claims that viral Stanley cups 'are on their way OUT' - despite Target customers rioting over new Starbucks collaboration - because 'cool youths' will abandon them now that adul

'I had no idea I'd become a national event': Orson Welles on the mass hysteria of The War of the Worlds

How anti-gay hysteria in Ethiopia changed its culture of physical touch

Black dean to be paid $1M after diversity 'hysteria' botched hiring at Texas A&M

It's "Uncle Tom's Cabin," but for QAnon: Film spreading child trafficking hysteria is making bank