It's Not 'Anti Democracy' To Stop Speaking To You, Natalie...

After all, you aren't the sole media outlet in the world.

A Reform council leader’s decision to ban his councillors from engaging with a prominent local newspaper is a “massive attack on local democracy” and a sign of things to come should the party form the next government, the outlet’s editor has warned.

WTAF? Aren't there other newspapers and radio stations then? 

In an unprecedented move, Nottinghamshire county council’s four-month-old Reform administration has said it will no longer deal with the Nottingham Post, its online edition and a team of BBC-funded local democracy journalists that it manages.

Ah, I see.  Such an important source for news that when I loaded it up just now (fighting my way through all the adverts), there was no sign of this most important issue:

Nigel Farage is already facing calls to intervene in the row, with local MPs accusing Reform of “rank hypocrisy” over its previous claims to support free speech and transparency.

 Yet as many people have pointed out, not spreaking to a particular journalist is no transgression against free speech.

In an interview with the Guardian, Natalie Fahy, the editor of the Nottingham Post and Nottinghamshire Live, said “This is a worrying sign of potentially things to come if Reform wins the next election. What you’re seeing here in Nottinghamshire is probably a microcosm of how it will be across the whole of the UK if Nigel Farage becomes prime minister. You are just going to see this kind of shutting down of questioning.

You're so far up yourself, Natalie, you must be talking out of the top of your head. 

“They need to be answerable to the people who elected them. We don’t take a political stance. We’re not anti-Reform. We’re just trying to find out what’s going on.”

They are answerable to the people who elected them - at the ballot box. Not when they are buying something to line the budgie's cage. 

Apart From The Obvious?

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said Thursday that authorities did not have any information indicating that school shooter Robin Westman suffered from mental illness despite officers being called to her home twice.

The fact he was disturbed enough to believe he could be a woman wasn't clue enough then? 

Mary Grace Westman, the mother of shooter Robin Westman, 23, was a former employee at the Annunciation Catholic Church where the horror unfolded Wednesday morning. The mother has reportedly sought legal counsel out of an abundance of caution in the aftermath of the tragedy. 'She is completely distraught about the situation and has no culpability but is seeking an attorney to deal with calls like this,' Attorney Ryan Garry told Fox News.

She wasted no time jumping on a plane back from Florida only to not answer any qurestions? Why? Couldn't she have lawyered up in Florida just as easily?

She has retained criminal defense attorney Ryan Garry, known for his work with NFL star Colin Kaepernick in cases related to protests at the death of George Floyd in 2020.

Ah, maybe woke lawyers are harder to come by in Florida? 

Weaponized drones are being tested inside US schools, flying through hallways with the ability to neutralize active shooters in seconds. Equipped with non-lethal pepper spray, powder pellets, and live video feeds, the drones launch from secure charging stations, six per school, when gunfire is detected.

WTAF? What sort of Robocop induced crazy plan is this? Why not arm the teachers, who are often the first people to raise the alarm about mentally troubled students? Or maybe start dealing seriously with mental illness, instead of considering it 'just a lifestyle choice' that people are free to make?