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This is a Bit of a Sticky Wicket

Environmental activist group Extinction Rebellion supporters entered the House of Commons debating chamber and superglued themselves around the speaker’s chair on Friday.

The climate change demonstrators posted a photo of five people inside the chamber holding banners reading, “Let the people decide” and “Citizens’ Assembly now.”

The group also hung a large banner bearing the same words from scaffolding on the estate, and protesters padlocked themselves to gates outside parliament.

Parliament is not currently sitting.

Britain’s House of Commons said it was dealing with an incident on the parliamentary estate.

“We are aware of an incident on the Parliamentary Estate and are currently dealing with the situation as a matter of urgency,” the House of Commons said in a statement.

Certain areas of the parliamentary complex are usually open to the public, although access to the debating chamber is usually restricted to guided tours.

Extinction Rebellion, a group that previously caused days of traffic chaos in central London, typically protests against climate change issues.

It said the protesters were reading a speech that included the words: “We are in crisis. We cannot afford to carry on like this.”

What Exactly Did They Glue Down?  Body Parts?  Clothing?
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The phrase "sticky wicket" comes from the game of cricket. "Wicket" has several meanings in cricket: in this case it refers to the rectangular area, also known as the pitch, in the centre of the cricket field between the stumps. The wicket is usually covered in a much shorter grass than the rest of the field or entirely bare, making it susceptible to variations in weather, which in turn cause the ball to bounce differently.[4]

The QOP Fears Another Low-Quality Candidate

Deep-pocketed Republicans are taking action two weeks ahead of 2022's final Senate primary to ensure that the party nominates state Senate President Chuck Morse rather than retired Army Brig. General Donald Bolduc, a far-right conspiracy theorist who has posted wide leads in two recent polls even though he's raised very little money. Politico reports that White Mountain PAC, an organization that was only set up on Tuesday, has reserved as much as $4.1 million on an ad campaign to promote Morse in the Sept. 13 primary to take on Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan.

Godzilla vs Rodan

The long-simmering tensions between Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), the chair of the GOP’s Senate campaign arm, are once again spilling out into the open, with a little over two months to go before the midterms.

McConnell — along with many other Republicans — has privately raised doubts for months about his party’s roster of Senate candidates and chances of recapturing control of the upper chamber in November. But with those concerns becoming increasingly apparent, Scott has begun to dig in his heels.

In an interview with Politico this week, the National Republican Senatorial Committee chairman acknowledged a “strategic disagreement” with McConnell. On Thursday, Scott penned an op-ed for the Washington Examiner in which he accused “the very people responsible for losing the Senate last cycle” of “trash-talking our Republican candidates.”

“If you want to talk about the need to raise more money to promote our candidates versus the Democrats’ terrible candidates, I agree. If you want to trash-talk our candidates to help the Democrats, pipe down,” Scott wrote. “That’s not what leaders do.”

Scott’s op-ed did not explicitly mention McConnell, a seasoned political operator known for taking a keen interest in his party’s approach to campaigning. But Scott’s message was unmistakable, coming just two weeks after McConnell downplayed the GOP’s prospects of recapturing control of the Senate and took a thinly veiled swipe at the quality of some of the party’s candidates.

“I think there’s probably a greater likelihood the House flips than the Senate,” McConnell said during an appearance in his home state last month. “Senate races are just different. They’re statewide, candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome.”

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“As the President spoke, some listened, some didn’t. Many listeners liked what he said, while those who didn't listen didn’t like it. Who can know if it will make a difference? It’s hard to say.”



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A Clear Sign of the End of the World

In a viral video, a Southwest Airlines pilot was recorded threatening to turn a flight to Mexico around, forcing all passengers to leave, if they didn’t stop airdropping nudes to fellow flyers.

The footage has raked up over 3 million views and was captured by traveler Teighlor Marsalis, who goes by @teighmars on TikTok, during the flight to Cabo San Lucas.

“So here’s the deal: If this continues while we’re on the ground, I’m going to have to pull back to the gate, everybody’s going to have to get off, we’re going to have to get security involved, and [your] vacation is going to be ruined,” the pilot says in the clip.

He added: “So you folks, whatever that AirDrop thing is, quit sending naked pictures, and let’s get yourself to Cabo.”

The “AirDrop thing” the pilot mentioned refers to iPhone users’ ability to send photos or other files to iPhones near them. It is unclear how many people were involved in the incident and who received the nude photos.

Southwest said it cannot “validate the date, time or authenticity” of the video in a statement to People.

“The safety, security and wellbeing of Customers and Employees is the Southwest Team’s highest priority at all times. When made aware of a potential problem, our employees address issues to support the comfort of those traveling with us,” the company added.

Two months ago, a viral TikTok showed a flight attendant confronting a man on another Southwest flight who was caught allegedly AirDropping photos of his genitalia to other travelers.



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