Maddison's Current Events Blog

Current Event: Kevin Durant, Kendrick Perkins Beef on Twitter During Westbrook Debate Russell Westbrook's return to Oklahoma City was met warmly within Chesapeake Energy Arena, but the same can't be said for the reactions it sparked on Twitter Kendrick Perkins, who played in Oklahoma City alongside Westbrook and Kevin Durant from 2010-14, tweeted that Westbrook is "the best player to have ever put on an Oklahoma City Thunder jersey" and called him "Mr. Thunder." When Perkins was challenged on that notion by Marc D'Amico, who hinted at Durant holding the title, things got chippy. Durant chimed in, taking a dig at Perkins' play: After Perkins brought up the fact Durant left Oklahoma City in free agency to sign with the Golden State Warriors after the Warriors had defeated the Thunder in the 2016 Western Conference Finals, Durant was seemingly bored: However, Durant couldn't leave it at that. "Weak is starting at center, playing real minutes

Current Event World war 3 World War III (WWIII or WW3) and the Third World War are names given to a hypothetical third worldwide large-scale military conflict subsequent to World War I and II. The term has been in use since at least as early as 1941. Some have applied it loosely to refer to limited or smaller conflicts such as the Cold War or the War on Terror, while others assumed that such a conflict would surpass prior world wars both in its scope and in its destructive impact Due to the development and use of nuclear weapons near the end of World War II and their subsequent acquisition and deployment by many countries, the potential risk of a nuclear devastation of Earth's civilization and life is a common theme in speculations about a Third World War. Another major concern is that biological warfare could cause a very large number of casualties, either intentionally or inadvertently by an accidental release of a biological agent, the unexpected mutation of an agent, or its

On September 11 a band named My Chemical Romance was formed at the end of 2001 to the beginning of 2002 It was formed by the singer/frontman Gerard Way and drummer Matt Pelissier. Mikey Way, Ray Toro, Frank Lero, James Dewees, and Bob Bryar joined the band they played for many years they ended up breaking up in 2013 they later got back together in 2019 on October 31 Goth kids of the early 2000s just got the best news: My Chemical Romance , everyone's favorite emo band, is actually reuniting. The band hasn't played a show together since 2012  and they officially broke up in 2013 but the members of My Chemical Romance have announced that they are coming back together for a show in Los Angeles later in the year. But we need to know On October 31 My Chemical Romance announced that they are officially back together...for one show, at least. For the first time in years, Gerard Way and the rest of the band took to Twitter to announce a reunion show. My Chemical Romance will perfor

Current Event #6 If there was any doubt before, it is now official: Drake is the king of streaming music. When his 25-track new album, “Scorpion,” was released on Friday, it immediately shattered one-day streaming records at the major services. In its first 24 hours, the album had 170 million streams on Apple Music around the world. On Spotify, where at one point the album was being listened to 10 million times an hour, it logged at least 132 million streams globally, according to unofficial tallies. (Spotify declined to provide specific numbers.) Through Sunday, “Scorpion” had a total of 435 million streams, according to Billboard. That beat the previous weekly streaming record, held by Post Malone with 431 million, in just three days. The promotion for “Scorpion” shows just how intensely the streaming services will compete for the clicks of a major event record. Apple, which has had a close association with Drake for years, put Siri to work with a list of his nicknames. Spoti

Current event #5 Donald Trump, Life of a Zombie Party Oct. 4 was an exciting day. It was a week and a half after the Democratic-led House opened a formal impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump, following a whistle-blower’s complaint alleging that he corruptly pressured Ukraine to investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son. Between the opening of the inquiry and Oct. 4, the White House released a summary of a phone call between Trump and Ukraine’s president, which only seemed to confirm the whistle-blower’s allegations. House Democrats continued to come out in favor of the investigation. And, on Oct. 3, Trump in broad daylight, in front of a gaggle of reporters, openly asked Ukraine and China to investigate Biden. Impeachment at that point was looking almost inevitable. Trump’s abuse of power in this instance was irrefutable. Indeed, it was being affirmed by the abuser himself. So, it was an odd bit of scheduling that throngs of young black conse

Current event #4  How Donald Trump’s Obsession With Immigrants Has Shaped His Presidency  On the morning of Jan. 11, 2018, Senator Richard Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, received a phone call from the president of the United States, Donald J. Trump, summoning him to the White House. Durbin had been working for months with Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, on a deal to grant legal status to the so-called “Dreamers” — children who had been brought illegally into the country by their parents when they were very young, had grown up here and knew only the United States as home. The news from Trump was encouraging. “Wow,” Durbin told an aide. “I think we may actually have a deal.”Durbin and Graham — who received a similar call that morning — expected a private meeting with the president, but as they waited in the West Wing lobby a phalanx of hard-liners arrived, led by Stephen Miller, the young mastermind of Trump’s draconian immigration policies. Were they being amb