you know ikea, the furniture/meatball makers? well, ikea in canada tried to do something nice to honor pride month. they put out a line of sofas that were supposed to be a celebration of the lgbtq community. i got all the letters, right? >> all the letters perfect. >> wanda: thank you. but they made some very questionable choices. and one of the writers here at the show has some very strong feelings about them. here to weigh in on the ikea pride sofas is louis virtel- to virtel it like it is. [ applause ] >> thank you, wanda. pride-themed couches from ikea! this topic is important to me because i'm gay and i own a couch. you think i watch "wheel of fortune" on a beanbag? dream on. ikea's pride couches are based on the color schemes of the various pride flags. like many queer people, these couches are bright, bold, and sometimes so tacky i can't stand it. take a look at this couch inspired by the gay pride flag. that's real. if i told you that it was inspired by something, would you guess "pride flag"? i would guess "hawaiian fune

we've got the likes of ikea. how have they done?rimarily as emergency accommodation and they are flatpack homes, as you would expect from ikea, and those agreements with the local authorities were struck just before the pandemic. i am not sure if any of them are actually finished constructed yet, but it makes sense for a company like ikea, of course, and john lewis, to move into this sector, and they aren't the only ones, either. earlier this year it was announced that lloyds bank wanted to diversify and become a landlord. i suppose simply, you could say, being a landlord is rather lucrative, and its guaranteed income, so i think that also something to consider. you said that we need good quality homes. what is a good quality home, and why aren't we getting those now? well, there are lots of questions about this. the new homes quality board has been established to ensure that new homes being built are up to scratch. we have had a lot of problems with new builds over recent years, which include, but are by no means limited to, proble

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meanwhile, some trouble in france where ikea has been fined 1.1 million euros for spying on its staff was spying on them when the stores had them assembling its newest product: the peeperslooken. ( laughter ) everybody lo meanwhile, salma hayek's owl coughed a rat hairball on harry styles. owl well, we all saw 'that' coming. meanwhile, the world's first wooden satellite will launch this year. it will be the first satellite to burn up on exit. ( laughter ) they're launching it in order to test the durability of plywood panels in the extreme conditions of space. as the one-time owner of several ikea items, i can tell you that plywood panels can't even handle the extreme conditions of apartment. ( laughter ) ( applause ) meanwhile, scary news for peloton users: a new cyber security threat analysis found a dangerous flaw that couldhave enable hackers to invisibly and remotely gain control of bikes. this could be bad. (as peloton instructor) all right, you guys let's take the resistance up to 35. and, just for kicks, everyone shout their social security number. marlene p, you're lagging, b

companies are weighing in on the battle over the ballot box major businesss like pepsico, macy's and ikea signed on to a letter supporting the john lewis voting rights advancement act. it would restore a requirement forcing places with a history of discrimination to get federal permission before making changes to their elections meanwhile, texas democrats are still blocking two restrictive voting bills nbc's priscilla thompson joins us from austin with an update. >> reporter: frances, the texas house is moving into the third day without enough people to have a kor rum because most of the democratic members remain in washington, d.c. and they're still saying they are going to stay there until this special session is over. and so, what that means is that while republican lawmakers here say they are having meetings and working on legislation, they can't actually pass any of that until they regain that kwoer rum. are there areas they're willing to compromise on this voting bill in order to entice some of their democratic colleagues to come back? but the republican house speaker has said that

for example, according to india's new ikea rules, so uses must be warned if their account is about to be ban. what is twitter do temporarily bands the countries technology minister without warning or another rule . so india doesn't one content that causes religious enmity, so they ask tweet to remove a picture of a hindu goddess in lieu positions, posted by use called atheist republic. twitter has taken no steps to remove such content, but an a blatant violation of indian laws has been acting as an accomplice to the crime. and showing such blasphemous and insulting content. these spiteful little acts they go on and all twitter, for example, posting a map of india with entire disputed province is removed from indian sovereignty. so he is the technical part, right, twitter and facebook and all they get away with this by arguing that they are not responsible for what uses post. because that 3 speech, they're just platforms for free speech. obviously that is highly debatable. tech johns have no problem. cedric, not only people, but in ta, political movements, but more than that, it isn't

every expense was spared. ( laughter ) it looks like they built an ikea wardrobe, then made a bed outthe box it came in. ( laughter ) so far, athletes do not seem deterred from gettin' it on. as american track star paul cheleemo noted, while the beds have a weight restriction of 440 pounds, i see no problem for distance runners, even four of us can do.chnd a ) four. word of warning: you don't wanna have sex with distance runners. they're always trying to get their time down, their nipples bleed, and you have to give 'em a cup of water in the middle. ( laughter ) one olympian, irish gymnast rhys mcclenagan, went so far as to test out the structural integrity of the bed. take a look: >> they're made out of cardboard, yes, but apparently they're meant to break at any sudden movements. it's fake. fake news. ( laughter ) >> stephen: fake news! great news for randy olympians, even better news for anyone who has sex with that guy. (irish accent) oooh, yes! yes! yes! smack me with the shillelagh right in the blarney stones that's good. that was a little scootish. ( laughter ) now, the buzzkil

after the french and indian war, but i'm sure you can touch on it a little bit more than ikea. do you want to address that a little more? i feel like i don't want it rain on your trade here. so this is a misconception, but maybe we'll have a breakout session, uh some time later and we can just talk about florida rev war especially alligator bridge. it's cool name. yeah, that is a cool name. but yeah, spain was not like an identified not like the french it wasn't like spain was on our side and they were sending us resources. no, they were just kind of taking advantage of the situation as best as they could for their own purposes, although i think. spain was understanding like i think they were. not an ally but like support it like they were like, yeah go us colonies. yes, you kind of right i mean they obviously didn't want this to leak into their counties and get the idea that yeah rebellious. but anything that would hurt the british and also restore them and they did regain florida for what 20 years or so our till oh the early 1800s when the united states took it over but movin

which by the way way or on worst selling at ikea.s designed to discourage engaging in hanky-panky. but if you did not think people could get it out on cardboard you've never been to new jersey. i don't even get that, there are beds in new jersey but in a weightless peace or seize olympians even bunkbeds without stop and put effects on the gymnast perform better upside down. and if all else fails there's always the floor routine. actually, i've heard olympians are pretty bad in bed because everyone always tries to finish first. that's a good one. [laughter] it turns out the bed claims are fake news afterward the olympic committee said the cardboard beds are used to promote recycling and they'll be turning to paper after the games. paper you say? let's take a few months off from licking envelopes just to be sacred topics three, officials down under in australia are renaming shark attacks to reverse the trend of anti- shark bias. no doubt these changes were brought about by marine activists al sharpton. from now on the government of que

if you've ever struggled to build a piece of furniture from ikea while engineers at usc might have asolution. they've developed a robot that can help as the robot watches a person put something like a bookshelf it together. it creates and stores an algorithm that learns the steps. now, once the robot figures out the border or the order rather, of the building process. it can quote see the person pick up a specific pieces, then it can predict the next steps and helped by handing the person, the next school board or piece of hardware that's needed. that's always good. the news doesn't end coverage continues at the top of the hour on our kron on app. and here's a look at what's coming up. 5 police officers in palo alto are suing the city over black lives matter mural why they call the artwork and discriminatory and harassing. i'm tahernia. thanks for watching. ♪ ♪ >> announcer: today on "dr. phil." >> dr. phil: this is reality where people are going to have to stop telling themselves what they want to hear. >> announcer: she calls her daughter's fiance horrible. why her daughter claims

the swedes also kneeled because they were assembling an ikea dresser. thank you.media and on the field before play. they also took a knee with their history of discrimination against sea bass. back to americans, we take absolutely no pressure at all in their stunning loss. of course, we are lying. all right. what do you think? >>the ioc made it clear even though it seemed like their law was supporting this, they said you still can't demonstrate on the podium on the field during play disruptive et cetera. the olympics are supposed to unite us. >> what do you think trey. >> spoiled children, making capitalism evil, racism and oppressive. they should learn their history. capitalism has given more opportunity to more people on the friggin planet and these spoiled kids need to learn. >> greg: morgan, do you know what soccer is? >> yeah >> greg: care to comment? >> it's called football in europe. >> oh. >> ha ha >> greg: name all the countries in europe. >> that i might actually know. >> greg: you only know facts that matter. >> okay, on a serious note, right now in hon

the pretty white girl's there ten seconds, and suddenly we're all running to ikea.g a dining room table. i know you don't like change, but it's not a terrible idea. yeah, you guys never use that space up there. why not get a table? do you want the long answer or the short answer? hey, how come we never get that option? chaos theory suggests that even in a deterministic system, if the equations describing its behavior are nonlinear, a tiny change in the initial conditions can lead to a cataclysmic and unpredictable result. translation? waah. i don't want a table! ♪ our whole universe was in a hot, dense state ♪ ♪ then nearly 14 billion years ago expansion started... wait! ♪ ♪ the earth began to cool ♪ ♪ the autotrophs began to drool, neanderthals developed tools ♪ ♪ we built the wall ♪ ♪ we built the pyramids ♪ ♪ math, science, history, unraveling the mystery ♪ ♪ that all started with a big bang ♪

more than 150 companies including pepsi, macy's, ikea and nestle's signed on to a letter, the letter obtained by nbc news says this. quote, despite decades of progress, impediments to exercising the right to vote persist. in many states, especially for communities of color. we need federal protections to safeguard this fundamental right for all americans. the fight to protect the right to vote in america is where we start once again this hour with some of our favorite reporters and friends. donna edwards is here, "washington post" contributing columnist and msnbc contributors. also joining us eugene daniels, white house reporter for politico, playbook co-author. lucky for us an msnbc contributor. and matt dowd is back, political strategist and founder of country over party. matt, straight to you on the texas democrats. we have a little bit of breaking news. eugene, as we were coming on the air we learned the house select committee investigating the january 6th insurrection has called its first hearing. it will be on july 27th, almost seven months after the insurrection, and the first

. >> my name is ikea and i will be representing i'm a resident of district six. been there for 30 days and i've experience homelessness for five years. i would love to see more funding and services for adults on iep's and i do feel that i've been discriminated against because of my disability. i should not feel ashamed to tell my employer what's going on. thank you for my call. >> hello i'm advocating for my friend angeline.wzñ?ñ? as a a resident district six and i want to start by thanking the board of supervisors and the mayor for helping servicing youth and homelessness. no no i urge the board to expand her opportunity with housing and currently with our homeless. [inaudible] and helping them for goals move forward with their lives. we met5sñ?ñ?ñ my name is britnen i work and live in san francisco and i live in district eight. program director and i'm speaking today to say that it is essential to fund hotel vouchers, our university hotel vouchers for people experiencing homelessness. they don't have a safe place to sleep and i there's no way for them to meet e