21-year-old Austin Chui began making videos as a way to hold himself accountable in his pursuit of a healthy lifestyle. “When hundreds of thousands of people are watching, you cannot be lazy,” he says. Chui’s videos — often of just him preparing to go the gym — are part of …
Read More »Holy Sh*t. Senate Actually Passed a Climate Bill
It happened. It finally happened. Though Republicans tried to stand in the way of Democrats’ efforts to pass a massive climate change bill, thanks to a tie-breaking vote by Vice President Kamala Harris, the legislation now heads to the House. The bill, the Inflation Reduction Act, if put into law …
Read More »Insulin Will Remain Expensive for Many, Thanks to Republicans
“Republicans have just gone on the record in favor of expensive insulin,” Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said after Republicans voted to remove an insulin price cap from the Inflation Reduction Act. “After years of tough talk about taking on insulin makers, Republicans have once against wilted in the face of …
Read More »Blackpink Reveal New Single 'Pink Venom' Is Coming Soon
After promising to release new music this month, Blackpink have revealed their next single “Pink Venom” will arrive in less than two weeks. The K-pop girl group announced Sunday that the track would arrive on Aug. 19; “Pink Venom” is available to pre-save now on streaming services, as well as …
Read More »'Handmaid's Tale Wasn't Supposed to Be a Roadmap:' GOP Congresswoman Bashes Extreme Abortion Bans
“Handmaid’s Tale was not supposed to be a roadmap,” Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) said of states enacting extreme abortion bans without exceptions for rape or incest in the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. Mace, her state’s only female member of Congress, criticized the “extremities” of both …
Read More »Lindsey Graham Would Like States to Decide If LGBTQ People Count as Fully Human
Sen. Lindsey Graham said he wants states to decide the issue of whether two consenting adults can get married.When Dana Bash asked him if he would support legislation codifying same sex marriage, Graham claimed it’s a state issue during an appearance on CNN’s State of the Union Sunday. “[Sen. Rob …
Read More »Dua Lipa Is Now an Honorary Ambassador of Kosovo
A week after headlining Lollapalooza, Dua Lipa was atop the lineup again this weekend at her own Sunny Hill Festival in Kosovo, where the singer was also named an honorary ambassador of the European nation. Lipa, the daughter of Kosovo Albanian parents, was given the honor at a ceremony Friday …
Read More »How the Pandemic Allowed One Author to Affect Change in Her Community and Reinvent Her Debut Novel
In February 2020, Sarah Thankam Mathews was struggling to write a novel; freelancing wasn’t going so great, either. So, she took a writing break, looked at the burgeoning threat of Covid-19, and immersed herself in the needs she predicted were on the horizon as the pandemic altered everyone’s reality. “What …
Read More »'Heat 2': Why Michael Mann's Sequel to His Classic Crime-Movie Had to Be a Novel
It ends the only way it can end, with two of the toughest men in Los Angeles holding hands as one of them bleeds out on the periphery of LAX’s tarmac. For the greater part of two and a half hours, we’ve watched Neil McCauley — mastermind of heists and …
Read More »A Skateboarder Quit the Olympics to Come Out As Trans. A New Doc Shows His Journey
Since quitting the 2020 U.S. Olympic team and stepping away from competitive skateboarding, Leo Baker has had no regrets. “I am happier than I’ve ever been in my life, beyond what I could have ever even imagined,” he says, speaking on a hot August day by Zoom from his Brooklyn …
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