Kendrick Lamar is just days away from returning with his highly-anticipated albumMr. Morale and the Big Steppers— and the rap magnate is teasing its release with a new photo that suggests fans may be getting more than just an LP when it arrives on May 13. On Tuesday, the rapper …
Read More »Homeland Security Secretary Altered Report on Russian Election Interference to Help Trump, Watchdog Says
Former Acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Chad Wolf delayed and changed an intelligence report warning of Russian interference in the 2020 election due to concerns it would “hurt” former President Trump, according to an investigation by the department’s inspector general office. The watchdog’s office said it interviewed …
Read More »They're the 'Last Line of Defense' to Protect Abortion Rights
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer had just returned home late last night when she saw the report of a draft opinion from the Supreme Court that, if unchanged, would fully overturn federal abortion protections. She began reading the news around the time her phone started flooding with texts. “I’m vacillating between depression …
Read More »Phoebe Bridgers Speaks Out About Her Abortion: 'Everyone Deserves That Kind of Access'
Following Politico‘s leak of the Supreme Court‘s draft opinion to overturn Roe vs. Wade, Phoebe Bridgers has spoken out about her own experience. “I had an abortion in October of last year while I was on tour,” Bridgers said in her Instagram story. “I went to Planned Parenthood, where they …
Read More »The Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade Plan Would Condemn Women to Second-Class Citizenship
Today, abortion is still legal everywhere in the country. However, it appears that won’t be true for long. Last night, Politico published an explosive leak of the draft opinion of Dobbs v. Jackson Woman’s Health, the abortion case before the Supreme Court this term. This virtually unprecedented publication of a …
Read More »Susan Collins Is Shocked That Trump Appointees May Have Lied to Her
Sen. Susan Collins is shocked, stunned, and astounded that two conservative, Trump-appointed Supreme Court justices may have deceived her regarding their position on abortion rights. According to a reported draft majority opinion leaked to Politico, both Justice Neil Gorsuch and Justice Brett Kavanaugh have voted to overturn established precedent protecting …
Read More »Guided by Voices Fatten Their Epic Setlists With Second Album of 2022
Guided by Voices is famous for their three-hour-plus shows, and — to fuel said shows — they need a near-endless discography. That’s why, just a few months after the arrival of their first album of 2022, Crystal Nun Cathedral, they’re announcing Tremblers and Goggles by Rank, out July 1 via …
Read More »WNBA Star Brittney Griner Considered 'Wrongfully Detained' in Russia, U.S. Gov't Says
The U.S. government now considers WNBA star Brittney Griner “wrongfully detained” in Russia, ESPN reports and Rolling Stone can confirm Griner was arrested in February at a Moscow-area airport after security allegedly found vape cartridges containing cannabis oil in her carry-on bag as she tried to enter the country (Griner …
Read More »Republicans Are Calling the Roe Leak an 'Insurrection'
Republicans — the party that decided it was pretty much fine that a violent mob stormed the Capitol to try to overturn Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss — are clutching all of their pearls over the leak of a Supreme Court draft opinion that overturns Roe v. Wade. Indeed, in …
Read More »Rosie Perez Will Narrate the Audiobook for Ronnie Spector's Memoir, 'Be My Baby'
In the weeks before her death at the age of 78, Ronnie Spector finalized the newly revised Be My Baby: How I Survived Mascara, Miniskirts, and Madness, her acclaimed memoir originally released in 1990. She died of cancer in January. Now, as the 2022 edition arrives on May 3, an …
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