Stranger Things revealed its fifth and final season’s release schedule Saturday during Netflix’s Tudum event, with the last eight episodes arriving in three installments around major holidays. The fifth season’s Volume One premieres on November 26, the day before Thanksgiving, followed by Volume Two on Christmas, December 25. The series …
Read More »Sean Combs Accuser Sues Harvey Weinstein for Sexual Assault
A woman who is suing Sean Combs for allegedly drugging and sexually assaulting her in 2003 has filed a separate lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein. In an amended suit filed Friday, May 30, in Manhattan Federal Court and obtained by Rolling Stone, former model Crystal McKinney alleges that in 2003, Weinstein …
Read More »Elon Musk Denies Report He Took So Much Ketamine He Doesn't Pee Right
If his posts on his social media site, X, are any indication, Elon Musk is letting a New York Times report that he’s taken so much ketamine he can’t pee right get to him. “To be clear, I am NOT taking drugs!” Musk wrote on Saturday. “The New York Times …
Read More »How China Pursued a Human Rights Activist From Xinjiang to NYC
This article is an adapted excerpt from Those Who Should Be Seized Should Be Seized, which follows the Chinese security state’s oppression of its Muslim minorities from Xinjiang to the streets of New York and Washington, D.C. The book is available for purchase here. Serikzhan Bilash went sightseeing not long …
Read More »'Mountainhead' Asks: Could Tech Billionaires Stage a Global Coup?
The tech-bro rich, they are not like you and me. They treat the world like it’s their frat house. They view atrocities not as losses of human life but as “atrocitopportunities.” They get high on the fumes of their own disruption. They buy private planes, private security armies, private compounds …
Read More »Our Favorite Afropop Songs and Albums of 2025 So Far
I have the pleasure of living in the big, busy, diverse, and very diasporic city of Atlanta, where the summertime lituations are about to get very real. There are a ton of great DJs in town spinning all sorts of Afropop and adjacent genres all year long – Afrobeats, amapiano, …
Read More »The Seven Ugliest Provisions in Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill'
Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is a reverse-Robin Hood nightmare. It steals from the poor to give to the rich. The 1,038-page version that passed the House will also balloon the deficit by nearly $4 trillion. The Trump tax bill achieves this feat by extending (and in many cases expanding) …
Read More »Valerie Mahaffey, 'Northern Exposure' and 'Desperate Housewives' Actress, Dead at 71
Valerie Mahaffey, the Emmy and Obie Award-winning actress known for playing eccentric characters on shows including Northern Exposure and Desperate Housewives, died on Friday. She was 71. Her husband, actor Joseph Kell, said she died in Los Angeles following a battle with cancer, Variety reports. Mahaffey won an Emmy in …
Read More »Joni Ernst Issues Non-Apology for Joke About People Dying Due to GOP Medicaid Cuts
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) doubled down on Saturday on her flippant remarks about people dying due to Medicaid cuts in a new Instagram video that appeared to be recorded in a cemetery. During a town hall on Friday, Ernst was pressed about President Donald Trump’s tax bill, which would slash …
Read More »Trump Could Get Fox News-Style Intel Briefings Because He 'Doesn't Read': Report
President Donald Trump’s National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard is looking for ways to change the president’s intelligence briefings to align with his media consumption habits and gain his trust, possibly adopting a video format, NBC News reports. Gabbard has apparently consulted current and former intelligence officials for solutions. One possibility …
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