Megan Thee Stallion headlined Saturday night at San Diego’s TwitchCon and, keeping with the theme of the gamer-friendly livestream service’s event, twerked with Master Chief from Halo. The bizarre moment occurred during a performance of “Freak Nasty,” where the rapper was joined onstage by the video game character, seen most …
Read More »GOP Logic: Candidate Promises 'True Choices' for Women, Then Pledges to Uphold Near-Total Abortion Ban
Kari Lake, the GOP nominee running for Arizona governor, said she wants to give women “true choices” when it comes to abortion — right before she pledged to uphold an abortion ban in the state. “We need to draw the line somewhere,” the candidate said during an appearance on CBS’s …
Read More »Tom Cruise Might Actually Go to Space for Upcoming Film
Over two years after it was first reported that Tom Cruise might shoot a film aboard the International Space Station, it appears that the actor is inching closer to becoming “the first civilian to do a spacewalk.” Back in May 2020, NASA confirmed that they were in talks with Cruise …
Read More »Watch Trump Crowd Eat Up Sen. Tuberville's Bizarre Racist Tirade
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) went on a wildly racist, white nationalist tirade, referring to Black Americans as “the people who do the crime” during his speech at Saturday’s Trump rally. “[Democrats are] not soft on crime. They’re pro-crime. They want crime. They want crime because they want to take over …
Read More »Kanye West's Instagram and Twitter Accounts Restricted After Criticism Over Anti-Semitic Posts
Kanye West’s Instagram has been restricted and some content was deleted for violating parent company Meta’s policies, a Meta spokesperson confirmed to Rolling Stone. The news follows a week of controversy that kicked off mass condemnation after he displayed T-shirts sporting “White Lives Matter” at his YZY fashion show in …
Read More »Self-Deprecating Power Pop Is the Beths' Specialty. Why Change It?
“WE STARTED JAMMING in 2014,” Elizabeth Stokes says on a Zoom one afternoon in August, trying to trace the formation of her band. “Jamming,” she repeats, chuckling as she puts up air-quotes. “I don’t feel cool enough to use that word.” This is the kind of self-deprecation Stokes is notorious …
Read More »The Retreat of the MAGA General
I FIRST GOT TO KNOW retired Brig. Gen. Don Bolduc, the MAGA Republican candidate for Senate in New Hampshire, back when he was a soldier with a well-earned reputation for telling hard truths. I was writing a book about Operation Medusa, a hard 2006 campaign in southern Afghanistan that stopped …
Read More »'SNL': Weekend Update on Herschel Walker Fundraising Off Abortion Scandal: Raising Money, But Not Kids
Saturday Night Live tackled Herschel Walker’s abortion scandal, President Joe Biden’s marijuana pardons and Kanye West’s White Lives Matter controversy in a packed Weekend Update segment. “The midterms are only a month away, and is it just me or are some candidates trying to lose?” co-anchor Colin Jost asked. Jost …
Read More »'SNL': Willow Brings Defiance, Electric Guitars in Debut Solo Set
Willow took the the SNL stage like a damn pro — glaring, belting, screaming in her platform Converse and feline black eyeliner. The 21-year-old guitarist and singer began with “Curious/Furious,” a rocker with a seductive build and an indelible intro where she rhymes “I always knew there was an order …
Read More »'SNL' Takes on The Ridiculous Try Guys Cheating Scandal
When SNL spoofed the Try Guys cheating scandal, the real punchline was the media for covering such a dumb story at all in light of everything else in the world (see: the SNL Cold Open.) The segment opened with Ego Nwodim as a CNN anchor speaking to White House correspondent …
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