An associate of Jeffrey Epstein‘s has been sued in United States District Court in the Southern District of New York for allegedly raping a 16-year-old autistic girl. Leon Black, the billionaire founder of the hedge fund Apollo Global Management, is accused of raping the then-16-year-old girl in 2002 at Epstein’s …
Read More »Witness in Malcolm X Case Backs Up Theory That Officials Conspired to Assassinate Him
Ben Crump, co-counsel Ray Hamlin, and other attorneys held a press conference on Tuesday in New York featuring a key witness who claims undercover officials were involved in the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965. Mustafa Hassan —who spoke for the first time publicly about his observations from the day …
Read More »Elon Musk Uses Bronny James' Cardiac Arrest to Spread Anti-Vax Conspiracy Theory
Twitter owner Elon Musk seized on reports that Lebron James Jr. suffered cardiac arrest during a basketball practice to spread conspiracy theories about the Covid-19 vaccine. “We cannot ascribe everything to the vaccine, but, by the same token, we cannot ascribe nothing,” Musk wrote in response to a tweet about …
Read More »The Jason Aldean 'Try That in a Small Town' Saga Might Have Another Dog Whistle
Just when you thought there couldn’t possibly be anymore dog whistles embedded in the Jason Aldean “Try That in a Small Town” saga, an intrepid, sharp-eyed TikTok user has potentially picked out one more. Amazingly, this incident doesn’t involve the song itself, or even its controversial video — part of …
Read More »Twitter's 'X' Rebrand Is Elon Musk's Most Desperate Gimmick Yet
Elon Musk has pulled some lousy marketing stunts in his time, but this one reeks of desperation. As Twitter‘s owner has hinted in recent months — and announced more formally on Saturday — the social platform will rebrand as “X,” ditching the company’s original name and iconic bird logo as …
Read More »Right-Wing Cranks Try to Get in on the Barbenheimer Fun
Greta Gerwig’s Barbie is surfing into cinematic history on a wave of right-wing tears — and a boatload of cash. The blockbuster film, which grossed a record-breaking $155 million domestically (and $377 million internationally) in its first weekend has also shattered the psyches of conservative commentators who have reflexively branded …
Read More »How Anita Pallenberg Transformed the Rolling Stones From 'Schoolboys' to Stars
The Rolling Stones have existed for six decades, yet the women who influenced the members and their music have been largely overlooked and under-appreciated. But with her new book Parachute Women: Marianne Faithfull, Marsha Hunt, Bianca Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, and the Women Behind the Rolling Stones, Elizabeth Winder is attempting …
Read More »'Futurama' and the TV Shows That Refuse to Die
Of course Futurama is back with a new season today, 10 years after the last episode aired. It is a show whose main character spent 1,000 years in cryogenic slumber, and its ensemble has defied death at least as often as the series has. You have to go back nearly …
Read More »Brutalismus 3000 Are Turning Techno on its Head
Brutalismus 3000 are the hottest new electronic act in continental Europe, a pair of Bavarians lighting up Berlin with some of the most brutal, unpalatable, utterly beautiful rave music since the Nineties, all while calling the contemporary techno scene boring and “unstylish,” writing lyrics about horror films and 9/11, hanging …
Read More »What Do Bratz Fans Think of the 'Barbie' Movie?
Clawdeena has always had a fascination for dolls. The Los Angeles-based content creator had about 150 Bratz dolls and 50 Barbies in her childhood years. Her favorites: Bratz’s Jade and Barbie’s Raquelle, because they aligned with her half-Chinese identity. Despite having a shared love for both, she says she gravitated …
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