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Adidas Finally Drops Kanye West

Adidas announced on Tuesday that it is ending the often stormy relationship it has had with Kanye West since 2016. The company had come under enormous pressure over the past weeks to respond to West’songoing erratic behaviorsand dangerous, antisemitic comments. “Adidas does not tolerate antisemitism and any other sort of …

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J.D. Vance Has a Burnt Monkey Testicle Problem

What kind of man profits from scalded monkey junk? On the campaign trail, Trump-endorsed Ohio Senate nominee J.D. Vance leans into the hardscrabble upbringing he wrote about in Hillbilly Elegy. He rails against universities and the abuses of Big Tech. He blasts Covid mandates, encouraging distrust, without evidence, of the …

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Kanye Is Never Coming Back From This

“I can say antisemitic things and Adidas can’t drop me,” the artist formerly known as Kanye West proclaimed on Drink Champs just over a week ago. “Now what?” he rhetorically asked, with the sneering audacity of a man whose millions of dollars, millions of fans, and substantial high-powered connections have …

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'What Stupid A-hole Babies': Fiona Apple Claims Maryland Officials Blocked Access for Court Watchers Over Pretrial Detention Suit

Fiona Apple accused Prince George’s County, Maryland officials of cutting off Zoom access to court watchers after several (including herself) filed affidavits in support of a lawsuit brought against the county’s allegedly unlawful pretrial services process. Apple has served as a court watcher for the past couple of years, working …

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