It’s no secret that J.D. Vance, the Ohio Senate candidate Trump reportedly plans to endorse, wasn’t always a huge fan of the former president. His past objections to Trump went beyond what many remembered, however, according to new clips unearthed by CNN on Friday. Vance, who has been groveling for …
Read More »Republicans Signal That They're Pretty Much Done with Presidential Debates
The Republican National Committee voted unanimously on Thursday to bar the party’s presidential candidates from participating in debates hosted by the Commission on Presidential Debates, which has managed the presidential debate process for over three decades. “Today, the RNC voted to withdraw from the biased CPD, and we are going …
Read More »FBI Documents Expose Bureau's Big Jan. 6 'Lie'
In the aftermath of the Jan. 6 insurrection, the FBI told Congress and the American people that the agency had failed to prevent or fully prepare for the worst attack on the U.S. Capitol in more than 200 years in part because it lacked the authority and capabilities to more …
Read More »'I Can't Believe How Lucky We Are': Jeff Tweedy on the Return of Wilco's Solid Sound Festival
When Wilco are putting together the lineup for their biannual Solid Sound Festival, they have just one rule: If they love it, it’s in. “Everybody in the band keeps a running dream list of people that we would like to play with or to see,” says Jeff Tweedy, calling from …
Read More »Lawyer Claims OnlyFans Model Acted in Self-Defense in Boyfriend's Stabbing. Victim's Family Says Attack Was 'Unprovoked'
Two conflicting narratives have emerged following the April 3 stabbing death of Christian “Toby” Obumseli in the luxury Miami apartment he shared with his girlfriend, OnlyFans model Courtney Clenney. While Clenney’s lawyer said she was a “victim of domestic violence” and acted in self-defense, Obumseli’s family and friends have publicly …
Read More »Kenny G Offers to Help Reunite Kim and Kanye
Though Kenny G is known primarily as a legendary sax player whose work has transcended into the pop-culture firmament, he is a man of many talents. He is a plus-0.6 handicap golfer, a licensed pilot, and by all accounts a seriously skilled baker. He was also one of the 10 …
Read More »Sonic Youth Unearth 1989 Kyiv Concert to Raise Money for Ukraine Aid
Exactly 33 years ago Thursday, on April 14, 1989, Sonic Youth staged a concert in Kyiv, Ukraine, one of the last Western acts to play in the then-Soviet city prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the U.S.S.R. Amid the current Russian invasion, the pioneering …
Read More »Banned Books Are About to Be the New Pussy Hats
It was a superlatively glib photo-op: A set restaurant table, a stack of pristine books, and Gov. Gavin Newsom doing his best impression of Rodin’s The Thinker. “Reading some banned books to figure out what these states are so afraid of,” the caption read. The California Democrat posted that photo …
Read More »Kurt Vile's 'Watch My Moves' Is a Majestically Mellow Zone-Out Session
The new Kurt Vile album begins, like many great yarns, in medias res. The poet-king of Philadelphia is at an airport somewhere in North America, pondering the prospects of his own mortality and a cold beer, when an epiphany hits him: “Listenin’ to ‘Heart of Gold’/Gonna open up for Neil …
Read More »The Real Reason Republicans Are Loading Their 2022 Campaign Ads With Guns
Garrett Soldano released a pretty strange campaign ad last fall. The only words spoken in it came from a voice aggressively asking, “WHO?” and a chorus twice chanting “WE THE PEOPLE!” in response. The rest of the ad was 45 seconds of Soldano firing various weapons at a gun range, …
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