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President Trump addressed a crowd with brief remarks from his balcony in front of the White House lawn on Saturday, marking his first in-person event since he contracted COVID-19 a little over a week ago. ABC News reports that in the 18-minute speech that Trump gave from the Blue Room balcony, he said that the COVID-19 […]
Dr. Anthony Fauci echoed what many Americans have already concluded: Donald Trump‘s recent Rose Garden ceremony was a “superspreader” event. Fauci, a leading member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, made the assertion during an interview with CBS News‘ Steven Portnoy on Friday, about a week after the president confirmed he had tested positive for COVID-19. The […]
A bill was introduced on Friday by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin that would form the Commission on Presidential Capacity to Discharge the Powers and Duties of Office. During a press event, Pelosi spoke on the proposed commission’s connection with the 25th Amendment and how it could help make certain that […]
Though Sacha Baron Cohen‘s contributions to the history of exposing political leaders as ethically bankrupt is well-documented, the vast majority of these instances have occurred while Cohen was in character in pursuit of reliably hilarious satire. In a new piece for Time magazine out Thursday, the comedian—whose Borat sequel soon hits Amazon—references moments in his career […]
For whatever reason, this is going to be an article with the sole purpose of further drawing unnecessary attention to Kanye West‘s most recent tweets, namely the ones about so-called campaign merch. Notably, West shared this merch teases (and linked to the official Kanye 2020 site) amid Wednesday night’s VP debate that most compellingly saw a fly […]
Less than a week after being hospitalized for coronavirus, Donald Trump told the nation he considers his diagnosis a “blessing from god.” The president made the comment during a nearly five minute-long video shared via Twitter on Wednesday, as the U.S.’s COVID-19 death toll surpassed 211,000. Trump acknowledged his recent stay at Walter Reed Medical Center, claiming […]
Military forces from Armenia and Azerbaijan are currently fighting over the area of Nagorno-Karabakh, with many assessing the situation as the worst it’s been in more than 25 years. As of Wednesday, the fighting showed zero indication of slowing down, with ensuing clashes—at the time of this writing—having already resulted in hundreds of deaths. The independence of […]
Derek Chauvin, one of the former Minneapolis police officers charged with murder in the George Floyd case, has been released on $1 million bond. NBC News reports that the white 44-year-old ex-cop, who was filmed kneeling on Floyd’s neck for over eight minutes, was released on conditional release Wednesday from an Oak Park Heights, Minnesota prison. He […]
One of the final performances by Chadwick Boseman was as Stormin’ Norman in Spike Lee‘s excellent Netflix drama Da 5 Bloods, also starring Jonathan Majors and Delroy Lindo. In a new cover story, the prolific Lee reflected on working with Boseman on the acclaimed Vietnam War-centric film. Speaking with Clayton Davis for a Variety piece published on […]
Netflix is facing criminal charges over Cuties, a coming-of-age film that has been widely criticized for exploiting young actors and encouraging the sexualization of children. According to legal documents obtained by the Texas Tribune, a grand jury in Tyler, Texas, indicted the streaming giant for promoting content that “depicts the lewd exhibition of the genitals or […]
