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Amber Heard‘s libel countersuit against her ex-husband Johnny Depp has been allowed to move forward, per The Hollywood Reporter. Virginia judge Bruce D. White rejected Depp’s attempts to get Heard’s lawsuit against gim tossed, determining that she has every right to claim Depp’s attorney libeled her in the press. At issue were those aforementioned claims made by attorney Adam Waldman, who told […]
A Dallas-based company is facing criticism over its failed attempt to “refresh” the centuries-old Chinese game of mahjong. As pointed out by NBC News, The Mahjong Line was created by three women who took it upon themselves to redesign the tile-based game “to better reflect the fun that was had when playing with her friends.” The line, which included mahjong sets […]
Joe Biden has reiterated his support for $2,000 stimulus checks, but says he needs Americans’ help to make it happen. During a Monday night rally in Atlanta, the president-elect urged Georgia residents to vote blue in the state’s Senate runoff elections, claiming a failure to do so would prevent another round of much-needed stimulus payments. Biden’s comments came […]
Rowan Atkinson is the latest aging comedian to bemoan cancel culture. The star famous for his character of Mr. Bean likened cancel-happy social media to a “medieval mob.” “The problem we have online is that an algorithm decides what we want to see, which ends up creating a simplistic, binary view of society. It becomes a case of […]
Jay-Z , Michael Rubin, and Meek Mill’s criminal justice reform organization REFORM Alliance has landed another victory, this time in Michigan, On Monday, the Michigan State Legislature passed a set of laws—SB 1048, SB 1050, and SB 1051—that will revamp the state’s probation and parole system, which were supported by REFORM, Billboard reports. The new laws will reduce adult […]
In a special message to Jeopardy! viewers filmed back in October, Alex Trebek—who died in November at the age of 80—urged everyone to join him in his push for a “kinder society” amid the ongoing pandemic. The message, per Vulture, was initially slated to air during the Christmas holiday period but has instead been debuted […]
Thanks in large part to those who insisted on traveling for the holidays during a goddamn global pandemic, Los Angeles County health officials are expecting the next few weeks to potentially be the worst of this entire era. In a memo sent out to ambulance workers last week, as excerpted in this CNN report, just […]
Over the weekend Twitter swarmed the mentions of a person dubbed “Bean Dad” (who had previously gone by the non-Twitter name John Roderick) over his refusal to open a tin can for his kid. A sentence like that probably doesn’t need added context, but we’ll try. On Saturday, Roderick shared a (too long) thread that told a story of […]
Whole Foods CEO John Mackey faced criticism over comments he made about healthcare in America. In an interview on Freakonomics Radio, Mackey told host Stephen Dubner that Americans don’t need healthcare, they just need better diets and exercise routines, CNBC reported. *Crowd Boos* “I mean, honestly, we talk about health care. The best solution is not to need […]
A 2020 Beats by Dre commercial featuring Flo Milli is receiving renewed attention this week. The ad was first unveiled as part of a headphones campaign launched by the Apple-owned Beats back in November. The campaign, also featuring ads centered on Cordae and Naomi Osaka, was put together in promotion of the new Beats Flex headphones, […]
