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Employees who work for Disney parks in Florida and California got some grim news this week when they learned from a memo that their employer (The Walt Disney Co.) was planning to lay off 28,000 people. This was attributed to the substantial COVID-19-induced attendance losses experienced by those tourist attractions, which is perhaps something you saw coming if […]
COVID-19 continues to become one of the world’s biggest medical mysteries as it claims the life of a seemingly healthy North Carolina teenager. Appalachian State University sophomore, Chad Dorrill, died on Monday after contracting COVID-19, The Charlotte Observer reports. His mother, Susan Dorrill, stated in a now-private Facebook post that her son didn’t exhibit any known symptoms […]
Another Karen had another meltdown and this time at a Subway location when asked to wear a mask. In the viral video, which was uploaded to Reddit this week, the male Sandwich Karen tells workers the health department will be “abolished” when he’s asked to wear a mask. “The health department’s over, don’t listen to them,” […]
Top White House officials pushed the CDC to minimize the dangers of COVID-19 for young people and pressured schools to reopen this summer. Two former CDC officials tell The New York Times that White House officials, like aides in Mike Pence’s office and Dr. Deborah Birx—the coordinator of the White House’s coronavirus task force—were attempting […]
Donald Glover touched on the prospect of new music in a lengthy interview with Michaela Coel, creator and star of the acclaimed series Chewing Gum and I May Destroy You. During the Zoom-conducted discussion, published in its longform glory on Tuesday by British GQ, Glover—who grew up as a Jehovah’s Witness—was asked by Coel about his decision […]
Cardi B has been one of the most outspoken celebrities when it comes to police brutality and systemic racism, particularly when it comes to the murder of Breonna Taylor. In wake of the recent news surrounding her case, Cardi took to Instagram, where she blasted Attorney General of Kentucky Daniel Cameron over a ballistics report that doesn’t back […]
If you’ve been keeping up with Luca Guadagnino’s new military base-set HBO series We Are Who We Are, which is definitely something you should be doing, then you know by now that Kid Cudi‘s character was recently revealed as a MAGA hat-wearing Trump supporter. In a new interview, Cudi—whose 2020 filmography also includes a pivotal […]
Christians have raised more than $500,000 for Kyle Rittenhouse‘s legal defense, arguing—presumably after clicking the little “pray now” button on the fundraising site or whatever—that the 17-year-old from Illinois who’s been charged with first-degree intentional homicide “bravely tried to defend his community.” The fundraiser, housed on the self-described “No. 1 free Christian fundraising site” GiveSendGo, has been […]
Virtual learning might be the biggest obstacle for parents during this pandemic. And for one family in Louisiana, things got even more difficult as their child was suspended for having a BB gun in his room. Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry announced Friday that his office would be investigating the case of 9-year-old Ka Mauri […]
A man in France, who has his entire body and face covered in tattoos, in addition to the whites of his eyes surgically turned black, claims he’s no longer allowed to teach kindergartners after a parent complained about their child having nightmares due to his appearance, Reuters reports. Sylvain Helaine, 35, had been teaching a kindergarten class at the […]
