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You’d be forgiven for naively treating 2021 like a magic button that made the MAGA cult disappear from the news cycle. If the first week of the new year is any indication, and it most likely is, we are going to be stuck with them—in some form or another—for a very long time. On Tuesday, […]
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 […]
Democratic challenger Rev. Raphael Warnock has defeated Republican incumbent Kelly Loeffler in Georgia‘s extremely close and expensive Senate runoffs, according to the Associated Press. Rev. Warnock, a senior pastor at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, the same church that Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. preached at, has made history with his election victory as he will become the state’s first Black senator. Warnock has previously said […]
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 […]
At least $36 billion in fraudulent unemployment benefits have been stolen from the U.S., according to analysis from the Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Labor. As CNBC reports, 10 percent of the $360 billion Congress allotted for unemployment benefits in the Cares Act have been improperly distributed, mostly due to scams […]
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 […]
