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In conjunction with World Mental Health Day, Juice WRLD‘s mom has launched the official website for Live Free 999—a charitable organization founded posthumously in the rapper’s honor. Carmella Wallace announced the launch in an open letter Saturday, about 10 months after Juice—birth name Jarad Anthony Higgins—died of an accidental drug overdose. Wallace reflected on her relationship with her son, recalling everything […]
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 […]
Yelp has announced that it will post alerts on business pages where customers or employees have reported “overtly racist actions.” The local search and review site said customers will now be able to flag incidents of racism, and the site will place a “business accused of racist behavior” alert on an establishment’s page when it […]
Supply-related headaches are complicating the inaugural day of recreational marijuana sales in Maine. The launch of recreational sales, amazingly, comes nearly four years after its legalization was voted on by those in the state. As touched on in a new Associated Press report on Friday, Maine’s path to recreational weed prosperity was first hung up by […]
The daughter of Jackie Robinson is criticizing the Trump campaign for using a photo of her father in a political ad. Sharon Robinson expressed her family’s objections in a tweet Thursday morning, days after the advert was released. She wrote that her father—a Black baseball legend and pioneer for racial justice—held beliefs and principles that did not align with what the […]
The long-running restaurant chain Ruby Tuesday has just filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and is closing 185 of its stores, USA Today reports. With the pandemic still raging, few industries have been hit as hard as the restaurant industry. Not even an established chain like Ruby Tuesday could weather the storm, as it looks to use the […]
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 […]
