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Voters in Alabama have approved an amendment that will allow state officials to begin drafting a recompiled version of their constitution that eliminates racist language, AP reports. The amendment will also remove language that no longer applies, and combine elements pertaining to economic development and related counties. Since 2000, a similar measure in regards to […]
50 Cent stays on brand by offering his unsolicited 2 cents on Lil Wayne‘s relationship status. On Wednesday, the G-Unit rapper took to Twitter to respond to a TMZ report that claims Denise Bidot broke up with Weezy after several months of dating. The purported cause of the split? Wayne’s recent support for President Donald Trump—a move that […]
Every glimmer of hope for labor in the US comes with a grim counterpoint. For every statewide increase in minimum wage, there apparently is an example of companies asking employees to dance for their supper. Video game retailer GameStop made that very close to literal this week when they asked stores around the country to […]
Astronomers have deduced that a series of short, powerful radio waves received from space earlier this year are actually coming from within our own galaxy. According to three papers published in Nature, powerful blasts of radio waves from space recorded in April came from an object within the Milky Way. Known as fast radio bursts, or FRBs, […]
A Massachusetts State Police officer has been fired after allegedly firing off racial slurs during an off-duty confrontation, the New York Post reports. The incident occurred when the unidentified officer got into an exchange with a motorist. The race of neither the trooper nor the victim has been disclosed, but the department made it clear that it doesn’t […]
GAP came through with a master class in failing to read the room on Wednesday. In a tweet that has since been deleted, whoever was operating the brand’s account dropped a trite message about unity alongside a clip of a blue-and-red hoodie zipping itself up. The hoodie itself, fittingly, was an eyesore. “The one thing […]
The coronavirus has dramatically changed the world’s way of life. One German study has offered a light at the end of the tunnel for concertgoers. The New York Times reported on Tuesday that a team at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg published a study claiming that the risk of spreading COVID-19 during an indoor concert is “low […]
Sen. Bernie Sanders quite accurately predicted how the 2020 election would quickly become poisoned by a deeply depressing false narrative built on continued attempts at disparaging wholly valid mail-in ballots. During an interview with Jimmy Fallon in October, as many have since revisited amid the ongoing Trump-centered fuckery of the election, Sanders explained that the […]
While the 2020 election votes are still being counted, it’s safe to say Kanye West won’t be America’s next president. Joining the presidential race relatively late, Kanye failed to make it on a good portion of the ballots of many states. Across the 12 states in which he did appear on the ballot, the Guardian reports he […]
Amid the fuck-it-all insanity of the 2020 election, some inspiring news out of Oregon is providing a nice (albeit temporary) respite. The state will now be the first in the country to legalize therapeutic use of psilocybin, a.k.a. shrooms. This was made possible by the passing of Ballot Measure 109, per the Associated Press, which will […]
