Youth National Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman — who spoke at President Joe Biden’s inauguration last month — presented a new piece titled “Chorus of the Captains” dedicated to the three “honorary captains” the NFL selected to laud before the big game: educator Trimaine Davis, nurse manager Suzie Dorner, and Marine …
Read More »Trump's Lost Cause
The junior senator from Missouri announced Wednesday that he’ll contest the certification of Biden’s victory when the House and Senate convene on January 6th. Why do this? If you believe Sen. Josh Hawley’s office, it’s because the Americans who are lying about this fair and settled election being riddled with …
Read More »Watch Gov. Murphy Go After Rep. 'Matt Putz' Gaetz for Superspreader Event
While millions of Americans are trying to do the right thing and stay home to suppress the spread of coronavirus, Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz and the New York Republicans threw a massive indoor party with at least 150 people, flouting mask requirements and crowd limitations. The New York Young Republican …
Read More »Why WME's Former Music Head Wants to Own Half of Your Indie Venue
Veteran music executive and Lollapalooza co-founder Marc Geiger abruptly left William Morris Endeavor (WME) this summer after 17 years as the company’s global head of music, in the midst of the pandemic’s near-complete shuttering of the concert industry. Since then, he revealed on Wednesday, he has been working on an …
Read More »Keith Raniere Sentenced to 120 Years In Prison
On Monday afternoon, the day before Keith Raniere was set to be sentenced, Make Justice Blind, an assortment of ardent NXIVM devotees, gathered to hold a press conference in front of the Brooklyn federal courthouse in downtown Brooklyn. The group, including Battlestar Galactica‘s Nicki Clyne, set out to present what …
Read More »'Supermarket Sweep' Is the Perfect Game Show for the Covid Era
For more than four decades, Supermarket Sweep has zeroed in on a primal urge: Who among us hasn’t wanted to grab a shopping cart and fill it up with as much free food as possible? That impulse explains why the game show is as much Walking Dead as any of …
Read More »Trump's Christian Judges March On
I n August, Justin Walker, a federal judge in Louisville, Kentucky, issued an unusual order in favor of Chelsey Nelson, a local wedding photographer and blogger. Nelson, a Southern Baptist, claimed in a lawsuit that her Christian faith dictates “that God ordained marriage to be a covenant between one man …
Read More »Aerosmith, BTS, U2 Among Contributors to Live Nation Charity Fund
Since its launch four months ago, the Crew Nation Global Relief Fund — the charity established by concert and ticketing giant Live Nation Entertainment and its House of Blues Music Forward Foundation to aid unemployed live music workers affected by the pandemic — has raised $15 million to support about …
Read More »Mom Influencers on Instagram Are Spreading Anti-Mask Propaganda
Earlier this week, Jodie Meschuk, an anti-vaccination advocate with 19,000 followers, posted a graphic of children’s cherubic cartoon faces, with the caption “Un-mask our kids. Let’s talk mom to mom.” The graphic contained many erroneous claims about the risks associated with wearing face masks, including that it can lead to …
Read More »Scientists Thought (and Trump Insisted) Summer Heat Would Slow COVID-19. It Hasn't. Why?
Summer was supposed to save us. President Trump touted the idea back in February: “A lot of people think that [the virus] goes away in April, with the heat.” He followed that up a few months later with an insane rant about the wonders of sunlight and how “bringing light …
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