“I’m here to get rid of my dad and charge him with conservatorship abuse,” pop icon Britney Spears told a Los Angeles probate court on July 14th, at the latest hearing in Spears’ escalating 13-year campaign to end the conservatorships that have ruled her life since 2008. Their relationship has …
Read More »On Fox Fauci Said Correcting Trump's Lies Is What Did Him in With the Right Wing
Anthony Fauci said the truth is what did him in with the bomb-throwers on the right because he dared to contradict a lying president during the height of a global pandemic. During a Friday interview on Fox News, the White House’s chief medical adviser was asked about the recent attacks …
Read More »Fox Rails Against Vaccine Passports, Uses Vaccine Passports
Hypocrisy, spreading lies, and fear-mongering are all well-known staples over at Fox. But Monday’s news about how Fox Corporation has already implemented a vaccine passport-type program for its own employees that is similar to what hosts like Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham have loudly railed against is a window into …
Read More »The U.S. Is About to Go All in on Paying Farmers and Foresters to Trap Carbon
This story was originally published by Grist and is republished here as part of an ongoing collaboration. Kelly Garrett runs his 7,000-acre farm in western Iowa with the same attitude he brings to a game of golf. He wants a hole in one every time — in other words, perfection. …
Read More »'Zola' Violates All the Rules of 'Good Storytelling' — Which Is Why It Works
A film inspired by a viral tweet thread could have gone any number of ways — indeed, the thread in question, out of which Janicza Bravo’s new feature Zola was born, goes everywhere. A stripper misadventure, a Backpage okey-doke, a chance encounter from hell, gun violence, a cuckolded boy toy, …
Read More »Meet the Women Bringing Weed to the Deep South
K iawah Island, off South Carolina, is rich with history. It was home to the Kiawah tribe, part of the Cusabo Nation, the first people who came in contact with English settlers in 1670. Though it’s just a few miles from Charleston, a center of the domestic slave trade, in …
Read More »What Makes a 'Gay Icon'?
“In life, we hide the parts of ourselves we don’t want the world to see,” Lil Nas X proclaims in the video for his chart-topping single “Montero (Call Me By Your Name).” For the openly gay rapper/singer, Montero — inspired by his birth name — is a place where one …
Read More »DaBaby Throws Wild Backyard BBQ in Video for New Song 'Red Light, Green Light'
DaBaby has dropped his second new song in the span of a week with his latest single “Red Light, Green Light.” The rapper also shared a video for the track on Friday, June 25th. On the heels of DaBaby’s directorial debut with the high school-themed “Ball If I Want To,” …
Read More »Nas Announces 'It Was Written' 25th Anniversary Reissue
Nas will celebrate the 25th anniversary of his 1996 album It Was Written with a new reissue that includes the original LP alongside a pair of rare bonus tracks. The follow-up to his landmark debut Illmatic, It Was Written boasted his hits “The Message,” “Street Dreams” and “If I Ruled …
Read More »'In My Room' With Laura Jane Grace
Laura Jane Grace and her Devouring Mothers bandmates Atom Willard and Marc Jacob Hudson perform together for the first time in over a year on the latest installment of Rolling Stone’s In My Room series. The band filmed the performance at Grace’s home in Chicago, and opened with a rendition …
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