Slowly but surely, the Mainstream Media is coming to terms with the fact that the support for the Ukrainian regime has diminished considerably in many countries – including the US.

The post MSM Slowly Comes to Grips With Ukraine’s Diminishing Support in Europe, in the US and Worldwide appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

Lots of people in Washington are talking about the possible government shutdown that’s looming.

The post OF COURSE: Pentagon Exempts Ukraine Funding From Possible Government Shutdown appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

Griff Jenkins of FOX News tweeted today that there are now three confirmed cases of Tuberculosis among the illegal immigrants in the El Paso sector.

The post OH GREAT: Three Confirmed Cases of Tuberculosis Reported Among Illegal Immigrants in El Paso Sector appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

Jack Smith added Alex Whiting, a ‘war crimes prosecutor’ to his special counsel team of nearly two dozen rabid prosecutors gunning for Trump.

The post Jack Smith Adds Radical Left-Wing Democrat Donor to Special Counsel Team Persecuting Trump appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

No one has heard much from Ivanka Trump lately but she has apparently been busy.

The post REPORT: Ivanka Trump Made Secret Trip to Maui to Help Distribute Food to Fire Victims appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

Ahead of the next GOP Presidential debate, former SC Governor Nikki Haley has unveiled her economic plan to pursue if she is elected President, even though she is currently a long-shot candidate trailing in the polls.

The post Nikki Haley Reveals Campaign Economic Plan, In Contrast With her Actual Record in South Carolina appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

After years of playing word games about border security, Joe Biden bragged about his open borders policy in a speech Thursday night to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute 46th Annual Gala at the Walter E.

The post As Migrants Pour Across the Border in Record Numbers, Biden Brags It Is By Design: “I’ve also directed my team to make a historic increase in the number of refugees admitted from Latin America” appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy (D) and top Democrat lawmakers called for embattled NJ Senator Bob Menendez, also a Democrat, to resign over bribery and corruption charges.

The post Dem New Jersey Governor, Top NJ Democrats Call on Embattled Sen. Menendez to Resign Over Bribery Indictment – Menendez Responds with Race Card! appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

Project Veritas on Thursday served James O’Keefe with a lawsuit one day after announcing it was suspending all operations.

The post Project Veritas Serves James O’Keefe with Lawsuit One Day After Announcing It Was Suspending All Operations (VIDEO) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

Michael LaRosa, former White House Press Secretary for Jill Biden, is begging Joe Biden’s handler’s to not have him go join the United Auto Workers picket line next week, after Biden posted an announcement he was headed on Tuesday to support striking workers in Michigan.

The post Who’s Bossing Biden? After Joe Biden Announces Trip to Join UAW Picket Line to Counter Trump, Former Jill Biden Press Sec Panics: “Ugh no, please don’t do this to him” appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

Congressman Eli Crane (R-AZ) spoke to The Gateway Pundit yesterday about Biden’s impeachment and the current fight in Congress over a stopgap spending bill and said he would vote to remove McCarthy from his chair.

The post EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Rep. Eli Crane Discusses Continuing Resolution Battle, Says Speaker Kevin McCarthy Should Be REMOVED for Violating Agreement With Conservatives appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

Joe Biden is planning to travel to Michigan on Tuesday.

The post Biden to Mich. on Tues. for UAW Strike, UAW Leaked Texts Reveal No Intent to Stop Striking or Bargain Honestly appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

Chicago residents have just about reached their limit with city officials who are bending over backwards to accommodate illegal immigrants while US citizens are being widely ignored.  Meetings across the city are attended by outraged residents who have asked about closing the state or city’s borders in order to thwart Joe Biden’s failed immigration policy.

The post Gov’t-Funded Migrant Healthcare Staffing Firm Was Paying $200/Hour For Workers at Migrant Facilities; Two Made $14,000 and $20,000 in ONE WEEK appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

This article originally appeared on WND.com Guest by post by Bob Unruh  Decision implicates 1st Amendment rights A church founded by former slaves, back in 1884, has endured flash floods, the destruction of its building in a storm, the loss of another building in a fire, a trip through receivership and much, much more.

The post City Shutting Down Historic Church Because Neighbors Don’t Like It appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

This past week extreme-left Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel admitted to a friendly left-wing group that she couldn’t get 2020 Trump Electors in Michigan to flip and falsely testify against one another because they were “brainwashed” and actually believed that Trump won the 2020 election.

The post Radical Left Mich. AG Says Trump Electors “Brainwashed”, Hurts her own Prosecution, Brags about Dem Judicial Bias appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

This story originally was published by Real Clear Wire By Hayden Ludwig Real Clear Wire Call him Virginia’s George Soros or “Daddy Greenbucks,” the well-heeled financier funding dozens of Democrats ahead of the Commonwealth’s critical 2023 election, which will determine control of the General Assembly – and the future of Gov.

The post Goldman Sachs Millionaire Bankrolling Virginia’s Democrats appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

driver Jesus Alaya (L); passenger Jzamir Keys The Vegas teen who callously mowed down a retired police chief last month boasted to police officers that he would be out of jail in 30 days.

The post Vegas Teen Brags He will Be ‘Out Jail in 30 Days’ After Mowing Down Biking Retired Police Chief appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

Foreign ties between Ukraine and its neighbor and backer Poland continue to unravel.

The post Polish PM Morawiecki Warns Zelensky ‘Never to Insult Poles Again’, as Grain Ban Feud Intensifies After Warsaw Decision Not to Send Any More Weapons appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

Joe Biden on Friday delivered remarks on ‘gun safety’ from the Rose Garden.

The post Joe Biden: ‘It’s Time to Again Ban High-Capacity Magazines…If You Need 80 Shots in a Magazine, You Shouldn’t Own a Gun!’ (VIDEO) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

A prominent razor company has been caught featuring a trans “model” with double mastectomy scars.

The post Razor Company Features Trans Individual with Double Mastectomy Scars as a “Model” appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

Steve Bannon was on fire on The War Room when discussing Fox News and the Murdoch family.

The post Steve Bannon Unleashes on the Murdochs: ‘President Trump Will Return Like Cincinnatus and Murdoch Can’t Do Anything To Stop It’ (Video) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

Joe Biden on Friday delivered remarks on ‘gun safety’ from the Rose Garden.

The post Joe Biden: I Got Elected to the Senate When I Was 29 Years Old…That Was 827 Years Ago (VIDEO) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

Kenosha County Eye has reported Gaige Grosskreutz who has now changed his name legally to Paul Prediger was hit by a car in Milwaukee.

The post Man Who Pulled Gun On Kyle Rittenhouse Gets Hit By Car (VIDEO) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

  Brazil’s socialist president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, advocated for the end of the U.S.

The post HAHA! Lula da Silva Calls on U.S. to End Economic Embargo Against Cuba appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

Joe Biden on Thursday night delivered remarks at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute 46th Annual Gala in Washington, DC.

The post Joe Biden Blames Trump and Republicans in Congress For Border Crisis as ‘Never-Ending’ Line of Illegal Aliens Storm Eagle Pass, Texas (VIDEO) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

CBS News interviewed Pennsylvania voters last weekend who voted for Joe Biden in 2020.

The post “He Doesn’t Know What’s Going On” – Pennsylvanians Who Voted For Joe Biden in 2020 Now Say He is Too Old and Feeble (VIDEO) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

As president Biden sleepwalks into giving into giving Ukraine ‘a limited number’ of ATCMS operational-tactical missiles with cluster ammunition, an attack on the Black Sea Fleet headquarters in the Crimean capital of Sevastopol shows that, while long-range missiles can’t turn things around in the war, they can still inflict a lot of damage.

The post Ukraine Storm Shadow/Scalp Missile Strike Russian Black Sea Fleet HQ in Crimea – US Reconnaissance Planes Allegedly Helped Targeting of Attack appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

We have seen police overreach over the last 3 years but being arrested for praying was a new low in the UK.

The post British Police Drop Investigation into Women Praying Outside Abortion Clinic….Again appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

By Wayne Allyn Root Does the media ever wonder why so few Americans want the new Covid booster shot?

The post WAYNE ROOT: This is “SCIENCE.” I Can Solve the Covid Vaccine Debate in One Week with This One Simple Question. appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

On Friday, Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson announced he is leaving the failed Democrat party and will switch his affiliation to Republican.

The post Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson Leaves Sinking Democrat Ship, Will Switch Affiliation to Republican Party “America’s Cities Need Republicans, and I’m Becoming One” appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

Federal prosecutors announced Friday that Democrat U.S.

The post US Attorney Damian Williams Details Shocking Charges Against Democrat Senator Bob Menendez and Wife Nadine Menendez (VIDEO) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

Every once in a while, an affluent liberal accidentally stumbles onto the truth.

The post Big-Time Lefty Actor John Cusack Slams Dem Party – ‘Sold Out the Working Class for Decades’ appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

This article originally appeared on WND.com Guest by post by Bob Unruh  Expected to reveal office on ‘gun violence prevention’ Very soon, American taxpayers could be paying for a special campaign endorsed by Joe Biden that would lobby against the Second Amendment rights they now have.

The post Biden to Install Anti-2nd Amendment Activists in White House appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

A new report claims that Bob Iger, CEO of the woke Walt Disney Company, does not see the culture war issues that have increasingly been consuming the country as healthy for the company’s business, and their bottom line, and he wants to  “quiet the noise.” Bounding Into Comics reports that Laura Martin, a Needham financial analyst who attended a recent investor event at Walt Disney World, provided their outlet with a report in which she explains that Iger “believes ‘content should be entertaining, not issues-focused.'” She continues that “Iger’s ‘key goal’ is to ‘Quiet the Noise’ because culture wars are not healthy for [Disney’s] business.” Disney has suffered a 56 percent market cap free fall with losses nearing $200 billion.

The post New Report Suggests Disney CEO Iger Wants to “Quiet the Noise” Surrounding Culture War “Not Healthy for the Company’s Business” appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

A charter bus carrying high school band members crashed near Wayayanda, New York in Orange County on Thursday afternoon.

The post 2 Dead, Dozens Injured After Bus Carrying Students Crashes in New York appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

The Biden administration has a strange new ID card for illegal immigrants.

The post Leaked Images Show What Biden Admin Plans to Hand Out to Illegals at Border appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

Does he even know where he is most days?

The post Biden’s Latest Gaffe-Praises ‘Congressional Black Caucus’ in Address to Congressional Hispanic Caucus appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s trip to Washington has been a reflection of the diminishing support for his Regime both in the UN and the World in general, and in the United States in particular.

The post Mr. Zelensky Goes to Washington, and Finds That the UN, the US and the World Are Very Different This Time Around: ‘If We Don’t Get the Aid, We Will Lose the War’ appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

This article originally appeared on WND.com Guest by post by Peter LaBarbera  Senator: ‘None of them should ever be hired, work for, or paid by the U.S.

The post Ex-Intel Officials Who Signed ‘Russian Disinfo’ Laptop Letter Getting Big Jobs appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

Federal prosecutors announced Friday that Democrat U.S.

The post Developing: New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendz and Wife Indicted, Charged with Bribery appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

A bombshell new peer-reviewed study published in the world’s leading medical journal has found that the breast milk of vaccinated lactating mothers contains mRNA from Covid shots. The study, published this week in the Lancet [...]

The post World’s Top Medical Journal Admits Vaccinated Mothers’ Milk Is Contaminated With mRNA appeared first on The People's Voice.

The Biden administration has declared war on the Second Amendment, announcing Vice President Kamala Harris will become the inaugural “gun czar” to oversee the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention to reduce gun violence. VP Harris will [...]

The post Kamala Harris Becomes First-Ever ‘Gun Czar’ As White House Declares War on 2nd Amendment appeared first on The People's Voice.

The author of Gender Queer, one of the pornographic LBGTQ+ books that has mysteriously appeared in school libraries across the United States, has admitted that the book is not meant to be read by young [...]

The post Author of ‘Gender Queer’ Book Found in School Libraries Across US Says It’s ‘Not For Kids’ appeared first on The People's Voice.

The world has reached a critical juncture according to Klaus Schwab who has ordered world governments to begin jailing and re-educating anybody who opposes the globalist agenda. According to Schwab, human history is now officially [...]

The post WEF Calls For Free Speech Concentration Camps To Jail ‘First Amendment Terrorists’ appeared first on The People's Voice.

Joe Biden has claimed that it’s really Republicans who are responsible for undermining the security of the southern border. The president made these comments on Thursday despite a massive surge in the numbers of illegal [...]

The post Biden Blames Republicans For “Undermining Border Security” appeared first on The People's Voice.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has declared an “invasion” at the Texas-Mexican border because of President Biden’s policies Governor Abbott’s announcement came as he took firm stance against the escalating security crisis and the influx of [...]

The post Gov Greg Abbott Has Officially Declared An Invasion At Texas Border appeared first on The People's Voice.

Moderna is just another front in the Biodefence Mafia. DARPA has openly boasted that Moderna’s mRNA vaccine technology, and by extension Moderna’s so called Covid Vaccine, was a product of their ADEPT program. ADEPT is [...]

The post DARPA & Moderna Teamed Up To Create mRNA Gene Therapy Injections Which Led To ‘Covid’ Jabs appeared first on The People's Voice.

The video platform Rumble has rejected the British Government’s request to demonetize Russell Brand. The government insists that they are prtecting the “victims”…..despite NO trial & NO criminal charges Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovski ssued his [...]

The post Rumble Slams ‘Disturbing’ Request From UK Parliament To Demonetize Russell Brand appeared first on The People's Voice.

The experimental COVID-19 jabs are potentially deadly bioweapons that bypassed all the normal safety checks, Canadian accountability watchdog group National Citizens Inquiry (NCI) has warned. NCI published a scathing report on September 14 detailing the corrupt process [...]

The post Official Canadian Watchdog Warns COVID-19 Jabs Are Deadly Bioweapons appeared first on The People's Voice.

In a newly resurfaced paper from 2012, Dr. Anthony Fauci boasted that the global elite stand to benefit from a deadly man-made pandemic that will vastly depopulate the globe. Despite the risk of billions dying, [...]

The post Fauci’s Boasts ‘Man-Made Pandemics’ Are Good For the Elite appeared first on The People's Voice.

At Least Six Deaths Possibly Linked to Abortion Drug Between 2000 and 2002 Biden Impeachment Inquiry: Scoundrels, Sleaze, and Corruption Criminal Actors May Continue to Exploit Our Porous Border, DHS Says   At Least Six Deaths Possibly Linked to Abortion Drug Between 2000 and 2002 Government health bureaucrats have been trying to hide safety issues […]

The post Biden Impeachment Update appeared first on Judicial Watch.

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that, in collaboration with the Lozier Institute and Susan B. Anthony ProLife, it received 588 pages of records from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), revealing that during the two-year period 2000 to 2002 at least six women’s deaths were possibly linked to the abortion […]

The post Judicial Watch: Lawsuit Uncovers at Least Six Deaths Possibly Linked to Abortion Drug Mifeprex/Mifepristone between 2000 and 2002 appeared first on Judicial Watch.

To comply with a Biden executive order requiring diversity, equity and inclusion in the federal workforce by, among other things expanding employment opportunities for convicted individuals, government agencies must “widely publicize” they are “hiring persons with criminal conduct issues in their background checks” according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which enforces the nation’s […]

The post Govt. Hires More Criminals to Comply with Biden Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Order appeared first on Judicial Watch.

Created after 9/11 to prevent another terrorist attack, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) keeps slamming Americans with grim news involving its struggles to fulfill its critical mission. Days after the agency admitted it lost track of more than 177,000 illegal immigrants freed inside the United States, it released a Homeland Threat Assessment that reveals […]

The post Record Fentanyl, Terrorists in Border Crisis DHS Says “Criminal Actors May Continue to Exploit” appeared first on Judicial Watch.

Investigations into the Biden family are gaining steam. On September 12, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy opened an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. House Republicans, McCarthy said, have uncovered “serious and credible allegations” that “paint a picture of a culture of corruption.”  On another front, on September 14, David Weiss, the conflicted special counsel in […]

The post Biden Impeachment Inquiry: Scoundrels, Sleaze, and Corruption appeared first on Judicial Watch.

Hazardous Conditions in California Labs owned by Chinese Nationals Breaking: Impeachment Inquiry into President Joe Biden To Prioritize Equity, DHS Anti-Terrorism Funds Go to Underserved Groups DHS Loses Track of Illegal Immigrants it Releases in U.S., Many Give Fake Address   Hazardous Conditions in California Labs owned by Chinese Nationals Americans should know that dangerous […]

The post Illegal Biolabs in California appeared first on Judicial Watch.

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it received 29 pages of records through the California Public Records Act that confirm illicit labs owned by Chinese nationals housed biologicals in hazardous and non-compliant conditions, multiple infectious agents, and starving and dead mice. Judicial Watch investigators also uncovered court documents which detail the deplorable conditions […]

The post Judicial Watch: Documents Reveal Photos, Conditions in Illegal California Medical Labs Owned by Chinese Company appeared first on Judicial Watch.

Not only has illegal immigration exploded under the Biden administration, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) fails to track migrants it is supposed to monitor after releasing them in the U.S. Incredibly, the agency created after 9/11 to prevent another terrorist attack is not making much of an effort to find the missing foreigners who […]

The post DHS Loses Track of Illegal Immigrants it Releases in U.S., Many Give Fake Address appeared first on Judicial Watch.

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton made the following statement regarding the announcement by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to initiate an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden: The House took a necessary step for accountability and justice in opening an impeachment inquiry into President Biden. The American people have a right to know […]

The post Judicial Watch Statement on Impeachment Inquiry into President Joe Biden appeared first on Judicial Watch.

To ensure “equity is a key priority,” a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) anti-terrorism program that annually doles out millions of dollars to combat violence in local communities is awarding a substantial chunk of funds to recipients devoted to underserved populations, including a D.C. nonprofit dedicated to empowering lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) […]

The post To Prioritize Equity DHS Anti-Terrorism Funds go to Groups Devoted to Underserved Populations appeared first on Judicial Watch.

From a brash Clint Eastwood in the classic spaghetti Western For A Few Dollars More to a conscientious Robert De Niro in Midnight Run, pop culture depicts the bounty hunter as a kickass, gun-toting white man. Sometimes it’s portrayed by former convicts like reality TV’s Dog the Bounty Hunter and Giovanni Ribisi’s con man who invades a family in the bail bond business in the Amazon’s series Sneaky Pete. Nevertheless, it’s usually a white guy. How realistic is this picture? Let’s examine it with the help of a real bounty hunter.

First, the job title. While “bounty hunter” is universally understood since the days of the Wild West, professionals dislike it. “We never use the term bounty hunter because it is not the legal name we can use in Ohio,” said Dana Acy, bail bonds agent and owner of an eponymous bail bonds agency in Cleveland.

Acy prefers “fugitive recovery agent.” Alternative job titles include bail enforcement agent, fugitive apprehension agent, and bail enforcer, which is also the title of Bob Burton’s seminal book that the U.S. Department of Justice uses as a training manual.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

In the ballroom of a Washington, D.C. hotel last Friday night, hundreds of people swayed and raised their hands to catchy contemporary Christian music.

There’s nothing that our God can’t do

There’s not a mountain that He can’t move.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

Ari Paez, 29, had been dating her boyfriend Jake* (not his real name) for about six months but had increasingly grown suspicious of his interactions with his ex-girlfriend.

“I would see her name pop up on his phone quite often,” she says. “At first I was a little sketched out so I snooped on his phone but it all seemed very friendly, the messages weren’t really flirtatious, so I tried to be the cool girl and be like ‘some people are friends with their ex’ it doesn’t mean anything.”

But the uneasy feeling in her stomach that something was awry only continued to grow when Jake and his ex would go on trips together.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

This week:

Nicole Beharie Is the Performer of the Week

I wouldn’t call the way The Morning Show tackles anything “nuanced.” The Apple TV+ show tends to rile up its impressive cast—Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, Julianna Margulies, Jon Hamm, Greta Lee, Billy Crudup, and Karen Pittman—and has them charge at various ripped-from-headlines issues like a prestige television running of the bulls.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

Uganda’s Murchison Falls National Park is home to much dangerous wildlife. The rivers teem with crocodiles and tusked hippos. Lions and leopards stalk the night. There are elephants that can crush anything in their path and massive cape buffalos with razor-sharp horns more than three feet across.

When 21-year-old Dutch medical student Sophia Koetsier disappeared here under mysterious circumstances in the autumn of 2015, authorities tried to blame it on an animal attack, according to Dutch media reports.

Eight years later, however, a potential new lead has surfaced. And the new director of the Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID) in Uganda has reopened the investigation into Sophia’s mysterious disappearance. Instead of a croc or a big cat, it now appears that Sophia may have fallen prey to the most dangerous species of all: man.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

In the last two months, I’ve read many stories celebrating the 50-year anniversary of Hip Hop. Stories of how teenagers who grew up in New York City harnessed nothing but their talent to create a cultural phenomenon that captivates the globe. Hip Hop’s cultural power is undeniable, but the story people don’t know is that the children who created this global juggernaut attended school in the shadow of the school reform movement that punished them for the very creativity they expressed in Hip Hop.

Born in 1979, I am a card-carrying member of the Hip Hop generation. I started school when Hip Hop was making its way into the American mainstream. My big brother, 12 years my senior, introduced me to Hip Hop. Kurtis Blow, Salt-n-Pepa, Kool Moe Dee, and The Fat Boys blasted nonstop from his bedroom. I’d kneel by his door, hoping he would play my favorite songs more than once so I could memorize all the words. Hip Hop was all around me, influencing every part of my life. My clothes, hair, sneakers, walk, talk, and ideas about the world were being shaped by Hip Hop. It was my everything, and each kid that looked like me in my Black neighborhood in upstate New York spoke in the language of Hip Hop. At home, on our block, in our neighborhoods, we were in sync. But when we went to school, the heartbeat of Hip Hop that proudly blasted from every corner of our neighborhoods could not reach our schools or our teachers.

We made beats and they told us to stop banging on the lunch tables. We were poets and writers, and they told us to stop rapping. We freed our minds and bodies through innovative movement, and they told us to stop popping and locking. We thought we were representing our pride and beauty through fashion, and they told us to turn our clothes inside out or leave school altogether.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

I wasn’t even looking to work at the Center for Antiracist Research. I was a junior faculty member at Boston University with a modest public profile, so didn’t expect an invitation to the party. Dr. Ibram X. Kendi was an academic rockstar, after all.

To my surprise, the Center reached out to interview me. When I got the job, I felt like Percy Jackson being summoned to Mount Olympus.

Fast forward two years. I had left the Center, like so many others, and was recovering from the experience. Then I got word about the mass layoffs. All the old feelings came flooding back.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

Comedian Sam Jay opens her new HBO stand-up special, Salute Me Or Shoot Me, by admitting not only that she’s wearing Spanx, but because she doesn’t know how to pee in them, she’s standing before the audience now with a wet ass. Whether any of that is true or not is irrelevant, because she literally has made herself the butt of the joke.

Hasan Minhaj, on the other hand, found himself clowned upon and debated this past week not because he acknowledged in a New Yorker profile that he had lied in his comedy specials, but because he lied for the wrong reasons.

What’s the difference?

Read more at The Daily Beast.

The kit arrives in your mailbox in a cardboard box stamped with a modern, serif-font logo. It’s the kind of sleek, clean design so often associated with direct-to-consumer brands that fill your social media feeds with ads. A hip makeup line could easily be inside, or a set of razors with a cutesy name.

Instead, you open the box and find a pair of gloves, a specimen collection jar, and an organic cotton tampon.

NextGen Jane, a health tech startup founded in 2014, sends these kits to menstruators who volunteer to participate in one of the company’s clinical studies. Users wear the tampon for a specified amount of time before removing it and depositing it into the collection jar. Once the jar is sealed, a solution in the container activates to keep the sample’s DNA and RNA intact in ambient temperatures for up to two weeks. Users pack the jar in a supplied, self-addressed box, and drop it in the mail to be sent to NextGen Jane’s lab in Oakland, California for analysis.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

I wasn’t sure a celebrity could have a worse week than Drew Barrymore did after three separate announcements—two of them, apologies—regarding the now-delayed return of her talk show during the WGA strike. Then walks in our Nepo Baby of The Week, Emma Roberts, who was called out for being transphobic and an overall mean girl by one of her former co-stars this week. This PR catastrophe occurred the same day as the premiere of her latest acting gig, which has also caught heat for strike-related reasons. Can these spoiled, Hollywood-bred girls do anything right?? (The answer is obviously no.)

On Wednesday, television mogul Ryan Murphy unleashed his latest cursed project onto the world, American Horror Story: Delicate, in which Roberts plays an actress trying to conceive through IVF. Its arrival, however, has been anything but delicate. That’s not to mention that some of the next-morning reviews were pretty harsh.

First, there’s the alleged scabbiness of it all, as Murphy and FX kept the show in production after the Writers Guild of America announced a walkout amid their ongoing fight for better wages and working conditions. (While the scripts that were shooting were apparently already completed, as several WGA members noted, writers are utilized throughout TV shoots, and therefore picketed outside the studio. ) It’s safe to say that no one was really checking for Roberts in this regard, as her billionaire co-star, Kim Kardashian, was catching most of the heat on social media. Yet the former Nickelodeon star managed to find herself in the center of even a more explosive controversy after Pose actress Angelica Ross aired out some of her experiences on Murphy’s sets.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

After nearly a year of anticipation, the most shocking thing about the federal indictment of Sen. Robert Menendez that dropped Friday is how clumsy it makes the senator and his co-conspirators look.

According to the indictment, the Democrat, his wife, and their alleged accomplices left fingerprints—literal, digital, and figurative—all over the purported plot to take bribes in exchange for local, national, and international favors. So far, Menendez and two of the other defendants have denied wrongdoing.

None have yet disputed U.S. Attorney Damian Williams’ evidence. And that evidence, if accurate, would appear to indicate that not only is Menendez a crook, but an incredibly bad one.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

As he helped propel the government towards a shutdown, far-right Tennessee Rep. Andy Ogles took a moment to announce urgent legislation to counter what he views as a threat to the American way of life.

“Biden’s war on everyday appliances is not over,” Ogles tweeted amidst a national crisis on Thursday. “Now, he’s having his bureaucrats come after your water heater.”

While responsible members of Congress were worried about the immediate impact a shutdown would have on everything from child care to cancer research, Ogles was concerned about a federal energy conservation measure for new water heaters that would not take effect until five years after final approval.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

The Biden administration is nearing a decision to send long-range munitions to Ukraine known as Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) that could give Ukraine an edge in the fight against Russia’s invasion, according to U.S. officials.

President Joe Biden has told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that Washington will be sending a small number of long-range missiles to Ukraine, NBC News reported Friday. Senior national security officials have also been discussing whether to send the ATACMS missiles armed with cluster bomblets instead of a single warhead in recent days, according to The Washington Post.

ATACMS, which can fire about 190 miles, could provide Ukraine the firepower it needs to reach important logistics, stockpiles, command and control centers, and other Russian targets far inside Russian territory.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) isn’t finished caving to the far-right in his conference, even as they continue to sabotage his attempts at passing party-line spending bills ahead of an imminent government shutdown.

The latest instance came on Friday—just eight days out from a shutdown—when McCarthy bowed to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) demand to remove $300 million in aid for Ukraine from a Pentagon spending bill. The bill was voted down by Greene and other hardliners twice this week, despite usually being one of the easiest government funding measures to pass, and one McCarthy hoped would chart a way forward for passing a wider resolution to divert a shutdown.

The concession underscored the lengths to which McCarthy has been forced to go to appease hardline conservatives who, because of the razor-thin margins in the House, effectively have a gun to the speaker’s head allowing them to get whatever they want at the expense of effective governing.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

Longtime TV host and reality personality Sharon Osbourne is known for being outspoken, but this week, the wife of rock star Ozzy Osbourne peeled back yet another layer of vulnerability on the Piers Morgan show when she revealed a dramatic 30-pound weight loss, which she says is due to taking injections of Ozempic.

Many suddenly-skinnier celebrities have aroused suspicion that they’re on the drug, which is intended to be prescribed to diabetics but which has had a huge surge in popularity due to its weight loss capabilities, but Osbourne is one of the few who’s copped to taking it.

Other celebrities who’ve spoken out about taking Ozempic include Tracy Morgan and Amy Schumer—along with Chelsea Handler who claimed to have taken it accidentally.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

Writer-director Andrew Haigh has made a name for himself in the realm of sad, gay cinema. The director’s 2011 breakout hit, Weekend, became a lightning rod for some members of the queer community, with discussion of the film being a go-to icebreaker on first dates—well, at least for me. Weekend, for all of its fans, was a film that never connected with me, no matter how hard I tried. Bringing it up on dates was an effective litmus test for whether or not I might click with someone as a prospective partner. But it speaks to Haigh’s talent as a filmmaker that, although his most beloved feature could never pierce the veil for me, I’ve greatly enjoyed his other work, particularly 2015’s stunning 45 Years.

In the case of Haigh’s latest project, the sublimely emotional All of Us Strangers—which screened Thursday at the New York Film Festival—things are very different. Here, Haigh takes the queer experience and makes it universal; the specificity of gay trauma is merely a catalyst for Haigh’s characters to embark on a journey through their best and worst selves. It’s at those extremes that Haigh crafts his most accessible film yet, a tender treatise on the undying power of love and what happens when we ignore its force.

All of Us Strangers is loosely based on Taichi Yamada’s 1987 novel Strangers, yet has Haigh’s signature touches all over it. I don’t just mean the hot guys, but I am also directly referring to the hot guys. The film stars Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal as Adam and Harry, two neighbors in a recently completed London high-rise who find themselves repeatedly bumping into one another, if only because there aren’t yet many other tenants to crowd the place. One night, Adam opens his door to find a drunken Harry standing in the hallway, asking if Adam would like to have a drink… or whatever else a drink may lead to. Though intrigued, Adam turns him down in favor of burying himself in his work: a screenplay set in 1987, about his parents who died in a car crash when he was just 12 years old.

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I have five dogs (and four cats), which means I own a lot of pet beds in varying sizes. Like most pet owners, I love to snuggle, nap, and even sleep with my fur children, which has resulted in some pretty comical photos of me trying to contort my lanky 5’8 frame into one of their pet-sized beds to lay beside them. Naturally, I was instantly intrigued when TikTok served me a video featuring Plufl, the original human dog bed. This oversized fuzzy napping bed looks exactly like a premium dog or cat bed—only larger—68 inches long and 33 inches wide, to be exact.

Unlike your standard cat or dog bed, however, the Plufl really is designed for human use, which means its base is made from mattress grade and orthopedic memory foam (hence the $400 price tag), so you feel like you’re sleeping in a mini version of your real bed—not your pet’s. This also means you can actually plop down on it without breaking your back when you hit the ground... it’s that padded.

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For one week each year, as world leaders gather in New York for the United Nations General Assembly meetings, the biggest stories in international affairs all seem to be laid out, side-by-side for Americans to view up close. This year, the spectacle and related developments here in the United States had to leave most rational observers more shaken than stirred.

On Wednesday, speaking at a climate conference, the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said environmental challenges facing the planet had “opened up the gates of hell.”

The unsettling week also saw congressional Republicans move to cut future funding to help stop Russian aggression in Ukraine, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman crowing on U.S. television about his $2 billion investment in Jared Kushner and his embrace of the benefits of “sportswashing,” Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu cozying up to one of the world’s leading enablers of anti-Semites, Elon Musk, and China finishing up the week by announcing a “strategic partnership” with Syrian butcher Bashar al Assad.

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Use your hands for a moment. Grab that bottle on your desk and unscrew the cap. Or get a pencil or pen and write your name. You might already be using your hand to read this story on your phone—that works too. As you do, notice each movement that your hands and fingers make, and the tiny changes in pressure you apply as you go through the motions.

Pay close enough attention and you’ll see that your hands are doing a lot more than you realized. But it’s something that you tend not to think about. After all, you’ve probably made these motions countless times in your life.

However, Kenny Shaw thinks about these motions a lot. As a robotics engineer at Carnegie Mellon University, he’s devoted his research to figuring out how hands work—and how to replicate them in machines.

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In his announcement on Thursday that he was stepping down as chairman of News Corp and Fox Corp. and handing the reigns to Lachlan Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch assured staff that his eldest son was “absolutely committed to the cause.”

According to Fox News’ far-right media rivals, that apparent cause is wokeness.

In the wake of the 92-year-old media mogul’s decision to fade into the background, mainstream and liberal media have contemplated just how much the younger Murdoch will continue his father’s legacy of peddling outrage porn, grievance, and deception for profit. “I fear Fox will only be worse under son Lachlan & that this is a means to solidify his power before Dad’s death,” journalism professor Jeff Jarvis noted.

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A man named John Hetherington finally got to see Beyoncé perform live last night after an airline failed to accommodate his wheelchair last week, forcing him to miss the singer’s concert in Seattle.

On Friday, Hetherington, who has cerebral palsy, expressed his gratitude to Beyoncé and her online fanbase, known as the BeyHive, for getting him to her Renaissance World Tour show in Arlington, Texas.

“We partied, we sang, we danced… HARD,” he wrote in a caption. “BeyHive, you made this happen. You pushed and tagged like the internet has never seen. Tonight for the first time ever, I had a seat on the floor of a concert.”

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Each day, you leave digital traces of what you did, where you went, who you communicated with, what you bought, what you’re thinking of buying, and much more. This mass of data serves as a library of clues for personalized ads, which are sent to you by a sophisticated network—an automated marketplace of advertisers, publishers and ad brokers that operates at lightning speed.

The ad networks are designed to shield your identity, but companies and governments are able to combine that information with other data, particularly phone location, to identify you and track your movements and online activity. More invasive yet is spyware—malicious software that a government agent, private investigator or criminal installs on someone’s phone or computer without their knowledge or consent. Spyware lets the user see the contents of the target’s device, including calls, texts, email and voicemail. Some forms of spyware can take control of a phone, including turning on its microphone and camera.

Now, according to an investigative report by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, an Israeli technology company called Insanet has developed the means of delivering spyware via online ad networks, turning some targeted ads into Trojan horses. According to the report, there’s no defense against the spyware, and the Israeli government has given Insanet approval to sell the technology.

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Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) has been charged with bribery in a federal indictment formally unsealed Friday at 11 a.m.

The indictment accuses Menendez—the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee—with accepting “hundreds of thousands of dollars of bribes in exchange for using Menendez’s influence as a Senator to seek to... benefit the Arab Republic of Egypt.”

The alleged payoffs came from three New Jersey businessmen and included cash, gold bars, payments toward a home mortgage, a no-show job, a Mercedes, and “other things of value,” according to the indictment.

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A 77-year-old retired teacher who died Thursday afternoon when a charter bus carrying high school band students rolled down an embankment in New York was remembered by her daughter as “the glue of this family.”

Brooklyn native Beatrice Ferarri, who taught for 32 years at Farmingdale High School on Long Island, was accompanying the youngsters as they headed to band camp in Greeley, Pennsylvania. The annual trip is a tradition for the school district, which NBC New York reports has ballooned to include as many as 300 students every year. “Grandma Bea” had actually stopped teaching 17 years ago but continued to volunteer as a chaperone, daughter Dina LoPresto told Newsday.

She had become close with Farmingdale HS band director Gina Pellettiere, who, like Ferrari, also did not survive the crash.

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Fan violence emerged as the storyline of “Thursday Night Football” as brawling in the crowd overshadowed the San Francisco 49ers’ easy dismantling of the New York Giants in a 30-12 […]

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Former President Donald Trump decided to weigh in on the news that Rupert Murdoch will be stepping down from his role at Fox News. The 45th president took to his […]

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When Ibram X. Kendi’s preposterous thesis that “the only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination” becomes mainstream practice, you know things are upside down. Kendi is the author of […]

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Calling her “a key leader in the Biden-Harris Administration’s effort to end our nation’s gun violence epidemic,” President Joe Biden on Friday tapped Vice President Kamala Harris to oversee the […]

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