On Wednesday, John Matze, the CEO and founder of the “free speech” app Parler, which went dark last month, announced in an internal memo that he had been fired by the company’s board of directors, […]
Super Bowl Halftime Shows Ranked: From Worst to Best
There is no gig in music like the Super Bowl halftime show. You have 15 minutes to justify your legend. You have 150 million people watching, most of whom are distracted by the nachos platter, […]
Bill Clinton Launches New Podcast ‘Why Am I Telling You This?’
Bill Clinton launched a new podcast Thursday called Why Am I Telling You This? via IHeartMedia, the company announced. In the 46-minute first episode of the interview series, the former president — a saxophone player and […]
Hunter Biden Announces Memoir ‘Beautiful Things,’ Out in April
Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, has a new memoir coming out on April 6th. The book, titled Beautiful Things, will center on Biden’s ongoing struggles with substance abuse, according to its publisher Gallery Books, […]
YouTube Is Profiting Off Creeps Hacking a Sexy, Body-Positive TikTok Challenge
For the past few weeks, a trend called the #silhouettechallenge has been going viral on TikTok. To a remix of Paul Anka’s “Put Your Head on My Shoulder,” participants in the trend (mostly, but not […]
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Said Something Genuine, So Of Course Men Reacted Poorly
On Monday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) took to Instagram Live, as she frequently does to address her followers directly, to speak publicly in detail for the first time about her experience being barricaded in her […]
QAnon Conspiracy Theorists Are Emboldened by the Coup in Myanmar
On Monday, the recently elected government in Myanmar was overthrown by the military. According to the Associated Press, Commander-in-Chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing has taken power in the country for one year due to […]
Sex Workers Worry They’re Going to Be Purged From Twitter
For 11 years, Genesis Lynn, the owner of Fetish Con, an industry trade show for people in the fetish industry, had relied on Twitter. Fetish Con had more than 55,000 followers, and used it to […]
Courtney Summers’ ‘The Project’ Is Not Your Average Novel About Cults
Author Courtney Summers wants to destroy you. Not literally, of course, but through the devastating young-adult books she’s spent the last decade writing. Her latest, The Project, is no different. A harrowing look at cults […]
Rochester Police Handcuffed and Pepper-Sprayed a Nine-Year-Old Girl
Police in Rochester, New York pepper-sprayed a nine-year-old girl while she was handcuffed in the back of a police car, as seen on body-camera footage from an incident last Friday, January 29th. As the Rochester […]
Drug Decriminalization Goes Into Effect in Oregon
Oregon’s state law decriminalizing all drugs officially goes into effect today, February 1st. The first-of-its-kind initiative, Measure 110, passed overwhelmingly last November, with 58.5 percent voting in favor. As the Salem, Oregon Statesman Journal notes, […]
The ‘World Wide Robin Hood Society’ Had a Very Weird Week
Bob White was just starting to settle in to a quiet night with his family at his Nottingham, England home last Friday when his cell phone dinged. And dinged again. And again. The affable, 77-year-old […]