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The Washington Post published a breezy little profile Thursday of David Daleiden, the man behind the Center for Medical Progress, the group who made the sting videos attacking Planned Parenthood as vicious sellers of baby parts. It’s warm, respectful, congratulatory, and strangely light on some key details.

“Ch-Ching,” the dare-you new track from Chairlift, has a secret weapon beneath its sneaky horn jabs and handclaps: its consonants. The way singer Caroline Polachek emphasizes each word on the hook, cadences so textured that what she’s even saying remains opaque, effects a kind of soothing crackle for the ASMR-inclined. They’ve hit on a pop goldmine not even Calvin Harris or Max Martin has prospected out, tapping into a huge, YouTube-tested market and maybe mapping out a new calculus for registering wins at radio. Читать дальше...

Princess Sofia of Sweden and her husband, Prince Carl Philip—whose names will promptly slip from your mind like the sands through the hourglass, as always, for some mysterious reason—are expecting a child. The couple married in June.

One brave mother is speaking out about the latest critical threat to American children’s “impressionable young minds.” I mean, of course, a shirt with two bees in ghost costumes, the caption “Boo Bees” emblazoned across the chest. Despite the obvious peril such a salacious garment presents to our nation’s little girls, the anonymous hero mom is being careful not to speak out too loudly, because she’s afraid Big Ang from Mob Wives might find out and have her whacked.

Dolls are already creepy—even when they’re not lifelike versions of a deceased child whose parents behave as though it were real.

Marine Corps researchers charged with the task of analyzing and making recommendations regarding integrating women into combat roles incidentally discovered seven instances of sexual assault, according to the report obtained by the Washington Post.

In the past week, Taye Diggs has made several appearances on daytime talk shows, ostensibly promoting his newest children’s book. During these appearances, he seems hellbent on wearing what can only be described as some of the uglier hats seen walking the streets in recent years.

Weekly, a pre-approved, snap-judged music guide based on our very scientific, non-subjective Yes/No rating system. There’s really no debating this, come on stop.

Aside from Liza Minelli drunkenly careening through your wedding or Wilson Philips performing the two hits you’ve always loved at your reception, there are few things more exciting than having the president show up to your wedding. Not only because you get to meet the leader of the free world, but also because you’ve definitely got the best wedding story of all time.

Netflix is both a joyous cesspool of unwatchable movies as well as your one true friend, especially come winter. Probably you’re already familiar with the site’s robust movie recommendation system, which features categories like Quirky Movies, Feel-Good Movies, Irreverent Movies and—of course—Movies Featuring a Strong Female Lead.

In 2008, John McCain famously suspended his campaign to rush to the center of the financial problem and fix it like Superman flying to the surface of the sun. It seemed very silly at the time, because John McCain is a lot of things, but he is not a banking expert. The whole thing read as disingenuously opportunistic.

Restaurant magnate Danny Meyer has decided to eliminate tipping from all 13 of the restaurants in his successful Union Square Hospitality Group.

In 1973, two Pennsylvania deputy game protectors found a dead body near a U.S. Army post. The corpse was female, naked, and stripped of all jewelry and identifying information. In addition, her body was buried without too much care under tarps and slabs of wood, making her much easier to discover than expected. For over 40 years, the police thought the victim (a Jane Doe) was Betsy Langjahr, a runaway, but some startling information has just been uncovered: Langjahr has been alive all this time.

ABC’s newest series is not necessarily a reboot, but it is definitely from the past, a past some of us (not me) are trying to forget. The network has pulled from the Julia Roberts film canon to come up with a new half-hour show, which will act as a sequel to My Best Friend’s Wedding. What in the name of Rupert Everett is going on here?

Roman Atwood is a popular YouTube personality famous for pulling pranks. His girlfriend, a repeated victim of Atwood’s hoaxes, was tricked again when he pretended their three-year-old son was killed in a fiery explosion. Is it really necessary?

In an interview with CNN, Ivanka Trump said her father would be “amazing” and “incredible for women in this country” after defending the presidential candidate’s controversial comments in regards to Megyn Kelly and Carly Fiorina. During the first GOP debate, Trump said Kelly had “blood coming out of her wherever” and made rude remarks about Fiorina’s looks in a recent Rolling Stone article.

Oh, come on; who hasn’t thought about stripping their clothes off in a Subway and tearing the place apart? GLASS HOUSES.

Dance Moms’ Abby Lee Miller, whose main claim to fame is emotionally abusing children in order to manipulate their fame hungry parents, has been indicted on charges of fraud after allegedly concealing $755,000 in income from the bankruptcy court in Pittsburgh.

In today’s Tweet Beat, one of the world’s greatest couples takes a great picture, Coco Rocha’s baby boards a private jet and Angel Haze asks a good question.

If there’s any species we humans should be envious of, it’s the majestic house cat, who does not give a fuck. Case in point: this cat, who instead of using the cat door uses the doorknob to remind you who’s in charge.

A movie about cyber bullying unrelated to the Lifetime Movie Channel is coming out, and it has a lot of familiar faces.

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Five years after The Hills ended, Heidi and Spencer Pratt are still—seemingly against all odds—alive and kicking, at least according to a disturbing, incredible new profile on the couple from Complex.

Welcome to Would U?, an academic forum in which I share my gross crush of the week and ask if you, too, would bang that person.

After twenty-two seasons, twenty-two makeover episodes and one lace front beard, America’s Next Top Model has been canceled and is no longer in the running for... anything.