Новости за 14.12.2018

Earlier this week, Oklahoma Republican state senator Paul Scott proposed legislation that would eliminate a program that provides prenatal healthcare services to low-income pregnant Oklahomans. His reason? He’s upset that pregnant undocumented people are able to use the program. Sounds like a nice guy.

As perennially parched as I am, I usually don’t do thirst posts. I’d call today an exception but, dear friend, this isn’t really a thirst post—it’s an affirmation. An ode, suitable for a big ass Grecian urn. A declaration of love to the one true saint of this week, the hero New York City needs but certainly doesn’t…

The most bizarre, disgusting, and quite frankly mad holiday-themed special maybe of all time aired on Thursday night. TLC’s Dr. Pimple Popper: The 12 Pops of Christmas featured the ever-effervescent Dr. Sandra Lee pulling various masses—including a 55-year-old blackhead—out of people’s skin and laughing all the way.…

Boy oh boy were there a lot of bad wigs this year in movies and TV. Some were furry, some were orange, and almost all of them made me sit up in my seat and whisper, “What’s up with that wig?” But even the worst wig Hollywood can serve audiences, whether it be of the “Can I speak to the manager?” variety or the…

All the royals have released their annual Christmas cards. This isn’t really important, except for a) the window it offers into how each couple sees and frames themselves and also b) the fact that Prince George isn’t dressed like a wee Edwardian ghost.

Federal prosecutors have charged 19 people in connection with a sex-trafficking ring that exploited teenage victims in New York.

After years of working diligently to consolidate Republican power and undermine basic democratic process in his state, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker on Friday signed a bill consolidating Republican power and undermining basic democratic process in his state. The bill, passed by the state legislature earlier this…

The Republican Party’s obsession with abortion and general contempt for science continued on Thursday as House conservatives pushed against government-funded research that involves fetal tissue.

Danish scientists are sounding the alarm about the dangers of hygge—specifically, the potentially negative health effects of burning candles all the damn time, for coziness.

Every year is longer than the one that followed; also, sometimes it is shorter. In 2018, we survived whatever garbage this world threw at us, and like beautiful little raccoons digging through a dumpster, we made the best of it. Here’s what we wrote that we absolutely loved.

The witch has become an icon of pop feminism.

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I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, considering every time I go to karaoke, I hear “Bohemian Rhapsody” probably 27,890 times. But Rami Malek’s Freddie Mercury biopic of the same name is now the highest-grossing music biopic of all time.

Yesterday, we covered the most popular (and ridiculous) toys for children in 2018. But now let’s rewind to 1898, when they—or at least one five-year-old named Marjorie—wanted toy ducks and a ball for a cat named “KittyKins.”

The Education Department will erase about $150 million in student debt, begrudgingly applying an Obama-era protection that Education Secretary Betsy DeVos had attempted to dismantle.

The year is nearing its end, but scammer season is eternal.

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A 7-year-old girl from Guatemala has died while in the custody of Customs and Border Patrol officials, after being detained last week close to the U.S.-Mexico border. The young girl, who reportedly had not had anything to drink or eat for days before being in CBP custody, died of septic shock, fever, and dehydration.

I don’t know, did we land on the moon? Plenty of people do not believe that we did, including the people in the farthest reaches of the internet and the most spiral minded Stanley Kubrick fans, but Stephen Curry, nice-guy star of the Golden State Warriors and husband of Ayesha Curry, is not one of these people, OKAY?…

Sondra Locke has died. She was a director and Oscar-nominated actress, but by The Hollywood Reporter’s account, she was just Clint Eastwood’s money-grubbing ex-girlfriend.

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You know that song “We Need a Little Christmas,” about decorating for the holidays way too early? And how it specifically says it’s just a week after Thanksgiving? To our 2018 minds that’s ridiculous, but I suppose there was a time when you didn’t put up your tree and lights until well into December.

If you reach Dante’s fifth circle of hell you will find a swamp and also the White House’s annual Christmas party. There were blood-red trees. There was a band dressed like toy soldiers playing Christmas songs. There was Ivanka Trump dressed as Lizzie McGuire. Newt and Calista Gingrich emerged from their cryochambers.…

A $9.5 million settlement between Eliza Dushku and CBS came to light when the network hired a team of investigators to look into any overarching culture issues at the company, according to a new report from the New York Times. The settlement, according to the investigators’ notes, which the Times states it reviewed,…

“Serum is the key! You have to be using one!” A friend said this last year, and I hear it over and over again….eh, pretty much every time I go to wash my face. Looking in the mirror, a silent chant arises: Serum. You must not forget the serum.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: There’s really no reason to ever buy individual eyeshadows when eyeshadows palettes exist. My point is bolstered by Sephora’s current Weekly Wow! deal on Tarte Tartelette Eyeshadow Palettes in Flirt and Tease. Both are available for just $10 this week; that comes out to about…

On Thursday, NPR reported that multinational personal care corporation Kimberley-Clark voluntarily recalled some U by Kotex tampons, which were reportedly unravelling during use due to a “quality-related defect.”