Новости за 07.01.2021

Rarely do they emerge this great. When Danish punk band Iceage descended upon New York in 2011, months after releasing their debut album, New Brigade, 20 years old today—first on Copenhagen imprint Escho/Tambourhinoceros and U.S. avant label Dias, later, the indie What’s Your Rupture?—something in the air shifted and…

It turns out that when a fabulist feigns forgetfulness about the word for cucumber on live television, there is a single resulting consequence: Losing a baby diaper spokesperson gig.

Jason Alexander—the man who has eked out a living for nearly 20 years by bringing up the fact he once married Britney Spears for 55 hours when she was very young and struggling with issues that would later become evident—is not a one-trick pony. He is terrible in myriad other ways!

When I read the news reports that Derrick Evans, a newly elected member of the West Virginia legislature, livestreamed himself storming into the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, I went, “hmm, I know that name.”

This morning I woke up and immediately turned on the radio, something I do regularly but which felt particularly urgent today. I wanted to know if there were any more pipe bombs discovered in federal buildings and how many people died as a direct result of the pro-Trump coalition of conspiracy theorists and white…

On Wednesday night’s episode of Real Housewives of America (Series Finale, Part One), shit got pretty shaky. But the hundreds of headlines covering the riot at the Capitol seemed to have excluded one very important historical note that must be added for accuracy and posterity. In the midst of what can only be…

Now that the first portion of the attempted coup is over for the moment, we can all sit back, have a tea, and welcome Karlie Kloss into the fold.

Hours into Wednesday’s domestic terrorist attack on the nation’s Capitol by Trump supporters and election conspiracy mongers, news circulated that indie musicians Ariel Pink and John Maus attended the mob with “red-pilled” “filmmaker” Alex Lee Moyer (known for TFW No GF, a celebratory incel documentary that managed…

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The Trump administration has been hellbent on doing as much damage to the environment as it’s physically able, including auctioning off the rights to drill in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. But as it turns out, no one is particularly interested in bidding on one of the last wild places in the country after…

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It took a riot in the Capitol, but Donald Trump has been temporarily banished from the various social media platforms that have enabled his presidency—Facebook and Instagram for 24 hours, and Twitter for 12 hours.

Stephanie Grisham, chief of staff to Melania Trump and one of many former White House communications directors, has resigned following today’s violence at the Capitol. Who is going to shove spiked heels onto her boss’s feet and facilitate her non-existent good works now?!

The possibility of invoking the 25th Amendment—that is, the removal of a President if they’re found to be unfit to do their job—has been brought up numerous times over the course of the Trump presidency. Today, just two weeks before the dripping Spam loaf we call our leader is to be drop-kicked from the Oval Office…

After the U.S. Capitol came under siege by a group of Trump supporters, president-elect Joe Biden got in front of a microphone like he was Bill Pullman in the middle of an alien invasion and attempted to unify the country and urge the restoration of some semblance of peace. But instead of a rousing call about the…

Ivanka Trump, icy blonde head cheerleader for white nationalists and favorite Trump daughter, may have finally learned that words mean things after tweeting and quickly deleting a message addressing the dangerous hordes rioting in the nation’s capital as “American Patriots.”