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We are in a temporal loop. George Santayana’s 1905 observation that “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” remains (ironically?) indelible, but it isn’t even the half of it. Repetition suggests a start, ending, and restart, but really we’ve been marching in place for some 30 years with no…

Three children were expelled from their Sacramento, California Catholic school Sunday after school administrators took issue with their mother’s job: modeling on the adult members-only site, OnlyFans.

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Gerard Depardieu, a prolific and award-winning French actor, has been charged with rape stemming from a 2018 accusation, according to the Agence France-Presse. A “judicial source” confirmed the charge to AFP on Tuesday; Depardieu’s lawyer denying any wrongdoing, according to France24.

When my partner and I announced to our close family and friends that we were expecting, we soon became bombarded by one specific question: “Are you excited?” (Or my personal favorite: “Is Maliq excited?”) Maliq and I had been strategically planning to start a family for the past two years; of course we were excited.…

Chekhov’s Sex Dungeon is back on The Real Housewives of Atlanta—as a metaphor and plot device, as well as a literal space in which the women now find themselves. First conjured a few seasons back, the“sex dungeon” made its debut when Kandi Burruss and husband Todd Tucker were accused of preying on castmate Porsha…

In the summer of 2019, the Trump administration opened a sprawling tent city—what the administration euphemistically called a temporary emergency shelter—in Carrizo Springs, Texas to house immigrant youth seeking asylum. It was shut down after a month, but the Carrizo Springs facility and similar tent cities in…

In 1997 Joe Francis was working as a production assistant in reality television when he realized that most of the footage being submitted for the show he was working on was extreme. There were suicides, video of a woman getting hit by a train, another woman having her legs bitten off by a shark. Ever the visionary,…

Cultural nostalgia recycles itself every two decades, so the conventional wisdom goes, and in February 2021, the influence of the early 2000s is everywhere: it’s present in the latest cut of jeans and the music of Lil Uzi Vert and perhaps in the relationship of Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker. But the hyperspeed…

“I haven’t had this much negative press coverage since northern California in the 1960s,” Senator Ted Cruz said, inflicting a morsel of humor into an interview with the hosts of Ruthless, a podcast whose entire premise is built on the idea that conservatives can be funny, actually. But the only thing funnier than…

Matt James’s season of The Bachelor is nearing the end—thank god—and this time, the women are dumping him. What a glorious twist!

Actor Shailene Woodley and Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers are definitely, totally engaged. Alright? She confirmed the news on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon Monday, saying, “For us, it’s not new news, so it’s kind of funny everybody right now is freaking out over it. We’re like, ‘Yeah we’ve been…

Getting sued for $1.3 billion? Actually it’s good, says MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a challenge to a Trump-era abortion policy known as the domestic gag rule. The rule is more or less what it sounds like: When it went into effect in 2019, it banned federally-funded clinics from referring patients to abortion providers or—in its strictest interpretation—from…

Unfortunately, it’s been zero days since a gender reveal party has ended in casualties.

Page Six reported on a rumor Sunday night, which soon trickled its way into the tabloids Monday: Teresa Giudice, iconic star of the Real Housewives of New Jersey, is “terrified” that she is going to get fired.

Last week, Jodi Shaw, a white woman—this is very relevant—decided to resign from her position at Smith College due in large part to the unspeakable horror that, as part of the university’s racial equity trainings, she was forced to contemplate the fact that she is white for a few hours every year. Her resignation…

The latest entry in the absolutely pointless intergenerational war between Gen Z and the ancient millennials is so utterly befuddling that I feel it is necessary to address it once and for all, in an attempt to issue something close to a declarative statement on the matter. It seems that Gen Z has come for skinny…

Unfortunately, former Trump lackey Rudy Giuliani has not melted enough to render him incapable of speech and has found a uniquely vile place to spew sexist bullshit: Steve Bannon’s podcast. Bannon decided to use his platform for a tribute episode on Thursday in remembrance of his repulsive pal, Rush Limbaugh. Toward…