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Senate Democrats have a lot on their plate right now. They’re trying to get an infrastructure bill on Biden’s desk, the laborious Senate budget resolution is on the docket, the Republicans are still impossible to work with, and while midterms are a little over a year away, campaigns will really start revving up this…

Yes yes yes: City Girls, “Twerkulator” - Let’s see, we’ve got giant asses attacking a city, disembodied heads, the City Girls looking... magenta? Yep, this has Missy Elliott’s handiwork all over it, and it’s why the “Twerkulator” music video is such a treat. The fact that City Girls went with Elliott’s unique brand of…

There’s an old holiday song sung by noted Italian-American Lou Monte that, for reasons unbeknownst, surfaces in my brain when I am feeling stressed or otherwise distraught. “Dominick the Donkey” tells the story of an Italian donkey tasked with delivering gifts to children, and the chorus of said song features an…

Anyone who’s been misunderstood or posted something on the internet to precisely zero response can probably relate to the legend of the “world’s loneliest whale.” First identified by marine mammal bioacoustics research pioneer William Watkins in 1989, the whale’s story—that is, one which humans have imposed on…

For thousands of transgender Reddit users, subreddits like r/asktransgender and r/transtimelines are a source of community and connection. There, users seek advice, share stories, and even just joke with other trans people. But these communities are also under constant attack from transphobic trolls who threaten and…

Sen. Marsha Blackburn isn’t a very bright woman. The Tennessee Republican believes universal daycare is Soviet propaganda, doesn’t believe in climate change, and has done more to defend the intellect of Neanderthals than defend her constituents against the covid-19 pandemic, which infected nearly one million…

Your favorite housewife is back with a new house, new music, and her signature “smart ass mouth.” Candiace Dillard Bassett is certainly one of the most talked-about castmates on The Real Housewives of Potomac, but it’s harder to pinpoint why she is the most polarizing—a topic she told Jezebel that she recently…

Christina Haack has never struck me as the kind of person who would do psychedelics since she gives off very straight-laced mom energy, but apparently, Haack gets down with some serious shit. However, I still would not smoke with this woman, because obviously, she is a narc who will talk about it in public. In a …

The discovery of radium, in 1898, by scientists Marie Skłodowska Curie and Pierre Curie quickly captured public imagination on a large scale basis. Newspapers in both Western Europe and the United States reported widely on this mysterious new element and its strange properties. It seemed that radium could do anything,…

Cast your mind back to last summer, in the midst of the protests over the police murder of George Floyd, when three NYPD officers accused Shake Shack employees of attempting to POISON them by putting bleach in their milkshakes. At the time, the department investigation concluded that the officers were never poisoned…

You may have heard of the Dybbuk Box, an old wine cabinet that was allegedly haunted so that bad fortune misfell everyone who touched it—including, hilariously, Post Malone. The box’s legend reached so far that several different horror movies have been made based on the stories surrounding it. It turns out that the…

Once again, TikTok is dealing with deserved backlash over the anti-Black racism in its algorithm—this time, specifically with the social media platform’s hate speech detection systems.