Новости за 18.04.2023

At a time when protections for transgender individuals are already being rolled back and legislated against, Twitter has seemingly chosen which side of history they want to cozy up next to. Today, under Elon Musk’s leadership, Twitter dropped language from its Hateful Content Policy that penalized users for targeted…

The past week has been marked by yet more uniquely American shooting tragedies: On Thursday, Ralph Yarl, a Black teen in Missouri, was shot in the head by an 84-year-old white man after Yarl mistook his house for a different one and rang the doorbell. Then, over the weekend, Kaylin A. Gillis, 20, was shot and killed…

The basis of Love Is Blind, the popular Netflix series that wrapped its fourth season on Sunday, is chaotic to begin with: 15 men and 15 women enter a dating “experiment” (terminology the show requires them to use) in which contestants fall in love just by talking through isolated pods and eventually get engaged,…

Just weeks after Jonathan Majors was arrested and charged with misdemeanor assault, aggravated harassment, attempted assault and harassment of a woman whom police identified as his girlfriend in New York City, the actor’s longtime management and his PR team have reportedly exited stage left.

After a late-night legislative session stretched into the pre-dawn hours, Iowa Senate Republicans approved loosening child labor restrictions just before 5 a.m. If Senate File 542 goes into effect, children in the Hawkeye State may be allowed to serve alcohol, work on meat-processing lines, operate heavy machinery,…

David Choe, star of the new Netflix hit Beef, has been the subject of criticism since last week, when a clip of him describing committing sexual assault began to go viral. Now, the actor and artist is reportedly issuing takedown notices of the snippet, which was from a 2014 podcast episode, in an effort to purge the…

The hits just keep on comin’ for Meatball Ron.

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If at first you don’t succeed, give it about five months and try again. I don’t really know if that’s solid advice, but it seems to be what Bill Hader and Ali Wong are doing, so there’s that!

At the risk of aging myself, I’ll admit that I had a poster of Joshua Jackson on the wall of my teenage bedroom when he was playing Pacey in Dawson’s Creek (Pacey was cool, Dawson was a dork). I also devoured every season of The Affair, felt equally thirsty for Jackson in that show, and pretty much wanted to gouge…

Pro-Trump Stop The Steal organizer Ali Alexander, who was accused of soliciting nude photos from at least two teenage boys, has denied anything “unlawful” in a statement straight out of 2007. “This is too gay,” Alexander said on Telegram.