Новости за 13.09.2023

Zackey Rahimi, the Texas man at the center of a forthcoming Supreme Court case over domestic abusers’ right to own guns, once shot at a woman in a parking lot, HuffPost reported Wednesday, citing police records the outlet obtained. Prior to this report, we knew Rahimi had pleaded guilty in 2021 to possessing guns in…

Jamie Lynn Spears is joining Dancing With The Stars later this month, and I’m pleasantly surprised by how she announced it. Spears will be donating her weekly earnings from the show to the writers and performers currently on the picket line. Spears Solidarity!

Newly released body camera footage shows a Seattle cop—who’s a leader in the local police union—making shockingly flippant comments about a South Asian woman killed by one of his colleagues earlier this year, saying the woman, 23-year-old Jaahnavi Kandula, had “limited value.” He’s since defended the comments by…

Nicole Blackmon learned she was pregnant about a month before Tennessee’s near-total abortion ban went into effect in July 2022. She’d previously been told conceiving a pregnancy would be difficult because of multiple health diagnoses, including a pseudotumor. Still, the pregnancy was a “blessing,” as her only child…

In spite of every New York Times and Atlantic thinkpiece musing about who Elon Musk really is, he’s actually fairly simple: He’s a wealth-hoarding, billionaire egomaniac; a raging transphobe; an alleged sexual harasser; and, by most accounts (including his own), a bad dad.

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) had to be escorted out of a performance of the Beetlejuice musical because she was reportedly vaping, singing, and otherwise “causing a disturbance” during the Sunday evening show in Denver.

The VMAs have alas returned to relevance: Real celebrities (read: Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez), and not just micro-influencers and alleged abusers, are back, and so is all the drama. At Tuesday night’s award show, a video of Megan Thee Stallion and Justin Timberlake appearing to clash backstage went viral, sparking…

If you can even believe it, the 2023 MTV VMAs are tonight. The 2023 MTV Movie and TV Awards before them consisted of a weird and unfortunate pre-taped ceremony, since the WGA writers went on strike days before. (It felt like watching what AI might imagine an awards show to be, and it was awful. Writers are important!)…

Abortion rights are popular among voters—no wonder that in Kansas, Montana, Ohio, and now Missouri anti-abortion leaders are doing everything they can to spread disinformation and prevent state-wide elections to decide abortion rights.