Новости за 24.05.2024

Welcome back to Barf Bag.  Let me start by saying that all Republican Senate candidates this year are bad because they all stand to threaten our rights and freedoms in some way or another. But one GOP endorsee is well and truly extra bad for his open embrace of homophobia, antisemitism, and election denial. On Saturday, the Minnesota Republican party held its state convention and delegates voted to endorse former NBA draft pick and current conspiracy theorist Royce White to run against three-term incumbent Sen. Читать дальше...

On Friday, news of an altercation at a Cannes afterparty reached American shores. According to Page Six, Travis Scott, Tyga, and Alexander A.E. Edwards (aka Cher's boyfriend) are reported to have found themselves in what sounds like one hell of a tussle in the early hours. “Models were flying everywhere in the melee,” a source told the tabloid of the fight. “Someone got hit with an ice bucket.” The exact cause of models "flying everywhere" is cruelly unspecified but I am savoring the mental image. Читать дальше...

For years, Texas has been afflicted by one of the worst rates of maternal mortality in the nation, which more than doubled between 1999 and 2019 as Republicans enacted an onslaught of anti-abortion legislation. The state is currently being sued by over a dozen women who say Texas’ total abortion ban jeopardized their lives by denying them emergency abortion care. Now, the state’s maternal mortality committee is in the process of gathering and assessing statewide data on pregnancy-related deaths.... Читать дальше...

"Please don’t be sad. I am...dying,” Richard Simmons wrote in a Facebook post not two months ago. Only he is, quite notably, not dying, as he was forced to clarify days later. Now, the reclusive fitness guru known as "The Weight Saint" is apparently weighing his options for a Broadway biopic. “I just got off the phone with a friend of mine who is an attorney and manages famous artists in music,” Simmons shared on Facebook last week. “She wants to do an interactive Broadway show about my life.” The operative word here: Interactive. Читать дальше...

What a time to be alive—Justin Bieber, the collective crush of little girls everywhere in the late 2000s and early 2010s, is on the verge of procreating with his age-appropriate wife Hailey Bieber. And in the early hours of Friday morning, Justin posted a carousel of photos of the couple on vacation in Japan, with Hailey wearing a crop top showing off her bare baby bump, captioned, "They wish baby, they wish." ???? It's possible there's no deeper meaning to this line—or, it's a smug response to the... Читать дальше...