On Monday, May 6, captains of industry and the famous capitalists they call friends will arrive at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for an evening of dresses, dancing, and not a single scruple about celebrating their influence and immense wealth amid an ongoing genocide. For years, all the exhaustive details of The Met Gala (which is sponsored by Condé Nast and chaired by Anna Wintour), also known as the most grueling, unglamorous evening of the year for Condé Nast workers, have permeated social media platforms. Читать дальше...
This week, Variety rolled out its “Power of Women” series to honor a select group of women in the entertainment industry and, bafflingly enough, Amy Schumer was one of those women. In a lengthy profile celebrating Schumer’s “outspokenness,” Variety makes the incredibly frustrating choice to portray Schumer as something of a victim of cancel culture, misogyny, and overly zealous activism from pro-Palestine activists, offering little context into why, exactly, Schumer is the object of so much warranted criticism and backlash. Читать дальше...
Donald Trump's new interview with Time magazine underscores the bleak consequences of what it really means to "leave abortion to the states." Faced with questions about whether he'd enact a nationwide abortion ban, Trump has been running around claiming that he thinks abortion should be left to the states—but also criticizing state bans he considers too extreme, like those in Florida and Arizona. It's a totally incoherent stance: Does he support states' rights or not? He's likely triangulating because... Читать дальше...
Last week, South Dakota Gov. and Trump veepstakes hopeful Kristi Noem shared an excerpt from her forthcoming memoir No Going Back where she recounts—in disturbing detail—how she shot and killed her 14-month hunting puppy on her family's farm. The blowback has been massive... and entirely predictable. Still, Noem hasn't apologized and instead doubled down on why she simply had to shoot and kill a puppy. Now, according to a Monday report in the Daily Beast, Noem's political career—and specifically... Читать дальше...
Last week, during Supreme Court arguments on emergency abortions, the liberal justices noted how women with pregnancy complications are being airlifted out of Idaho because the state's abortion ban only makes exceptions to prevent death. It doesn't matter if a pregnant woman's water breaks too early, or if she's hemorrhaging, or suffering from one of the dozens of pregnancy complications that could threaten her health, wellbeing, and future fertility—if they're not moments from death, then the doctor... Читать дальше...
There are few people I have less in common with than Barbra Streisand. I don’t own cloned dogs; I don’t live on a ranch compound on the coast of California; and I (nor anybody) possesses her immense musical stardom. That being said, it’s always nice and humbling to see a celeb of that stature make a social faux pas that you, a lowly plebe, could also see yourself making. Babs is just a girl from Brooklyn, after all. On Monday, comedian Melissa McCarthy shared a photo of herself and her friend, director Adam Shankman... Читать дальше...
