X CEO Elon Musk is now threatening to sue an organization that monitors internet hate speech after it released research showing that racists are thriving on his platform. The New York Times reports that lawyers representing X recently sent a letter to the Center for Countering Digital Hate, which published papers last month arguing that hate speech was flourishing on Musk's platform, as it took no action against the vast majority of accounts that were flagged for tweeting out hate speech. The lawyers accused the Center for Countering Digital Hate of making “a series of troubling and baseless c…

Read More

View the full article

Before President Ronald Reagan signed the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 into law, the drinking age varied from state to state in the U.S. Some states allowed minors to legally purchase alcohol at 18, but Reagan and members of Congress agreed that 21 should become the national standard. What still varies from state to state is how old one needs to be legally serve alcohol. Some states allow minors to serve alcohol in restaurants even though they can't legally purchase it. The Guardian's Wilfred Chan reports that some GOP lawmakers in Wisconsin favor lowering the age for legally serv…

Read More

View the full article

By Tony Owusu Investors will have a chance to hear directly from Anheuser Busch InBev (BUD) – Get Free Report executives this week about their thought process surrounding their ill-fated Bud Light marketing campaign. While the company isn’t scheduled to report earnings until August 3 before the opening bell, rivals like Heineken (HEINY) – Get Free Report have already released their results and the media is curious about the company’s take on Bud Light’s situation. DON’T MISS: The Bud Light Controversy and Its Impacts Explained “Yes, particularly in the Western world, we do see a lot of polariz…

Read More

View the full article

Dwight Howard's accuser Stephen Harper believes he has evidence that will help prove his allegations against the ex-NBA star, RadarOnline.com has learned. According to court documents obtained by RadarOnline.com, Harper has provided the court with a copy of his Uber receipt from July 19, 2021. The alleged receipt shows him leaving from an address in the city of Fairburn, Georgia at 1:21 AM. His driver took him to an address in the city of Suwanee. The address listed on the alleged receipt is Howard's estate in Georgia. The trip costs Harper $71.98. As RadarOnline.com first reported, earlier th…

Read More

View the full article

NEW YORK — Did somebody cancel the word “farce?” The new Broadway show by Second Stage is billed as a reconstructed romantic comedy, a feminist tale, they say, of “sex, betrayal and love.” But if you have an elongated joke involving flatulence, folks, and “The Cottage” breaks an epic amount of wind as part of its myriad country-house shenanigans, you’re doing farce. Farce, farce, farce, farce, farce. Just to be clear. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, especially in the summer. And if you are in the mood for matchstick penis jokes, more gag props than a Coney Island funhouse and an ens…

Read More

View the full article

By Jena Greene A few rules of fashion pervade the trends and decades of high fashion. First, what's old almost always becomes new again. DON'T MISS: PacSun Follows Lululemon, Gap and Abercrombie Into Area Consumers Love Second, when you're leaving the house, always take off one accessory, as Coco Chanel once famously said. And third, never, ever, be caught dead in last year's high fashion. It's just uncouth. That third rule may not be so hard-and-fast, but it definitely seems to apply to the modern luxury shopper, who apparently has finally had her fill of Gucci. It seems that, over the past s…

Read More

View the full article

It has been tough, but we've spent all week long scouring the depths of Instagram to bring you this week's Instahottie — Paulo Quevedo. Paulo Quevedo is a Mexican actor and singer who has been been in the industry since 1996. Born on February 1, 1975 in Juarez, Mexico, the handsome hunk was raised in El Paso, Texas. He rose to fame as a singer of the Mexican pop groups Tierra Cero and Kairo. He is also recognized for his recurring roles in the El Justiciero film franchise. You can also find Paulo on OnlyFans. Enjoy these pics and videos of the very photogenic Paulo Quevedo THE LATEST ON SLelin…

Read More

View the full article

Bobby Berk helps people design their dream homes on Netflix's hit show Queer Eye, but the interior designer reveals how you can find your own “design aesthetic,” even if you don't know a thing or two about decorating a space. “A lot of adults don't even know what their design aesthetic is. I ask people about what makes them tick or something they are passionate about. What's your favorite TV show? We had someone a few years ago — a 27-year-old bachelor living in a home he inherited from his grandma — and I said, ‘What's your favorite show?' He said, ‘Madmen.' I thought, ‘Mid-century.' When I a…

Read More

View the full article

Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis was forced to look himself in the mirror and consider if his leadership as Florida governor has prohibited one of his most touted campaign talking points: protected free speech. Megyn Kelly pressed the governor on the issue during an interview on Friday, RadarOnline.com has learned. When considering DeSantis' war on the so-called woke agenda and burning bridges with one of the Sunshine State's largest employers, Disney, Kelly asked the governor if he was “using government to punish citizens for political wrong think.” DeSantis appeared on The Megy…

Read More

View the full article

Federal Judge Brian Morrishas placed a temporary hold on a Montana law he said “likely will disproportionately harm not only drag performers, but any person who falls outside traditional gender and identity norms,” CNN reports. Per CNN, the law passed by Montana Republican Governor Greg Gianforte earlier this year bans minors “from attending ‘sexually oriented shows,’ including “so-called drag story hours, which the law defines as events hosted ‘by a drag queen or drag king who reads children’s books and engages in other learning activities with minor children present.'” House Bill 359 “also b…

Read More

View the full article

By Daniel Kline Garth Brooks does whatever he wants. That's something few celebrities get away with, but the singer has enough money, fame, and diehard fans that he does not need to fear reprisals from either side of the political aisle. The singer went against many of the country performers of his generation — and Kid Rock — when he made it clear that his upcoming Nashville Bar would serve Bud Light. Instead of condemning Anheuser-Busch (BUD) – Get Free Report for working with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney, Brooks embraced the idea of inclusivity. In a business where a lot of the co…

Read More

View the full article

The Iranian government is denying any previous knowledge of a gay sex scandal that has led to the suspension of an official in the ultra-conservative Islamic nation. Reza Tsaghati, the head of Culture and Islamic Guidance in Gilan Province, was suspended last week after a video allegedly showed him having sex with another man. Iran officials had initially stayed silent over the growing scandal, but on Saturday, the country's culture minister, Mohammad Mehdi Esmaili, said he had no previous knowledge of Tsaghati's alleged homosexual relations. The video, which has not yet been verified, was sha…

Read More

View the full article

ERIE, Pa. — With a familiar medley of insults, falsehoods, and digressions, former President Donald Trump on Saturday evening bashed the criminal indictments mounting against him, attacked President Joe Biden, and repeated his lies about election fraud at a rally in a bellwether region in northwest Pennsylvania. In an unusually punctual appearance, Trump took the stage at 6 p.m in front of approximately 4,000 people at the Erie Insurance Arena to repeat some of his greatest hits from his signature rallies and add a few new ones. He promised to save the U.S. economy, purge the “deep state” from…

Read More

View the full article

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' cheerleaders had high hopes for his presidential campaign, touting him as the GOP's best chance to move on from former President Donald Trump in 2024. But in poll after poll, Trump has had considerable leads among Republican primary voters. Polls released in late July have found the Florida governor trailing Trump by 43 percent (Morning Consult), 36 percent (The Economist/YouGov), 44 percent (Rasmussen) or 40 percent (Harvard University/HarrisX). That isn't to say that a Trump nomination is written in stone or that DeSantis doesn't have plenty of time to turn things …

Read More

View the full article

Washington (AFP) – In a private dating group on Facebook, Renee flaunts herself to like-minded singles as a fit, adventurous Kizomba dancer who at 35 exudes “inner child vibes.” But her main draw? She is unvaccinated. The Covid-19 pandemic may have receded, but dating apps, websites and social media groups still offer to unite vaccine-hating singles who believe debunked falsehoods such as that coronavirus jabs alter DNA or cause infertility. The trend underscores how anti-vaccine sentiment has become an entrenched identity for many who willfully resist or ignore scientific assertions that inoc…

Read More

View the full article

By Colette Bennett Before April 2023, Dylan Mulvaney was simply recording the process of what the trans influencer calls her journey to “becoming a girl”. But then, she posted a video with a six-pack of Bud Light, and her world exploded, causing a conservative controversy so widespread that it's led to everything from staff cuts to losing its long-held spot as America's top beer to Modelo. DON'T MISS: The Bud Light Controversy and Its Impacts, Explained Meanwhile. Mulvaney became the subject of an onslaught of hate and harassment, both in person and online. She's shared a bit about it on her I…

Read More

View the full article

Rep. Cori Bush unveiled a bill Thursday aimed at limiting the use of solitary confinement in prisons, a practice the St. Louis Democrat called “depraved and sadistic.” The End Solitary Confinement Act would largely prohibit the use of solitary confinement in federal prisons, including immigration detention facilities, while incentivizing state and local correctional facilities to stop using the practice. “It is indisputable that solitary confinement is torture,” Bush said during a virtual news conference. ”It doesn't matter what it's called, whether it's administrative segregation, restrictive…

Read More

View the full article

Sinéad O’Connor told fans she looked “like s***” and was living in a “s***hole” days before her death. The ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ singer was found dead aged 56 on Wednesday (26.07.23) after moving from her native Ireland to a £3,000-a-month apartment in south-east London, and shot a video for fans showing them around her pad on 9 July. In what is thought to be the last public footage of Sinéad, she said while holding up her camera to show her face: “4K, f****** HD. f******… what the hell is it talking about? I look like s*** either way.” Referencing the death of her son Shane, who took his lif…

Read More

View the full article

Madonna is back and feelin' herself! The Queen of Pop took to Instagram on Thursday, July 27, with an adorable dance video. The Grammy Award winner shook her hips, blew kisses to the camera and lip-synced along with her hit song “Lucky Star” as she celebrated her debut album. “To be able to move my body and dance just a little bit makes me feel like the Luckiest Star in the world!” she captioned the joyful clip. “Thank you to all of my fans and friends! You must be my lucky stars too! And Happy 40th Birthday to my very. First Album- .” Fans rushed to the comments section to heap praise…

Read More

View the full article

SEATTLE — In 1943, thousands of workers began arriving at remote outposts in Washington, New Mexico and Tennessee where American ingenuity would be pressed to its limit in a secret and frantic push to build the first atomic bomb. One particular group of eight women at Hanford in Eastern Washington and Los Alamos in New Mexico would have been among the forgotten, if not for the FBI’s feverish hunt for private details about their lives. The government that had recruited them to the elite Manhattan Project was now trying to strip them of vital security clearances by proving they were lesbians. T…

Read More

View the full article

DETROIT — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed into law Wednesday two bills banning the use of so-called conversion therapy on minors, prohibiting a form of counseling or therapy seeking to get gay, lesbian or transgender individuals to change their sexual orientation or gender identity. Michigan becomes the 22nd state in that nation to ban the practice. “As a mom of a member of the community and a proud, lifelong ally, I am grateful that we are taking action to make Michigan a more welcoming, inclusive place,” Whitmer said in a statement. “Let's continue working together to ensure anyone can ‘make it…

Read More

View the full article

NEW YORK — Social media influencer Dylan Mulvaney is celebrating 500 days since coming out as trans by sharing lessons learned along the way — and a heartfelt message to her younger self. The 26-year-old TikTok star first gained international recognition in 2022, as she documented her transition journey in the viral social media series “365 Days of Girlhood.” In March, Mulvaney celebrated her 365th day as a proud trans woman with a celebrity-studded variety show streamed live from the Rainbow Room at Rockefeller Center in Manhattan. But just weeks after that, she became the subject of widespre…

Read More

View the full article

JoJo Siwa doesn't regret standing up for what she believes in. Last year, the Nickelodeon alum called Candace Cameron Bure the rudest celebrity she's ever met — and though Siwa wanted bygones to be bygones after Bure offered an apology, the dancer admitted she's now keeping her distance due to actress' “traditional marriage” comments. As OK! reported, Bure, 47, was accused of being homophobic after she said her new network, Great American Family, would focus on telling stories about “traditional marriages.” On the Thursday, July 27, episode of Nick Viall's podcast, Siwa — who came out in 2021 …

Read More

View the full article

Jordan’s parliament refused Thursday a proposed legislation amendment that seeks to punish those who circulate material that ‘promotes homosexuality’ over the internet on Thursday. Islamic Action Front MP Yanal Freihat proposed the addition of a text to the controversial cybercrimes legislation which has just been passed by the Jordanian lower house and will be scrutinised in the senate on Tuesday. The addition included wording to “punish anyone who sends, prepares, distributes or supports any homosexual material or propaganda using digital means, whether on social media or via private groups”…

Read More

View the full article

A Wisconsin Republican lawmaker reportedly went on a profane tirade against a group of high school-age Capitol Hill pages this week. Punchbowl News' Jake Sherman reports that Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI) “cursed out” the pages on Wednesday night when they were taking photos in the Capitol Rotunda. According to Sherman's sources, he called the pages “lazy sh-ts” and told them to “get the f–k up” instead of sitting around and taking photos during what was their last week working at the Capitol. What's more, reports Sherman, this is not the first time that the Wisconsin Republican has gone on a…

Read More

View the full article