Month: February 2021

As Lil Durk’s streak of impressive content nears 12 months, the Chicago rapper extends it with a new guest verse. It comes alongside Coi Leray’s latest single, “No More Parties.”

The song features parallel thoughts to Kanye West’s similarly-titled The Life Of Pablo track. On it, Leray voices her displeasures with extracurricular activities that occur around her and how people try to involve her in them. As a result, she declares a change in lifestyle, one that involves “doing sh*t that’s gonna make me elevate.” Hopping on the track to support her tunnel-visioned lifestyle, Lil Durk lays a verse that finds him focused on himself, his love life, and not much else.

The remix arrives after Durk dropped a video for “Finesse Out The Gang Way” with Lil Baby, a release that saw fans request that him and Lil Baby make a joint album. Prior to that, he connected with Kehlani for “Love You Too,” dropped his “Kanye Krazy” video with a number of references to the Chicago legend, and joined French Montana and Jack Harlow for their “Hot Boy Bling” video. All of this arrived after Lil Durk reached Billboard album chart heights with his Just Cause Y’all Waited 2 and The Voice projects.

You can listen to the “No More Parties” remix above.

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Many WandaVision takes are circling the internet right now — some of them good and some of them inexplicably dragging the show for its weekly-watch format. And sure, the binge-model dissecting of discourse is important, but there’s another issue at play in the fabricated sitcom fantasy Wanda has created to escape her grief. It’s a question we’ve been raising since the beginning of the MCU when Tony Stark escaped a perilous hostage situation by melding some pieces of scrap metal together and blasting through his daddy issues: Why aren’t the Avengers in therapy?

No, seriously. Why?

These super-serum-infused heroes, these gods, these orphaned teenagers-turned-Nazi-weapons-of-mass-destruction need help. Like, professional help*. Now sure, they’re all suffering from a savior complex and delusions of grandeur that often ruin any chance of a “normal” life, but some of the squad are worse off than others, and we’ve decided that now is the time for an intervention.

Here’s who we think needs some shrinking.

17. Loki: Now, whether Loki technically qualifies as an “Avenger” might be up for debate, but there’s no question this Frost Giant f*ckboi needs to quit scheming and start focusing on his mental health. The only reason he’s not ranked higher on this list is because we know he’d craft a holographic projection of himself to avoid any meaningful progress. Also, we’re not sure we want to put a therapist through this kind of trauma.

16. Falcon / Sam Wilson: Sam Wilson is one of the more well-adjusted members on the team — we first meet him counseling veterans suffering from PTSD in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Still, Wilson’s lost friends in combat, and he’s now being forced to partner with a formerly brainwashed HYDRA agent and assume the Captain America mantle after his best friend abandoned him for an overdue booty call. No one would blame him for needing to air out his feelings on all that.

15. Black Panther / T’Challa: T’Challa, a.k.a. Black Panther, is another Avenger who feels relatively sane, all things considered. He seemed to work out most of his issues with his father on that astral plane, and he bounced back from a near-death experience pretty quickly to assume the throne and his superhero birthright. Still, T’Challa was a casualty of the snap, and we can only assume he’s inherited a Wakandan-sized mess since returning, so if he needs some medicated stress relief, we hope he gets it.

14. Ant-Man / Scott Lang: Scott Lang’s superpower might as well be cracking jokes to deflect away from a suffocating sense of failure when it comes to parenting his young daughter. But don’t let Paul Rudd’s ageless visage fool you. This guy spent years under house arrest doing close-up magic and reading John Green YA book series. He’s practically screaming for help.

13. Captain Marvel / Carol Danvers: Carol Danvers is one of the strongest members of the Avengers, but that tough-girl attitude is just a shield. Homegirl lost her friends, family, and career before being kidnapped and gaslit into believing she was a Kree warrior. She’s got major trust issues — which is probably why she spent most of Endgame avoiding making real connections with her teammates and trying to fix the rest of the galaxy instead — and no amount of vintage Nine Inch Nail t-shirts is going to change that.

12. Doctor Strange / Stephen Strange: We wanted to rank Stephen Strange lower — mostly because he’d probably start every therapy session by announcing he’d already seen millions of potential outcomes and all of them felt like a waste of his time — but this Bleecker Street magician has a God-complex that rivals Thanos, and he needs to reckon with that, preferably before the multi-verse madness ensues.

11. Spider-Man / Peter Parker: Honestly, the entire team needs to be held accountable for recruiting a literal child into their intergalactic warfare because Underoos is just too young to have suffered so much. He’s got a complicated family dynamic to contend with, a life-destroying sense of grief over the loss of his mentor, Tony Stark, and an immense burden being placed on his shoulders by adults who should know better. Oh, and he was emotionally manipulated by a middle-aged con-artist in a tacky superhero suit. Jake Gyllenhaal, we’ll never forgive you.

10. Hawkeye / Clint Barton: Where to begin with Clint Barton? Serving on a squad of suped-up individuals was always going to wreck his fragile ego but Hawkeye went off the deep end after the snap and, while we’re not excusing his problematic vigilantism, we do think he needs to talk to someone about it. Like, it’s great your family’s back, but you spent half a decade killing people just to have something to do. Get help.

9. The Hulk / Bruce Banner: When your own teammate refers to you as a “man with breathtaking anger management issues,” it shouldn’t be an endorsement of your super-powers… it should be a signal that you need to see someone. Bruce Banner has contemplated suicide, spent years on a foreign planet as a green rage-monster killing other beings in a gladiator-style arena, lost his romantic interest in Thanos’ bid to cleanse the galaxy, and has been forced to not only revisit his trauma but use the very thing he hates most about himself time and again in service of the Avengers. This dude has a deep understanding of what Alec Baldwin went through during Trump’s presidency, and it shows. He might be on the mend now, but if he doesn’t want to spontaneously Hulk out whenever someone brings up how Marvel sacrificed Natasha Romanoff for white-supremacist Robin Hood, he needs a shrink on speed dial.

8. Captain America / Steve Rogers: Look, we’re not here to besmirch America’s Ass, but Steve Rogers spent an entire MCU Phase trying to readjust to 21st-century life, and he didn’t really make that much progress. The man was frozen in ice for decades, woke up to find everyone he knew dead, his ex-girlfriend in a retirement facility, his best-friend mind-warped into a HYDRA killing machine, and, horror of all horrors, he had to learn how to operate the internet practically on his own. If Endgame proved anything it’s that Captain Rogers struggled to live a full life if he wasn’t fighting something (or someone). His retcon of the timeline wouldn’t have course-corrected his disturbing need to put himself in danger to prove his life had meaning or his control-freak tendencies. Peggy Carter does not have time to fix this man and be a kick-ass spy. Get to therapy Cap!

7. Iron Man / Tony Stark: Whew, now we’re getting into the thick of it… “it” being the inherited generational trauma, crippling narcissism, and stunted maturity that makes up Tony Stark’s unique psychopathology. It’s no secret the genius inventor had daddy issues, but he was also suffering from some severe PTSD after that battle in New York, which led him to make truly idiotic decisions mid-way through the Avengers series. Technically, Iron Man is dead having sacrificed himself in the fight against Thanos, but whichever tropical island lined with bikini-clad models and stocked with an endless supply of cheeseburgers his soul has retired to, we hope it has a psychiatrist on standby.

6. Star-Lord / Peter Quill: Do you think Star-Lord knows he’s being played by the worst Chris? If so, that’s reason enough for him to rank so high on this list. If not, there are plenty of problematic personality signifiers that qualify him for a one-on-one sesh with a willing therapist. Again, the daddy issues are prominent here as is his inability to form meaningful connections, his lack of maturity, his need to be the center of attention… wait, this sounds like someone else. Anyway, go talk to a psychologist Peter and stop chasing the alternate-timeline-version of your girlfriend who doesn’t know you, you creep.

5. Vision: Has anyone died more times than this well-meaning, dorky synthezoid? Either let him rest (eternally) or get him to a group meeting.

4. Thor: We know people had mixed feelings (and rightly so) about the appearance of “Fat Thor” in Avengers: Endgame, but even though the character’s downward spiral was played for laughs, we can’t help but think he’d benefit from some psychiatric help. Then again, how do you explain to a literal god that his hippie Nordic vacation is actually a severe case of situational depression; that, instead of eating his feelings, drinking his weight in beer, and yelling at teens on Fortnite, he needs to seek professional help?

3. Black Widow / Natasha Romanoff: Natasha Romanoff deserved better than what she got from the MCU, and what she deserved was a robust healthcare plan that included mental health counseling because Black Widow went through it during her time as an Avenger. We all have some kind of childhood trauma, but nothing really compares to being raised in an academy for assassins that forced you to practice ballet for hours and gave pop quizzes tasking you with murdering a stranger. Her new team didn’t treat her much better. Bruce Banner took a joyride on the Quinjet and never really came back. Clint Barton got a mohawk and a katana for his post-Snap sabbatical. Cap spent most of his time crying in group sessions, Tony Stark bounced to start a family after they failed to stop Thanos, Carol Danvers went galavanting through space… Poor Black Widow spent so much energy cleaning up after her teammates, she didn’t even have time to get her hair done, let alone invest in her mental health. Here’s to hoping she found some kind of peace in the afterlife.

2. Scarlet Witch / Wanda Maximoff: If you’ve been tuning into WandaVision for the past few weeks, you already know why the Scarlet Witch is ranked so high on this list. The Avengers’ angstiest member has been put through the wringer over the course of her young life. She survived a war-torn upbringing and the death of her parents, only to become a lab rat for HYDRA and a misguided henchman for Ultron. She lost her brother, was forced to kill her lover once and watch him die twice, and when she returned post-Blip, she found that the people she had sacrificed so much for were scrapping Vision’s body for parts. Sure, hijacking an entire town to live out your happily ever after fantasy is technically “wrong,” but instead of labeling her a villain, we need to set her up with a good shrink.

1. The Winter Soldier / Bucky Barnes: Oh, you thought Wanda Maximoff was the most f*cked up Avenger? Let us introduce you to Bucky Barnes, a man who’s been placed in and out of cryo so much over the past 100 years, his brain resembles a melted ice cream cone. Shuri did her best to fix this “broken white boy,” but when you’ve spent decades murdering people because someone whispered the words “freight car” in Russian, you don’t need your own buddy cop comedy series… you need a lengthy stay in a mental health facility.

*This is, in no way, a substitute for professional guidance. If you are a Marvel character and you believe you need help, please reach out to the appropriate government agency (for the love of Monica Rambeau, not S.W.O.R.D.) and/or an intergalactic rock being named Korg.

Beyonce has never been one to turn her back on her native state of Texas, showing up to help in 2017 when a hurricane devastated the state, and offering support now that winter storms have left a huge population in the state without power or water. While a government official like senator Ted Cruz is planning a trip to Cancun to escape the conditions, and Texan governor Rick Perry claims that going a week without power is worth it for the state’s electricity grid to remain independent, Beyonce is working with Adidas through her charity BeyGood to help local Houston non-profit Bread Of Life get aid to people who are suffering right now.

It’s almost like celebrities and entertainers have been forced to step into caregiver roles with suffering communities because the government is so inept and careless with the lives of its citizens?

“BeyGood and Adidas are working with Bread Of Life to bring urgent relief to those suffering as a result of the winter storms,” the post reads. “If you are in Texas, or any state affected by these storms, you can apply for assistance at breadoflife.oorg/disasterrelief.”

All those who are currently affected are encouraged to apply, though the application form itself notes that they will only be able to offer “one-time financial assistance.”

Applicants can request up to $1,000 for urgent, storm-related expenses.

The last 24 hours have not been great for Ted Cruz. He’s spent a lot of it traveling, and on airplanes — and during a pandemic, no less. Oh, and he’s been almost constantly in the news, ever since images hit the internet of he and his family boarding a plane for Cancún, all while his fellow Texans froze amidst a freak winter storm. When he tried to explain himself, he essentially put the blame on his daughters. And one of the many people who found that repulsive was Trevor Noah.

The Daily Show host used part of his time on Thursday to roast the Texan senator, who’s become a symbol of Republican rot, of ineptitude while people suffered. “Your people are literally eating snow,” Noah proclaimed. “And you’re jetting off to Cancun. How can you be so stupid? Don’t you know how bad this will make you look?” He added, “Look, I get that Ted Cruz is tired. He deserves a break after trying to overthrow the government. But when people say they need water, they didn’t mean find a wet t-shirt contest in Cancun.”

Then Noah got to the part where he said he was just trying to be a good dad — while saying he wouldn’t have done it had his daughters asked. “Oh, I see, we all got this wrong,” said Noah. “He was just chaperoning his girls on the flight to Cancun. Seriously, being a good father means putting them on a bus, not throwing them under one!”

More details have emerged about exactly what prompted Cruz to jet off to Cancún while millions of his fellow Texans lost power. But he has a habit of mysteriously surviving the countless justifiable attacks on his character, to say nothing of the untold times he’s humiliated himself on social media. But maybe this is the scandal — not helping foment the failed MAGA coup of January 6 — that finally puts an end to his long political career. Or probably not.

(Via Deadline)

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By any rational description, LeBron James is one of the most accomplished players in NBA history. At the age of 36, James is defying any semblance of a normal aging curve by operating as arguably the best player in the league and, as his career continues, the legendary Los Angeles Lakers forward will continue to make a dent in history through the record books.

On Thursday evening, James added to his profile by becoming only the third player ever to reach 35,000 career points and, for good measure, he did it faster than anyone else.

James needed 15 points against the Nets on Thursday to reach the milestone and, fittingly, he did so before halftime. With no signs of slowing down, he could surpass Karl Malone for No. 2 on the all-time scoring list by the end of the 2021-22 campaign.

In fact, James is on a more than reasonable pace, given his unbelievable consistency, to reach the No. 1 spot currently occupied by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

Nothing should be taken for granted, especially for a 36-year-old. As such, it would be wise to recognize the brilliance of James’ career as it currently stands, even while acknowledging his already ridiculous numbers will continue to grow. A national audience was able to watch James check yet another box on Thursday, and he might even be the MVP of the league in his 18th season.

There are few more creative failures than that of MoviePass, the moviegoing subscription service that was too deranged an idea not to fail. Now, a year and a half after shuttering for good, it’s finally getting what it deserves: a scandalous documentary.

As per Deadline, Mark Wahlberg’s Unrealistic Ideas, the company that produced the HBO doc series McMillions, is doing the same for MoviePass. The source will be Insider (formerly Business Insider) reporter Jason Guerrasio’s award-winning coverage of how the company’s sudden rise and epic fall, albeit one that wound up changing the movie theater industry entirely, forcing chains to adopt a similar (albeit far more sustainable) subscription service. (That is, until the pandemic hit.)

MoviePass bowed in 2011, but it wasn’t until 2017, when they changed their business model, that it really took off. The service offered something that seemed too good to be true: For a mere $9.95 a month you could see unlimited movies, at major chains (and, in cities, many art house and even repertory theaters).

What was the catch? Turned out it wasn’t the customer who was ultimately screwed but the owners of MoviePass, who eventually discovered they couldn’t pay for half the country to go see, say, Avengers: Infinity War. By the time Mission: Impossible — Fallout arrived in the summer of 2018, subscribers were suddenly finding they couldn’t use the service to pay for their tickets. And thus began one of the most publicized and most costly fallouts, if you will, in recent business memory. In other words, it should make for amazing television.

(Via Deadline)

Billie Eilish has landed another restraining order against a stalker who’s been harassing her at her Los Angeles home. According to the New York Daily News, the singer has been stalked by 23-year-old John Matthews Hearle, who has also visited the home she shares with both of her parents. Court documents obtained by the publication revealed the nature of Hearle’s harassment, as told by Eilish herself.

“For nearly six months, an individual who has identified himself as John Matthews Hearle, a/k/a Adam Lucifer, has harassed and threatened me while he has camped outside a school across the street from my family’s home,” Eilish wrote. She added that he left “extremely disturbing and threatening” notes and stared at her while making a “throat slitting gesture” as she arrived and departed from her home. “Every time I drive home I am filled with anxiety fearing that Hearle will be there waiting for me, and he usually is,” she said. One of his notes read, “You can’t get what you want, unless what you want is to die for me.”

The singer’s attorneys will return to court in two weeks to see whether the temporary restraining order can be made permanent. Eilish has reportedly employed a 24-hour security team that looks out for Hearle. This is also not the first time she’s dealt with a stalker. Last year, a 24-year-old man named Prenell Rousseau repeatedly showed up at her house and exhibited “erratic” behavior.

Last Updated: February 18th

The true crime genre has never been more popular, but what about the false crime genre? Sometimes there’s nothing better than a good crime flick, from rooting for that grey area anti-hero to sitting on the edge of your seat as the lovable ruffians pull off the ultimate heist. Netflix has a wide variety of flicks that deal in law, order, and justice, so here are the 10 best crime movies on Netflix right now.

Related: The Best Action Movies On Netflix Right Now

The Departed (2006)

Run Time: 151 min | IMDb: 8.5/10

Leonard DiCaprio, Jack Nicholson, Matt Damon, Mark Wahlberg, and Alec Baldwin star in this crime thriller from Martin Scorsese about an undercover cop and a mole in the police department who attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in Boston. DiCaprio plays the good guy (or as close as) with Billy, a disturbed officer playing the part of a criminal to get close to Nicholson’s kingpin, Frank. Damon plays the rat, Sullivan, who serves as a police officer on the force, but really works for Frank. The two unknowingly thwart each other at every turn, playing a thrilling game of cat and mouse before their secrets eventually come out.

Good Time (2017)

Run Time: 101 min | IMDb: 7.3/10

This gritty crime drama hailing from the Safdie brothers transforms star Robert Pattinson into a bleach-blonde sh*t-stirrer from Queens who’s desperate to break his developmentally disabled brother out of prison. Pattinson plays Connie, a street hustler and bank robber with grand plans to break out of his urban hood while Benny Safdie plays his brother Nick, who gets roped into his schemes. When Nick is sent to Rikers Island for a job gone wrong, Connie goes on a downward spiral to get him back. Pattinson’s manic energy carries this thing, and there’s plenty of police run-ins, shootouts, and heists (however botched) to keep the adrenaline pumping.

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The Irishman (2019)

Run Time: 209 min | IMDb: 8.7/10

Martin Scorsese delivers another cinematic triumph, this time for Netflix and with the help of some familiar faces. Robert De Niro and Al Pacino team up (again) for this crime drama based on actual events. De Niro plays Frank Sheeran a World War II vet who finds work as a hitman for the mob. Pacino plays notorious Teamster Jimmy Hoffa, a man who frequently found himself on the wrong side of the law and the criminals he worked with. The film charts the pair’s partnership over the years while injecting some historical milestones for context. It’s heavy and impressively cast and everything you’d expect a Scorsese passion-project to be.

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The Invisible Guest (2016)

Run Time: 106 min | IMDb: 8.1/10

This Spanish crime thriller follows a successful businessman framed for the murder of his married lover. A seemingly straightforward plot, until a car accident, a dead body, fake witnesses, and a family out for revenge is thrown into the mix. Mario Casas stars as the man in question, a young husband and father with a bright future who takes part in a terrible crime and is forced to pay for it in the most twisted of ways. You won’t figure this thing out until the end, we guarantee it.

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Uncut Gems (2019)

Run Time: 135 min | IMDb: 7.5/10

This adventurous mindf*ck starring Adam Sandler finally landed on Netflix, and our only advice before watching this criminally-good romp is this: prepare yourself for a wild, over-the-top ride. Sandler gives one of his best performances, and the Safdie Brothers prove they’ve got a knack for crafting thrillers textured with grit and a realness that just can’t be beaten.

The Devil All The Time (2020)

Run Time: 138 min | IMDb: 7.1/10

This time-hopping drama set in the backwoods of West Virginia is basically an excuse for director Antonio Campos to assemble his own Avengers-style squad of Hollywood A-listers. Seriously, everyone’s in this thing: Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Bill Skarsgård, Eliza Scanlen, Sebastian Stan, Mia Wasikowska, Riley Keough, Jason Clarke, Haley Bennett, that kid who played Dudley in the Harry Potter franchise. The whole gang’s living in shacks and picking up hitchhikers only to murder them later and speaking in tongues and falling victim to generational trauma. It’s a heavy watch, and there’s not really a happy ending, but boy, does Pattinson deliver a batsh*t crazy turn as a perverted preacher.

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A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Run Time: 136 min | IMDb:

Stanley Kubrick’s dystopian crime thriller A Clockwork Orange most certainly is not a breezy watch. The film, based on the classic novel by Anthony Burgess, follows the charismatic, completely unhinged Alex (Malcolm McDowell), leader of a gang of criminals who enjoy inciting chaos and committing horrific crimes. When Alex is captured, the Minister of the Interior suggests experimenting on him using rehabilitation techniques that psychologically condition him to become averse to violence and sex. They work, for a time, and to disastrous consequences, but Kubrick’s real goal with this film was to dive into the idea of free will and morality.

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Nightcrawler (2014)

Run Time: 117 min | IMDb: 7.9/10

Jake Gyllenhaal stars in this truly bonkers crime thriller from Dan Gilroy about a con-man who muscles his way into L.A.’s crime journalism scene and very quickly becomes the star of his own reporting. Lou Bloom (Gyllenhaal) is a petty thief who stumbles his way into the stringer profession — photojournalists who chase crime scenes to sell the footage to local TV stations. As Lou begins to record more exciting crimes, demand for his work grows and he starts staging scenes, obstructing police investigations, and inserting himself in high-speed chases to get the best shot. It’s a twisted, depressing look at the ethics of journalism and the consequences of consumerism, and Gyllenhaal has never been better.

Ocean’s Eleven (2001)

Run Time: 116 min | IMDb: 7.6/10

Steven Soderbergh gave us one of the slickest heist films of the decade when he delivered this caper about a group of suave criminals with plans to rob a Las Vegas casino. George Clooney plays Danny Ocean, a con-man recently released from prison who gets the gang back together again — the gang is Brad Pitt, Don Cheadle, Casey Affleck, Bernie Mac, Scott Caan, and Matt Damon — to rob a casino owner who just happens to be dating his ex (played by Julia Roberts). It sounds like more of a soap opera than it is and it works because Soderbergh mixes sharp comedy with high emotional stakes.

The Night Clerk (2020)

Run Time: 90 min | IMDb: 5.4/10

Tye Sheridan stars in this thriller, playing a night clerk named Bart who has Asperger’s syndrome and hides cameras in hotel rooms to study and mimick normal human interactions. While watching footage of one woman’s room, he sees her fighting with a man and rushes to help her. Later, the woman is found dead in her room with Bart the only suspect. The arrival of a new guest and a corrupt police force complicate the murder investigation — and Bart’s life.

Recent Changes Through December 2020:
Removed: Fargo, Lawless, Boyz N The Hood, The Town
Added: The Departed, The Devil All The Time, Ocean’s Eleven, The Invisible Guest

There’s a lot to unpack about the Ted Cruz Cancún story, which has dominated the news since late Wednesday night. There’s the optics of jetting off to a beach vacation while his fellow Texans froze. There’s conservatives’ sad attempts at spin. There’s the obvious, schoolboyish lies from Cruz himself. There’s the images of the senator in a sad polo wheeling a carryon around an empty airport. There’s the memes. And if all this weren’t enough, there’s also this: He left behind a poodle, and the poodle’s name is actually “Snowflake.”

An Intelligencer reporter actually scoped out the Cruz house in Houston, where he found only a security guard and, visible through the glass door, Snowflake, a poodle left home alone by a family that sought warmer climes. This is obviously the least of the worries in this case; the dog did have some paid company, at least. (Although it’s not clear if Snowflake spent at least some time in a frozen house, as the Cruzes were among the millions in the Lone Star state to lose power. It came back on at some point Thursday.)

But a lot of people took pause with the deranged detail that Cruz would hate sensitive progressives so much he would name his dog — a poodle, no less — after the right-wing’s favorite insult for them.

Will Sean Hannity grill Cruz about his poodle’s name? Or will he try to spin that, as he’ll undoubtedly spin this whole Cancún affair? In any case, this is only arguably the most humiliating thing Cruz has ever brought upon himself, and he was once owned by the star of his favorite movie.

(Via Intelligencer)

Texas residents have been stuck without electricity or hot water after a massive ice storm levied the Lone Star State. As all of this went down, most Texans hoped their government leaders would begin working to supply help to their community. But Ted Cruz had other plans. The senator and his family decided to fly to a resort in Cancun, Mexico while his state was in shambles. He quickly changed his three-day trip to a mere 24-hour go-around after he was hit with a heavy amount of criticism.

Kacey Musgraves, who was born and raised in the state, sought to turn the senator’s head-scratching decision into something could help struggling residents. The singer took to social media to share an idea for Cruz-themed shirts on Thursday afternoon. Hours later she returned with the new gear: a white t-shirt that boldly proclaimed “Cruzin For A Bruzin’” on its front in black text. Musgraves promised that all proceeds will “directly support Texas affected by the storm and also to homeless immigrants seeking shelter and food.” She also added, “Texas is cold, I can be cold.”

The shirts are currently available for purchase on the singer’s website and it comes with a disclaimer that reads: “no actual bruising plz.”