On Sunday, over twice as many people who watched last week’s Golden Globes telecast tuned in to watch Oprah Winfrey interview Prince Harry and Meghan Markle — their first such sit-down since stepping away from their royal duties. The revelations were shocking: They accused some at Buckingham Palace of racism and of driving her to suicidal thoughts. It made conservatives mad…at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. One rightwing commentator didn’t only come for the sort-of-former Royals. She also came for Oprah.
That person is Megyn Kelly, the disgraced former Fox News host who lasted just over a year at NBC before being fired for defending blackface. These days she can be found on Twitter, where she’s regularly dunked on for other questionable opinions. That includes the ones she made in the wake of the Harry and Meghan interview. On Sunday, shortly after the interview aired, Kelly laid into Winfrey.
Oprah stayed too broad-I wanted more: “who?…Be specific…what exactly did they say? Who was jealous of M after Australia? How did u know that? What do you mean ur family hasn’t “educated themselves” the way u have? They’re racists? WHO?” Eventually they’d have to get specific.
“Oprah stayed too broad-I wanted more: ‘who?…Be specific…what exactly did they say? Who was jealous of M after Australia? How did u know that? What do you mean ur family hasn’t ‘educated themselves’ the way u have? They’re racists? WHO?’ Eventually they’d have to get specific.”
When people caught wind that Megyn Kelly — known for rants against the idea of a non-white Santa Claus — was lecturing Oprah Winfrey about her interview tactics, they couldn’t believe it. Many made apt comparisons.
Megyn Kelly giving interview advice to Oprah Winfrey is equivalent to Milli Vanilli giving voice lessons to Aretha Franklin.
How is Megyn Kelly giving interview advice to @Oprah when Megyn got cancelled after 15 months and Oprah can still command huge ratings 10 years after her show went off the air?
Kelly had a couple other opinions to share on Twitter as well. Like most conservatives, she’s spent a lot of the last week and change up in arms about a non-controversy involving Mr. Potato Head, The Muppet Show getting brief content warnings on Disney+, and the Dr. Seuss foundation pulling six (out of over 60) books from circulation due to racist content. When she dropped a photoshopped image bearing a false equivalency, people pounced on that, too.
“Can you BELIEVE we live in a country where RACISM is more offensive than SEX?!?!”
Ahead of releasing her breakout debut single “Icy Grl” in 2017, Saweetie earned a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern California. Saweetie was already making moves in her rap career while attending college and has cited how important her degree is to her. But attending a school where she was oftentimes the only student of color in the classroom also took a toll on her, to the point that she now says the experience “stripped my authenticity.”
Saweetie recently sat down with The Breakfast Club for a conversation about her career and upcoming projects. Host Angela Yee commended Saweetie for completing her degree in the interview, saying that “sometimes people think that you can’t be authentic as a rapper if you also went to school and did well.” But Saweetie feels as though her college experience forced her to conform:
“That’s so ironic because I feel like college is what kind of stripped my authenticity from me because, when you’re going to a predominately white school, you kind of feel like you have to perform sometimes. Not speaking for everybody, but at least from my experience. So if anything, I feel like after college, I was kind of getting back to who I was before then. But being in a world that’s not your world is uncomfortable, you have to adjust, and I felt like I had to conform a lot because sometimes I’d be the only Black or biracial girl in class. So if anything, I feel like I’m finally getting back to me.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Saweetie said that her success didn’t happen by luck. Rather, she’s been working hard at achieving her goals since grade school: “I have run into people who I was cordial with or who I was friends with and they always tell me that where I’m at right now makes sense. Because I was always ambitious. I’d be top student for my academics, I was female athlete of the year, I was popular throughout my whole life. So people who knew me before this knew that it makes sense for what I’m doing.”
Watch Saweetie’s full interview with The Breakfast Club above.
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Streaming video is the best thing that’s ever happened to documentaries. People who would never have paid for a ticket to a theatrical nonfiction film are now, thanks to Netflix’s robust selection, scarfing down the stuff by the barrel. But where to start among the masses? Here are 25 of the best documentaries on Netflix right now to get you going, covering a variety of themes and real stories.
Even if you’ve already witnessed the madness of this real-life horror story over on Hulu, you should see it again on Netflix. Hulu’s Fyre Fraud feels like more of a thinkpiece directed at the millennials who were suckered into buying tickets to a luxurious music fest on a secluded island in the Bahamas. Netflix’s Fyre does a better job of placing you in the action, giving you a real feel for the chaos and an understanding of how so many people could’ve been roped into this doomed venture.
Beyoncé’s history-making Coachella performance was enough to temporarily rename the music festival Beychella last year, and now fans who couldn’t afford to see Queen Bee perform live get a backstage pass to the show with this doc. Are there killer performances, musical mash-ups, and dance routines? Sure. But what really makes this music doc stand-out besides the talent of its star is the intimate look fans are given into Beyoncé’s personal life, from her surprise pregnancy to her struggle to get in shape before the event and all the in-between madness and heartbreak.
To understand the enigma that was the Trump campaign, one must first understand the man behind the historic presidential run. Roger Stone is a well-connected lobbyist, a Republican political trickster responsible for the campaigns of former presidents like Richard Nixon and Ronal Reagan. He’s well-versed in navigating morally-murky waters to help his horse win the race, and we see him do just that in this doc, which follows the mogul over a five-year period as he crafts Trump’s winning-campaign.
One of the strangest, most tragic sports stories in history is that of professional wrestler Dave Schulz and his friend, John du Pont. Du Pont was heir to the multi-million dollar Du Pont family fortune and used his inheritance to fund a professional wrestling team with the hopes of competing in the Olympics and other prestigious sports events. Mark Schulz was a wrestler struggling to get out of the shadow of his older brother’s more promising career. The two were roped into du Pont’s scheme, training wrestlers for him, but the partnership quickly soured and led to du Pont murdering Dave Schultz before barricading himself in his family compound to avoid arrest. It’s chilling, bizarre, and all the more riveting because of it.
Another sports doc, this one about a rag-tag group of baseball players in Oregon, feels decidedly more fun than its wrestling counterpart. The doc follows the Portland Mavericks, a defunct minor league baseball owned by actor Bing Russell that played for five seasons in the Class A-Short Season Northwest League. Kurt Russell, Bing’s son, also played on the team and served as its vice president. The film charts the Maverick’s origins, from underdogs to anti-establishment heroes.
Compiled from rare home videos from Christopher “Biggie” Wallace’s best friend, Damion “D-Roc” Butler, this revealing doc gives fans a different look at the iconic rapper. Sean “Diddy” Combs and Biggie’s mom also give interviews, detailing parts of Biggie’s life we didn’t know about, but the most compelling footage comes from D-Roc’s amateur videos. These clips give us an unfiltered look at a man who would become a legend.
This 2016 documentary from Ava DuVernay won an Emmy and was nominated for an Oscar during awards season two years ago. The film chronicles the justice system’s abuses against black people, making a case for institutionalized racism being a problem in America that’s only emboldened by the prison cycle. DuVernay boldly explores how prisons and detention centers are making a profit off of free prison labor, most of it done by black men which begs the question, is slavery really dead?
Let’s be honest, Taylor Swift could’ve delivered a glossy, stylized, superficial doc about her life to promote her latest album, and her rabid fanbase would’ve eaten it up. Instead, the pop star took a risk and gave filmmakers no-holds-barred access to her personal and professional life, offering up intimate interviews with herself and her family, detailing difficult struggles with body dysmorphia and eating disorders, allowing cameras inside her sexual assault trial, revealing her mother’s cancer diagnosis, and unearthing home video footage of her youth to create a fuller picture of herself. It’s a film that reveals the human underneath the icon. It’s bold, brutally honest, and some of Swift’s best work yet.
Few environmental warrior films do more for the cause than Jeff Orlowski’s Chasing Coral. The doc rounds up a team of scientists, photographers, and divers from around the world to draw attention to an environmental crisis we’ve never seen before — the vanishing of the world’s coral reefs. It works on two levels: By giving us an underwater adventure that attempts to shed light on the mysteries of the deep and highlighting a problem we can see with our own eyes. There’s no denying this one, no looking away, and Orlowski’s crew takes full advantage of that.
’90s crime nostalgia is alive and well in this pseudo-doc from director Kitty Green. Everyone knows how tiny pageant queen JonBenet Ramsey died — bludgeoned to death in the basement of her family home — so Green is less interested in rehashing the investigation into the little girl’s death and more interested in reenacting her life and final moments. To do this, she enlists actors from the area where the family lived, all hoping to play JonBenet or her parents in an upcoming production. Over the course of the film, these thespians are forced to confront the reality of the Ramsey family’s situation which in turn helps viewers to take a look under the surface of this tabloid trauma.
This timely doc gives us a look at the Larry Nassar sexual abuse scandal that rocked the world of gymnastics just two years ago from the point of view of reporters at the Indianapolis Star in charge of exposing it. A cover-up spanning two decades and involving higher-ups at both US Gymnastics and Michigan State where Nassar served as a physician and professor, this revealing investigation into a sinister culture that’s hidden behind the success of its top female athletes makes you rethink everything you thought about the Olympic dream.
his marks the first documentary to come from Netflix’s high-profile producing deal with Barack and Michelle Obama. The film takes a hard look at what happened to a General Motors plant in Ohio when it was closed down during the 2008 financial crisis, causing 2,000 workers to lose their jobs and destroying the small town of Moraine, Ohio. Things only get more complicated when a Chinese billionaire comes to town to transform the plant into a glass-making facility, promising thousands of new jobs before cultural divides threaten to derail the whole thing. It’s a fascinating view of consumerism, the American workforce, culture clashes, and how people can connect with each other despite seemingly insurmountable obstacles.
In 1992, Sandi Tan, along with her friends, made Singapore’s first indie film. She wrote and starred in it, a project called Shirkers, her two girlfriends produced and edited it, and a man named George Cardona directed. Cardona vanished one day, taking all the film materials with him, and propelling Tan on a decades-long journey to find the truth. It’s an engrossing study in betrayal and the dangers of collaboration, and it works mostly because Tan approaches it from a true-crime mystery angle, stripping it of any nostalgia that might tint her lense.
This gripping documentary confronts some hard truths about religion: its power to unite and its power to divide. Filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady follow three members of New York’s notoriously insular Hasidic community as they try to break free from their religion while holding onto their families and sense of belonging.
Bryan Fogel’s Academy Award-winning documentary Icarus wasn’t supposed to involve Russians and doping scandal and cover-ups. Fortunately for Fogel, when the filmmaker decided to test his mettle by competing in one of the toughest cycling competitions in the world and chose to dope to help his chances, he ended up meeting Russian scientist, Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov, the director of Russia’s national anti-doping laboratory. The result is this nearly 90-minute film that chronicles Russia’s extensive history with doping and Rodchenkov’s fight for his life after he blows the whistle on the country’s bad practices.
It seems as though we’re all now more aware than ever of how utterly screwed any of us can be in an instant if the system places us in its crosshairs for being in the wrong place at the wrong time and not behaving in a way perceived to be “normal” in the immediate aftermath. Recent true crime documentaries like The Staircase, Making a Murderer and Serial have certainly played a part in illuminating this frightening and unfortunate slice of reality. We can now add Rod Blackhurst and Brian McGinn’s Amanda Knox to that list. Prepare to be terrified and infuriated as the filmmakers detail how an overzealous Italian prosecutor and a global tabloid press thirsty for a sensational story joined forces to wreck a young woman’s life, largely for their own benefit. As Daily Mail journalist Nick Pisa freely admits on camera — without any trace of remorse or shame — about his work covering the case, “A murder always gets people going… And we have here this beautiful, picturesque hilltop town in the middle of Italy. It was a particularly gruesome murder; throat slit, semi-naked, blood everywhere. I mean, what more do you want in a story?”
Netflix delivers another worthy installment in the true crime series with this truly bizarre tale of a naive, church-going family and the man who preyed upon them. The Brobergs lived in a small town in Idaho with their three young daughters when they met Robert Berchtold, a seemingly-nice family man who doted on the girls, in particular, a 12-year-old Jan Broberg. Over time, Berchtold began grooming Jan and manipulating her parents, engaging in sexual acts with both her father and mother to cause a rift in the family before kidnapping her and brainwashing her into compliance. This saga went on for years and as strange as it sounds, nothing can prepare you for hearing the first-hand account of how this sociopath destroyed this loving family.
This documentary features never-before-seen footage of Jim Carrey in character as Andy Kaufman on the set of his 1999 film Man on the Moon. Directed by Chris Smith, the film shows Carrey, who was a celebrated comedic actor at the time, going method for his dramatic role as the brilliant on-stage comedian. There’s plenty of behind-the-scenes drama on this one, including Carrey’s backstage antics while shooting the movie, but what’s really interesting about the film is watching the actor’s thorough process and how he’s approached his colorful careers.
We live in a world connected with most of our interactions happening online. It’s great but, as this doc shows, it’s also terrifying. Terrifying because the way our data changes hands so quickly and indiscriminately — as long as companies shell out the cash for it — skirts all kinds of privacy laws and moral boundaries. This doc, told from the perspective of a journalist attempting to get his search data, the enormous fight with big tech to do it, and how his journey connects to the Cambridge Analytica scandal that may have influenced multiple elections in the States and abroad, is full of fascinating information and shocking tell-alls that could bring this whole internet empire down if people finally decide to start listening.
This political doc made its way from Sundance to Netflix and we couldn’t think of a better time to watch it than leading up to the 2020 election. It follows the grassroots campaign of the right’s favorite punching bag, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, showcasing her charisma and approachability while also diving into more intimate parts of her life, like her relationship with her late father. It’s a feel-good story from Capitol Hill and really, we need more of that.
The film that turned the tide of public opinion on Sea World and convinced Pixar to change the ending of Finding Dory, Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s animal rights muckraker is more than just 83 minutes of theme=park shaming. In telling the story of Tillikum, the psychologically damaged orca who spent his life in captivity and was involved in the deaths of three people, the movie is an elegy for the freedoms that marine creatures like him were once able to enjoy. Is there an ethical way to view creatures like Tillikum up close and personal, and if so, should we trust a private company to deliver it to us?
Clocking in at 24 minutes, the Oscar-nominated Extremis really would only work as a short, as its subject matter is almost unbearably heavy. Following terminal patients, their families, and their doctors, the tearjerker zeros in on the decision that many people are forced to make: whether to end a life or keep struggling to hold on. Netflix’s first foray into short documentary, it’s raw insight that can be rough for anyone who has been in similar shoes or spent any time facing dire choices in a hospital.
The alternately revolutionary and dispiriting saga of a combative, unapologetic and astoundingly gifted soul singer, Liz Garbus’s doc is a powerful rendering of the struggles Nina Simone faced throughout her career: the ways she became trapped in downward spirals, first of spousal abuse and then of bipolar disorder; and of her desperate, all-consuming urge to affect change on the country during the Civil Rights era. What happened? Watch for yourself.
We’re not sure why watching human beings dangling thousands of feet in the air with no safety net or cable cord to tether them to Earth is so irresistible, but it is, and this doc about free climber Tommy Caldwell and climbing partner Kevin Jorgeson might be Netflix’s most bingeable adventure flick. The two men attempt to scale the impossible 3000ft Dawn Wall of El Capitan, the Everest for free climbers, and if you can stomach over an hour of near-fatal slips, trips, and falls, this is the doc for you.
Warning: Netflix’s The Bleeding Edge will seriously piss you off. It might also make you swear off doctors for the rest of your life. The film is a deep dive into the medical device industry and the dangers that lurk there for unassuming patients. Like the pharmaceutical industry, there are few laws regulating the creation and implementation of medical devices — think everything from birth control to orthopedic instruments — and the doc shows how this is negatively affecting millions of Americans every year from the women unknowingly sterilized by an IUD device to a doctor whose own ortho-device slowly poisoned him. It’s a frustrating watch, but a necessary one.
In late January, Camila Cabello shared a post on her Instagram about the work she’s been doing with La Cultura Cura and the National Compadres Network to work on racial healing and reconciliation. In a lengthy Instagram caption, she let her fans know that she’s “learning & unpacking the ways I have contributed to systems & beliefs that actively oppress others,” an acknowledgement of the racist Tumblr posts from her teen years that resurfaced in late 2019. Aside from hurting and offending fans, the posts were also disruptive and painful for her former bandmate, Normani, who addressed them as “devastating” in February last year.
Instead of issuing a half-hearted apology and nothing more, Cabello seems to be committed to truly doing the work to undo harm, and that’s pretty commendable. Aside from working on her own internalized racism and seeking healing, Camila also partnered with the Movement Voter Project to launch the Healing Justice Project, an organization that provides funding for “mental wellness resources for activists across the country.” It’s basically a financial support for grassroots social justice advocates, some of recipients so far include Muslim Women For, Freedom Inc., and this week’s spotlight, QLatinx.
Other recipients include Black Leaders Organizing Communities, Faith For Justice, Living United For Change in Arizona, Mass Liberation Arizona, MN350, Southerners On New Ground and Student Advocacy Center of Michigan. Cabello donated the seed money for the initial round of ten grants, which totals around $250,000 and has pledged to match all the funds raised.
She has certainly done more than most celebrities who get “canceled” and then try to simply resurface a few months later, and it’s pretty inspiring to watch someone want to be held accountable for their past hurtful behavior. Keep checking in on Cabello’s Instagram to learn more about each group, they’re all launching takeovers there to help raise awareness for respective projects.
As Donald Trump left office in January, the legal challenges facing him began mounting. While much of the focus has been on his own unproven and off-base claims of election fraud, it seems he is more likely to face bigger issues with regards to taxes and some fibbed numbers on property values offered to lenders.
According to Michael Sisak of The Associated Press, one of Trump’s lesser known properties, Seven Springs, is under scrutiny by two different New York state investigations. The property, which Trump purchased for $7.5 million in 1995, had many proposed uses, from a golf course to a neighborhood of mansions, all of which were thwarted by community opposition — he also once planned to allow Libyan dictator Moammar Ghadafi to camp there for a U.N. visit when no one else would allow him to stay at their hotel, but that likewise fell through. That last bit isn’t important to the story, but I found incredibly fascinating.
Anyway, the investigations into the property stems from testimony that former attorney Michael Cohen gave to Congress in 2019 that indicated Trump had inflated the alleged value of the property to get a larger loan in an attempt to put together a bid to buy the Buffalo Bills. His failures to get into NFL ownership have long nagged at Trump, and his 2014 attempt to buy the Bills never came close to reaching the needed price tag of $1.4 billion (he reportedly offered $800 million, but other reports indicate he never even got a firm offer in), but he did start a feud with Jon Bon Jovi.
Cohen testified that Trump had financial statements saying Seven Springs was worth $291 million as of 2012. He gave copies of three of Trump’s financial statements to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform during his testimony.
Cohen said the statements, from 2011, 2012 and 2013, were ones Trump gave to his main lender, Deutsche Bank, to inquire about a loan to buy the NFL’s Buffalo Bills and to Forbes magazine to substantiate his claim to a place on its list of the world’s wealthiest people.
Trump, on his annual financial disclosure forms while president, said the property was worth between $25 million and $50 million.
That’s obviously a pretty wild difference to claim a property that is maybe worth $50 million. The AP story notes that even that is in dispute by the state, which had assessed the entire property value at $20 million back in 2015, when Trump had received a $21 million in a tax credit for preserving 158 acres as conserved land when a private evaluator priced it at $56.5 million. It would be rather incredible, albeit completely unsurprising, if the thing that were to lead to the most concrete legal issues for Trump after his presidency was inflating property values solely for vanity purposes — remaining on the Forbes list and trying to put in a bid to buy the Buffalo Bills that never stood a chance.
We’re still 10 days away from seeing that long-threatened “Snyder Cut” of Justice League — the one that’s supposed to salvage a damaged film, and which will run longer than all but a couple Martin Scorsese epics. But some HBO Max subscribers got a taste of it a little earlier than expected. On Monday multiple people posted videos and images of them trying to watch the new Tom & Jerry movie…only to be instead rewarded with the first hour of the DCEU’s forthcoming Mulligan.
The CGI finally rivals that of Marvel and you’re gonna love it. That’s all im saying. No spoilers.
The mistake was caught by one Doug Bass, a realtor and digital marketing analyst based in Charleston, North Carolina. He told Variety he was “just looking for some background TV while I worked, and when I clicked on ‘Tom and Jerry,’ [the] Snyder Cut started playing.” Bass said after an hour the image quality began to erode, followed soon thereafter by an error code. The film was then unavailable.
Variety was able to confirm that the version Bass was indeed the much-hyped “Snyder cut” before the mistake was corrected. (Those who want to watch the Tom + Jerry movie can do so once again.) Others found the same problem.
@hbomax I’m trying to watch Tom & Jerry but instead it’s playing the Synder Cut
It’s not clear what happened, and as of this writing Warners has not released a public statement on the matter.
Those who were able to watch the first hour of Justice League 2.0 were kind enough not to flood social media with spoilers, sticking only to vague freeze frames and brief snippets of video from the opening credits. Some even had nice things to say. “ The CGI finally rivals that of Marvel and you’re gonna love it. That’s all im saying. No spoilers,” Bass wrote on Twitter.
The rest of you, you’ll have to wait for March 18, when a large chunk of your waking hours will be devoted to watching a second stab at a movie that was once about half its running time.
Like millions of others, I tuned in last night to watch Oprah Winfrey’s interview with (former) Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Although watching “The Crown” has admittedly piqued my curiosity about the Royal Family, I’ve never had any particular interest in following the drama in real life. As inconsequential as the un-royaling of Harry and Meghan is to me personally, it’s a historically and socially significant development.
The story touches so many hot buttons at once—power, wealth, tradition, sexism, racism, colonialism, family drama, freedom, security, and the media. But as I sat and watched the first hour of just Oprah and Meghan Markle talking, I was struck by the simple significance of what I was seeing.
Here were two Black women, one who had battled sexism and racism in her industry and broke countless barriers to create her own empire, and one who has battled racism and sexism to protect her babies, whose royal lineage can be traced back through 1,200 years of rule over the British Empire. And the conversation these women were having had the power to take down—or at least do real damage to—one of the longest-standing monarchies in the world.
Whoa.
It’s not that I have some desire to take down the Queen—both Harry and Meghan were very clear that Queen Elizabeth has been good to them—but the institution of the monarchy and the various branches of that institution are steeped in colonialism, racism, and sexism that has long been glossed over in the name of reverence and respect for royalty. What force could possibly make a dent in such an institution?
Apparently, Meghan Markle. But she’s not doing it alone.
As Oprah asked her about the things we’re all curious about, I thought with awe about the generations of Black women who had fought and endured in order for these two women to be sitting there, alone in front of the cameras, with the wrapt attention of millions. That history was palpable throughout the interview.
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When Harry joined in, backing up what Meghan said and sharing his own perspective as a lifelong member of the Royal Family, another woman entered the picture. One thing that came through most clearly in the joint interview was that Harry is so his mother’s son.
Princess Diana rocked the royal boat by not conforming to what the palace wanted her to be when she was married to Prince Charles. She stood up for herself, and though much of the world loved her for it, the hounding of the paparazzi and the lack of support from the Royal Family was incredibly difficult.
“I think every strong woman in history has had to walk down a similar path,” Diana said. “And I think it’s the strength that causes the confusion and the fear. Why is she strong? Where does she get it from? Where is she taking it? Where is she going to use it?”
Diana’s butler has pointed out how similar Meghan is to Diana in personality, going so far as to say he thinks the two would have clashed if Diana were still alive because they are both strong, independent women. He said that similarity is what drew Harry to Meghan. And now Harry has given Meghan the support and defense that his mother never got from the Royal Family.
Diana set the stage for that. She left money for each of her sons in her will—despite the fact that they were royals and would financially always be taken care of—which Harry says enabled the couple to pay for security for their family after the Royal Family cut off security following their stepping back from senior Royal Family member duties.
“I think she saw it coming.” Harry said. “I certainly felt her presence throughout this whole process.”
So we have a strong woman who isn’t willing to put up with the constant attacks from the British press, who bravely asked for help when she became suicidal, and who walked away from the bullshit when it became clear that a long-standing institution wasn’t going to change.
We have a strong woman who built her own platform and offered this couple the opportunity to share their story on the world stage.
We have a strong woman who raised a son to celebrate strong women and who had the wisdom to prepare him for something she sensed but couldn’t exactly foresee.
What I saw in that interview was the power of three women calling one of the most powerful institutions in the world to account, and the entire world listening to them. That’s exactly the disruption of the status quo that such institutions have always feared. That’s the threat that strong women actually pose. And it’s a glorious thing to witness.
The whole interview is worth watching. If you missed it, you can watch the whole thing for free on the CBS website here.
For more than a year, the big question for the Dallas Cowboys was whether they would be willing to work out a long-term contract with quarterback Dak Prescott. After Prescott begrudgingly signed his franchise tender a year ago, there was plenty of wonder about his future, particularly coming off of a devastating ankle injury that ended his season early last year.
However, rather than having to once again franchise tag Prescott to the tune of over $37 million, the team announced on Monday evening that they had worked out a longterm deal with the Mississippi State product to keep him in Dallas for years to come.
It didn’t take too long for the contract details to get reported once the Cowboys announced the deal, with ESPN’s Adam Schefter bringing word that his deal was a four-year, $160 million contract with a record-setting $126 million in guaranteed money coming his way. Ian Rapoport of NFL Network added that his deal includes a no-trade clause, meaning the Dallas signal-caller will be there at least until he decides he wants out.
Cowboys are giving Dak Prescott a four-year, $160 million deal, including a record $126 million guaranteed, source tells ESPN.
The first three years average $42 million per year.
It’s big money for Dak, who gets the financial security he has wanted as well as being paid with the best in the league. Dallas is obviously confident in Prescott as the man who can help lead them to a return to prominence, but now the question turns to whether they have the roster around him to make that jump.
You won’t be seeing the QAnon Shaman strolling around in public wearning nothing but slacks and a horn headpiece anytime soon. As per CNN, a federal judge has ruled that Jacob Chansley, whose many aliases also include Jake Angeli, is too dangerous to release from prison, despite his assurances that he’s a peaceful person who prefers his prison food to be vegan. And that’s not all the judge said: He also chastised him for doing his splashy 60 Minutes Plus interview without getting permission first.
According to CNN, Judge Royce Lamberth has not been moved by Chansley’s attempts to reform his tattered reputation, which he sullied by being the most vocal and most eye-catching of the MAGA mob that violently stormed the Capitol on January 6. Lamberth found that he exhibited a “detachment from reality,” in part because he claimed his actions — which involved carrying a spear through the government building and howling from the balcony — was “not an attack on this country.”
“Defendant characterizes himself as a peaceful person who was welcomed into the Capitol building on January 6th by police officers. The Court finds none of his many attempts to manipulate the evidence and minimize the seriousness of his actions persuasive.”
Lamberth also effectively used his 60 Minutes Plus testimony against him, taking his words and using them to hang him. “The statements defendant has made to the public from jail show that defendant does not fully appreciate the severity of the allegations against him,” wrote Lamberth. “To the contrary, he believes that he — not the American people or members of Congress — was the victim on January 6th.”
Chansley’s lawyer, Albert Watkins, tried to argue that the spear he carried through the Capitol was just a flag pole, but Lamberth wasn’t having that either. “A six-foot pole with a metal spearhead fixed to the top is, undoubtably, a dangerous weapon,” Lamberth wrote.
As for Chansley’s 60 Minutes Plus appearance — his first public interview since his arrest on January 9 — Lamberth questioned whether he got the required clearance from the U.S. Marshals Service, the detention facility or the judge, according to The Washington Post. He did the interview from Watkins’ office, and Watkins had assumed that was fine.
Though Chansley has not been charged with assaulting anyone, he was charged with violent entry and disorderly conduct. Watkins has tried to paint his client as an innocent man misled by others, among them former president Donald J. Trump. “I am not belittling my client . . . but my client was wearing horns,” Watkins said. “He had tattoos around his nipples. He wasn’t leading anywhere. He was a follower.”
Last week, St. Vincent returned to officially announce her highly-anticipated album, Daddy’s Home, with the shimmering track “Pay Your Way In Pain.” Everything about the album, including its cover art, is heavily inspired by early ’70s music. But that wasn’t always St. Vincent’s plan. In fact, the musician had originally wanted to craft an album that sounds like metal/progressive rock band Tool.
Speaking to Bryce Segall on his Radio.com’s New Arrivals show, St. Vincent discussed her musical inspirations and how she started making a heavy-sounding LP before scrapping it for Daddy’s Home:
“The crazy thing about music is, you can plan and plan and think you’re gonna go one way, and then you start writing and the music just takes you wherever the music takes you. That was certainly the experience with this. I was dead set in my mind that after Masseduction I was just gonna make this like, heavy record. Like just heavy the whole time — like, ‘hey kids, you like TOOL? Well, you’ll love the St. Vincent record,’ you know? I got sort of down a road with that, but I kept finding that I didn’t have anything to say there. It didn’t feel anything, to go more angular and harder after Masseduction, but where it did feel like something, and felt free and fun and fresh and a lot of other ‘f’ words, was to just go back to the music I’ve listened to more than anything else, which is stuff made in New York from ’71 to ’76 — post flower child, pre-disco, pre-punk — and just sit in that space for a bit. And that’s where the music ended up taking me.”
Listen to St. Vincent’s interview on Radio.com’s New Arrivals show with Bryce Segall above.
Daddy’s Home is out 5/14 via Loma Vista Recordings. Pre-order it here.
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