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Report: Kevin Durant Is Keeping His Options Open While Kyrie Irving Has A List Of Teams For A Potential Sign-And-Trade

The Brooklyn Nets appear to be on the verge of a potentially tumultuous summer. Much of it revolves around the future of Kyrie Irving, as the star guard has a player option on his contract. Irving and the Nets have reportedly been in the midst of negotiating an extension, but Brooklyn is not willing to give him a long-term deal.

As such, talks have gone stagnant between the two sides, and teams are keeping an eye out for Irving’s potential availability in a sign-and-trade. But according to a new report from Shams Charania of The Athletic, Irving isn’t the only star whose future in Brooklyn is up in the air, as Kevin Durant is “considering options” regarding his future with the franchise.

An Irving sign-and-trade is not new, as many of the teams mentioned to have interest in him don’t have the ability to sign him outright. Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN reports that Irving does have a list of teams where he’d like to go if he cannot come to terms on a new deal, although it is unclear whether or not his interest in those teams is reciprocated.

On Wednesday, Wojnarowski wrote that the preference for all the parties involved is that the Nets and Irving are able to come to terms on a new contract. It is unclear if that has changed in the last day or if Durant and Irving are getting their ducks in a row should something drastic happen.

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Denise Richards Responds To Charlie Sheen Criticizing Their Daughter For Joining OnlyFans By… Joining OnlyFans

Denise Richards is keeping it all in the family. Or should I say, all in the OnlyFans-ly? No, I shouldn’t, that’s dumb. But the actress, who played the wonderfully-named Dr. Christmas Jones in The World Is Not Enough, has joined her daughter on OnlyFans. less than a week after ex-husband Charlie Sheen criticized the 18-year-old for being on the adults-only subscription service.

“She is 18 years old now and living with her mother,” the former-Two and a Half Men star told Us Weekly about Sami, his child with Richards. “I do not condone this but since I’m unable to prevent it, I urged her to keep it classy, creative, and not sacrifice her integrity.” Richards, meanwhile, said that her role as a parent is to “guide” Sami.

Now Sami has guided Richards to OnlyFans:

The former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star shared a video to Instagram Thursday in which she could be seen walking barefoot along a beach while wearing a white dress. The straps of her dress had fallen down her shoulders, accentuating her cleavage.

“Ready… here we go,” she wrote on Instagram, along with a link to her OnlyFans page. A subscription costs $25 a month, or you can rent the trashy masterpiece Wild Things for $3.99 and get basically the same experience. I’ll leave that up to you.

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Jeremy Allen White On Making ‘Uncut Gems’ In A Kitchen With ‘The Bear’

The ties that bind Carmen ‘Carmy’ Berzatto to his family business (a renowned neighborhood restaurant in Chicago) and to the culinary craft that he’s perfected in the years since he went away to prove himself have gotten all tangled at the start of The Bear, a new FX dramedy premiering with all episodes on Hulu today. Starring former Shameless star Jeremy Allen White, the show fixates less on the art of cuisine and more on the choreography through chaos on display when a team comes together to get people fed. The show is, in one word, intense, as expectations (some self-imposed, some not) and obligations push down on Carmy’s shoulders every day while he leads his mismatched team of old-school loudmouths and ambitious newcomers. But every day he pushes back, determined to take on the burden of a legacy that’s been thrust upon him by a death in the family.

“You’re really meeting him at his most fragile and vulnerable. The worst thing he could have imagined happening in his life just happened to him,” said White when we spoke with him recently. In this moment, he’s talking about what drew him to the character and the show. It was enough to topple concerns about typecasting after years of playing a taxed Chicago kid trying to do right by his dysfunctional family on Shameless. “It was just too hard to walk away from, my heart really broke for Carmy,” says White.

While the geography and a few other surface elements may seem similar, these characters are very different, with Lip on Shameless often driven to self-destruction and Carmy bottling everything up as he waits to see if he can succeed before bursting open. Here’s White on that intensity, the rigorous culinary training camp he endured, and the icon and iconic performances he borrows from in The Bear.

This kind of feels like Uncut Gems in a kitchen. It’s so busy and fast-paced. Is that exhausting?

I think that was a movie that Chris Storer [writer/executive producer/director]and I spoke about in prep. We wanted to kind of feel that anxiety throughout. The energy [is] really, really high. The pilot was exhausting and we also did it very quickly over six or seven days. But I think that kind of intensity and speed lent itself to the show.

And certainly, the environment that the show portrays within a kitchen.

Exactly.

Working on a line, the chaos of that, there’s a rhythm to it. How did you pull that off?

Before the pilot, we had a fair amount of time to kind of rehearse and be in that space. Ayo (Edebiri, who plays Carmy’s second in command) and I went to a two-week kind of crash course in culinary school. And then she went to work at a couple of restaurants, I think in LA. And I worked at a restaurant in LA, a different restaurant and then also worked with a really wonderful chef in New York. So, we kind of separated after that. But Ayo and I got to know each other through learning to cook, which was really nice. And then the rhythm of it and stuff like that. I see a lot of similarities between working in a kitchen and working on a film or television crew.

The pace is there, making the day. And I also think with kitchens, at a certain level, every night is a performance. There are moments where it’s magic hour and everybody’s really hustling. And there are moments on a Friday night at 9:00 where the line is fucked and everybody’s working really hard. I guess the anxiety of a kitchen felt sort of familiar to me through having worked on sets for a long time.

As you’re shooting the one-shot episode [episode 7, which takes place during a particularly tense day at the restaurant and which is shot as a single shot], you have a really explosive moment that has to come at the exact right time and at the exact right level. What’s in your headspace?

I think I really wanted Carmy throughout the season to feel really fragile. To feel like one wrong turn or somebody says the wrong thing and he could kind of pop. And so I think I knew going into that day, I just had to come in and kind of be wound up and anxious. I think the tension of possibly wasting time if I messed up a shot or if somebody else messed up the shot because we only had this one shot, that all kind of added to it. It felt like a tight rope walk for Carmy and it felt like a tight rope walk for me shooting it because I knew there was a lot at stake and one mistake could throw away a really amazing take for everybody else.

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How old are you?

I’m 31.

31, okay. And how old were you when you started Shameless?

18, when I started.

Did you find yourself at the start pulling inspiration more directly from other performances and other performers? And then how does that kind of grow as you get older?

I don’t know if that is ever going to stop. Al Pacino was my guy when I was young, Panic In Needle Park will always be one of my favorite performances, Dog Day Afternoon. Obviously, I don’t have to go through his resume, but yes, I watch these guys. I steal things or try to steal things. I just get inspired. And I think I try to carry that with me a little bit. I think specifically for Bear, I watched Panic In Needle Park a lot before shooting the pilot. There was just something about his energy in that movie that I love, it’s magnetic. And I know I can never replicate that, but I think I was sort of chasing it and that it seems it suited this project a little bit. And then, of course, you get a little flick of a switch and a little bit of inspiration, and then yes, you run with it and you do whatever you’re going to do, but I don’t know if that’ll ever stop. I hope I can act for a very long time and people keep hiring me. And if they do, I think I’ll always be looking at actors that I admire for that inspiration or maybe a little bit of a way into a character just to get the door open a little bit. And then grow with it in your own way.

You’ve obviously spent a lot of time in Chicago. I’m curious, what’s some of the best food you’ve eaten in that area?

I experienced two very different Chicagos because for Shameless, we were there a couple of weeks a season and we would go out a lot, but I’d go out drinking a lot. Richard’s Bar is an excellent bar. It’s right next to a really great Italian restaurant called La Scarola. When I was shooting The Bear, it’s all research, I guess. And production was really lovely and set me up at some really amazing restaurants. I had one of the best meals I’ve ever had at this restaurant called Oriole, which is I believe a two, could be three Michelin stars restaurant. And it was absolutely incredible. But then also, I love to go to Portillo’s. There’s no shortage of excellent food in Chicago.

Have you always appreciated and understood the art of cooking?

I love to have a good meal and I had, I think respect, for the chefs. I like to go out to dinner. But my level of respect for people in kitchens has just exploded. I really got let in by a lot of people, so I’m really grateful. And I think it’s like being an athlete with the commitment, the amount of time. It’s really remarkable. And it’s like, I think, being an athlete or being an actor in some cases where I think you have to feel this is the only thing I can do with my life to really go far. Because it’s so much sacrifice. So, I have a tremendous amount of respect now, certainly.

What’s your skill level now in the kitchen?

Still, not great. I can fake it well. I can move around well. My knife skills are okay. And I have a couple dishes that I can do at home and stuff like that. I’m still trying to get better all the time. I hope we get to do more of the show and I just want to get better and better.

You mentioned working in a restaurant in LA in preparation for this. Can you tell me just a little bit more about that?

Totally. So, I worked at this restaurant called Pasjoli in Santa Monica. The chef there is chef Dave Beran. He worked at Alinea for a long time in Chicago and lived in Chicago for a long time. So, it was really nice to talk to him about Chicago. He knew Chicago well, he lived there for a long time. So, I felt I could ask him a lot about the food scene specifically in Chicago. But then he left and he opened a tasting menu place called Dialogue that was open for a couple years, they got a Michelin star. And then he opened Pasjoli, which is where I worked. They also just recently got a Michelin star. So, he’s very good at what he does. And it was incredible. They were all very welcoming. I just tried to show up and be respectful because I knew I wasn’t going to be helpful.

And I think they appreciated that I at least came serious and ready to work. And they really let me in, so I would do a lot of prep with them, which you’re not going to make a huge amount of mistakes during prep. I was there for around a month, I guess. And my last week or two there, they did let me work the line on Thursday nights, which is a pretty busy night. And it’s an open kitchen. So, all the diners, customers, they can see what’s going on in the kitchen. So, that was very stressful, but it also gave me a lot of confidence that they put me in that position and didn’t immediately take me off. So, I was cooking food that was served at this wonderful restaurant. And that was a really incredible experience.

And everybody lived.

And everybody lived. So, as far as I know.

‘The Bear’ is now streaming on FX on Hulu.

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Tyga And YG Will Cosplay As The Kardashians In Their Upcoming ‘Run’ Video

Who had YG and Tyga getting fully made-up as The Kardashians on their 2022 bingo card? Nobody? Ok. Well, it’s officially a thing as this looks to be the motif for the vieo for YG’s new song, “Run,” which is dropping on Friday, June 24 at midnight. In a teaser clip for the video posted by YG to his Instagram feed, the pair have gone full White Chicks and it’s well, pretty ridiculous.

The pair sit in the cleanest convertible Ferrari you’ve ever seen as “Run” starts to play on the radio. YG is in the driver seat rocking a blonde wig, presumably indicating that he is Khloé Kardashian, while Tyga rides shotgun in black hair with big sunglasses a la Kim. Tyga… err, Kim fixes their hair, while YG/Khloé dances to the tune and says, ““Calabasas forever!,” referencing where the Kardashian’s family home is located. Tyga — who seems really into the cosplay — then looks in the vanity mirror to touch-up his make-up and lipstick, before giving the camera a “blue steel” look.

The pair must have no doubt spent literal hours in a makeup chair to become the Kardashians and it’s unexpected to say the least. “Run” is also set to feature Bia and 21 Savage, and drops Friday at midnight. There’s no word yet on whether it will be included on YG’s upcoming album, Pray For Me, but the clip above certainly does it’s job: piquing curiosity for the full video this Friday.

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The ‘Best Acting’ That Millie Bobby Brown Has Ever Done Is Coming In ‘Stranger Things 4: Vol 2,’ According To The Duffer Brothers

As the Stranger Things gang gears up for its season four finale, the Duffer Brothers are hyping up the final two episodes with so much energy, the expectations are almost too high. Fans have been warned that the finale will be dark and potentially deadly, but the creators are also promising some emotional performances by some of the principal cast.

In an interview with Netflix’s Tudum, Millie Bobby Brown and Matthew Modine, who play Eleven and her papa/government guardian with sketchy intentions, confirm that the season is not only physically draining, but emotionally overwhelming as well. “I do a lot of physical and emotional stuff in the show, and when my heart rate goes up, my body thinks that it’s going through something,” Brown says after Modine explained that he had to warn her to take it easy. “So we have to really take care of our bodies and give them that healing that they need.”

Despite the intensity of the set, The Duffer Brothers add that they were “blown away” by both Modine and Brown’s performances in the final two episodes. “They have some scenes together [in Volume 2] that are, I think, the best acting either of them have ever done,” Matt Duffer says. The expectations keep rising!

Modine also hinted at an “emotional” scene between Eleven and Papa, which resulted in the Duffers stepping in to give a “really specific direction” during the scene. The pair even came up with their own “blinking” system while filming to check in on each other during tough scenes. Seems like that telepathic connection also made its way off-screen!

It’s not clear where Papa and Eleven will end up post-finale, but if the Duffer brothers have done one thing right, it’s to make sure fans are prepared for the absolute worst. At least we will get more Kate Bush.

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Elon Musk Insists That His Tesla Robots Will Be ‘Ready’ By September (Sure, Man)

Last Summer, before Elon Musk set his sights on buying Twitter, he told the world he intended to make humanoid robots. Called “Tesla Bot,” the creations would stand under six feet tall, weigh 125 pounds and deadlift 150 pounds. And like all predictions Musk has made in recent years, well, it’s best not to hold your breath about any of those particulars.

Still, Musk has very much insisted that the humanoid androids are, indeed, in production. And this week he actually said a prototype is well on the way. According to the New York Post, Tesla’s next AI Day may feature a working prototype of the creation the company showed off during last year’s event. Well, kind of. If you recall, the “prototype” was actually just a skinny person in a robot costume that moved jerkily and then started dancing.

Still, Musk had tweeted that things are quickly moving from robot costume to robot prototype, and in an interview he reiterated that a working prototype is very close to reality:

During an interview at the Qatar Economic Forum on Tuesday, Musk said that the company is “tracking” toward a working prototype.

“Well, I hope that we will have an interesting prototype to show people,” he said.

“We have a very talented team at Tesla that I’m working with closely to have a prototype humanoid robot ready by the end of September.

“And I think we are tracking to that point.”

“Tracking to that point” of a working robot is certainly a far cry from having a working robot that can help build cars and walk around carrying 45 pounds like a real live boy. But it’s a bold claim, indeed, added to a list of bold claims Musk has made in recent years. Which is why many people were, to say the least, skeptical about the timeline offered here.

If we do get a prototype this fall, though, people are certainly expecting something a bit different than promised.

Can’t wait for September!

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Billie Eilish, Lizzo, Ed Sheeran, And Joe Biden Will Appear On Upcoming ‘Corden’ Episodes From London

With James Corden announcing in April that he will be leaving The Late Late Show in 2023, the talk show host is pulling out all the stops in his final season. For a slate of episodes filmed in the UK that will air next week, guests on the show include Billie Eilish, Lizzo, Ed Sheeran, and President Joe Biden (as Variety notes). The shows will be broadcast from London’s Freemason’s Hall and these aren’t just your typical “sit down and chat” type of appearances for the illustrious guests.

For his “Take A Break” segment, Corden is going to fill in as an assistant of sorts to Biden, Lizzo is set to do a new “Carpool Karaoke” segment, and hilarity will surely ensue. Other guests on the upcoming slate of episodes include Star Wars actor John Boyega, singers Sam Smith and Alanis Morissette, Thor’s Tessa Thompson, David Harbour from Stranger Things, and Vin freakin’ Diesel.

It’s all set to air from Tuesday, June 28th to Friday, July 1st in its normal 12:37 a.m. timeslot on CBS (or on the Sky Comedy channel if you find yourself in the UK).

Some of the artists mentioned here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

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Trevion Williams Is Ready To Bring Joy To An NBA Team

The word “joy” gets thrown around a lot when Trevion Williams talks. It’s probably not a huge surprise to those who have watched him at Purdue, as Williams, a projected second-round selection in the 2022 NBA Draft, boasts one of the more unique games of any big man to come into the league in recent years. When he’s not on the floor, he’s standing on the sideline, expressive as anyone in the country in an effort to be, as he tells Dime, “our number one cheerleader on the bench.”

Still, anyone who has ever had a conversation with another person has run into the situation I found myself in while Williams and I spoke over Zoom last week. Similar words and themes — joy, happiness, positivity, etc. — popped up several times within the first minute or so of our conversation, which made me ask about Williams’ efforts to experience joy in every situation.

“It definitely has a lot to do with my personality,” Williams says. “I’m a pass-first guy, so anytime I can get other guys involved, I’ll do so. I thrive off seeing other guys succeed and I’m always the guy that put others before myself, and I think it has a lot to do with how I was raised and how I was brought up. My family, my mom most importantly, has always taught me to be unselfish. And I think that translates over, on and off the court, just me as a person.”

Family is another thing that comes up over and over again. At every opportunity, Williams stresses the role that his loved ones played in shaping who he is today.

He was told over and over again that he had special gifts, that he was unlike everyone else. His parents hammered home the importance of not being one-dimensional, while his support system provided him with endless, unconditional love. From a young age, Williams’ uncle Ty stressed that his dreams would change the family, and that the things that he would go on to achieve would have a bigger impact than what anyone else would achieve.

In 2015, Ty lost his life to gun violence in Chicago. Williams, who was born and raised in the city, felt that these sorts of senseless acts of violence pushed him away from the Windy City. Every summer, Williams would spend time with one of his uncles, and after Ty passed away, he traveled to Michigan to visit his uncle Curtis, the principal at the Henry Ford Academy School for Creative Studies in Detroit.

At the time, Williams and his mother, Shawndra Lewis, were living with his grandmother. He remembers calling her and saying he felt safe at the school, and it would give him the chance to grow as a basketball player, student, and person. Williams would end up transferring, and while he went to school, Shawndra held jobs in Chicago and Detroit, driving back and forth between the two cities every week.

“Basically going from check-to-check, trying to provide and help my uncle Curtis out with me,” Williams says. “That speaks volumes to how she is as a person, she wanted me to follow my dreams, so did my uncles and everybody else in my family, they wanted me to be successful with this. They always told me growing up, you’re meant for this lifestyle, and were gonna do everything in their power to make sure I was okay.”

Williams didn’t want to go to the kind of high school powerhouse that churns out high-level recruits. To him, as long as he could play basketball — even if it was at a smaller art school that had students from sixth to 12th grade roaming the hall every day — he was going to be happy. The success on the court was always going to come, with Williams averaging more than 20 points and 20 rebounds a game as a junior and senior while earning a 4-star distinction. When it came time to pick a college, Williams fell in love with the family environment that Matt Painter fosters at Purdue, which had the bonus of being a little more than two hours away from his loved ones in Chicago.

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As a talented big man who struggled with his weight — he arrived in West Lafayette weighing 325 pounds — Williams struck up “a really good relationship” during the recruiting process with the late Caleb Swanigan, who passed away shortly after Trevion and I spoke. Williams saw the way that the Boilermakers were able to transform him into an NBA Draft pick and one of the most uniquely skilled big men in the country.

“A lot of the recruiting process for me with Purdue pertained to Biggie, his process and becoming a player that he was, and then just watching what they did with him, and reading about him, and doing research, and all this stuff,” Williams says. “He’s told me about his struggles, and I found similarities within myself. I had some of those same struggles — growing up, I was always talented, but always had that weight that held me back from being such a special player, which I feel like I’ve grown to be. But I could have been even better if I didn’t have those struggles, but you appreciate things like that.

He had a huge impact on my decision. Like I said, watching what they did with him, watching what they did with his body, his process, his journey on making it to the NBA when he had people tell him that he wasn’t good enough, how was he going to fit. That’s kind of where those similarities come in, that’s what drives me every day, people telling me what I can’t do, because I’m more than capable of doing things if I work on it, if I put time into it.”

Williams put the time into getting his body right and thrived. He appeared in all but two games as a true freshman, and in each of his final three years, Williams was asked to shoulder one of the heaviest workloads in the sport. Per KenPom, Williams was 38th in the country in percentage of possessions used as a sophomore, second as a junior, and 11th as a senior. When he was on the floor, Painter and co. trusted him to serve as the hub for the the Boilermaker offense.

“Adjusting to Purdue’s system was fairly easy,” Williams says, “they threw the ball in, and I knew I was going to touch it.”

It paid off his junior year, when Williams earned first-team All-Big Ten honors. He started all but two games in which he appeared, tested the NBA Draft waters, and decided to come back. And then, as a senior and someone who established himself as one of the best players in the country, Williams was asked to come off the bench.

While it’s not an easy pill to swallow, Williams understood that the needs of the team were the most important thing, and found a way to use this unique situation as a form of motivation en route to a third-team All-Conference selection, getting named the Big Ten’s Sixth Man of the Year, and playing a major role in the Boilermakers making it to the Sweet 16.

“Having that mindset of always trying to figure it out, man, it’s helped me so much,” he says. “Obviously, it was tough, because you always have questions about why things are the way they are. I just trusted myself, coach making that transition forced me to open up as a person, it’s forced me to be more vocal, not be that quiet guy anymore, just forced me to be that cheerleader on the bench, standing next to coach, we’re down 10 and we need some positivity and some energy, I’m that guy. So I figured out other ways, and man, it’s been a blessing to have gone through what I’ve been through.”

The fact that he’s on the verge of getting to the NBA, he says, hasn’t hit him yet. Williams is wired to block out noise, focus on what he has to do during the pre-draft process, and trust that the thing that will happen is what is meant to happen. He’s filling that time in hotel rooms across the country, in cities he has never visited before like Charlotte and Los Angeles, by making music — Williams grew up in the church and has “been in choir pretty much my whole life.” He views singing as a way to achieve peace when he’s away from the hardwood.

When he does step on the floor, Williams wants to find joy in being the best player he can be.

“What’s your work,” he asks, “if you can’t have fun with it? I would tell my teammates in college, high school, whatever team I was a part of, anytime I spoke up, they tell you I say, just have fun,” he says. “That’s what it’s about, man, being a part of a team, building a brotherhood, just going through, knowing that guys next to you want success just as bad as you do. It’s a great feeling. It’s about just being a part of something for me.”

NBA teams have told him in the pre-draft process in each of the last two years that they want to see him become more comfortable shooting the ball, and while he agrees that he has room to improve and is spending time in the gym working on this, Williams believes he is better than he was a year ago.

They are, however, enamored with his ability to pass the ball. From the time he was in high school, he’s always preferred making the game-winning pass as opposed to hitting the game-winning shot. It goes back to his upbringing, where the importance of putting others before himself was instilled in him from a young age. As a result, Williams says, his first objective when he gets the ball is to look for the open guy before he tries to score. If you’ve made it this far into this piece, you will not be surprised which specific word he used to describe what he feels when his passing leads to a teammate scoring.

“I’ve always just found joy in seeing other guys succeed,” Williams says. “It plays a huge part in my personality, it’s not about me, and so I try to get other people involved as much as I can, and I really thrive off of it. I sound like a broken record, but, man, I guess I really enjoy seeing other guys succeed, because it helps me succeed. Just knowing that I put guys in that position, I’m able to impact somebody. It does a lot for me.”

We’ll learn on Thursday night what basketball has in store for Williams. But one thing is for sure: Wherever he ends up, he’ll do whatever he can to bring his infectious sense of joy to anyone and everyone around him.

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Maggie Rogers Is Discouraged By The State Of Female Representation On Alternative Radio

Maggie Rogers received some good news recently: Her recent single “That’s Where I Am” has jumped to the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Adult Alternative Airplay chart dated June 25. That makes it her third song to top that particular ranking, following “Alaska” in 2016 and “Burning” in 2019. Despite that, Rogers is discouraged with the state of the alternative radio charts, specifically as it pertains to female representation on them.

This afternoon, Rogers tweeted, “idk how this is even still at all surprising to me, but my managers just sent me the top 50 chart for alternative radio and there’s…8 women ? like i know we’re having a 90s revival, but we still can’t do any better than that ??” She added in another tweet, “the other diversity stats are also just eeeeeeeeeeeesh.”

Meanwhile, Rogers, who is about a month away from releasing her new album Surrender, recently spoke with Apple Music’s Matt Wilkinson about making the LP, saying, “I started it in Maine and it really felt like going back to making music the way I made it when I was a kid. I was in my childhood bedroom, making music in a little studio I set up over my parents’ garage.”

Rogers is also fresh off of announcing tour dates and graduating from Harvard Divinity School.

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Ivanka Trump Was Caught On Video Saying Her Father Should Fight The Election Results, Which Contradicts Her Testimony

Ivanka Trump‘s testimony to the January 6 committee that she knew her father lost the 2020 election put her in hot water with the former president. However, new information has come to light that may lend credence to the theory that Ivanka committed perjury during her deposition.

As reported earlier in the week, documentary filmmaker Alex Holder had unprecedented access to Donald Trump’s campaign and the final weeks of his presidency, which came as a complete surprise to Trump’s inner circle. CNN aired the first footage on Thursday morning, and now, The New York Times is reporting that it has seen footage that features Ivanka Trump backing her father’s pursuit of proving the 2020 election.

The footage was filmed on December 10, 2020, nine days after then-Attorney-General Bill Barr declared there was no evidence of voter fraud. In her January 6 committee deposition, Ivanka said she was persuaded by Barr’s remarks and accepted that the election wasn’t stolen. However, the documentary footage shows her supporting Trump’s “Stop the Steal” efforts.

Via The New York Times:

“I think that, as the president has said, every single vote needs to be counted and needs to be heard, and he campaigned for the voiceless,” Ms. Trump replied. “And I think a lot of Americans feel very, very disenfranchised right now, and really, question the sanctity of our elections, and that’s not right, it’s not acceptable.”

She went on, “And he has to take on this fight. Look, you fight for what you love the most and he loves this country and he loves this country’s people, and he wants to make sure that their voice is, is heard and not muted.”

Ivanka closed out her remarks by saying her father “will continue to fight until every legal remedy is exhausted and that’s what he should do.” Again, that doesn’t sound like someone who has accepted that the election wasn’t stolen, so it will be interesting to see what, if any, response this new footage garners from the House committee.

(Via The New York Times)