Despite the growing wishes of the Republican Party (and Rupert Murdoch) following the disastrous midterm election results, Donald Trump is reportedly still planning to announce his 2024 presidential run on Tuesday. However, while the former president may not have the full backing of the GOP, he remains the candidate of choice for unhinged nutjobs and has taken to sharing their weirdo memes on Truth Social.
According to The Daily Beast, Trump shared a now-deleted post from user “God_Bless_Trump” that was jam-packed with wild QAnon claims of demonic gods and child sacrifice. While any normal candidate would steer clear of accusing their opponents of being imbued with satanic power, Trump is reportedly leaning into the batshit caterwauling of his MAGA base:
One side of the picture showed Trump’s face above the text “We Love You, President Trump! God Bless You!” The other side had a rambling, conspiracy-flecked screed about Trump’s motivations for running for the most powerful elected office in the world. Despite the fact that he “has it all,” the post said, “perhaps he could not stomach the thought of mass murders occurring to satisfy Moloch,” referring to an ancient god of child sacrifice. “Perhaps he could not stomach the thought of children being kidnapped, drugged, and raped while leaders/law enforcement of the world turn a blind eye.”
Hours after essentially endorsing a post that paints him as the virtuous slayer of the demon Moloch, Trump shared a more subdued message about his presumed 2024 announcement.
“Hopefully TODAY will turn out to be one of the most important days in the history of our Country!” Trump truthed or whatever the heck you call posts on his looney bin social media site where people think Democrats eat babies.
The nominees for the 2023 Grammy Awards were announced on Tuesday morning. Beyoncé leads the way with nine new nominations bringing her career total noms to 88 (tied with her husband Jay-Z for the most in history) — and yes, she is included in the field for the coveted Song Of The Year category. The Song of The Year award goes to the songwriter(s) who wrote the lyrics and/or melodies for the track. In Beyoncé’s case, it’s for “Break My Soul,” and we’ll find out if she’ll be victorious at the 65th Grammys Awards ceremony at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on Tuesday, February 5th. But who else is joining her in the field for the coveted Song Of The Year Grammy Award?
Who Is Nominated For Song Of The Year At The 2023 Grammys?
Adele and Harry Styles had huge years and “Easy On Me” and “As It Was” are both among the 10 songs in the Song Of The Year Award field. Steve Lacy’s “Bad Habit” eventually knocked Harry Styles off of its historic run atop of the Billboard Hot 100 chart and gets a nod. As do Lizzo’s “About Damn Time,” Kendrick Lamar’s “The Heart Part 5” and Taylor Swift’s in the mix as well. Check out the full field below.
Adele — “Easy on Me”
Beyoncé — “Break My Soul”
Bonnie Raitt — “Just Like That”
DJ Khaled — “God Did” Feat. Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, John Legend & Fridayy
Gayle — “ABCDEFU”
Harry Styles — “As It Was”
Kendrick Lamar — “The Heart Part 5”
Lizzo — “About Damn Time”
Steve Lacy — “Bad Habit”
Taylor Swift — “All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (The Short Film)”
You can view the complete list of nominees for the 65th Grammy Awards here.
We’re fresh off some major music news: The full list of nominees for the 2023 Grammys was just announced. Now we know who will be competing in every category and all eyes are on the four major awards: Album Of The Year, Best New Artist, Song Of The Year, and Record Of The Year.
As for the latter, here are the nominees for that category:
That’s certainly a strong list. Of those, “Easy On Me,” “Break My Soul,” “As It Was,” “About Damn Time,” and “Bad Habit” have gone No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Of the nominated artists, Beyoncé in particular is having a strong Grammy year: She earned nine nominations this time around, which is more than anybody else did this year.
Check out the full list of 65th Annual Grammy Awards nominees here.
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Ticketmaster really let the Swifties down. Are you surprised? When the presale for tickets to Taylor Swift’s 2023 The Eras Touropened up on Tuesday morning, there were so many fans (and bots, surely) logged in to the ticketing queue, that the Ticketmaster servers became overloaded and kept sending fans “technical difficulties” error messages as the site repeatedly crashed.
While Ticketmaster issued a statement (that did not include an apology) and pushed back multiple presales in hopes of accommodating the millions of people trying to get through the queue, fans and concerned parties did the only they could do in this hopeless moment: they roasted Ticketmaster on social media.
“What is joe biden’s plan to unpause the ticketmaster queue for taylor swift’s eras tour,” one user asked. “It’s called the ‘Eras’ tour because if you try to log in to Ticketmaster all you get are era messages,” another joked. Even Grammy nominee Zach Bryan got in on the roast.
what is joe biden’s plan to unpause the ticketmaster queue for taylor swift’s eras tour
Another user cited Ticketmaster’s statement about “unprecedented demand” calling them out by saying that since they were the ones who issued the presale codes, they should have expected this kind of volume.
“unprecedented demand” you literally sent out the codes
But then the final hammer was dropped when Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez popped in to make sense of this whole mess. “Daily reminder that Ticketmaster is a monopoly, it’s merger with LiveNation should never have been approved, and they need to be reigned in. Break them up.” [mic drop]
Daily reminder that Ticketmaster is a monopoly, it’s merger with LiveNation should never have been approved, and they need to be reigned in.
Ah, remember the good ol’ days of the first year of Disney+, which launched in November 2019? What a time to be alive. There was “Maclunkey”… then nothing until someone noticed that Daryl Hannah’s mermaid butt in Splash was censored with “digital fur technology.” Disney never gave an official explanation for the CGI reverse merkin, but it was impossible not to notice.
Disney+ didn’t want butts on their platform so they edited Splash with digital fur technology pic.twitter.com/df8XE0G9om
However, there’s good news for people who can’t think of anywhere but Disney+ to see butts on the internet: the original cut of Splash has been restored. CBR reports that “with the addition of the Disney+ parental lock feature, Splash‘s CGI cover-up has been removed and the original version reinstated.” The Michael Jackson episode of The Simpsons is nowhere to be seen on the streaming service, but this is a good start.
Splash was the first film released by Disney’s adult-focused Touchstone Pictures label. It was rated PG not only for the nudity, but also violence, like the scene where “a man assaults a woman with spray from a garden hose,” according to IMDb. And an “underwater fight scene in which one man is kicked in the groin, and several others have their scuba masks and regulators ripped off, forcing them to return to the surface.”
The Recording Academy has finally revealed its nominations for the upcoming 2023 Grammys, which will air in February 2023. Per usual, the award show will acknowledge the hottest of this year with its Best New Artists nominations, including Anitta, Latto, Muni Long, and more.
The nominees are:
Anitta
Domi & JD Beck
Latto
Måneskin
Molly Tuttle
Muni Long
Omar Apollo
Samara Joy
Tobe Nwigwe
Wet Leg
To be eligible for nominations for this year’s Grammys, an artist’s work must have been released between October 1, 2021, and September 30, 2022.
The 65th Annual Grammy Awards tasked several prominent artists to help present the nominations for the awards this year, such as Olivia Rodrigo, Machine Gun Kelly, John Legend, Luis Fonsi, Smokey Robinson, Jimmie Allen, and Ledisi. Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. and CBS Mornings co-anchors Gayle King and Nate Burleson are also expected to hand out nominations.
In other Grammy news, Beyoncé — a 28-time Grammy Award winner — has accumulated nearly 80 nominations throughout her two-decade career, making her the most nominated artist this year, tying her up with her husband, Jay-Z.
Check out the complete list of Best New Artist nominees above. You can view the full list of nominees for the 2023 Grammys here.
Some artists mentioned here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
After the GOP’s lackluster performance in the 2022 midterms, plenty of Republicans are now turning on the twice-impeached former president. With tangible proof that his MAGA base just didn’t show up at the polls the way so many pundits expected, even Trump’s staunchest supporters are now jumping ship, looking to rivals like Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to fill their ticket in two years’ time. But the latest conservative power player abandoning the real estate tycoon might just represent the final nail in Trump’s political coffin.
Rupert Murdoch, the media magnate who owns everything from Fox News to the New York Post and the Wall Street Journal, has told Trump, in no uncertain terms, that he won’t be backing him in any upcoming elections. Murdoch, who was instrumental to the success of Trump’s 2016 campaign, has even gone so far as to suggest that he would ensure that his papers and news channels favored a Democratic candidate against Trump if the Mar-a-Lago retiree planned to run in 2024.
There have been conversations between them during which Rupert made it clear to Donald that we cannot back another run for the White House,” a senior News Corp source told journalist David Parsley, via Mediaite.
According to this latest report, Murdoch promised that his coverage would “remain neutral” should President Joe Biden decide to go for a second term and run against Trump.
“If it turns out to be Donald versus Joe then it may be that we just cover the race without any leanings one way or the other,” the source said. But, if Democrats put forth a new, more promising candidate, and Trump still decided to run, then Murdoch plans to support the Democratic ticket “for the sake of stability and a sensible White House.”
“A lot of things would have to fall into place for that to happen. Joe would not be running, and the Democrats would have to have a new strong candidate,” the source explained.
No matter what Dems decide to do, it sounds like Trump has lost the support of the Murdoch empire. Rupert Murdoch’s son, Lachlan Murdoch, heavily favors DeSantis and hopes to see him run in 2024, which might be why recent Fox News segments see the Florida governor enjoying plenty of positive coverage. In fact, a recent episode of Harris Faulkner’s show presented a lineup of potential 2024 presidential candidates for the GOP, and Trump was noticeably missing from that roster.
interesting — Harris Faulker on her Fox News show showed a graphic of 13 potential Republican presidential candidates and Trump wasn’t among them pic.twitter.com/wdhF4OSSZY
The Washington Mystics will enter the 2023 WNBA season with a new head coach after word broke on Tuesday that longtime coach Mike Thibault would be retiring from the bench and his son, Eric, would be taking over those duties.
Mike Thibault will remain with the team as the general manager, but his 10-year tenure as head coach of the Mystics — which includes eight trips to the postseason and one championship — will come to an end. Eric Thibault, who has been on the staff with his father for all 10 years and has spent the past four as associate head coach, will move up a seat and, as he told ESPN’s Alex Philippou, look to guide Washington to another title.
“It’s very rare if somebody’s coming in their first year to have a chance to win the championship,” Eric said. “We’ve got a team that, if we make the right moves this offseason and we do the things we’re supposed to do and develop as a group, we’ll be a contender.
“We felt at the end of the season this year, that we were in that group. We probably weren’t the favorite… those last few steps from here to the top are sometimes the trickiest ones, but luckily we’ve navigated that terrain before.”
Washington won the title in 2019 but has not advanced beyond the first round of the WNBA Playoffs in the three years since. They will once again be led on the court by Elena Delle Donne, along with Ariel Atkins and Natasha Cloud, while looking to add a strong young talent to the mix after landing the No. 4 pick in this year’s Draft Lottery. Still, the task of reeling in the top teams in the WNBA, headlined by the reigning champs in Las Vegas, is tall and Eric Thibault will have to prove himself quickly as a head coach.
The soft sound of slow-moving water down a creek. The smell of fresh coffee roasting in the morning. A thick blanket resting across your lap during the first snowfall of winter.
Sure, you might find these things soothing. But none of them — none of them — compares to watching (and listening to) Bob Ross paint.
All GIFs via “The Joy of Painting.”
In case you’ve never experienced Ross, he’s that “soft spoken guy painting happy clouds, mountains, and trees in about 26 television minutes,” as his website explains. And if you think that sounds boring, well, you’re wrong. It’s one magical half-hour of television euphoria. End of discussion.
Ross died back in 1995 (rest in peace, Bob), but you can still catch his show, “The Joy of Painting,” on TV from time-to-time (or you can binge watch it on YouTube after a rough day at work). His website claims it’s the “most recognized, most watched TV art show in history.” And who could argue with that? No one. No one, I tell you.
Although it’s been more than two decades since Ross’ show was canceled, one episode recently resurfaced online.
An especially old one — episode four of season two — made its way onto the front page of Reddit on Sept. 1, 2015. It begins like any other: Ross smiling brightly next to a blank canvas, ready to take us on an endorphin-filled visual journey.
But then, plot twist, as Ross explains, this episode won’t be quite as colorful as the others…
“Anyone can paint.” (I wish he could give me Monday morning pep talks every week.)
In case you want to print out that quote and hang it on your wall or something (we could all use a little more Bob-spiration, after all), here it is in its entirety:
“Just recently I was doing a demonstration in a mall, and I had a man come to me and he said, ‘Bob, I could never paint because I’m colorblind. All I can see is gray tones.’ So I thought today we’d do a picture in gray just to show you that anyone can paint.”
Ross had a wonderful habit of reminding viewers that art is for everyone.
While his talents were extraordinary, Ross never made viewers feel like they couldn’t create their own beautiful works of art, too.
The colorblind fan could have had achromatopsia — a condition that affects roughly 1 in every 33,000 Americans by limiting their vision to see only in grayscale. But Ross was determined to make painting — an activity seemingly dependent on color — an accessible art form for him: “Any color will work, as long as you use the basic method.”
In the episode, Ross goes on to paint his own version of 50 shades of gray, masterfully creating rocky mountains behind a wintry sky.
As Ross explains, he only used various hues of browns and blues mixed together (which end up coming through as various grays), along with white.
“Isn’t that fantastic? That you can make whole mountains in minutes? And you can do it. There’s no big secret to it. All you need is a dream in your heart.”
Bob Ross was incredible.
Not only at painting (and assuring me with that soothing voice that the world is a wonderful place), but at helping everyone feel good about themselves and their own abilities. Thank you, Bob.
Check out the whole episode below:
Bob Ross – Shades of Grey (Season 2 Episode 4)
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A few nights ago, I was sitting in a dark theater — popcorn in hand and tears leaking down my face — embarrassingly bent out of a shape from a movietrailer. Fred Rogers was to blame.
The whimsical theme song to “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” concluded a short but powerfully nostalgic preview for the new documentary about the soft-spoken star, “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” And yeah, I’d morphed into a teary-eyed hot mess in a matter of seconds.
A question popped into my queer little brain right then, though, and I’m not entirely sure why:
Could Rogers have quietly been a homophobe?
He was a religious dude who grew up in a wildly different era than today. It’s a toxic combination that, if we’re overgeneralizing and I reflect on my personal experience, tends to produce the worst kinds of homophobes. Had the former Presbyterian minister been as saintly to queers like me as he’d been to seemingly everyone else?
I needed answers! So I went searching.
But first, let it be known that I respect Rogers and cherish the mark his big-hearted series left on me and generations past; I certainly wasn’t looking for justifications to write a “Mister Rogers” hit piece. In a dark and dreary world, Rogers was a reliably bright light, and I wanted whatever I discovered to confirm my suspicions that the beloved children’s advocate was a benevolent force for good — and nothing else.
But one thing I’ve come to learn as a jaded gay man is that the more flawless a fave of mine seems to be, the harder they fall from the high pedestal I’ve placed them on once their shortcomings inevitably air. Rogers could very well be the latest victim of my hero-worshipping, I warned myself, opening a Google tab with a preemptive cringe.
Here are the two big things I discovered:
1. Rogers’ unfaltering kindness and compassion certainly extended to the LGBTQ community.
Rogers didn’t go on the record with specific opinions about LGBTQ people or the matters that affect them (at least from what I could find). But others have reported their experiences with him on the topic. By putting those puzzle pieces together, I would confidently argue that Rogers saw the humanity in LGBTQ people.
He didn’t let his faith box him into any certain ideology regarding gay people or their rights. Michael G. Long, who authored the biographical “Peaceful Neighbor: Discovering the Countercultural Mister Rogers,” noted Rogers’ church in Pittsburgh was and continues to be inclusive to the LGBTQ community. Rogers’ widow, Joanne, has said her husband had close friends who were gay, according to Slate.
He also stood strong against outside pressures to use his platform to condemn same-gender relationships, according to Vox’s Todd VanDerWerff. Panning homosexuality likely would have been applauded by many parents tuning in, as mainstream America widely embraced homophobic attitudes throughout much of Rogers’ reign.
But doing such a thing on-air never felt right to the sweater-loving saint. “He felt everybody was, in some way, a reflection of God,” VanDerWerff wrote.
2. But Rogers wasn’t immune to the backward views society has held of queer people.
While Rogers hired and befriended Francois Clemmons — a gay man who played Officer Clemmons in the series for 25 years — he didn’t necessarily want the show associated with Clemmons’ sexual orientation, either.
After word got back to Rogers that Clemmons had been spotted in a gay bar, Rogers asked the actor to avoid such venues, fearful Clemmons’ sexuality would bring negative attention to the show.
“It was not a personal statement of how he felt about me,” Clemmons assured UU World in 2016, noting the two remained close friends. “It had to do with the economics of the show.”
Rogers urged him to stay in the closet, believing Clemmons’ sexuality may alienate viewers. He encouraged him to marry a woman, too. Clemmons did — and the relationship ended in divorce a few years later.
It’s difficult to reconcile the harmful actions of an icon who lived in a different time.
I wish Rogers had addressed Clemmons’ predicament differently, of course. I wish he’d celebrated Clemmons’ queerness on screen and off and allowed the actor to sashay his way on stage one trailblazing episode, rainbow flag held high.
But that’s the thing: The rainbow flag wasn’t associated with LGBTQ pride when Clemmons considered leaving the closet, because LGBTQ pride wasn’t even a thing in those pre-Stonewall days (at least in the mainstream). It’s not reasonable for me to expect a straight, cisgender man — even a superhero like Rogers — to possess a visionary moral compass and will to champion queer rights half a century before same-gender marriage even became normalized.
Rogers was extraordinary — but he wasn’t a social justice clairvoyant.
Mister Rogers’ empathetic nature pushed him, and his viewers, to be bold and continually grow in wonderful ways.
It’s what has helped enshrine my appreciation for him and his show.
He adored kids and relentlessly fought for their wellbeing. His show regularly took on important and tough topics, like racism, the messiness of divorce, and the importance of inclusion. In many ways, Rogers was well ahead of his time, boldly pushing boundaries in the right directions.
Even on queer issues, Rogers evolved as time went on.
As Long wrote for HuffPost in 2014, Rogers’ perspective on Clemmons’ sexuality shifted throughout the years:
“Rogers evidently believed Clemmons would tank his career had he come out as a gay man in the late 1960s. But — and this is a crucial point —Rogers later revised his counsel to his younger friend. As countless gays came out more publicly following the Stonewall uprising, Rogers even urged Clemmons to enter into a longterm and stable gay relationship. And he always warmly welcomed Clemmons’ gay friends whenever they visited the television set in Pittsburgh.”
I can’t speak for Mister Rogers, of course. But he was the one who always told me, “I like you just the way you are.”
If he were around today, I’d like to think queer kids would feel right at home in his neighborhood, too.
Watch the trailer (that made me cry) for “Won’t You Be My Neightbor?” below:
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