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In the wake of Kanye West’s antisemitic comments, the rapper has a lot fewer people in his corner. So far, Balenciaga said they’re done working with Ye, Anna Wintour and Vogue made a similar declaration, his talent agency (CAA) dropped him, and an already-completed documentary about West was scrapped. Now, West has lost perhaps the biggest fish of all: Adidas has officially ended its professional relationship with him.

The company said in a statement (as CNBC reports):

“Adidas does not tolerate antisemitism and any other sort of hate speech. Ye’s recent comments and actions have been unacceptable, hateful, and dangerous, and they violate the company’s values of diversity and inclusion, mutual respect, and fairness. After a thorough review, the company has taken the decision to terminate the partnership with Ye immediately, end production of Yeezy branded products, and stop all payments to Ye and his companies. Adidas will stop the Adidas Yeezy business with immediate effect.”

Adidas has faced pressure to sever ties with West recently, particularly after Ye said on the Drink Champs podcast earlier this month, “I can say antisemitic sh*t and Adidas cannot drop me.” The company faced increased pressure over this past weekend after neo-Nazi demonstrators placed a banner over the 405 highway in Los Angeles that read, “Kanye is right about the Jews.”

Taylor Swift has been going all-out with the release of her new album Midnights — the merch is plentiful, the deluxe version is already out, and an “Anti-Hero” video arrived as well. Another video came today, this time for the song “Bejeweled.”

She announced the video during her appearance on The Tonight Show, telling Jimmy Fallon the idea behind the video: “Basically, I was thinking of midnights — the concept — and I was like, ‘Where do we hear about midnights a lot? We hear about it a lot when we talk about the Cinderella fairytale.’ So I was like, ‘What if we did a little twist on a Cinderella story and I could cast my friends, my best friends, the Haim sisters — what if they played the step sisters?’” And then she added that Laura Dern would be the stepmother.

She previously described the music videos as more than just videos. “Those projects are the ‘Midnights Music Movies,’ the music videos that I’ve made for this album to sort of explore visually the world of this record,” she said. “And I love storytelling. I love songwriting. I love writing videos. I love directing them. And this was a really fun opportunity to work again with the cinematographer Rina Yang, who was my collaborator on the All Too Well 10-minute short film.”

Watch the video above.

After the Celtics and Jazz lost in the early slate on Monday, the Blazers were one of two undefeated teams remaining in the NBA when they got going at home against the Nuggets.

Denver took control early and maintained a six-point lead going into halftime, but found themselves suddenly down by 13 after the third quarter thanks to an absolute onslaught from Anfernee Simons and the Blazers offense. Portland out-scored Denver 44-25 in the third quarter, with Simons contributing 22 of those points as he made his first eight shots of the quarter, including six threes in a row that had the Moda Center crowd in a frenzy.

Simons started with a layup and a pull-up from the deep midrange, but once he knocked down his first three from way outside, there was simply no stopping him.

By the end, he was knocking down hilarious contested looks as the Nuggets couldn’t do anything to bother his shooting rhythm, as he came flying around screens and pulled up from just about anywhere inside halfcourt.

It was the kind of shooting streak we’ve come to expect from Damian Lillard, but Simons showed he keeps that thang on him too — and also why the Blazers were willing to trade CJ McCollum to open the door for Simons to take the starting role alongside Lillard. Portland’s 3-0 start has been one of the surprises of the first week of the season, but if Simons can start putting up big outings alongside Dame with the attention he commands, they’re going to be a handful night in and night out.

Ron DeSantis is probably going to serve another term as governor of Florida. He’s ahead of his opponent, former Florida governor Charlie Crist, in every major poll. Whether he serves the entire four year stint is another question. A Trump impersonator, he’s become a Trump adversary, possibly gunning for the Republican presidential ticket in 2024. Instead of ignoring the elephant in the room during their big debate on Monday, Crist went right for it — and received a very unusual version of a non-response.

“You’re running for governor,” Crist asked DeSantis point blank. “Why don’t you look in the eyes of the people of the state of Florida and say to them if you’re re-elected, you will serve a full four-year term as governor. Yes or no?”

DeSantis gave neither, instead struggling, very weirdly, to stare into space. Crist asked him again: “Yes or no, Ron?” DeSantis retained his awkward silence. At one point he tried to blurt something out but Crist talked over him. “It’s not a tough question. It’s a fair question.” Finally, as DeSantis kept stum, he concluded, “He won’t tell ya.”

DeSantis eventually did pipe up, but still dodged the question. “I know that Charlie’s interested in talking about 2024 and Joe Biden, but I just want to make things very, very clear,” he said. “The only worn-out old donkey I’m looking to put out to pasture is Charlie Crist.”

It was a classic DeSantis bulldog attack, filled with name-calling. But he’d already lost all credibility through his bumbling attempt to avoid a germane question, which made him look like a malfunctioning Disney World animatronic robot. His odd gestures prompted a lot of jokes on social media, including from Crist’s own social media account.

Some, though, didn’t find even a glitchy DeSantis — who’s been criticized for his autocratic ways — funny.

Crist was on the attack elsewhere. He slammed him for his “inhumane” Martha’s Vineyard stunt.

He even took him to task for bullying kids, which prompted more strange gestures.

Earlier this year, Uproxx cover star Beabadoobee shared her sophomore album, Beatopia, which was one of the most anticipated indie records of the summer. To go along with the new songs, she announced an extensive tour to bring the music to her fans.

After a slew of July dates with Bleachers and her European tour dates, the singer’s Beatopia Tour of North America begins tomorrow, October 25th, in Washington DC. It will take her across the US, into Canada, and then back to the East Coast in December. Lowertown will be the direct support act for the tour; they’re an indie duo from Atlanta, Georgia. They’re on the same label as Beabadoobee — the iconic Dirty Hit, founded by Jamie xx. They describe themselves on their Bandcamp profile as “a blend electronic and lo-fi instrumentation with meaningful lyricism and melancholy, narrative lyrics,” they wrote. “Our music has been said to be indie with aspects of folk and electronica.”

Beabadoobee is known for putting on great and memorable live performances. When she was invited for a session on Live Lounge, she played a grungy rendition of the classic (and meme-ified) 2002 song “A Thousand Miles” by Vanessa Carlton.

Find her full tour dates here.

The New England Patriots entered Monday night’s matchup against the Chicago Bears favored by more than a touchdown in Foxborough. However, Bill Belichick’s team found itself trailing by 10-0 into the second quarter, with Mac Jones, making his first start since injuring his ankle, struggling and the visiting Bears playing with confidence. All of that seemed to change on a dime, however, and it began with an interception by Jones that led directly to his benching in favor of Bailey Zappe.

Facing a favorable situation at Chicago’s 36-yard line, Jones threw into traffic and was intercepted.

Following a three-and-out from the Bears, the Patriots got the ball back at their own 45-yard line and Zappe trotted out to a raucous ovation from the Gillette Stadium crowd. Just four plays later, New England was in the end zone behind Zappe and a 30-yard scoring strike.

On the ensuing possession, New England picked off Chicago’s Justin Fields, giving the ball back to Zappe and the offense. Again, it didn’t take long for the Patriots to find the end zone, with the biggest play coming on a 43-yard pass to Devante Parker.

Zappe completed his first four passes for 97 yards and a touchdown, earning a perfect passer rating on his first two drives. Though it should be noted that Zappe had the benefit of some (wide) open pass-catchers and a heck of a catch by Parker, the difference was stark in the numbers.

ZappeMania would finally cool off a bit after a fumble late in the second quarter on a handoff, but it certainly seems like he’s the guy for the rest of the night in New England.

It remains to be seen as to how Belichick, Matt Patricia, and New England’s coaching staff will handle the quarterback spot moving forward long-term, but Zappe has performed well as a rookie and the offense certainly seems to have more juice with him as the signal-caller. This stint did nothing to quiet the murmurs that he might be the better option under center, and New England found its stride, at least in this game, when Zappe took over the reins and folks couldn’t help but wonder if history was repeating itself from the Tom Brady-Drew Bledsoe moment two decades ago.

John Krasinski is a man of many talents. Since becoming a star, the erstwhile Jim Halpert has diversified. He can get ripped for Michael Bay movies. He can direct movies, not just horror movies but also family dramedies, even an adaptation of a David Foster Wallace short story collection. He’s also into sports, but his latest foray into stretching his talents has not gone so well — though it’s not 100% his fault.

On Monday, ESPN dropped a cute little video about New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick ahead of their game Monday night against the Chicago Bears. It features Krasinski — or at least an animated, fake-claymation version of him. One problem, though: It doesn’t look — or sound — anything like him.

“I’m from Boston and I’m wicked biased,” Krasinski says in a thick Boston accent. He might have once had one: He was born in Boston and was raised in suburb of Newton. But the combination of an accent few have ever heard him do before and an animated avatar that looks like…just some dude? That was too much for people.

After ESPN dropped the ad — in which the animated not-quite-Krasinski chills in his man cave while comparing Belichick’s stats with other legendary coaches Don Shula and George Halas, both of whose records he could very well shatter someday soon — people couldn’t get past the un-likeness.

There were also lots of jokes, many about The Office.

Fiona Apple recently came out of hiding to join many musicians in retaliating against the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Her statement was resourceful, advocating for giving money to abortion funds and bail funds. Because she doesn’t have social media, she usually speaks through other people’s accounts.

Apple made another such message today. Through his account, civil rights attorney Scott Hechinger tweeted, “She’s become an avid, trained Court Watcher. Her observations helped people jailed pretrial file a civil rights lawsuit. Then came the retaliation. Shut off her access to court.” Along with this came a 10-minute video of Apple explaining the situation.

In the video, she talks about her observations of online court proceedings and the bigger problems of the system — like demeaning treatment of people and violations of constitutional rights — that she’s been witnessing within these specific cases. “How are we supposed to have our constitutional rights to observe these courts or help these people if we can’t hear?” she says. “And why did they take away this access right after this lawsuit was dropped? It really seems like they’re retaliating against us. And if they’re retaliating against us, I mean, man, what stupid asshole babies, huh?”

Watch the full video in the tweet below.

People sure like I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robsinson. The comic’s Netflix sketch show only has 12 episodes over two seasons, but each segment is so funny, so strange, so filled with weirdly unfocused anger that they inspire memes, even ranked lists. But one sketch in particular ranks as the agreed-upon best: the one from the third episode of Season 1 in which a measly focus group for a car is taken over by a bottle-flipping lunatic played by Ruben Rabasa.

The Cuban-born actor has been working in movies since the late ‘70s. He’s even in two episodes of Miami Vice! But it was his sketch-stealing I Think You Should Leave appearance that made him an instant cult figure. He’s since popped up with a plum role in the recent Latinx redo of Father of the Bride. And when he popped up for a cameo in the new trailer for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, people sure did notice.

Rabasa has yet to be added to the threequel’s IMDb page, and it’s not known that his role — as a coffee shop worker (or owner?) who thinks Paul Rudd’s Scott Lang is actually Spider-Man — will be any bigger than a one-off. But upon seeing the actor whose antics launched a thousand memes, people couldn’t help but be astonished.

There were also jokes.

One of the film’s own writers even joked that Ant-Man 3 and I Think You Should Leave share the same cinematic/televisual universe.

And so this trailer, as Rabasa would say, has everything. You can watch it in the video below, and watch the ITYSL sketch in the video below that.

(Via The Daily Beast)

For most, Halloween means candy, watching spooky movies and maybe figuring out what costume to wear if you’re invited to a party or two. For celebrities, though, Halloween is a great chance for you and your team to whip up insanely elaborate costumes for consumption on social media and the internet at large.

Not everyone in Hollywood goes all out, but actors and actresses know how to get into character and usually have some fun this time of year. And thankfully, celebrities are getting into the holiday spirit in a big way this year.

Megan Thee Stallion, fresh off hosting and performing on Saturday Night Live, got into the spooky spirit with a pumpkin on her head.

Jordan Fisher and his son, Riley, certainly made an impression as a cowboy and a dinosaur, respectively.

Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell got started a bit early, dressing up for their granddaughter’s birthday party in early October.

Doja Cat was looking very Elvira on Instagram as well.

Kylie Jenner did her part dressing up as a witch as well, as captured by Haliey Bieber.

Jennifer Garner went with another classic as well: a witch.

Vanessa Hudgens went with a dark film reference with a Black Swan costume.