Jon Stewart continued his campaign against Republican senators who voted against a veterans healthcare bill by calling them out on during an interview with the ultra-conservative Newsmax network. Shortly after his fiery speech on the steps of the U.S. Capitol building, Stewart conducted an interview with anchor Shaun Kraisman where the former Daily Show host explained why the Republican objections to the Honor Our PACT Act make no sense and reek of hypocrisy.
“So the Republicans, when you say what you said, they do not support veterans. The Republicans push back saying there is unrelated spending within this,” Kraisman said.
“It’s not, it’s just not true,” Stewart responded. He added, “The bill itself is incredibly detailed and prescriptive about what it’s for. It’s about treating and preventing the different conditions that veterans are coming home with, including cancers and chronic bronchiolitis, and all these other issues from their exposures in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
According to Stewart, the Republicans objection to the bill creating a “slush fund” for veterans healthcare shouldn’t be an issue because they have absolutely zero problems with a slush fund for weapons or other military spending. Via Mediaite:
“They don’t support the troops. They support the war machine. And that’s got to stop,” Stewart continued.
“The value in the U.S. military isn’t in the toys. It’s not in the hardware. It’s not in the tanks. It’s in the men and women. And until they start supporting them in the manner that they purport to online. Yeah. They are hypocrites,” Stewart concluded.
The comedian’s remarks for Newsmax were notably less profane than his speech on the Capitol steps where he called Republicans “motherf*ckers” for killing the bill that had previously received bipartisan support. “If this is America First, America is f*cked,” a defiant Stewart told a throng of reporters and passersby.
Krysten Ritter has already starred in several acclaimed TV universes. She got her big break (pun not intended) on Breaking Bad, before becoming Marvel’s superhero-turned-investigator Jessica Jones. And real fans know that Don’t Trust The B**** In Apartment 23 was canceled much too soon. Now, Ritter is returning to AMC as a part of the new Orphan Black spinoff series.
Orphan Black: Echoes is a spinoff of the popular BBC sci-fi series that starred Emmy-winner-turned She-Hulk Tatiana Maslany and ran for five seasons. According to the official synopsis, Echoes follows a group of women as they “weave their way into each other’s lives and embark on a thrilling journey, unravelling the mystery of their identity and uncovering a wrenching story of love and betrayal.”
Ritter will join the show as Lucy, a woman with an “unimaginable” origin story who tries to make her way in the world, and perhaps face off against many clones of herself. This will mark Ritter’s return to television since reprising her role as Jessica Jones in 2017’s The Defenders.
John Fawcett, the co-creator of the original series, will direct and executive produce the 10-episode series alongside Anna Fishko, creator, writer, and showrunner of the upcoming series, which is slated for a 2023 release on AMC+.
It’s been a big year for outfield blunders in Major League Baseball, and more specifically, the American League East division. The Boston Red Sox have twice had outfielders lose fly balls in the lights, once for a two-run triple and once for an inside the park grand slam, but they got some company on Thursday courtesy of the Tampa Bay Rays.
Trey Mancini — in what very well could’ve been the last home at-bat of his Orioles career, as his name has been swirling in trade rumors for some time — hit a fly ball to right field that should have been the second out of the bottom of the eighth, with Baltimore clinging to a one-run lead. Instead, it became an inside the park home run after Josh Lowe couldn’t track the ball in the Baltimore daytime sky, and had it bounce off of his eye, shooting into the corner and allowing Mancini, who isn’t exactly the fastest guy in baseball, to touch ’em all to push the lead to 3-0.
That 3-0 lead ended up being the final score in another Orioles win as they are rather stunningly hanging around the wild card race in the AL. Hopefully Lowe is alright, because that’s quite the knock take to the face, but it’s pretty wild how often we’ve seen guys losing baseballs in the sky this season, resulting in catastrophe.
Doja Cat is one of the best singers we have, as she has proven on successful hits like “Kiss Me More” and the No. 1 single “Say So.” What she has also shown, though, is that the instrument is a voice, and even if you have the finest one in the world, if you use it poorly, it’s going to sound bad.
During an Instagram Live broadcast yesterday, Doja took a minute to sing a cover of Lady Gaga’s “Shallow.” She turned in a truly horrendous rendition of the song, shrieking her way through the song on a couple different occasions. That was intentional and for comedic effect, of course, and Gaga herself got in on the joke, too: In the comments of a TikTok repost of the video, Gaga wrote, “LADY THATS A SERVE.”
Pra encerrar a noite, Doja Cat surpreende os internautas ao cantar Shallow da Lady Gaga igualzinho a cantora, gostaram? pic.twitter.com/szzC4Hxj3A
This isn’t the only recent comedic, Gaga-adjacent moment: Last month, Leslie Jordan, one of Gaga’s co-stars in American Horror Story: Roanoke, spoke about how he thought Gaga was an extra the first time he met her on set. Meanwhile, Doja is fresh off a mini scandal: Stranger Things actor Noah Schnapp shared screenshots of a private conversation between him and Doja about Joseph Quinn, so Doja called him out and some didn’t like how Doja handled the whole situation.
Don’t cross Ella Mai, or she and her associates will make you regret it. That’s the basic premise of the London-bred, LA-based singer’s new, retro-styled video for “How” featuring Roddy Ricch and Mustard. In it, Ella is stuck in an unfulfilling relationship with a very wealthy man, and with the help of her comrades Mustard and Roddy, plots an escape that leaves her beau breathless — literally and permanently. In the final shots, she hits the road with a car full of luggage, presumably to get her groove back.
“How” is the third single from Ella Mai’s second album, Heart On My Sleeve, which also features the singles “Not Another Love Song” and “DFMU” and appearances from Latto, Roddy, and Lucky Daye. The album was once again executive produced by Mustard and released through 10 Summers and Interscope Records on May 6, debuting at No. 15 on the US Billboard 200 with 20,000 album-equivalent units — the majority in pure album sales. If there’s truly an R&B renaissance taking place, Ella Mai is certainly at its forefront; Heart On My Sleeve landed at No. 2 on Billboard‘s Top R&B Albums chart.
Meanwhile, “How” co-star Roddy Ricch has been enjoying a bounce-back summer behind his new EP, The Big 3, which made up for the disappointing reception for his own sophomore album Live Life Fast.
The strained relationship between Victoria Beckham (Posh Spice) and the other four members of the Spice Girls seems to finally be cooling off. The 2019 Spice World Tour of UK stadiums famously only featured four of the five Spice Girls, as Beckham didn’t sign on to join Mel B, Gerri Halliwell, Melanie C, and Emma Bunton on stage. While Mel C said late last year that the Girls were “constantly” talking about a reunion, it was always Beckham who held up the full lineup from appearing together. Now, according to Metro, Beckham is on board for a new Spice Girls documentary TV show.
The documentary series will be created by the same team that was behind Netflix’s incredible Michael Jordan retrospective, The Last Dance. The Director was Jason Hehir and in an appearance on an Australian TV program, Mel B had high praise for his work.
“The director and the whole concept of how that was shot and filmed is really, really, really good,” she said. “So we’ll be doing our own version with them.”
Promising a mix of behind-the-scenes stories and the chronicles of the pop quintet’s ascent to global superstardom, Mel B also shared an err…interesting anecdote: ‘The rap in the Wannabe video, I actually wrote on the toilet while the other girls were doing the vocals.”
In the history of rap, A Tribe Called Quest has always had a lane of its own. Innovative and original song concepts bathed in warm, minimalist jazz breaks made them stand out and have influenced generations. The rhyme synergy between Q-Tip and Phife Dawg remains the stuff of legend. Today, you can still hear the impact of A Tribe Called Quest albums like Midnight Marauders across rap, and more explicit homages on tracks like Logic’s “Midnight Marauder.”
On March 22, 2016, Phife Dawg passed away after a long battle with diabetes. In the newest episode of The People’s Party with Talib Kweli, legendary producer of Tribe, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, shares his reflections on Phife’s battle with diabetes and their collective attempts to help him win that battle. Talib Kweli just mentioning the name of Ali’s dear friend made him pause.
“You see I’m still affected by the loss of my brother,” said Muhammad. “I still miss him.”
From there, Ali Shaheed Muhammad shares how during Phife’s battle with the disease he and Q-Tip tried to help their friend to the best of their ability.
“He ultimately transitioned because of the diabetes,” Muhammad says. “The impact was felt from its inception to him no longer being here…Phife has a comedic persona. So it was his way of boxing diabetes. Like ‘You got me, I’m not sure how to overcome you. But I’m gonna make you a part of my life in a different way.’ And he did it in a way where other diabetics would not feel alone. Tip loved him so hard and wanted him to stop doing certain things. I think he said it in a way that felt a little more harder. My persona is a little more delicate — Tip and I were saying the same things to him.”
Later, Muhammad — who has continued to thrive in music over the decades, with a wide range of projects — recalls how even on tour they worked to let Phife know they were on his team to the end.
“’You understand what sugar does to you? So how about we combat it by doing some push-ups on the tour bus in the middle of the road?’” he recalls. “And Phife would be like ‘Man, leave me alone.’ That was how we tried to help as best we could.”
Sometimes things are said unintentionally that can hurt feelings or cause harm but sometimes things are intended to do just that.
At the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit in Tampa, Florida, congressman Matt Gaetz made comments that essentially body shamed an entire demographic of people. His comments didn’t go unnoticed as they made the rounds of social media. Olivia Julianna, 19 decided to make a witty response to his remarks on Twitter before Gaetz took her profile picture and shared it in what appears to be an effort to shame the teen’s appearance.
Now no one can fully say whether Gaetz intended to cause harm with his speech or his tweet until he decides to clarify his reasoning. But it sure seems Julianna’s sassy response ruffled his feathers a bit. The teen made it clear that she would not tolerate body shaming by writing, “Its come to my attention that Matt Gaetz — alleged pedophile — has said that it’s always the ‘odious… 5’2 350 pound’ women that ‘nobody wants to impregnate’ who rally for abortion,” the tweet read. “I’m actually 5’11. 6’4 in heels. I wear them so the small men like you are reminded of your place.”
u201cIts come to my attention that Matt Gaetz u2014 alleged pedophileu2014 has said that itu2019s always the u201codious.. 5u20192 350 poundu201d women that u201cnobody wants to impregnateu201d who rally for abortion. nnIu2019m actually 5u201911. 6u20194 in heels. I wear them so the small men like you are reminded of your placeu201d
Gaetz is currently being federally investigated for sex trafficking. The congressman denies these claims and has currently not been charged with a crime.
Julianna let the world know in no uncertain terms that type of behavior wasn’t OK. Given Gaetz’s original comments about pro-choice activists looking “like a thumb” and saying, “they’re like 5’2″, 350 pounds,” it’s no surprise he came right back at the teen by sharing her profile picture to his 1.6 million followers. He captioned the picture with, “Dander raised,” which according to Merriam-Webster means “to become angry.”
The exchange didn’t end there. Instead of backing down after the politician publicly exposed her photo to over a million people, Julianna saw an opportunity. After the quick tiff, the teen used the increased attention to fundraise for the Gen-Z for Choice Fund which distributes money to 50 different abortion funds across America. Julianna told Today that tweeting about the fund, which included a link, has since raised $168,000. She told Today, “I wanted to highlight the positive work that I’m doing from this very negative sphere that I’ve been placed in.”
Congressman Gaetz seems to be going out of his way to make others upset. Even Mike Pence’s chief of staff, Marc Short came out swinging, metaphorically of course in an unexpectedly strong statement on CNN. In the clip he implies that Gaetz will be unable to vote in the election due to him being incarcerated by the time November rolls around.
u201cMarc Short, Mike Penceu2019s chief of staff, on Matt Gaetz. nnI didnu2019t expect this strong of a response.u201d
— Yashar Ali ud83dudc18 (@Yashar Ali ud83dudc18) 1658792479
Julianna is the one coming out on top in this situation by using it to fundraise for a cause that is important to millions of people. I’m not sure what the future holds for this teen but something tells me she’s someone we should be on the look out for in the future. She’s a force.
It’s high summer — time for a vibe check. Have you been spending your days lounging on the lakeside, laughing uncontrollably? Are your weekends awash in wild pursuit of the sun? Do you lay under the warm night sky, drawing constellations in the stars with your friends? If you answered “no” to any of these questions, you haven’t been smoking enough weed. If summer is high, you should be too.
I personally believe there’s no better season to smoke weed than high summer (with deep winter being a close second), but it has to be the right kind of weed. My perfect summer weed is bright, exciting, and highly social. It’s picking a flower that gives you life instead of draining your energy. This kind of weed is up for anything and doesn’t drag you into a hot, sticky maze where your physical form feels daunting and you’re glued to the closest chair, couch, or bed.
Though it’s nearly the end of July, we still have a ton of warm days ahead — so you’ll need a lot of different social summer strains to choose from. There are a number of factors that can make flower social. Most of them depend on how your unique endocannabinoid system reacts to the chemicals produced by that specific plant. But there are some elements that, for me, surely do not make for social flower. For starters, unbalanced cannabinoid ratios with THC that is abnormally high can counteract your ability to be social and bring on paranoia or anxiety.
To help you bask blissfully in the radiance of the season, I’ve rounded up some of my favorite strains for summer vibes. These are the strains I’ve been smoking since the equinox. Now, let’s get stoned!
Lucy Lavender by Sohum Royal (Redwood Roots)
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Lucy Lavender, grown by Humboldt legend Sohum Royal and available through Redwood Roots, is such a unique strain it felt wrong not to start this list with her. This weed is truly that bitch, a Rihanna-level superstar that cannot be imitated or duplicated.
Every sensory aspect of this sun-grown flower is killer, but the scent is beyond. High in terpinolene, caryophyllene and humulene, the complex smell conjures visions of gardens at midnight, blackberries, and fresh, piney earth. I also had in my notes that she smells like the color violet, which just somehow works.
The high is extremely versatile. It’s upbeat, social, and fun with a whimsical, psychedelic flair. This flower has harnessed some kind of otherworldly magic. She’s just plain special.
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I love this strain for summer because it’s perfect for every activity. She can be chill and social at a barbeque, as well as bright and bubbly if the mood strikes to party. I also found it’s great for writing and creative work, as when you focus your energy inward, the strain becomes alert and focused, yet whimsical enough to make you think of cool shit.
Bottom line:
Perfect for stargazing, party hopping, and making art.
It smells like an electric berry smoothie, and feels like one too!
The word I use to describe #26 is ZINGY! A cross between Cherimoya and Forbidden Fruit, she sends chills down your spine with her wild electric energy in the best way possible. I’ve often described her as the naughty little sister of Whitethorn Rose, a famed offering from Huckleberry Hill Farms I’ve written about extensively that’s captivated Los Angeles from the hills of Humboldt over the past couple years.
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Aside from #26’s optics, which are insane, the terpene profile is a rush of dark, lush fruits, and something a little spicy that knocks you back when you smell it. Even just a whiff of this flower will send electricity down your spine.
The high is perfect for being out and about, getting shit done, or having fun in the woods. Its lower THC percentage (15%) makes it perfect for daytime use, leaving you invigorated, not obliterated. Upbeat and dreamy, it’s the way I want to feel all the time, so I smoke it all of the time.
Bottom line:
Vibrant! Exciting! The opposite of what people who don’t smoke weed think weed does to you!
Fig Farms absolutely crushes the indoor game, regularly sweeping all the big weed award shows and blowing the minds of everyone all the time. They grow some of the most beautiful weed in the world, and you would be hard pressed to find anyone who would dispute that fact.
Moonana Wreck is truly a joy to behold. A cross between Banana Fig and Moondrops, this strain is high in terpinolene with a more balanced ratio of myrcene and limonene, making it an epic daytime smoke.
Crunchy, geometric nugs look like an MC Escher painting. Dark blue, violet, bright orange, light green, and completely covered in crystals. The nose is lush, mysterious, kind of like a Trainwreck profile with a minty hint of sage. Every time I smell it I audibly say mmmmmm after.
This is a great heavy hitter for daytime because you’re super stoned yet equally capable. I have really been enjoying hiking and exploring in nature with this strain, as well as going about my daily life because it makes everything sparkle.
Bottom line:
A powerful yet capable high that’s great for exploring.
Sticky Fields flower gets you super fucking stoned in the best way possible. Grown by a charismatic dude named Sticky in the hills of Mendocino, Mandarin Tart F2 is upbeat, laid back, and makes everything hilarious. This flower conjures the fun, warm feelings that make you feel grateful to be alive.
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Everything about this strain is warm. The nugs are bright orange and green, giving off an overall sunny appearance. The smell and taste are both mandarin explosions that knock you back out of the jar, like fresh tangerines and Meyer lemons spritzing from the rind.
I always say whatever experience the flower had growing is the experience you will have by smoking it, and this flower had a good fucking time growing up. The high feels like getting a hug. Lighthearted and super silly, it brings peace to your soul. It’s not the best for being productive, but for floating down a warm river glittering in the sunlight, this is your girl. This weed is for wandering, dreaming, and climbing trees, perfect for the dog days of summer ahead.
Bottom line:
Summertime in flower form, Mandarin reminds you that life can be fun if you let it. Go out and pick it!
Stardust by Rebel Grown is, in a word, interstellar. Rebel Grown is known for their extremely high-quality sun-grown flower grown off grid on a bio-diverse homestead in Humboldt. They crush award shows with their flower, and this year won the Emerald Cup.
Stardust has a dreamy, cosmic high led by limonene, caryophyllene, and myrcene, meaning it’s uplifting, relaxing, and frees you from worldly stressors like anxiety and pain. With an earthy lemon berry smell, the flavor is like fruit picked from the tree with hints of pepper and spice. I love the high of this flower because it gives you galactic insight and the ability to see beyond the boring veil of reality. The body high has a gravity-free quality, where you feel highly euphoric. As soon as you exhale the smoke it’s like you get 40 lbs lighter.
This flower is great for dancing and enjoying the sensory aspects of life. It makes you feel invigorated and ready for excitement if that’s your vibe, but can also be a fun chilling partner as well. I also think it’s a great alcohol replacement because it carries the same carefree, social buoyancy without all the gross energy that comes with binge drinking poison.
Bottom line:
Free yourself from the chains of existence with this cosmic flower!
Sour Diesel is one of the most iconic strains of all time, a New York City classic known for its uplifting, focusing, and stress relieving qualities. Aster Farms, an eco-conscious sun-grown brand from Lake County, CA, knocks it out of the park with their cut of SD, which has long been one of my favorites on the market.
To celebrate the inherent New York-ness of Sour Diesel, Aster Farms has teamed up with NYC hot spot The Flower Shop and launched their killer cut in a super chic gold preroll pack that’s ready to go wherever you are in style.
While some cuts of Sour can air on the dreamy side, Aster Farms is particularly amazing for getting out there and killing it, whatever that means to you. For me, I like it equally for writing articles (I just smoked one of the joints, look at me go!), hiking, exploring, and narrowly circumventing my chronic road rage while driving around LA.
It has a perfect balance of excitement, purpose, and anxiety relief that works so well for coping with being alive and having to function in society. Sour and gassy with a touch of fruity pine, the high is immersive and upbeat, like a rave in the redwoods.
Bottom line:
Energizing, life-brightening, and existentially relaxing, this weed is as good for completing mundane tasks as it is for enjoying the sumptuous summer sun. Go get it and get out there!
THC Design is a fantastic indoor cultivator that has been growing top-quality flower long before it was legal to do so. In the weed world, that means they’re legit as fuck, which is proven through their long line of hit-making cultivars. Their newest offering, Log Cabin, is no exception.
Log Cabin has super high THC, coming in at 34%, but its mellow terpene profile (led by myrcene and caryophyllene) balances out to a hyphy little high that isn’t at all overwhelming.
This flower has a really beautiful nose that continues to unfurl from spice to lemons to tart fruit and pine. The nugs are visually stunning, navy blue and bright orange on the outside, with lots of lime green. Like the smell, its flavor is tart-like lemons and dark fruit with a spicy, earthy finish. Deep forest vibes.
This is a cozy and relaxed yet upbeat high that is perfect for a dinner party or chill, intimate gathering. It’s mentally stimulating and physically exciting, but overall doesn’t make you want to hit the ground running. So much is happening with the mental high and the body euphoria that you find yourself totally content with whatever situation you find yourself in. This is a super social strain because it makes you think deeply and want to talk about it, making it great for hanging out.
Bottom line: Perfect for when it’s too hot to hit the hiking trails or for dinner parties at sunset.
Runtz Cake by Lady Sativa Farm is perfect for getting down on summer nights. This flower hails from a mountaintop garden in Humboldt and has descended upon us to make the end of summer as magical as the beginning.
Her nugs are gorgeous, with hues of purple, olive, and blue. The overall tone of the flower is fruity, lush, and shrouded in mystery, like the hours between midnight and twilight when the moonflowers bloom.
High in caryophyllene, myrcene, and humulene, she has a fruity, minty quality, like licorice berry with a little pepper… It’s complex, you’ll have to try it for yourself.
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The high is dreamy and relaxing like fog rolling down the hills. There is an immediate physical reaction when you consume this flower. Tension and stress literally melt off your body without making your mind heavy. This pronounced body high is great for sex, food, dancing, and music. It feels like walking through a party in an enchanted field of flowers with really good music and light projecting on the grass.
Obviously, I was super stoned on this flower when I wrote that, but regardless, that is the vibe. Another thing I had in my notes was phosphorescent lagoon energy which is also the vibe.
While not exactly a strain, I wanted to end this list with Drew Martin’s mixed botanical preroll pack, The Collection, because it’s arguably the most social summer cannabis product one could ever imagine.
Not only is this beautifully designed pack a conversation piece in itself, but these low-dose prerolls are also blended with effect-specific botanicals and designed to make you your best self, as opposed to simply your most stoned self. Each joint in this pack is designed to make you feel a little something special in a different way. The flower is grown by Moonmade Farms, an incredible regenerative and woman-owned farm from Humboldt, so in addition to the subtle lifting effects of botanicals like rose, ginger, passion flower, etc, you have some really kick-ass sungrown weed that will raise your vibration, strengthen your aura, and make you the light of the party.
Bottom line:
Perfect for casual or novice users who want to dabble in public without feeling weird, and look good doing it.
Beyoncé’s highly anticipated album Renaissance, arriving tomorrow, is full of sampled artists, including Donna Summer, Big Freedia, and Kelis. Kelis, though, is not happy about it. On an Instagram post made by the account @kelistrends about Kelis being sampled on Renaissance, Kelis shared her frustrations in the comments.
“My mind is blown too because the level of disrespect and utter ignorance of all 3 parties involved is astounding,” she wrote. “I heard about this the same way everyone else did . Nothing is ever as it seems , some of the people in this business have no soul or integrity and they have everyone fooled.”
She argued with fans in the comments, replying to those excited about the collaboration: “it’s not a collab it’s theft,” she wrote. People pointed out that her beef is not with Beyoncé but instead with Pharrell, who she accused of stealing profits from her after she worked with him on her first two records. She opened up about the feud in an interview last year: “Their argument is: ‘Well, you signed it,’” she told the journalist. “I’m like: ‘Yeah, I signed what I was told, and I was too young and too stupid to double-check it.’”
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