On Sunday, the day before Tucker Carlson debuted his multi-part “documentary” series attempting to whitewash the Capitol riot, The Washington Post dropped an epic, thorough investigative report on Jan. 6. Some of it had long been known. Other intel was new. Among the latter is a bit concerning Lindsey Graham. The South Carolina senator and “freeloader” has since come back around on disgraced former president Donald Trump, who helped incite the tragic melee. But on that fateful day, he was adamant that police take care of the invading Trump supporters.
As per the report, Graham — who was known to mock Trump behind his back — was furious that the Senate and House were being evacuated by Capitol police. But he had an idea. Furious, he began yelling at the Senate sergeant-at-arms. “What are you doing? Take back the Senate! You’ve got guns. Use them,” he said. “We give you guns for a reason,” he added. “Use them.”
That’s not what happened. Police were overwhelmed by the number and the ferocity of the Trump supporters who broke through barriers and windows, threatening the lives of all inside. Only one invading Trump supporter, Ashlii Babbitt was shot. Trumpists have since tried to turn her into a martyr, some even comparing her to George Floyd.
Graham was also one of a number of Republican leaders who attempted to reach out to Trump, to demand that he instruct his supporters to back off. He only got as far as Ivanka, who was also trying, without much success, to talk some sense into her father.
“You need to get these people out of here,” Graham told Ivanka. “This thing is going south. This is not good. You’re going to have to tell these people to stand down. Stand down.”
Instead, Trump spent over three hours doing nothing while his fan base ran amok. And as many of them are facing jail time, he again is doing nothing.
The New York Knicks magical run to the playoffs last season certainly doesn’t appear to be a mirage, as the Knicks have come out blazing to start the 2021-22 season with a 5-1 record that puts them atop the East two weeks in.
They started the season with a win over Boston in a double overtime thriller that had the masses going crazy inside Madison Square Garden, and as they poured out into Manhattan, Sidetalk NYC came out with an instantly iconic fan reaction video.
There are a lot of incredible moments packed into a one minute video — the “KD don’t you regret not coming to the Kniiiiicks” guy and the guy who just shakes violently both are sensational — but the guy who simply says “BING BONG” became an instant Knicks legend and, in the two weeks since, it has become a rallying cry for Knicks fans. The team has embraced it as well, debuting a new “Bing Bong” drop for made threes on Monday against the Raptors.
Not only has game ops latched onto it, but Mike Breen is even caught up in Bing Bong fever, as he dropped his first of the season after a banked in Julius Randle three to end the first quarter, replacing his iconic “BANG.”
The Knicks are as fun a team as there is in basketball to start the season and nothing gets the people in New York going quite like a good “BING BONG” right now.
Single feline lovers rejoice! There’s now a way to dismantle anti-cat misconceptions and help you find the purr-fect match, all in one dating app. It’s a glorious way to celebrate National Cat Day.
Tabby Dates, the “cat person’s dating app,” is dedicated to “building relationships so cats and cat-lovers can live healthier, longer and more joyous lives together with the humans who love them.” While using the app, cat-lovers can not only plan a “cat-focused date,” they can also learn about new cat products and treats.
Seriously, I might have to break up with my boyfriend to try this out.
In an interview with the New York Post, co-founders-slash-sisters Leigh and Casey Isaacson revealed that Tabby Dates was born out of the “romantic woes” of poor Casey, whose relationship was cut short due to her having a dog. So the sisters came up with the idea to “cut to the chase with something that really matters most.” Leigh added that “pets matter so much more than what a lot of other niche dating apps offer.”
Like most online dating apps, you start by creating a profile, where you’d add a picture of yourself and your cat. You’d be able to find someone with or without a cat, but needless to say, anyone on Tabby Dates is pro-kitty. From there you also get deals from pet companies, the scoop on cat-friendly locations and you can RSVP to cat events. Yes, dreams really do come true.
Contemporary dating is difficult. Add to that, finding out your suitor is allergic, or even worse, not a “cat-person” is pretty discouraging. And according to a study posted by The Conversation, the stigma is still out there, as it “suggested that some heterosexual women ‘found the men holding cats to be less dateable,’ as opposed to men with dogs.” That’s right, dudes with cats might deal with more pet prejudice than their female counterparts.
Nathan Kehn, pet influencer and brand manager for Tabby Dates, brings up a good argument in favor of feline loyalty in a statement on the dating app’s website: “People always give people with cats a bad name. Calling them crazy cat ladies because they are so dedicated to their cats. Honestly, I would love to find someone who is as dedicated in a relationship as cat owners are to their cats.”
Something tells me that Nathan has no problems in the dating world, if this picture is any indicator.
Oh, and in case any dog people are feeling left out by reading this article, fear not! The Tabby Dates team have also created a dog-centric dating app called … wait for it … Dig Dates. The knack for puns this group has is just paw-some.
If you, your date or your cat are looking for something fun to do tonight, watch Tabby Dates’ debut on ABC’s Shark Tank. It’s truly a victory for love of all kinds.
The Tiger King story has been wild both onscreen and off-, with two outsized characters — zookeeper-turned-convicted felon Joe Exotic and his nemesis, big cat conservationist Carole Baskin — providing plenty of dramatic fodder after the Netflix doc series became a sensation. So here we go again: As per The Hollywood Reporter, mere days after the trailer for the sequel dropped, Baskin has sued Netflix.
Baskin’s beef? She doesn’t want to see herself (or her cats) in Tiger King 2. In an emergency motion, she and her legal team are seeking to ban Netflix “from any use of film footage of the Baskins and the Big Cat Rescue sanctuary in Tiger King 2 or in any related promotion or advertising.”
The filing claims that they agreed that footage of her and her sanctuary, named Big Cat Rescue, would only be used in one documentary project. Baskin and her husband Howard also alleged that they never gave permission for additional filming at their place of business, and that they weren’t paid for those services.
Baskin also didn’t exactly enjoy the first Tiger King. She’s been vocal against the series before, even decrying the sequel when it was announced. In the filing, her attorney says it portrayed “Joe Exotic as a sympathetic victim and Carole as the villain.” Indeed, one of the seven episodes is devoted to a conspiracy theory that alleged, without much proof, that Baskin may have played a role in her previous husband going missing.
Not that Joe Exotic, née Joseph Allen Schreibvogel, came off all that well either. The series follows him as he’s convicted on 17 federal charges of animal abuse and two counts of attempted murder for hire, having plotted to have Baskin killed. What it doesn’t show — and which will likely be in the sequel — is him begging everyone from then-president Donald Trump to Cardi B to get him out of jail.
Tiger King 2 is set to drop on Netflix on November 17, but now it could wind up delayed.
The Philadelphia 76ers were scheduled to host the Portland Trail Blazers on Monday evening and, for most of the day, a lot of the attention on Philadelphia’s injury report focused on Joel Embiid’s absence for rest. However, the Sixers announced within an hour of tip-off that Tobias Harris had been scratched due to the NBA’s Health and Safety Protocols. From there, the reporting continued, first with ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski indicating that Philadelphia was looking to garner additional information in the coming hours.
Sixers are expected to know more in the next 12-to-24 hours on a timetable for a Tobias Harris return, sources tell ESPN. He’s out tonight vs. Portland due to Health and Safety Protocols. https://t.co/CkJopBhieD
Shams Charania of The Athletic reported that Harris is expected to miss “several games.”
76ers forward Tobias Harris is expected to miss several games in the NBA’s health and safety protocols, sources tell @TheAthletic@Stadium. Harris entered protocols tonight.
At this stage, nothing is official with regard to a timeline, but with Philadelphia already playing without Ben Simmons, the 76ers will be tested in terms of forward depth. Above all, the hope would be that Harris is healthy and okay. From a basketball standpoint, though, Philadelphia started Monday’s game with a very small lineup, deploying three guards (Seth Curry, Tyrese Maxey, and Furkan Korkmaz) along with Danny Green as the team’s nominal power forward.
Additional details will undoubtedly emerge in the coming days with regard to Harris’s status. In the meantime, Philadelphia will need to piece together minutes at both forward spots, with the potential for more playing time for players like Matisse Thybulle and Georges Niang.
Peerless Distilling Co. is one of the most beloved and awarded distilleries in Kentucky. In six short years, the Taylor family has been able to revitalize their family’s heritage brand while their Master Distiller, Caleb Kilburn, has been busy crafting some of the most-lauded and delicious juice in the game. Everything about the Peerless whiskeys — they make bourbon and rye — is attention-grabbing, from the design of the bottles to flavors inside of them.
We were lucky enough to get to taste Peerless’s latest limited edition release, Double Oak, right before the drop and can tell you right now: it does not disappoint. Like the brand itself, it’s a great product with a fascinating story behind it.
At its heart, “Double Oak” is an expression created to fix a problem — the occasional leaky barrel. Over the years, Peerless has re-barrelled the whiskey inside their leaky barrels and later released those barrels as special one-off “Double Oak” single barrel drops. Often to very high acclaim. This year, the team decided to re-create these double oaked single barrels by design.
Right now, Peerless Double Oak is available in Kentucky, California, Illinois, Florida, and New York, with shipping to other states possible and always expanding. Click on the price to see if you can get one in your neck of the woods. You can also watch our live tasting on Instagram with Caleb Kilburn (who just turned 30, making him one of the youngest Master Distillers in the game) below.
The whiskey is around five to six years old and comes from one barrel that lets the grains shine through before it goes into another barrel that lets the oak shine through. That final barrel is bottled at cask strength, as is.
Tasting Notes:
This opens with a nose full of salted butter next to hints of very soft leather, light notes of vanilla bean, a touch of toffee sweetness, and freshly cracked walnuts with a dry edge. The taste leans into that oak barrel with dashes of woody spices (think allspice berries, star anise, and cinnamon sticks), dry cherry tobacco leaves, salted caramel, and more of that super soft leather. That leads towards a mid-palate of dark red fruits stewed in mulled wine spices and cut with a dollop of fresh honey before the (long) finish dries out towards an old wicker chair, a very distinct hint of a cellar funk, and a touch of dried mint.
The Bottle:
Peerless’ bottles are pretty much the most iconic in the business. The bottle is a Georgia-made crystal-clear glass doubler (the one that’s actually used on the distilling floor at the distillery). The stopper is hefty — it feels like you have a damn stone in your hand when you pull that cork. The label is pure nostalgia with a fall-infused color scheme.
It’s a heavy bottle but one that you can spot from across the room.
Bottom Line:
When it comes to craft whiskey from Kentucky, you have a lot of options. Few rise to this level of innovation and deliciousness and this expression is no exception. This is subtle, nuanced, bold, warming, and really easy drinking. I’m going to probably use it for mixing Manhattans all fall and winter this year while also laying down a bottle in the vault (I was at an auction where bottle #1 of this sold for $1,500).
Ranking:
95/100 — This is a really well-crafted bourbon that feels like a fantastic sipper for fall/winter 2021.
Zillow, the sometimes parodied online real estate service, has run into a big of a snag: According to Bloomberg, the company accidentally bought way too many homes and is now looking to sell them. How many homes? About 7,000.
It’s the result of bad timing and a technical hiccup caused. After the company tweaked their algorithms, they wound up making a large number of winning bids. Unfortunately that came right as the home-price appreciation cooled. Now they have too many homes. As one analyst said, the company “leaned into home-price appreciation at exactly the wrong moment.”
Now Zillow is seeking about $2.6 billion combined for the surplus of houses. A number of them are priced for less than they were purchased.
The company purchased a whopping 8,000 homes in the third quarter of this year. They are reportedly not buying any more homes for the remainder of 2021, apart from ones for they’ve already started a contract.
Founded in 2006, Zillow began as an online real estate listings hub. But recently it began buying houses and flipping them, in a practice that has become known as “iBuying.” As Bloomberg puts it:
Zillow invites owners to request an offer on their house and uses algorithms to generate a price. If an owner accepts, Zillow buys the property, makes light repairs and puts it back on the market.
The company won’t be backing off of house purchasing. By 2024, they hope to buy 5,000 homes a month. But technical fumbles aren’t the only thing standing in their way. There’s also the pesky fact that millennials still aren’t becoming home-owners.
Isaias Hernandez became an educator the same moment he became a student. As early as elementary school, he had to help his teachers with the basic pronunciation of his first name, as the abundance of vowels proved tricky for the anglicized tongue. It’s no wonder he has grown naturally adept at introductions — skilled at turning complex concepts into digestible content.
Isaias is now 25 and is perhaps most widely known by a different name altogether: Queer Brown Vegan. Under that moniker, he has introduced his community (and the worlds of Tik Tok, Tumblr, Twitter, and Instagram) to the importance of environmentalism as it relates to race. His goal has been clear from the beginning, not simply to “create content” but to craft informative visuals that make environmental issues a little more digestible. From addressing the threats of the fossil fuel industry’s imprint on his hometown of Weehawken, New Jersey to creating infographics, green screen visuals, and illustrations that easily explain the impact of environmental issues, Isaias is your go-to personality for making hot topic eco-quandaries feel manageable.
It’s a noble cause and a worthwhile one. The ecological conversation has long been plagued by claims of being too thorny or complicated to decipher. Laying issues out in a digestible way in the places where young people spend time — TikTok, IG, etc. — is the most logical approach to creating a true societal shift.
Isaias Hernandez
It’s no shock to learn that Isaias is the child of a teacher, he’s a natural educator. But after immigrating from Mexico, his mother was unable to teach in the United States, due to her immigration status. This is the narrative that fuels the Queer Brown Vegan brand — a focus on education shared via engaging visuals and offered free of cost to anyone, regardless of socioeconomic status, immigration status, race, gender, or sexual orientation.
“I’ve always been a visual learner,” says Isaias. “I started off using colorful graphics because, for me, learning took the form of color-coding my notes throughout my education journey and I feel that color helps make education more engaging—specifically for Generation Z and Millenials who are interested in a more interactive style of learning.”
It takes only a brief trip to the website QueerBrownVegan.Com to find ample examples of stunningly crafted visuals, aesthetically-pleasing blog posts, and warm-toned infographics that make even the most frustratingly complex of environmental issues seem easier to grapple with. But what’s even more evident is the care Isaias has for his audience. To the point that the moral responsibility he feels fuels the work itself.
“I use psychology principles when I talk about climate emotions and mental health,” he says, “especially in regards to the eco-anxiety that many BIPOC communities deal with to normalize injustice in their lives. It has really allowed me to share my vulnerability about my own mental health through planetary health — a lot of people relate because there are very limited resources for exclusively people of color that might have direct experience with climate change and it is difficult to navigate because we all have such varying experiences with this issue.”
Despite his wide-ranging knowledge of how race, environmentalism, and systemic oppression intersect, Isaias acknowledges that his work has limits. It has to extend beyond him as a single, charismatic individual and spread through his various communities.
“I’m proudest when I get to meet the people who interact with my work,” he says. “Because what I do is a localized solution rather than a globalized, long-term solution. I very much recognize that my role in this movement is not to be scaled up, actually. I just have always believed that keeping it on a local level is what’s sustainable for my community as well as for my own mental health.”
That is the mantra of a good educator. The group is emphasized over the individual — not me but “we.” It’s a concept that is embedded in everything Queer Brown Vegan does.
“At the end of the day, it’s about people who are choosing to build longer relationships together and invest in a reciprocal relationship,” Isaias says. “Strong relationships — that’s what will really help our planet.”
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We asked Isaias for the advice he’d give to anyone hoping to better the planet — he offered these three keys:
Interrogate your values, especially of your own power and privilege.
Choose something that you deeply love. Not everyone needs to be an educator. Be a model or a photographer or a forager or a musician. We need different people in this work that are able to intertwine their passions with an environmental lens.
If you’re a student, look into how you can change your local food system. Maybe you convince your cafeteria to divest from agrochemicals.
Details about the new film are still thin on the ground, but it does come from respectable pedigree. The attached screenwriter, David Reynolds, co-wrote Finding Nemo, while its director, Mark Dindal, did the delightful Disney movie The Emperor’s New Groove. Perhaps they can mine riches from the premise of a lazy cat, his terminally single (and possibly depressed) owner, and his frenemy, a dog. (Maybe they’ll even bring in Nermal.)
Jim Davis’ strip, the most widely circulated in the world, has made it to screens before. There were a dozen TV specials from the ‘80s into the early ‘90s, and even a Saturday morning TV show. In the aughts, Garfield made it to the movies, voiced by Murray. In the role he later mocked, Murray took over for Lorenzo Music, the similar-sounding voice actor who had already voiced the animated version of him in the Ghostbusters daytime cartoon show.
And now there’s Pratt, who is already tied up with another animated film, voicing Mario the plumber in a take on the Nintendo character. The news inspired lots of people to question whether Pratt is the right man to voice a cat.
hard to think of an actor who has more “i actually love mondays” vibes https://t.co/9sLxZQEQpQ
Last year, we didn’t really get a Halloween. Sure, you might’ve dressed up as the Tiger King and eaten some candy, but the country was still in heavy lockdown during Halloween 2020 and we didn’t have the luxury of spending our holiday weekend cutting loose at a huge rave or house party as we do in normal years. With vaccination rates up and a lowering infection rate, this year was our chance to reclaim all of the unhinged hedonism that comes with everybody’s favorite holiday.
From the looks of it, people nationwide came out in full force.
Whether you’re posted up in Miami, New York City, Los Angeles, or any other party city across the nation, you probably spent this weekend amongst a whole lot of people dressed as clowns, baby Yoda, or someone from Squid Game, and maybe even forgot for a second that we’re living amidst a global pandemic. That is, until you ran into the couple that tried to pull off being dressed as Covid-19 and the vaccine, or as we call it, “the absolute worst costume of 2021.”
Anyway, our main point is that this year Halloween really felt like Halloween and we couldn’t be happier about that. So happy, in fact, that we rounded up some of the best costumes from raves and parties across the country in order to live in the spooky season just a little longer.
Here are some of the best costumes on Instgram from Halloween 2021.
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