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In yet another notable sign that the Republican establishment is shifting away from Donald Trump mounting a presidential run in 2024, Fox News shared a surprising video of Trump’s voters signaling that maybe it’s best if a different candidate stepped in. Namely Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.

The three-minute montage (which you can view on the Fox News website) was filmed ahead of a Trump rally in Arizona, which the former president rescheduled following the death of his ex-wife and mother of his three oldest children, Ivana Trump. In the video, even Trump’s most die-hard supporters think it would be best for the party if DeSantis took the ball.

“At this point, he’s a little too polarizing,” a woman named Susan said about Trump as more of his supporters conceded that the Florida governor is their preferred candidate for the 2024 election. Via Fox News:

“I would like to see Gov. DeSantis, or someone like that, some new blood,” Derek told Fox News.

“We’re big fans of DeSantis on this one,” Susan said. “He seems to be a much more common sense—and able to communicate better” and able “to get those people back that switched.”

Fox News asked one Arizonan, Jason, to list his voting priorities.

“DeSantis,” he responded, noting that he hoped to see the Florida governor run in 2024. “Then he could pick up Donald as a vice president.”

While some Trump voters stuck with the former president, the majority felt it was time to move on and reunite the Republican Party after a period of too much “divisiveness.”

“Donald Trump had a great run. I thought he was a great president while he was president,” said Jackson. “I would probably vote for him in [a general] election, but not a primary.”

(Via Fox News)

In 2010, a little shell with a googly eye and sneakers appeared on the internet and made everyone go “aww.” His name? Marcel the Shell With Shoes on. In a series of confessional style web videos, Marcel told us about himself and his life. Created by filmmaker Dean Fleischer Camp and voiced by Jenny Slate, Marcel became a part of the 2010s web pop culture. But like most viral moments, he kind of faded into obscurity, but not before appearing in a children’s book. Now, Marcel is back in a full-length feature release, “Marcel the Shell With Shoes On.”

I recently talked to the star and co-creator Jenny Slate ahead of the film’s release about what it was like to live in Marcel’s head and how the movie came to be. Slate revealed that she and Fleischer Camp have been working on the film for the last seven years. So while many people had forgotten about Marcel, they hadn’t.

“It is an interesting or special thing to bring something back to people that they may have naturally moved on from,” Slate said. “I do think Marcel does have a pretty devoted fan base—the people that like him seem to really enjoy watching him, and it’s nice to rustle that up again.

“Doing a series at that point wouldn’t have allowed us to have as full of an investigation into Marcel’s character as making a documentary or mockumentary feature,” Slate continued. “We started to understand what made Marcel appear the most himself.”

Marcel is all heart. Well, technically, he’s all shell, but still. You don’t expect to find yourself so attached to an anthropomorphic shell with a googly eye and little shoes, but as soon as you first see him on screen, you know your heart is about to melt.

In the feature, the filmmaker, Dean, is recently single and is staying in an Airbnb when he happens upon Marcel, who lives in the house with his Nana Connie and his pet ball of lint, Alan. Quickly, Dean begins to film his conversations with Marcel, mainly because Marcel is such a fascinating little creature. He has his daily routines, which include gardening with Nana Connie and rolling around the house in a tennis ball. He and Nana Connie have a weekly ritual: watching Lesley Stahl on “60 Minutes.” It’s their most favorite show, and they never miss it.

“We worked really hard to make sure that Marcel as a character was not changed, but only revealed more and expanded,” Slate said.

Soon, Dean begins sharing his videos of Marcel online and, of course, they begin to go viral. And while Marcel isn’t inherently opposed to his newfound fame, it does begin to take a toll, especially because it only exacerbates his loneliness. Once upon a time, he lived in the house with a whole family of shells, including his parents. There were also humans who lived in the house—Mark and Larissa—but they fought a lot. One night, they fought one time too many and in the rush of packing, Mark swept the shells up with his things.

Dean decides to use Marcel’s fame to try and find the rest of his family. So they get on a livestream that allows Marcel to share his story. While they become more viral, Marcel isn’t any closer to getting his wish for his family back. Then the fame becomes too much—people are taking pictures in front of the house, getting Marcel tattoos, the whole nine yards.

“Although he is always completely down to engage and answer questions honestly, he often seems to have forgotten that what he’s saying has any sort of receiving place. He has no performance of himself—he just is himself,” Slate said when I asked what’s her favorite thing about Marcel.

On top of the fame, Nana Connie’s health is quickly deteriorating, which worries Marcel. He and Dean go off in search of Mark to reunite the family, but while he’s gone, Connie has an accident and cracks her shell. Because of this, Marcel shuts everything down—no more filming, no more visitors, and Dean must ask his ex-wife to take their dog after he almost attacks Connie.

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In the meantime, the team from “60 Minutes” has heard about Marcel’s story and wants to do a feature. Citing Connie’s poor health as an excuse, Marcel declines the interview, potentially giving up his chance to meet his idol Lesley Stahl. Both Dean and Connie try to convince him to do the interview. Connie even tries to show him that she’s in better health because she doesn’t want him to miss the opportunity to expand his world. Eventually Marcel agrees and everyone is excited about it.

On the day of the interview, the house is buzzing with excitement. After all those Sunday nights together, Marcel and Connie are finally going to meet their idol. Of course, Lesley Stahl is kind and wonderful, and it seems that she is genuinely interested in hearing Marcel’s story. After the interview, Marcel and Dean can’t find Nana Connie.

“It’s important to me to tell a story about someone working through a loss that they weren’t expecting, and the unexpected feelings in dealing with that loss,” Slate shared.

Marcel is still in mourning when “60 Minutes” reaches back out. They have found Larissa working as a doctor in Guatemala and we learn more about her story during the news segment. She brings the crew to Mark’s house, and Marcel and Dean find the shell family. Though he is so happy to be reunited with them, a part of his heart will always be missing Nana Connie. Dean moves out of the Airbnb and Marcel’s family moves back in. Marcel still finds solace in the quietness of the laundry room, where he has time to reflect.

I asked Slate what she hopes people will get out of the film now that’s it’s been widely released and she shared, “I hope people feel momentary belief on the verge of disbelief that something can be both sad and uplifting at once.”

Run, don’t walk, to see “Marcel the Shell With Shoes On,” now playing nationwide.

Jim Thorpe is widely regarded as one of the greatest athletes of all time, and many would claim he is still the greatest. Britannica describes him as “a marvel of speed, power, kicking, and all-around ability,” and he excelled in multiple sports throughout his life. In 1950, he was voted the Associated Press’ Athlete of the Half Century.

As a person of Sac, Fox and Potawatomi descent, Thorpe became the first Native American to win an Olympic gold medal for the United States in 1912. He dominated the decathlon and pentathlon events at the Stockholm Olympic Games that year, winning by large margins, but an investigation the following year resulted in him being stripped of his medals.

Thorpe had played semiprofessional baseball in 1909 and 1910, which, according to the stringent rules on only having amateur athletes competing in the Olympics at the time, should have disqualified him. He ended up having the gold medals he clearly deserved to win taken away due to a minor violation of a technical rule that would end up being changed anyway.

Forty years ago, the International Olympic Committee gave shared gold medals to Thorpe’s family, but they did not reinstate his Olympic records or name him as the sole gold medalist in the two events he won.

Now the record has officially been corrected.

Bright Path Strong, an organization created to continue Thorpe’s legacy of community service, created a petition to have Thorpe’s medals and records fully reinstated. (Thorpe’s Native name, Wa-Tho-Huk, means “bright path.”)

“We are so grateful this nearly 110-year-old injustice has finally been corrected, and there is no confusion about the most remarkable athlete in history,” said Nedra Darling, Bright Path Strong co-founder and citizen of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, according to the Associated Press.

u201cJim Thorpe has been reinstated as the sole winner of the 1912 Olympic pentathlon and decathlon in Stockholm u2014 nearly 110 years after being stripped of those gold medals for violations of strict amateurism rules of the time. https://t.co/KpQuvvFpo4u201d

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As it turns out, the silver medalists had never accepted the gold medals they were offered after Thorpe had been stripped of them. Bright Path Strong and IOC member Anita DeFrantz contacted decathlete Hugo Wieslander’s family as well as the Swedish Olympic Committee to discuss the matter with them.

“They confirmed that Wieslander himself had never accepted the Olympic gold medal allocated to him, and had always been of the opinion that Jim Thorpe was the sole legitimate Olympic gold medalist,” said the IOC, according to the AP. “The same declaration was received from the Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports, whose athlete, Ferdinand Bie, was named as the gold medalist when Thorpe was stripped of the pentathlon title.”

Now the record has been set straight. Thorpe will officially go down in history as the sole gold medal winner of the decathlon and pentathlon in the 1912 Olympic Games.

Darling told Indian Country Today that she called Billy Mills, the Oglala Lakota runner who won gold in the 10,000 meter race in the 1964 Olympics (in one of the greatest upsets in Olympic history), after she heard the news.

“It was emotional,” she said. “It was the most beautiful gift I could get to be able to tell him, and I didn’t realize it ’til he just couldn’t speak and I couldn’t speak. He’s been so supportive of what I’ve been doing.”

IOC President Thomas Bach expressed his gratitude to all involved.

“We welcome the fact that, thanks to the great engagement of Bright Path Strong, a solution could be found,” he said. “This is a most exceptional and unique situation, which has been addressed by an extraordinary gesture of fair play from the National Olympic Committees concerned.”

Communities coming together for a bigger purpose is always a feel good story, so when we came across this story from WXYZ Detroit, we had to share it. Imagine being in business bringing stories to your community and creating a space where everyone could feel welcomed, only for a stranger to try to take it away. That’s exactly what happened to the owners of 27th Letter Books in southwest Detroit when a scammer purchased $35K worth of books with fraudulent credit cards.

The bookstore, which only recently opened a brick and mortar location a little over a year ago focuses on bringing diverse titles and authors to their readers. One of the co-owners, Jazmine Cooper, told WXYZ, “There’s a lot of diversity in the titles that we choose.” Cooper discussed a book about Asian American mental health titled Permission to Come Home by Jenny T. Wang, PhD. Cooper explained, “there aren’t a lot of books that allow Asian Americans to have mental health issues or to read about mental health issues.”

Maintaining diversity is important to the small business and the highlighted title, Permission to Come Home is picking up popularity. But everything hasn’t been rainbows for the store because in May, someone pretending to be a customer was able to scam the bookstore out of thousands of dollars before they were able to catch on. Losing this amount of money could cause a small business to close its doors for good and that’s exactly what Cooper thought was coming next. But to her surprise community members stepped up in a big way.

In an effort to save the store, Cooper and her co-owner, Erin Pineda, started a Go Fund Me with the hopes that they would raise enough money to keep the doors open. The response was unimaginable and warmed the hearts of the two business owners. Pineda told WXYZ, “We had someone I remember come in the store and they were like I just started a new job and I don’t have a ton of extra income to donate but can you share a flier and I’m going to put it up at a couple different community spots for you.”

The entire $35K was raised in a matter of 10 days, thanks to the generous hearts of the southwest Detroit community. Now the store can continue its dedication to bringing diverse stories into the homes of their neighbors. But raising the money doesn’t only provide the community with books. It allows for the other programs to continue, one of which is the bilingual story time for kids.

It’s amazing what a little help from your neighbors can do. No worries about future opportunity grabbers that come in the form of scammers. Cooper and Pineda are reviewing their policies to make sure they never have to deal with the frustration of realizing you’ve been scammed. Pineda left off by imploring other business owners to review their own policies around online ordering to avoid their costly mistake.

Hopefully this bookstore will be around for many years to come and the next time you’re passing through Detroit on an extra long layover, or to visit family, stop by 27th Letter Books. Surely the owners have a title or two they can recommend to you.

Dads and daughters dancing together often bring a smile to people’s faces. But what about when a father isn’t available for a father-daughter duo?

A video on TikTok gives us a gorgeous glimpse of what’s possible.

TikTok user LailaMom (@sheek_luv) shared a video from her daughter’s dance recital showing a group of girls dancing on stage with their dads in T-shirts that said “Happy Father’s Day.” Her daughter, however, was dancing with her brother (the girl’s uncle).

Not that anyone watching the recital would know any different. As LailaMom wrote, “My brother and daughter kilt the father daughter dance.” They sure did.

The young girl’s confidence as she’s dancing says it all. We don’t know the reason her dad wasn’t there and it doesn’t even matter. She has an uncle who shows up and steps up for her, and she knows it. He learned the dance steps with her, followed her lead and looked like he had a blast doing it.

Showing up matters, but showing up and actually being an active part of a child’s life matters even more. Extended family members, friends and community members can be powerful mentors and champions and can fill in a lot of gaps, especially when parents aren’t around. The more love and support a child is surrounded by, the better, but sometimes even just one special person can make a significant difference.

Watch how wonderfully these two work together:

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Shoutout to the brothers that step up for their sisters 💪🏾💪🏾#singlemom #lovedsister

Upworthy shared the video on our Instagram page and commenters lavished praise on the girl (for her dancing skills) and her uncle (for his dancing and his uncle-ing skills).

“Need more Uncles like him in this world! LOVE this!!!!” wrote one person.

“That is a FUNCLE right there!” wrote another.

“My cheeks hurt from smiling. Watched it twice,” wrote a third.

Good grown-ups help make childhood everything it should be. Kudos to this man for giving his niece a dance recital to remember.

When Drake dropped his latest album, Honestly, Nevermind, more than a few of his longtime fans were thrown by what they (incorrectly) identified as “mall music.” But maybe the thing missing for those fans was the proper context — something fans got in when The Boy himself popped out during his collaborator Black Coffee’s concert in Ibiza, Spain to perform some selections from the controversial album. Black Coffee posted a few videos to his social media of Drake surprising fans mid-set, and let’s just say that those songs definitely work better in this context.

In one, Drake can be seen rubbing shoulders in the crowd, grooving to the infectious four-on-the-floor beats from “A Keeper,” while in the other, Drake joins Black Coffee on stage as “Massive” — one of the near-consensus faves from the new album — inspires some two-stepping (although many of the fans have their phones out to capture the moment the two stars embrace).

Drake has had something of an eventful week in Europe outside of music as well. On Friday, rumors circulated online that Drake had been arrested by Swedish authorities, with “Free Drake” trending on Twitter. And while that rumor was initially shot down, Drake himself did appear to confirm that he was at least temporarily detained, sharing a photo of a document from the Swedish National Police Board.

There’s a lot that can go down in a crowd during a concert, and it’s a bit more noticeable as an artist on stage looking into the audience. You’ll see fans singing or rapping lyrics back to you, the occasional moshpit, or someone during their best to record a moment during the show. On the flip side, it’s not always smiles and good moments that you’ll see in the crowd. Let Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder tell it as he recently threw a fan out of a show in Zurich after he saw them hit another person during the performance.

It all went down as the band played “Animal” from their 1993 album Vs. and other people at the show caught the whole ordeal on camera. “Turn the lights on, please,” Vedder said to the venue’s stage crew. “Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey — I saw the whole thing! I know, it was annoying you. You were bummed out ‘cause he was filming the whole time. Has it been the whole show or just now? Just now when I came over? Was it the whole time? Yeah, you film like everyone.”

He continued, “The thing is, I know it upset ya, but you can’t fuckin’ hit him in the back of the head either, even though you’re a woman. I appreciate the fact that you can be strong.” Vedder concluded by requesting that the woman be removed from the show. “Quit hitting him, you’re out of here,” he said. “Violence is not allowed. I’m sorry ma’am, there’s no violence allowed. You could’ve waved to me, I was lookin’ right at you. Sorry about that, it’s just not cool. We’re not hittin’ people here. Sorry.”

You can watch Vedder kick out the fan in the video above.

Joe Rogan is firing more shots at Donald Trump. After recently revealing that he rejected numerous offers to host the former president on his podcast, Rogan and comedian Tom Segura went to town on Trump’s alleged Adderall use during the latest episode of The Joe Rogan Experience.

“The thing that is incredible about that guy is that, you know, I’m saying even when you watch him as president, he was full of f*cking energy — full of it every day,” Segura said to kick off the discussion. “And they said he slept like four hours a night. He’s one of those people.”

“He’s on Adderall,” Rogan asserted before asking Segura if he felt the same. Turns out, the comedian had heard some things about Trump’s time on The Apprentice where his infamous aversion to reading was allegedly causing some problems. Via Mediaite:

“Yes, I do — only because there were multiple people who used to work on The Apprentice that were like, ‘He was fucking gassed up for shoots,’” Segura said.

“Really?” asked Rogan.

“Yeah. Cause he has trouble reading. He doesn’t — he would struggle to read prompter or script when he was just, uh, let’s say ‘sober.’ So they would give him that and he would dial in more on reading,” Segura added.

The conversation then turned to reports of Trump being “bored” during CIA briefings, which forced the agency to come up with creative ways to hold his attention.

“I heard they would put his name in briefings multiple times to keep him interested,” Rogan said before Seguara riffed on how Jared Kusher had a secret formula to giving Trump bad news by sandwiching it between two pieces of good news. “This is going well, everybody’s thrilled with you about this. Here’s a bad thing. Also, people love you for this.”

“Of course!” Rogan said while laughing at Kushner trying to placate Trump. “He’s a man baby.”

(Via Mediaite)

Rico Nasty is well-known for her brash energy and punk-influenced rasp of a voice, but she’s also equally well-known for her unique sense of style. Rico’s ‘fits run the gamut from thrashed-out baby doll outfits — like Clueless with a hardcore makeover — to catwalk-ready haute couture. In her new video for “Blow Me,” she showcases her style with a simple setup, strutting on a treadmill against a white background as she cycles seamlessly through a series of wild ensembles.

“Blow Me” is the latest single from Rico’s upcoming album Las Ruinas, which is due on July 22 through Atlantic Records. Although it’s the follow-up to her debut album Nightmare Vacation, it’s said to be much lighter in comparison. While that suggests a return to the airy “sugar trap” of her early mixtapes, it’s clear from previously released tracks like “Black Punk,” “Blow Me,” “Skullflower,” and “Vaderz” that “lighter” is relative when it comes to Rico Nasty. The project will also feature appearances from fellow genre benders Bktherula, Teezo Touchdown, and Marshmello, along with a remix of Fred Again’s “Jungle.”

Watch Rico Nasty’s “Blow Me” video above. Las Ruinas is due on 7/22 on Atlantic Records.

Rico Nasty is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

The 2022 NBA Summer League came to an end on Sunday. While the Portland Trail Blazers emerged victorious over the New York Knicks to earn the title of Summer League champs, the NBA’s annual foray into the Thomas and Mack Center and Cox Pavilion in Las Vegas served as an opportunity for a number of young players to flash their considerable potential ahead of the 2022-23 season.

Now that all the games have wrapped up, here are the six players who shined bright and make up our 2022 All-Summer League team.

Quentin Grimes

It is easy to see why Grimes appears to be the name at the center of a potential Knicks package for Donovan Mitchell … and why some New York fans would like to hold onto him. Second-year players are usually the best of the bunch in Las Vegas, but even by that standard, Grimes was the best player we saw at Summer League this year. After showing glimpses of being a potentially very reliable two-way player as a rookie in the Big Apple, the former University of Houston standout and 2021 first-round pick spearheaded a Knicks team that made it to the Summer League final, averaging 22.6 points, 4.2 rebounds, and 4.0 assists per game.

Keegan Murray

You should obviously never put too much stock in Summer League. Having said that, the Kings came under a little bit of criticism when they passed on drafting Purdue guard Jaden Ivey so they could take Murray, the high-scoring Iowa wing who is a far more snug fit alongside De’Aaron Fox and Domantas Sabonis. That criticism looks a little silly after Murray put on a show, first in California and then in Las Vegas. Murray’s polish as a scorer looked far more advanced than what you expect out of most rookies, 23.3 points and 7.3 rebounds per game.

Tari Eason

Jabari Smith was the Rockets player who attracted the most hype going into Summer League, which, he was the No. 3 overall pick and most people spent the entire Draft process thinking he was going No. 1, so that’s not exactly a surprise. But it was Eason, the team’s other first round selection and the No. 17 overall pick, who flashed in Las Vegas. The dude is just a bully, and guys at Summer League just did not seem to have any idea how to deal with Eason when he was able to impose himself, as he averaged 17.2 points and 10.4 rebounds per game. We expect Smith — whose game isn’t exactly conducive to a Summer League environment due to the general lack of guards who are comfortable setting up guys in the pick-and-role — to look better in the regular season. The Rockets are going to hope Eason’s Summer League form carries over to then, too.

Cam Thomas

I am a sucker for Thomas’ game — his ability to score is a legitimate blast when he gets going. He put that on display in Las Vegas, as he was given an extremely green light to be the offensive hub of Brooklyn’s Summer League squad. Thomas was second-best scorer at Summer League, as his 27.4 points per game trailed only Moses Moody of the Golden State Warriors, who averaged 27.5 but played in three fewer games. Thomas put up 31, 26, 29, 26, and 25 points in the five games Brooklyn played, and while his 27.3 percent shooting on threes left something to be desired, the man can straight up score. It was impressive in Las Vegas and even if Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving are on the Nets next year, we think he’s going to have chances to show off his ability to fill it up during the 2022-23 season.

Sandro Mamukelashvili

Another second-year player, Mamukelashvili latched on with the Bucks as an undrafted free agent out of Seton Hall and got some occasional run with the now-former defending champs. He played his best ball, however, with Milwaukee’s G League team, and that carried over to Summer League, where the Georgian was consistently the best big man in Vegas. With Brook Lopez getting older and the Serge Ibaka trade flopping highlighting how badly the Bucks need bodies in their frontcourt, perhaps this sort of showcase will lead to a bigger role in year two. Mamukelashvili averaged 17.0 points and 8.8 rebounds per game.

Trendon Watford

The unanimous championship game MVP has to get some love here, no? The Blazers’ run to the championship was more team-wide effort than any one player carrying them to glory, but still, the second-year man out of LSU was very solid throughout his time in the desert. Watford carved out a nice role as a rookie on a Portland team that wanted to do a one-year rebuild, and Summer League gave him a chance to both build on what he did and give himself a springboard into a bigger role on a far more competitive Portland team.

Paolo Banchero

The No. 1 overall pick only appeared in two games, so he gets docked a few points for that. Still, Banchero was magnificent when he was on the floor at Thomas and Mack. Just speaking for myself: I knew Banchero was a big guy, but seeing him in person really illustrates how impressive it is that a guy with his size has his skill set — he’s a smooth scorer whose ability to get to his spots and either score or (the really impressive thing) create for others is rare. Time will tell if Orlando really has the superstar it has long coveted since Dwight Howard was traded, but the early returns couldn’t be much more promising. Banchero averaged 20 points on 40.7 percent shooting from the field and 50 percent from three with six assists, five rebounds, and 2.5 steals across his two games.

Trey Murphy III and Moses Moody

I’m going to lump these two together because they were the headliners of the “why are they here?” group of second year players at Summer League. Both only played in two games but dominated while out there, with Moody leading all scorers in Vegas with 27.5 points in those two games, and Murphy not far behind at 26.5 points. The goal of any second year guy in Summer League is to prove they’re too good to be out there and Murphy and Moody very quickly proved that to their squads and earned a rightful seat on the bench after proving to be too strong and too skilled for the desert showcase.

Santi Aldama

The Grizzlies big man averaged 16.8 points, 7.8 rebounds, 1.8 blocks, and 1.5 steals in his four games and impressed with his efficiency (57.1 percent from the field and 38.5 percent from three) and occasional dominance, as he would take over at times for Memphis. Aldama was not one of the second year players expected to look too good for Summer League, but he proved fairly quickly that he was better than his competition. On a Memphis team with tons of young talent, Aldama proved he deserves a spot in a crowded rotation.