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This Saturday night will not feature a new episode of Saturday Night Live, but one of its most notable bits did get a bit of action this weekend. Alec Baldwin, who the sketch show relies upon for his impression of Donald Trump for its many political sketches, has been a mainstay as a non castmember over the last three years.

Despite calling his impression mediocre and once saying he’d rather be dead that return as Trump, he’s continued to play America’s president for various sketches through the current season. Baldwin even appeared via phone during the SNL At Home episode the show did amid the coronavirus lockdown.

So perhaps it’s no surprise that Baldwin has dusted off his impression during an SNL-less week to poke fun at Trump after some dangerous and even deadly advice about coronavirus cleaning methods. In a three-minute video posted to Instagram, Baldwin pretended to be Trump talking about the fallout from his

Baldwin’s Trump started with what he said in real life on Friday: that he was kidding when he openly wondered if cleaning supplies could be put inside the human body to cure coronavirus.

“I was of course being facetious,” Baldwin says as Trump, referring to his extremely dangerous medical advice. “I wasn’t suggesting you take Lysol and shoot it into your veins… or squirt it on some washcloth and huff it yourself… or that you snort it. Which a lot of young people are into, I’m told.”

From there, things of course spiral out of control. And though the Trump wig and other makeup isn’t there, if you’re a fan of Baldwin’s impression you’ll enjoy the rather disturbing direction the video goes in. At the very least, it’s good that Baldwin is staying busy while practicing good social distancing.

Including a wine filter if a glass of red gives you a headache and a $2 cat toy your kitty will love more than the box it comes in.

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Most of the sports world has been put on pause due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but a lot of Chicago-based sports are happening this weekend. The Chicago Huntsmen are in action in the Call of Duty League, and the basketball world is eagerly awaiting Sunday night’s next two episodes of the 10-part Michael Jordan series entitled The Last Dance.

The docuseries is basically the only basketball happening right now, which is why there have been a lot of Last Dance tie-ins and references throughout the sports world. And the latest involves the Huntsmen, one of the top teams in Call of Duty League currently “hosting” the online-only tournament between teams this weekend.

The weekend tournament coincided with the launch of limited edition No. 23 merchandise on the ULT website. The merchandise is essentially Huntsmen-branded gear with Jordan’s number 23 on it, coming in two colors — black and white. According to Call of Duty League the merchandise will go on sale on Sunday, the day of the weekend tournament’s final matches as well as the second night ESPN will air episodes of The Last Dance.

It’s a cool mashup of two Chicago sports entities, especially one hoping to be as dominant in Call of Duty League as the Jordan Bulls were on the court. We’ll see how Chicago does hosting the tournament’s finale, but the rave reviews The Last Dance has gotten means Chicago sports fans will definitely be happy on Sunday.

Some NBA players are struggling to get shots up during quarantine. Giannis Antetokounmpo, Khris Middleton, and Jayson Tatum have all mentioned that they do not have hoops at their homes, and as such, there are limitations to what guys can do while they’re stuck in one place due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The league has decided to comply with state and federal guidelines by shutting down practice facilities, again limiting options for players. But according to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN, the NBA is going to open its facilities back up under a very specific set of circumstances.

As Wojnarowski tells it, as long as states relax stay-at-home orders, NBA teams are allowed to open up their facilities to players. This would only be for voluntary individual workouts, however, while larger workouts are still prohibited.

A major reason for this decision is reportedly what is going down in Georgia. The state’s governor, Brian Kemp, controversially gave the green light to opening up things like gyms. NBA players apparently asked their orgs what to do in this situation, and Wojnarowski reports, teams would rather that players are in their gyms and not a YMCA somewhere getting shots up.

Naturally, this leads to a question about whether or not the league will start to move toward restarting its season. The answer: no.

There’s no good answer in this situation — it is assuredly far too early for this move, but considering the alternative is players going to environments that teams cannot control, this is the league’s attempt at making the best of a bad situation. Hopefully things don’t come to this and states listen to scientists and medical professionals about when doing this sort of thing will be safe, but if it does, here’s to hoping players taking advantage of this — along with the workers necessary to keep these facilities clean — are able to stay healthy.

The NFL’s first modern virtual draft’s opening round went off with relatively few mistakes on Thursday night, but some moments were bigger than other. Out of all the moments found between 32 picks, Arizona Cardinals coach Kilff Kingsbury’s rejected Narcos set of a home took some of the highest marks of the night.

Kingsbury was briefly shown lounging in a very luxurious home while watching the draft unfold, and it quickly drew considerable buzz on social media.

And now we have proven it’s a replicable lifestyle if you have some children’s building toys around. Lori Johnston, a lecturer at the University of Georgia’s journalism school, tweeted photos of the LEGO version of Kingsbury’s home, and it’s wildly accurate.

The details here are incredible, starting with the multiple screens on the coffee table and the very Kingsbury-like LEGO mini lounging on the modern couch. This is the perfect home to recreate in LEGO, quite frankly, with modern lines and a very stark outdoor space framed by additional clean lines. It’s also great that the second photo does its best to recreate the view we got on draft night.

There are no LEGO Camelback Mountains here, unfortunately, so there’s some room for improvement. But it’s also a great quarantine project that gets full marks from NFL Draft fans.

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Teyana Taylor has been long-overdue a moment to shine and she’s hoping that her third album does the trick. After breaking out with VII back in 2014, Taylor returned in 2018 with another strong effort, K.T.S.E., an album that was cut short against her will to fit with the theme of Kanye West’s GOOD Music series in the summer of 2018. Since her second album, Taylor has been hard at work crafting her third album and Friday she shared an exciting update with fans.

Taking over Red Bull Music’s Instagram page to host a virtual screening of her Assembly Required: Teyana Taylor’s House of Petunia and a Q&A session with friend and dance captain, Coco Gilbert, Taylor revealed that her third album was in fact complete. “We’ve been working on the album,” she said. “The album is done—that’s why I look crazy right now. Before I got on with y’all, we literally just did the listening of the album. Y’all gonna be so happy.”

“This album is definitely more of a vibe. I don’t really do fast songs like that,” she continued. “There are some head-boppers. It’s not super-fast. You can dance and you can cry and you can ride.”

Taylor’s announcement comes a couple of days after sharing “Machine” with AI influencer Lil Miquela.