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On November 30, news of Shane MacGowan’s death was made public. The late musician’s wife, Victoria Clarke, shared a note about their life together. Fans flooded social media to show their support of MacGowan and his group, The Pogues. Now, fellow musicians like Tom Waits, Bruce Springsteen, Nick Cave, and Bono have taken to their platforms to pay tribute.

“Ah, the blessings of the cursed. Shane McGowan’s torrid and mighty voice is mud and roses punched out with swaggering stagger, ancient longing that is blasted all to hell,”wrote Waits in a post on X (formerly Twitter). “A Bard’s bard, may he cast his spell upon us all forevermore.”

Springsteen took to Instagram to share a statement on behalf of himself and The E Street Band. “Over here on E Street, we are heartbroken over the death of Shane MacGowan,” he wrote. “Shane was one of my all-time favorite writers. The passion and deep intensity of his music and lyrics are unmatched by all but the very best in the rock and roll canon. I was fortunate to spend a little time with Shane and his lovely wife, Victoria, the last time we were in Dublin. He was very ill but still beautifully present in his heart and spirit. His music is timeless and eternal. I don’t know about the rest of us, but they’ll be singing Shane’s songs 100 years from now.”

“Shane was not revered just for his manifold talents but also loved for himself alone,” wrote Cave in a newsletter. He continued to honor Sinéad O’Connor, who passed in July. “A beautiful and damaged man, who embodied a kind of purity, innocence, generosity, and spiritual intelligence unlike any other.”

“Shane MacGowan’s songs were perfect, so he or we his fans didn’t have to be,” wrote Bono in an upload on X.

Earlier this week Amazon dropped the first images from Fallout, their take on the long-running post-apocalyptic video game series. On Saturday they added a trailer, and the results are either grimly humorous or humorously grim, depending on how you look at it.

The series stars Ella Purnell, Walton Goggins, and Kyle MacLachlan as denizens of a particularly nasty future. Here’s the official synopsis:

Based on one of the greatest video game series of all time, Fallout is the story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to have. Two-hundred years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind—and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird, and highly violent universe waiting for them.

The trailer offers the first look at Purnell’s hero, a loner who leaves the safety of the Vault and ventures into a town that looks like a Western setting gone sideways. Among the no-good-niks she encounters are Goggin’s The Ghoul, a bounty hunter with scars and a missing chunk of nose. There are giant bugs, dogs carrying severed human hands, and moldy coffee mugs.

Fallout hits Amazon Prime starting April 12. You can watch the trailer in the video above.

The American version of The Office ended over a decade ago, but it’s still as powerful as ever. It’s on TV somewhere at any given time. Its cast does podcasts devoted to behind-the-scenes minutiae. There’s even allegedly a reboot in the offing. Even those married to cast members can’t escape it. Per Entertainment Weekly, Emily Blunt — acclaimed actress and spouse of Jim Halpert player John Krasinski — went on Variety’s Awards Circuit podcast, where she revealed fans of the show aren’t above heckling her.

“Do you know how many people still yell out, ‘I wish you were with Pam!’ like when I’m walking next to him?” Blunt said of her husband. “‘Where’s Pam?’ I’m like, ‘She’s not here!’”

There were a few inter-office relationships on The Office, none as beloved as the one between Krasinski’s Jim and Jenna Fischer’s Pam Beesly, who spent the first few seasons engaged in will-they-or-won’t-they flirtations. They finally hooked up, got married, and even left the show to live happily ever after.

Blunt and Krasinski, meanwhile, began dating in 2008, midway through the show’s run, and married two years later. Krasinski directed and co-starred with her in A Quiet Place, as well as its first sequel. Blunt has vowed to take a wee break from acting to spend more time with their kids, though when she returns she’d like to do finally do a sequel to one of her finest works, the Tom Cruise vehicle Edge of Tomorrow. In the meantime, Office heads, please leave her be.

(Via EW)

George Santos is gone but not forgotten. On Friday the House’s most noted fabulist was formally expelled by his colleagues after nearly a year in office. His crimes? Where to start? He didn’t go out quietly. Ahead of the fateful vote, Santos started railing against his Republican colleagues, one of whom he called a “p*ssy.” After he was booted, he went on a late night tear promising revenge.

Per Mediate, Santos started with Nicole Malliotakis, one of eight former fellow New York Republican representatives who voted against him.

“Let’s talk about hypocrisy,” Santos tweeted. “Can someone ask Nicole MalioStockTips when did she become a savant in stock trading? The signature bank trades she did REEKS of insider trading much like Paul Pelosi’s every trade! Nicole is in it for herself! Just look at her record and it speaks for itself.

Santos called Malliotakis a “dirty dishonorable swamp creature selling the American people down a river for her own benefit.” He said the
“difference between you and I is that I don’t live in denial, I’m a PROUD GAY man and I’m not afraid to say it.”

Santos swore that on Monday he would file a formal complaint with the House Ethics committee. He was just getting warmed up. He vowed to do the same to another Republican New York representative, Mike Lawler, who he accused of money laundering.

And then there’s Nick LaLota, who Santos claimed had stolen public funds from New York taxpayers.

And then Santos came for Democratic representative Rob Menendez, son of Senator Bob Menendez, who himself was charged earlier this fall with taking bribes from Egypt.

Santos also demanded that someone, anyone have the “testicular fortitude” to expel Democrat Jamaal Bowman over setting off a fire alarm, which he’s claimed was an accident.

In other words, just because the self-professed producer of Broadway flops is out of Congress doesn’t mean he’s going away. Heck, maybe he’ll even be Trump’s running mate.

(Via Mediaite)

Content Warning: This story discusses pregnancy loss details that may be uncomfortable for some readers.

Losing a pregnancy is not something anyone can prepare for. There’s no course you can take to tell you what to expect, how you’ll feel or what to do after the miscarriage occurs. It’s not something that’s widely talked about, even in conversations about miscarriage.

About 1 in 4 pregnancies end in miscarriage in the first trimester and 1 in 5 in the second, according to the March of Dimes. Many women who reveal they’ve lost a pregnancy talk about how difficult it was emotionally, but they rarely talk about the lack of information from medical professionals or the details of the process of miscarrying. It makes sense because it’s hard enough to discuss pregnancy loss, and to go into detail may be much worse on their mental health.

There also may be a level of shame attached to the process, partly because the topic of miscarriage is still taboo but also because many at-home miscarriages happen in the toilet. It’s an uncomfortable truth that haunts people who have experienced the process. But the truth of the matter is, hospitals don’t usually admit you for a miscarriage; they send you home with little to no instructions on what to do after it happens. So to people who have experienced the pain of a miscarriage at home, it makes sense that a woman in Ohio, currently on trial for “abuse of a corpse” would have no idea what to do after miscarrying.

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Brittany Watts, 33, of Warren, Ohio, went to the hospital twice concerning her unborn baby. She was informed that she was miscarrying and her baby was not viable. She was presumably sent home to miscarry, like many other miscarrying mothers. The fetus was only 22 weeks gestation when Watts miscarried into the toilet after her water broke, and when she flushed the remains clogged the pipes. A forensic pathologist testified that an autopsy found that the fetus was not injured, and that it had died before passing through the birth canal. Instead of being able to grieve, Watts was arrested.

But there’s not much information available in America on what to do if you miscarry at home. In the UK, the NHS sends miscarrying mothers home with a leaflet that gives some basic options on how to handle the process.

“If you miscarry at home you are very likely to pass the remains of your pregnancy into the toilet. You may look at what has come away and see a pregnancy sac and/or a very early baby (we call this a fetus) – or something you think might a be a fetus. If you complete your miscarriage at home you have no obligation to dispose of the pregnancy remains in any particular way,” the NHS writes.

“You might want to simply flush the toilet – many people do that automatically. If you prefer to dispose of the remains the way you normally dispose of sanitary waste this is a personal choice and there are no regulations to prevent you doing whatever feels right for you. Or you may want to remove the remains for a closer look. That’s natural too. If you know that you do not want to flush the remains of your pregnancy you may wish to place a bowl into the toilet.”

I’m struggling to comprehend the ignorance of policy makers about what happens during pregnancy/miscarriage.

Yesterday I learned that they didn’t know that you usually miscarry into a toilet. They didn’t know that your medical team sends you home to miscarry.

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— Mamacita Sanchez (@SanchezMamacita) November 30, 2023

Being in the position of losing a pregnancy and everything that comes with it, people forget the shock aspect of it all. There are people who pass out from pain and those who pass out from the sight of blood, both of which are often present with miscarriages. But the question remains, what are people going through this experience supposed to do if they’re sent home from the hospital or miscarry without warning at home?

A woman who uses the screen name Mamacita Sanchez took to X (formerly Twitter) to express her shock and frustration at elected officials.

“I’m struggling to comprehend the ignorance of policy makers about what happens during pregnancy/miscarriage. Yesterday I learned that they didn’t know that you usually miscarry into a toilet. They didn’t know that your medical team sends you home to miscarry,” she starts her thread.

“They don’t know the difference between Plan B and meds used to manage miscarriages. They don’t know the difference between zygote/embryo/fetus. They don’t know a miscarriage is called an “abortion” on a woman’s medical chart.”

Sanchez’s thread goes on to highlight the dangers of pregnancy and miscarriages with women chiming in revealing their own experience with miscarriage and their fears.

“I got sent home after they determined there was no heart beat to have my miscarriage at home. Lots of clots and lumps of tissue. No telling what in all that was what. Where is it supposed to go if not the toilet? So. Much. Blood. Such sadness. Heart ache. Agony,” one woman replies.

“Exactly! I was given the pill when my body didn’t take care of things on its own and spent the next day feeling like I was dying while my boss texted me over and over again on how to do my tasks. Farthest I got from the restroom was the bed,” someone reveals.

“I’ve been saying the same. Policy-makers, and too many journalists, do not understand the medical details of pregnancy complications, not to mention the emotional distress that comes with it,” another woman explains.

Maybe it’s time for lawmakers to start listening to the people who have gone through these situations and the medical professionals that see them. The physical and emotional toll miscarriage takes on a person can be unimaginable, so a little grace and understanding goes a long way.

There have been a number of really disrespectful blocks — and, by extension, really disrespectful block celebrations — in the years since Dr. James put some peach baskets up on a wall. In all that time, we have never seen anything quite like what happened in an Overtime Elite game between RWE and Cold Hearts on Friday night, which has me (to use an official term) honking like a goose.

Daquan Davis, a guard for RWE who is a 4-star prospect in the class of 2024, drove to the rim and attempted to score through contact by Cold Hearts big man Peyton Marshall, who is also a 4-star and is heading to Missouri next year. Marshall is nearly a foot taller than Davis, so he was just able to overwhelm him and block his shot into the floor. And then, one of the funniest things that I have ever seen on a basketball court happened.

There is no reason to do anything other than get the ball to a guard and go down the floor with a man advantage. Well, lemme correct that: There is one reason, and that is to be hilariously disrespectful to a player on the other team. It’s also a good way to get a turnover in that player’s stat sheet, because this does, indeed, go down as a turnover by Davis.

As for how the game went, Cold Hearts went on to win, 92-90.

Lil Wayne is facing a new lawsuit in Los Angeles from a former security staff member, who had previously alleged that the rapper “threatened him with a semiautomatic rifle and punched him in the head” during an altercation two years ago, according to Rolling Stone.

The publication had obtained the filing from plaintiff Carlos Christian, where he claimed that Lil Wayne pointed the gun at him “as a threat” and then punched him in the ear “while waving around the semiautomatic rifle.”

“It reasonably appeared to plaintiff that (Lil Wayne) was about to carry out the threat,” the paperwork reportedly read, citing that the incident took place at Lil Wayne’s house. “Plaintiff suffered severe emotional distress, requiring him to seek mental health treatment for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) stemming directly from this incident.”

As for what started it, TMZ reportedly claimed at the time back in 2021 that the fight began as Lil Wayne accused Christian of leaking photos to the media.

Christian is also seeking “compensatory and punitive damages” as he noted that he had medical bills and expenses due to the alleged assault. The damages he is seeking include the fact he lost “wages and earning capacity” as well.

Neither Christian’s lawyer nor Lil Wayne’s team returned Rolling Stone‘s request for comment on the matter.

Taylor Swift is continuing her wildly massive reign this year, as she has reportedly made over $100 million through her earnings on Spotify. The pop star’s 26.1 billion global streams not only have earned her the distinction of the Top Global Artist on Spotify’s Wrapped statistics but also a massive paycheck, according to Billboard‘s calculations for the streaming service’s royalty payment system.

In total, when entering Swift’s number of global streams, the publication estimated that she would earn $97 million for them — with an added bit for the rest of December. (Spotify stopped counting early to drop their annual Wrapped feature, but Swift would still be making money on streams through the end of the year.)

The number of Swift’s Spotify earnings would be even higher when other aspects like “publishing revenue” are factored in, making them list her actual 2023 paycheck estimation at $131 million. Most of this would also go to her directly, as she owns most of her masters — and is in the process of re-recording two more of her original albums to regain control and sole ownership.

This news comes just a few days after the company announced that they would be adjusting the rules of their royalty system, with the hopes of preventing fraudulent streaming inflation.

Dionne Warwick recently paid Kelly Clarkson a visit on her talk show, where the two musicians praised one another. During the discussion, Warwick opened up about how she found out that Doja Cat had sampled her song, “Walk On By,” for the latter’s Scarlet single, “Paint The Town Red.”

As it turns out, Doja didn’t need permission for the sample — so Warwick found out through a sweet story about her granddaughter.

“I didn’t know it had been recorded by her,” she said. “My granddaughter called me and says, ‘Grammy, do you know you’re on a record with Doja Cat?’ I said, ‘Doja who?’”

“Well, apparently, it’s a major hit for her,” Warwick added.

Clarkson then confirmed how much of a hit that Doja’s “Paint The Town Red” is, “Oh no no, it’s huge.”

“I’m thrilled,” Warwick continued. “I hope ‘Walk On By’ is as good for her as it has been for me… They’re great songs, and finally [the kids are] being exposed to some good music.”

Back in 1964, Warwick’s “Walk On By” had reached No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100. Decades later, Doja Cat earned her first solo No. 1 hit by incorporating it into “Paint The Town Red.”

Check out the clip of Dionne Warwick talking about Doja sampling her above.

Cher made a recent appearance on the viral interview series, Chicken Shop Date, despite somehow not actually liking chicken. During her conversation with the show’s host, Amelia Dimoldenberg, the pop icon was surrounded by all the energies of the food — as they literally held the talk in a chicken shop in the UK.

The reveal hilariously started when the host thanked Cher for being there with her in the chicken shop. “I’m happy to,” Cher started, before quickly correcting herself. “Well, I’m not actually happy to be here, but I’m actually happy to join you.”

Toward the end, Dimoldenberg decided to dig deeper into why Cher didn’t like the spot.

“Do you like chicken nuggets?” Dimoldenberg asked.

“Not at all,” Cher quickly replied. “I have been inundated.”

According to Rolling Stone, she chickened out and didn’t eat a single piece during their chat. She also wasn’t a big fan of the fries either, saying that she thought they “were sh*t” in the video’s intro.

Throughout the rest of the discussion, Cher described that her secret to not having her heart broken that much was because she’s “cute.” She also answered what period of her life she would want to travel back in time for.

“I would go back to when I was forty,” Cher shared. “It was pretty good. I had fabulous boyfriends.”

Check out Cher’s interesting Chicken Shop Date above.