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Is Donald Trump trying to get thrown in the slammer? It sure sounds like it. Last weekend the former president kept breaking rules against talking about his ongoing court cases, specifically the one involving the Jan. 6 riot. But that’s not the only case he’s been inflaming. Earlier this week the big guy spread a bizarre rumor about Georgia D.A. Fani Willis, who may be hitting him with his fourth indictment. But first she had to publicly decry Trump’s claim as BS.

As per The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (as caught by Raw Story), the Fulton County district attorney shot down Trump’s reckless claim that she had slept with either a gang leader or a gang member. In an email to her colleagues, Willis called the allegation “derogatory and false.”

What’s more, she told those working in the Fulton County D.A. office to basically not engage the trolls.

“You may not comment in any way on the ad or any of the negativity that may be expressed against me, your colleagues, this office in the coming days, weeks or months,” Willis wrote in the email. “We have no personal feelings against those we investigate or prosecute and we should not express any.”

She added, “We have a job to do. In this office, we prosecute based on the facts and the law. The law is non-partisan. You should feel no need to defend me.”

Should Willis hit Trump with yet another indictment, she may be giving him what he wants. He’s said that each indictment raises, not lowers, his standing in GOP primary polls. How they fare with non-Republican voters, though, is another matter.

(Via Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Raw Story)

Turnstile‘s rise came quickly. Glow On, their third studio album, was a highlight of 2021 and brought them a slew of opportunities. They were nominated for three Grammys, they collaborated with Taco Bell, they performed on late-night television for the first time, and they played beer pong with Post Malone and Dua Lipa.

They’re not done. The group often proudly reps their hometown, and they did so on Tuesday, August 8, when they threw the first pitch at the Baltimore Orioles game against the Houston Astros. The band all stood on the field and guitarist Pat McCrory made the throw.

Earlier this year, members of Turnstile also made a song called “Listening” for the viral sketch comedy series I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson.

About Glow On, bassist Franz Lyons told Uproxx, “I’m very grateful, but whether the whole world was paying attention or not, if this was fun and it was paying the bills and keeping us happy, in our heart and in our mind, I wouldn’t even care who was listening,” he said. “We’ve been doing it for 10 years, and I just turned around yesterday and realized where we were at. It just kind of feels like another day.

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

Turnstile‘s rise came quickly. Glow On, their third studio album, was a highlight of 2021 and brought them a slew of opportunities. They were nominated for three Grammys, they collaborated with Taco Bell, they performed on late-night television for the first time, and they played beer pong with Post Malone and Dua Lipa.

They’re not done. The group often proudly reps their hometown, and they did so on Tuesday, August 8, when they threw the first pitch at the Baltimore Orioles game against the Houston Astros. The band all stood on the field and guitarist Pat McCrory made the throw.

Earlier this year, members of Turnstile also made a song called “Listening” for the viral sketch comedy series I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson.

About Glow On, bassist Franz Lyons told Uproxx, “I’m very grateful, but whether the whole world was paying attention or not, if this was fun and it was paying the bills and keeping us happy, in our heart and in our mind, I wouldn’t even care who was listening,” he said. “We’ve been doing it for 10 years, and I just turned around yesterday and realized where we were at. It just kind of feels like another day.

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

There was a time when sharing your streaming login was a sign of mutual respect and friendship. It was a way to slowly integrate socialization into your space by means of asking “hey, can I get your ____ password again?” For some, it was the only social interaction they ever got. For others, it was a reminder to write down important passwords. Those days are no more, thanks to the current crackdown on password-sharing. The latest culprit is the house of mouse itself, Disney.

Disney CEO/head and Ron DeSantis foe Bob Iger announced that Disney+ would be restructured with a price increase and a new policy for password sharing. “We are actively exploring ways to address account sharing and the best options for paying subscribers to share their accounts with friends and family,” Iger said in the company’s earnings call (via IGN) this week.

Iger continued, “Later this year, we will begin to update our subscriber agreements with additional terms and our sharing policies. And we will roll out tactics to drive monetization sometime in 2024.” Be sure to watch every DCOM now before those passwords get changed.

In addition to the new agreements, Disney+ and Hulu are also getting steep price increases. Starting October 12th, Disney+ Premium will increase from $10.99 to $13.99 a month. Hulu without ads will increase from $14.99 to $17.99 a month. For those of us who don’t mind all of those ads, the price for Disney+ and Hulu’s ad-supported tiers will still be bundled at $9.99 per month, but you have to watch a bunch of commercials for Kraft singles, which might be a dealbreaker.

Several streaming services are also on the price-increase path of late, so perhaps these Disney+/Hulu hikes were inevitable.

(Via IGN)

There was a time when sharing your streaming login was a sign of mutual respect and friendship. It was a way to slowly integrate socialization into your space by means of asking “hey, can I get your ____ password again?” For some, it was the only social interaction they ever got. For others, it was a reminder to write down important passwords. Those days are no more, thanks to the current crackdown on password-sharing. The latest culprit is the house of mouse itself, Disney.

Disney CEO/head and Ron DeSantis foe Bob Iger announced that Disney+ would be restructured with a price increase and a new policy for password sharing. “We are actively exploring ways to address account sharing and the best options for paying subscribers to share their accounts with friends and family,” Iger said in the company’s earnings call (via IGN) this week.

Iger continued, “Later this year, we will begin to update our subscriber agreements with additional terms and our sharing policies. And we will roll out tactics to drive monetization sometime in 2024.” Be sure to watch every DCOM now before those passwords get changed.

In addition to the new agreements, Disney+ and Hulu are also getting steep price increases. Starting October 12th, Disney+ Premium will increase from $10.99 to $13.99 a month. Hulu without ads will increase from $14.99 to $17.99 a month. For those of us who don’t mind all of those ads, the price for Disney+ and Hulu’s ad-supported tiers will still be bundled at $9.99 per month, but you have to watch a bunch of commercials for Kraft singles, which might be a dealbreaker.

Several streaming services are also on the price-increase path of late, so perhaps these Disney+/Hulu hikes were inevitable.

(Via IGN)

Even though Stephen King is the go-to name when you think of bringing spooky stories to the big screen, Harlan Coben has been quietly but consistently churning out chilling tales for over 30 years, and those have just recently been getting their own theatrical adaptations. The author has a few Netflix titles in the works, but his latest adaptation is Shelter, is heading to Amazon Prime later this month. Take that, Pennywise!

Based on the best-selling novel of the same name, Shelter is a mystery/drama series centered around a group of teens who begin to uncover some hidden secrets that have plagued their town. The book series consists of three other novels that follow the main protagonist, Mickey.

Here is everything we know so far about the upcoming series.

Plot

Shelter follows teen Mickey Bolitar and his group of misfit friends as they try to solve a series of disappearances in their small town. Sound familiar? Mickey’s life gets even more complicated when his new crush disappears without a trace. The gang then encounters a mysterious old woman who claims that Mickey’s dead father is actually alive, and suddenly the whole town begins to unravel.

Cast

The series stars Jaden Michael as Mickey Bolitar, Constance Zimmer as Shira, Adrian Greensmith as Arthur “Spoon” Spindell, Abby Corrigan as Ema, Tovah Feldshuh as Bat Lady (that’s what they call the scary old woman, of course), Sage Linder as Rachel, and Brian Altemus as Troy. Coben himself executive produces.

Release Date

The series will debut on Prime on August 18th, with new episodes available each Friday, leading up to the season finale on September 22nd.

Trailer

(Via Variety)

Even though Stephen King is the go-to name when you think of bringing spooky stories to the big screen, Harlan Coben has been quietly but consistently churning out chilling tales for over 30 years, and those have just recently been getting their own theatrical adaptations. The author has a few Netflix titles in the works, but his latest adaptation is Shelter, is heading to Amazon Prime later this month. Take that, Pennywise!

Based on the best-selling novel of the same name, Shelter is a mystery/drama series centered around a group of teens who begin to uncover some hidden secrets that have plagued their town. The book series consists of three other novels that follow the main protagonist, Mickey.

Here is everything we know so far about the upcoming series.

Plot

Shelter follows teen Mickey Bolitar and his group of misfit friends as they try to solve a series of disappearances in their small town. Sound familiar? Mickey’s life gets even more complicated when his new crush disappears without a trace. The gang then encounters a mysterious old woman who claims that Mickey’s dead father is actually alive, and suddenly the whole town begins to unravel.

Cast

The series stars Jaden Michael as Mickey Bolitar, Constance Zimmer as Shira, Adrian Greensmith as Arthur “Spoon” Spindell, Abby Corrigan as Ema, Tovah Feldshuh as Bat Lady (that’s what they call the scary old woman, of course), Sage Linder as Rachel, and Brian Altemus as Troy. Coben himself executive produces.

Release Date

The series will debut on Prime on August 18th, with new episodes available each Friday, leading up to the season finale on September 22nd.

Trailer

(Via Variety)

Elon Musk is no longer the richest person in the world, but he can still afford any fines he’s acquired by being a reckless chaos agent. One such punishment is only now being made public: Earlier this year, Twitter, back when it was still called that, was fined a ton of money because they dragged their feet on turning over Trump data to the feds.

As per The Washington Post, in March special counsel Jack Smith requested the former president’s Twitter records, in relation to the case involving the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, which later nabbed him his third indictment. The social media giant was not against the idea of turning over Trump’s records. What they did oppose, though, was a gag order preventing them from alerting Trump.

Alas for Twitter owner Elon Musk, lower-court judge Beryl Howell did not agree with him, saying she would fine them $50,000 a day, with the catch that the fine would double every day they didn’t comply. Twitter caved three days later, at which point the total fines had amassed to $350,000.

During an appeal the following month, Howell argued that there were “reasonable grounds to believe” that letting Trump know about the search warrant “would seriously jeopardize the ongoing investigation.” Howell said that doing so would give him “an opportunity to destroy evidence, change patterns of behavior, [or] notify confederates.”

In June, the gag order was lifted, with the stipulation that Trump would not be informed which of his many cases had inspired the search warrant.

This information was made public after the court appellate ruling was unsealed on Wednesday.

The ruling does not reveal which Twitter records Smith had sought, but they could have included draft tweets and direct messages. In the lead-up to the Jan. 6 riot, Trump was one of the social media platform’s more prolific famous users.

Shortly after that big day, he was permanently banned from its coffers. That ban was lifted shortly after Musk took over in late 2022, but he has yet to return, instead preferring to get himself in legal trouble on his own rinky-dink clone of the service he once adored.

After learning the news about the search warrant, Trump had a predictably chill response on Truth Social.

“Just found out that Crooked Joe Biden’s DOJ secretly attacked my Twitter account, making it a point not to let me know about this major ‘hit’ on my civil rights,” he wrote. “My Political Opponent is going CRAZY trying to infringe on my Campaign for President. Nothing like this has ever happened before. Does the First Amendment still exist? Did Deranged Jack Smith tell the Unselects to DESTROY & DELETE all evidence? These are DARK DAYS IN AMERICA!”

Or maybe these aren’t?

(Via The Post)

Elon Musk is no longer the richest person in the world, but he can still afford any fines he’s acquired by being a reckless chaos agent. One such punishment is only now being made public: Earlier this year, Twitter, back when it was still called that, was fined a ton of money because they dragged their feet on turning over Trump data to the feds.

As per The Washington Post, in March special counsel Jack Smith requested the former president’s Twitter records, in relation to the case involving the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, which later nabbed him his third indictment. The social media giant was not against the idea of turning over Trump’s records. What they did oppose, though, was a gag order preventing them from alerting Trump.

Alas for Twitter owner Elon Musk, lower-court judge Beryl Howell did not agree with him, saying she would fine them $50,000 a day, with the catch that the fine would double every day they didn’t comply. Twitter caved three days later, at which point the total fines had amassed to $350,000.

During an appeal the following month, Howell argued that there were “reasonable grounds to believe” that letting Trump know about the search warrant “would seriously jeopardize the ongoing investigation.” Howell said that doing so would give him “an opportunity to destroy evidence, change patterns of behavior, [or] notify confederates.”

In June, the gag order was lifted, with the stipulation that Trump would not be informed which of his many cases had inspired the search warrant.

This information was made public after the court appellate ruling was unsealed on Wednesday.

The ruling does not reveal which Twitter records Smith had sought, but they could have included draft tweets and direct messages. In the lead-up to the Jan. 6 riot, Trump was one of the social media platform’s more prolific famous users.

Shortly after that big day, he was permanently banned from its coffers. That ban was lifted shortly after Musk took over in late 2022, but he has yet to return, instead preferring to get himself in legal trouble on his own rinky-dink clone of the service he once adored.

After learning the news about the search warrant, Trump had a predictably chill response on Truth Social.

“Just found out that Crooked Joe Biden’s DOJ secretly attacked my Twitter account, making it a point not to let me know about this major ‘hit’ on my civil rights,” he wrote. “My Political Opponent is going CRAZY trying to infringe on my Campaign for President. Nothing like this has ever happened before. Does the First Amendment still exist? Did Deranged Jack Smith tell the Unselects to DESTROY & DELETE all evidence? These are DARK DAYS IN AMERICA!”

Or maybe these aren’t?

(Via The Post)

For the first time in ten years, HARD Summer returned to Los Angeles for a sprawling event that took over Exposition Park this past weekend. It was a welcome return to the city where HARD was born, beginning in 2007 and expanding to its regular Summer, Halloween, and one-off events over the years. But after a decade in the I.E., it was time for HARD to return home, anchored by a headline B2B set from Skrillex and Four Tet, and featuring the likes of Kai Wachi, IsoXO, Amémé, Kid Cudi, and many more. The talent was predictably world-class, but that’s only a part of HARD’s story.

Having run this event for as many years as they have, HARD has also mastered the logistics necessary for a successful event. Reports from the ground praised the overall safety and organization of the festival footprint, the food options, and curation. Scheduling meant that some tough choices had to be made, particularly with the big-ticket artists, but this is often necessary to prevent overcrowding at certain stages.

Short of experiencing HARD in person, the below photos will have to do to give you a solid case of FOMO. HARD will surely be back, so make sure not to miss out next time.

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.