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Not too long ago, famous lipstick wearer Lauren Boebert inadvertently reminded people that she has a GED while pushing back at the idea of student loan forgiveness. Over the weekend, Boebert voluntarily reminded everyone of that GED because it was a useful reference while she criticized Kamala Harris’ public speaking skills.

Of course, Boebert misses the point while believing that her GED is why people pile onto her on a regular basis. She has frequently trashed education to the point where she called to abolish the entire education department. And given that she only acquired her GED a mere few months before being elected to Congress, her interest in pursuing it probably had little to do with actual learning. She’s also stepped in on previous occasions by proposing a lot more time for lawmakers to read bills, so there’s that.

“The same people who will try and knock me for having a GED think this lady represents intelligence and eloquence,” Boebert tweeted. “Whoever paid for her education wasted their money.”

People were quick to come for Boebert, not because she has a GED but because of her behavior as an elected official. She’s frequently combative, hops to conclusions, and launches into false equivalencies at the drop of a rootin’ tootin hat. And she may be ignoring replies on Twitter, but users let her know that the GED is definitely not the issue here.

And less tweeting and more debt-ceiling talk resumes… soon?

Nearly a year after his tragic passing, Ray Liotta‘s cause of death has been revealed. TMZ reports that the Goodfellas actor died from “respiratory insufficiency, pulmonary edema — a.k.a. fluid in his lungs — and acute heart failure.” Liotta also suffered from “atherosclerosis — a thickening of the arteries caused by a buildup of plaque in the inner lining — something that often leads to diabetes and other health issues.”

Liotta was only 67 years old when he died on May 26, 2022, in the Dominican Republic, where he was filming a movie.

“I’m absolutely shocked and devastated by the sudden, unexpected death of Ray Liotta. He was so uniquely gifted, so adventurous, so courageous as an actor,” Goodfellas director Martin Scorsese said about his star. “Playing Henry Hill in Goodfellas was a tall order, because the character had so many different facets, so many complicated layers, and Ray was in almost every scene of a long, tough shoot. He absolutely amazed me, and I’ll always be proud of the work we did together on that picture. My heart goes out to his loved ones, and it aches for his loss, way too early.”

Liotta will posthumously appear in Fool’s Paradise, the directorial debut from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia star Charlie Day, and horror movie The Substance, alongside Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley.

(Via TMZ)

When it comes to Australia, Azealia Banks isn’t feeling the love.

In a series of Instagram Stories shared yesterday (May 7), Banks wrote about how her recent single “New Bottega” was handled in Australia, claiming a “piss poor remix of my master track” was released over there instead of the preferred version. She writes more about the song and her record contract before going after Australia and its music industry more generally.

“I don’t think they realize how unimportant they are as far as music culture goes because they’re deluded with the idea that their whiteness makes Australia an A Market, when it’s truly a C-D market,” Banks said. “Brazil is a MUCH more important market for music than australia lmao. (this is mostly because Australia has an an extreme dearth of internationally appetizing talent outside of Kylie minogue , INXS & AC/DC, {tame impala is just cheesy to me, and wolfmother is excellent – but clearly an American rock tribute band}.”

She continued, “Australia doesn’t really have many music acts that anyone truly cares about on a global scale because they’re in a vacuum of off-brand British culture,” noting she thinks they have “actually created one of the most culturally stale white nations on the planet.”

Read Banks’ full posts below.

“Sidebar: I’m reading this article in the Guardian about the ever dwindling and insignificant Australian music industry and have SO MANY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS, but the delusions of the Aussie music execs quoted in this article is f*ckkkng astonishing and making it clear to me how sheer jealousy, racism and desperation allowed @sweatitoutmusic to purposely sabotage a bonafide hit in lieu of their fragile fragile egos and DESPERATE attempts to try and steal my IP. The Australian music industry is so devoid of internationally appealing talent they literally harrased, threatened, menaced and corruptly stole my IP. Let’s take a deep dive.

the version of my song New Bottega, the Australians released as The final composition is actually a piss poor remix of my Master Track , and should not be titled ‘New Bottega’.

There’s no language stating that any ‘left over ideas’ do not belong to me. Because they essentially treated the fully mixed mastered single as a discard, when they had it in their possession the entire time, the song splits were not papered once done,
and they have nothing with my signature confirming ‘New Bottega’ as the song that qualifies the parameters of the initial contract.

They left it as ‘TBD’ which was stupid on their part. So they basically denatured my intellectual property, cherry picked what they wanted from it and fraudulently presented it to the world AS the song EYE wrote. And they released it, so that is the only version of the song they have claim to. My Sony atv deal explicitly states that I am not allowed to assign control of my publishing/vocals etc to any entity. Again I was very f*cking sick when I signed the deal and really just signed it so They would stop calling me at 2am and let me rest. The fact that they are steadfast on trying to have ownership over something that is going to make them no money without my involvement is asinine. They fact that they are so obsessed with owning my vocals but adamant about treating me poorly and adamant about not investing in such a massive song (the tik tok stats and best of year end lists literally proved that the product works, what’s the point in changing it?) is literal stupidity. Whatever remix they released is not ‘New Bottega.’ So they don’t have the right to title their remix track as such. ‘New Bottega’ is my intellectual property, and time has proven that these aussies have zero clue how to market this song, absolutely no knowledge of the big business that is American female rap, or how to engage with Azealia Banks and leverage the power of her already established international fanbase to their advantage… here I am LITERALLY telling them how to get my fans excited- and they re taking it an insult.

For the record. ‘New Bottega’ by Azealia Banks Is a hiphop record. It is not a dance record. Categorizing it as a dance record was their first wrong marketing move. Clearly -There is a cultural dissonance here. HipHop is the most profitable genre of music in the world right now. EDM is f*cking dead For people so thirsty to try and own the rights to my vocals , you’d THINK they had some huge money play to go along with all of the empty and baseless threats to sue me. (lmao, can’t sue me for not participating in promoting garbage.) if they were good crooks – they would have at least kept their racism under wraps long enough to have taken my photo and shot a video to have assets to promote their bullshit with) For all of the dsp c*cksucking @sweatitoutmusic did in effort to try and prove to me that their marketing strategy was better than mine – registering it as a dance song Was the most anti-algorithmic sh*t an algorithm dickrider could have done. F*cking stupidity.

Australia’s media /music /entertainment industry isn’t exactly heralded by the heads of government or anyone in the world as a coveted cultural export, I don’t think they realize how unimportant they are as far as music culture goes because they’re deluded with the idea that their whiteness makes Australia an A Market, when it’s truly a C-D market. Brazil is a MUCH more important market for music than australia lmao. (this is mostly because Australia has an an extreme dearth of internationally appetizing talent outside of Kylie minogue , INXS & AC/DC, {tame impala is just cheesy to me, and wolfmother is excellent – but clearly an American rock tribute band}

Australia doesn’t really have many music acts that anyone truly cares about on a global scale because they’re in a vacuum of off-brand British culture. Could be do to with it being geographically so out of the way and how aggressive, barbaric, oppressive and violent they have been in regards to the very existence of native black peoples that they’ve actually systematically stomped out their country’s own ability to develop its own music/arts culture – to instead look to England and the USA for ideas to regurgitate not realizing that the reason the Australian music industry and Australian culture is so trash is BECAUSE of their country’s historical post colonial obsession with I guess, trying to prove to England and the Monarchy that they -a legion of convicts/mentally insane social rejects – were in fact a proper white/Anglo-saxon society – using the massacre/ subjugation of black/indigenous peoples (manifest destiny bullshit) and theft of their land as a marker of national strength

But they have actually created one of the most culturally stale white nations on the planet.

The fact that these aussie music execs are COMPLETELY OVERLOOKING THE CORRELATION BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENTS PURPOSEFUL ETHNIC CLEANSING OF NATIVE PEOPLES AND THEIR INABILITY TO PRODUCE MUSIC ANYONE ANYWHERE CARES ABOUT IS F*CKING COMEDY .

Someone has GOT to tell the Australian music industry that Absolutely no one on earth takes it seriously. Like, they HAVE to understand how untalented/uncultured and unneeded they are to the greater global arts community, realize musical talent is just not in the gene pool, and redirect those funds to the aboriginal peoples of the continent and just pack their shit up and go back to Europe. LMAO. Y’all stomped all the blackness out of Australia – which is why your music exports suck and we don’t feel bad for you lmfaooooooo.”

Game 4 between the Suns and Nuggets featured some unbelievable individual performances, as Devin Booker and Kevin Durant each scored 36 points on hyper-efficient shooting to lead Phoenix to a win to even the series as they dueled with Nikola Jokic, who scored 53 points, all night.

The shot-making in the game was outrageous on both sides, with the stars of each team knocking down contested shot after contested shot, with each defense left scrambling to figure out what the answers were. The Suns happened to get more from their role players, headlined by Landry Shamet’s hot shooting, which proved to be the difference in sending the series back to Denver tied at 2-2, setting up a pivotal Game 5 on Tuesday night.

While the shot-making stands out, there is a bit of a lingering question as to whether the league will hand down any further punishment to Jokic after he got into an odd altercation courtside with Suns owner Mat Ishbia. After Josh Okogie crashed into the stands, the ball ended up in Ishbia’s lap and Jokic came running over to retrieve it and try to get the ball in with a man advantage. Ishbia and Jokic wrestled over the ball, with it popping into the row behind, and then Jokic gave a little shove with his elbow to the Suns owner, who flopped into his seat.

The referees reviewed the play and handed out a technical foul to Jokic, which Tony Brothers explained after the game was because Jokic “deliberately gave him a shove and pushed him down.” Given that language, the league will certainly look into it further and while unlikely — and something no one should want to see — it’s possible a suspension could be handed out.

After the game, Michael Malone and Nikola Jokic both pushed back at there being a technical given out in the first place, insisting it was “the fan” who initiated everything. Neither was aware it was the Suns new owner, but neither cared about that detail — with Malone saying “I don’t give a sh*t” when told that’s who it was.

As for Jokic, he felt the altercation was initiated by Ishbia, saying the league was supposed to protect the players and noting he thought a fan was supposed to get kicked out if they try to influence the game — which he felt Ishbia did by holding onto the ball and stopping Jokic from getting it to inbound it.

It was a truly bizarre moment in an otherwise thrilling game, and I must say, it would’ve been fairly hilarious to see what would’ve happened if the NBA had try kicking Ishbia out of the game in his arena. We’ll find out Monday whether the league has any further comment on the incident or punishment for either side, but one would hope the technical would suffice as enough punishment and we can get Game 5 at full strength. The star duel in this series has been phenomenal and watching Jokic go up against Booker and Durant has been a highlight of the postseason so far, and it’d be incredibly deflating to not get to see that continue in Game 5.

Last week’s Succession began with a Logan Roy jumpscare, and this week, the siblings began by attempting to not screw the entire media empire up. Well, except for Shiv, who was playing both sides by giving Lukas Matsson the inside scoops ahead of the takeover closure. Some damaging information about Matsson (who’s apparently not even a coder, via his head of comms) and his financials did slip out, but amid that valuable insight, everyone in this show was fighting.

Beyond Kendall’s semi-showdown with Matsson (and not everything came out there), three big arguments stood out, and viewers were both fueled and destroyed by them. First, we received a Rava sighting, and she read Kendall the riot act over what a terrible parent he is: “I was raising our daughter while you were f*cking running a racist news organization.” Rava might be the character on this show who’s most capable of speaking the truth.

Next up? Gerri telling Roman how it’s gonna be after he attempted to pretend that he didn’t really fire her, and if he doesn’t let her control her own narrative: “I will sue and go public… with the many, many pictures of your genitalia.”

And finally, we have the “scorpion” (Shiv) and the “snake” (Tom). The episode began with them enjoying breakfast amid their sexual reunion, but then Tom broke out the most subliminally toxic present he could manage.

The peace could never last. The scorpion ended up being foreshadowing for when those stingers came out in a balcony fight. Years of their pent-up anger spilled out with the betrayal and the almost-prison sentence in the mix, along with Shiv’s accusation of him “f*cking me for my DNA.” It was exhausting to witness, but break out the Emmys already.

HBO’s Succession airs on Sundays at 9:00pm EST.

The first half of Game 4 between the Suns and Nuggets saw the high level shot-making we expected from the stars of this series from the outset, with Jamal Murray and Nikola Jokic both having it going for Denver, while Kevin Durant and Devin Booker stayed hot after a terrific Game 3 for Phoenix.

However, the late second quarter saw a stoppage of play for a review in one of the most bizarre scenes this season. After Josh Okogie crashed into the front row going for a loose ball, the ball ended up in the lap of new Suns owner Mat Ishbia. Nikola Jokic ran over to grab the ball and try to inbound it quickly while Denver had an advantage, so he tried to rip it out of Ishbia’s hands and then gave him a shove with his left elbow starting a mild kerfuffle.

The referees went to the monitor to review, and Jokic was given a technical foul for the shove — it was probably good it was Ishbia and not a random fan or else it could’ve become a real altercation — while a fan who was near the scene was ejected for something he said or did.

Ishbia, a former Michigan State basketball player, sells it with what might be the first owner flop in league history, but at the same time Jokic has to just chill out a little bit and not go trying to rip the ball out of a fans hands while they’re all just trying to get another player off the front row. We’ll see if the T ends up being significant, as the Suns finished the half up two thanks in part to the free point from Jokic’s altercation with Ishbia, but a player-owner scuffle was not on the bingo card for anyone coming into Sunday night.

Sunday’s AdventHealth 400 at Kansas Motor Speedway was not without excitement, as Denny Hamlin took the checkered flag over Kyle Larson and William Byron in a race with double-digit caution flags and some post-race fireworks.

Late in the race, Ross Chastain and Noah Gragson got into it on the track, with Gragson getting bumped up the track into the wall and then coming down the track to nudge Chastain — ultimately leading to Gragson having to come into the pits and bringing out the race’s 10th caution.

After the race, Gragson went over to talk with Chastain about the incident and things got heated. Gragson grabbed Chastain’s fire suit which led to Chastain throwing a right cross that landed on Gragson, whose efforts to return punches got broken up.

The dust-up happened in the middle of an interview with Larson about his second place finish, but he couldn’t help but get distracted by what he was seeing on the monitor in front of him, trailing off mid-answer to take in the fisticuffs with a big smile on his face.

Larson wasn’t the only driver who wanted to take in the spectacle, as race winner Denny Hamlin had reporter Bob Pockrass pull up the video to show him after his press conference.

I think a number of drivers were hoping to see Chastain end up on the worst of the fight, as Kyle Busch laid into Chastain earlier in the race after an incident of their own on track.

Chastain hasn’t endeared himself to too many in the pits, and he and Gragson work fairly closely as two Chevy drivers. They’ll have some things to work out after their rumble in Kansas and one expects that won’t be the last altercation we see Chastain get in given his driving style.

Game 4 between the Sixers and Celtics in Philadelphia became an overtime thriller that saw James Harden (who brought a special guest to the game) and Jayson Tatum taking turns knocking down big shots, with Harden’s Sixers escaping with a 116-115 win to tie up the series at 2-2 going back to Boston.

The Sixers offense was dreadful for most of the fourth quarter, as they scored four points in the first eight minutes to allow Boston to claw their way back from nine down to move in front by two with just under four minutes to go in the game. Philadelphia stalled offensively, as they stopped playing with pace and allowed Boston to set its defense, which stymied both Harden and Joel Embiid, with the MVP in particular struggling with Al Horford who blocked him three times in the fourth quarter.

After the unlikeliest of heroes, PJ Tucker, got an and-1 to tie the game, Boston went back in front with a pair of Marcus Smart free throws, setting up a situation where Philly would need to manufacture a bucket in the halfcourt. Harden, who had been their only real offensive threat all game, was able to do just that, tying the game at 107-107 with a floater in the lane to give him 39 points in regulation.

A Smart three went begging at the end of regulation, sending the game to overtime where a very similar script played out. Boston pushed in front as the Sixers struggled to create offense, but Embiid was finally able to break the seal off the basket with a fading shot to cut the deficit to one.

A pair of Embiid free throws pushed the Sixers back in front by one (after his first go-ahead bucket was negated by a questionable charge the possession prior), but that was short-lived as Tatum got away with a discard to free himself for a go-ahead three.

On the next possession, Embiid drove the lane and the Celtics defense collapsed on him, leaving Harden wide open in the corner for what became the game-winning three.

Boston, as they did to end regulation, decided to play it out rather than call timeout to set up a play, but ran too much time off the clock before getting into their action. By the time Tatum started the offense, there were just five seconds on the clock and when Philly crashed on his drive, he kicked out to Smart who this time hit his open look from three — but didn’t get the shot off in time.

It was a rather fitting end to the game given how both offenses really slowed down in the closing stretch, with neither team able to create easy offense down the stretch of the fourth or in overtime. Still, Boston will have to feel like they let a golden opportunity to take full control of this series, as they had multiple looks to win in a game they played pretty terribly for most of three quarters. Jaylen Brown had 23, but 12 of that came in the first quarter as he kept Boston afloat early but faded to the periphery down the stretch. Tatum, who had just two in the first half after an 0-for-8 start, finished with 24 points, 18 rebounds, and six assists, but the Celtics were just not quite able to ever fully take control of the game when they had opportunities to.

On the other side, Embiid finished with 34 points and 13 rebounds, finding just enough offense in overtime to give Harden the assistance he needed to close out the game after a rough fourth quarter from the MVP. Harden, after two no-shows in Games 2 and 3, once again dusted off a vintage performance, scoring 42 with nine assists, eight rebounds, and four steals, as he was sensational for the second time in this series — which have coincided with both Philly wins. The Sixers late-game offense was concerning, but it’s not a particularly new issue for them, as when they slow down and defenses set in front of them, they have a tendency to take a lot of difficult shots. Still, gutting out this win will give them plenty of belief they can win this series, but they’ll need Harden to be close to his best as he was on Sunday to pull off the upset.

Lizzo feels Nickelback gets “way too much sh*t” from the public regarding their music. However, according to the band, one person can attest to the less-than-ideal conditions they’ve had to power through. Frontman Chad Kroeger and guitarist Ryan Peake caught up with journalist Narduwar to share the hilarious story.

During their chat, the musicians discussed their humble beginnings as budding musicians. As the group hit the road, hoping to grow their name, their first drummer quit for a relatively simple yet understandable reason. Brandon Kroeger, Chad’s cousin, initially filled the post; however, after seeing how Chad gauged Stabbing Westward’s “pinnacle of comfort” tour bus in 1996, Brandon knew he wasn’t cut out for the band life.

“They were on tour opening up for KISS, and they came to town on this brand-new, huge tour bus… And we we had never been on a tour bus before. We were a van band,” Chad recounted.

The singer continued, “We’d gone back and forth across Canada a ton of times in a van pulling a trailer. We were talking to one of the guys, and they were super nice, and I was like, ‘Dude, we’re a van band. Would you be at all into showing us what the inside of the tour bus looks like?’”

“And Brandon was drumming for us at the time — my cousin [Brandon] stepped foot on Stabbing Westward’s tour bus — and this thing was gorgeous. All I kept thinking was, ‘This is where I want to be. I want to get into a tour bus. Brandon looked at it and thought, ‘I don’t want to live like this.’ That was the catalyst right there,” confessed the musician.

Watch the full video above.

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

Doja Cat often speaks about her desire to quit music. Whether the “Women” rapper is joking or not is unknown. However, over the past few weeks, Doja Cat has taken to Twitter to share updates on the new music she’s working on. In March, the musician revealed the working title for her forthcoming album, Hellmouth. Shortly after, she shared the project’s direction, proclaiming, “No more pop,” letting fans know it is solely a rap project.

Now, fans believe that her Hellmouth is moving along quickly after Doja Cat was spotted filming a music video in downtown Los Angeles. In the clip, Doja Cat is recorded fiercely walking down South Broadway as a team of videographers films her.

Although fan pages have claimed the footage is from late April, no further information is known about the filming. As for Doja Cat’s forthcoming album, the entertainer has shared snippets of tracks set to make the final project. The Grammy Award-winner even shared the album’s tracklist.

“I also agree with everyone who said the majority of my rap verses are mid and corny. I know they are. I wasn’t trying to prove anything. I just enjoy making music, but I’m getting tired of hearing yall say that I can’t, so I will,” said Doja on social media, referring to the pending project.