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A popular Chipotle quesadilla hack is getting the official treatment! The hack in question is a simple one: adding fajitas to a quesadilla. You’d think this would be something already on the Chipotle menu, considering fajitas make everything from the burrito to the bowl better, but it’s not. The quesadilla itself is a digital menu exclusive, so getting it customized is always kind of a pain because the app doesn’t even give you the option to add fajitas.

This means you have to add it to the notes section of your order and hope whoever is building your quesadilla listens, or worse, go into a Chipotle and try to convince them to do it for you even though, again, the quesadilla is a digital exclusive. (Brands, we shouldn’t need an app to get your dumb food.)

The point is that for whatever reason Chipotle makes doing something incredibly simple difficult for everyone involved. Well, that all changes in March when the fajita-packed quesadilla officially joins the digital menu (ugh, f*cking Chipotle), saving us (and the employees) the trouble of you trying to hack the menu. The way the grilled onions and bell peppers add savory, vegetal, and sweet notes to the quesadilla will make it so that you’ll never be able to have that plain ‘ol meat and cheese quesadilla ever again.

Might this be the best new addition to the Chipotle menu since that guajillo steak and pollo asado? Yes. Now if only we could get a guajillo steak or pollo asado fajita quesadilla. Make it happen, Chipotle! And don’t make us go online to get it!

Seeing a whale in the wild can be a moving experience for many people. That’s why thousands of people pay money to go on whale-watching excursions, hoping to catch a glimpse of the gentle, majestic, intelligent creatures in their natural habitat.

Lucky whale watchers get to catch much more than a glimpse, and some even see a whale breach up close. But very, very few ever get to see anything close to what a recent group of tourists on a whale-watching cruise off Dana Point, California, got to witness.

Boats are required by law to stay at least 100 yards away from whales, but if a whale approaches a boat when it’s stopped, there’s not a whole lot a captain can do. Starting up the engine would just disturb it, so the best thing to do is just enjoy the encounter.

In this case, when a gray whale swam near a Capt. Dave’s Dana Point Dolphin & Whale Watching Safari tour boat, passengers and crew thought they might be witnessing something tragic. The whale was splashing about and was soon surrounded by blood in the water. Some speculated that maybe a shark or other predatory animal had attacked the whale.

As it turned out, they were witnessing the miracle of life—it was a mama giving birth to a baby gray whale.

Twitter user Jeremy Theisen shared a video of the event, and though it’s difficult to see what happens, you can hear the people on the boat wondering what was happening before it became clear.

u201cPart 2 – Mom and baby @DolphinSafari @NatGeou201d

— Jeremy Theisen (@Jeremy Theisen)
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Capt. Dave’s shared drone footage of the exciting moments after the birth as the calf learned to swim and the mama seemed to show off her newborn to those who witnessed the event.

“This is a first for all of us. We’ve never actually seen it happen,” Capt. Gary Brighouse can be heard saying, according to WXXI News.

Captain Dave’s shared in a statement on YouTube:

“After surfacing, the newborn calf began learning how to swim and bonding with its mother. The female even brought the calf over to the boats as if to show off her offspring and say hello.

Gray whales prefer to give birth in the warm and protected lagoons of Baja California, Mexico. The lagoons offer safety from predators such as orcas, as well as warm water for calves who have not yet built up a thick layer of blubber.

Although some gray whales do give birth in Baja, there are times when calves just won’t wait and are born during the migration. Gray whales migrate annually along the U.S. west coast, swimming 10,000 to 12,000 miles round-trip. It is one of the longest migrations of any mammal. The whales travel from their feeding grounds in the Bering and Chukchi Seas near Alaska to the mating and birthing lagoons of Baja, and back again.”

Alisa Schulman-Janiger runs the Los Angeles chapter of the American Cetacean Society’s Gray Whale Census and Behavior Project, which tracks the migration patterns of whales along the coast. She told NPR that the footage of the birth and immediate aftermath was “astounding” and a windfall for researchers.

“The fact that you can see the blood pool means the calf must have just come out,” she said. “That isn’t something that is seen very often or documented often. In fact, I don’t know if there’s any other video footage of something like that.”

Schulman-Janiger explained how the mama whale was holding the calf up so it could rest and breathe and that they exhibited typical bonding behavior. She said she wished she had been there, adding: “It’s extraordinarily rare and really, really special for people to be able to share in those first few moments of a young whale’s life. A whale could get to be 50, 60, 80 years old. And this is just the beginning of that calf life.”

What an incredible thing to witness.

In 2020, most parents got a crash course on bringing their kid to work, when work was suddenly at the kitchen table. Overnight, the roles of work and parenting collided, notwithstanding that for some parents this is the norm due to high child care costs or other life circumstances. Rep. Jimmy Gomez, D-Calif., is making sure that families don’t get lost in the shuffle in the U.S. House.

The congressman’s family came into Washington, D.C., from California to watch him get sworn in on January 3. But when things took a bit longer due to the prolonged speaker vote, Gomez felt it was important for his son to be on the floor with him when he cast his historic vote for Hakeem Jeffries. Jeffries will be the first Black minority leader in the House.

Bringing your baby to work can be a challenge, whether you work from home, in an office or in Congress. Babies may be little bundles of joy but if you miss their feeding time they become hungry bundles of anger. And Gomez’s 4-month-old son, Hodge, was on a strict feeding schedule so he knew things could get a bit more complicated. It didn’t discourage his decision.

Gomez told Today, “His feedings are at 7 in the morning, then four hours later at 11, then again at 3, then at 7 o’clock at night. He’s an alarm clock. At three hours he starts getting fussy and cranky, and that’s when you have to keep him occupied because once he gets to three and a half hours, that’s when he gets really upset.” But the working dad did what he had to do to make it work and when it was his turn to cast his vote, he had a message for the House.

u201cOn behalf of my son Hodge and all the working families who need an expanded #ChildTaxCredit.nnI cast my vote for Hakeem Jeffries.u201d

— Rep. Jimmy Gomez (@Rep. Jimmy Gomez)
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When his name was called, Gomez stood with Hodge strapped to his chest in a baby carrier. The representative cast his vote for Jeffries saying, “On behalf of my son Hodge and all the working families who need an expanded Child Tax Credit, I cast my vote for Hakeem Jeffries.” Fellow Democrats applauded and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., gave baby Hodge a belly rub, after all, the moment was a big one for a 4-month-old.

The Child Tax Credit is a tax benefit for families that have children under the age of 18 that can reduce the amount of federal taxes they owe and often result in a tax refund at the end of the year for lower income and middle class families. At the height of the pandemic when families were spending more time at home, putting an additional financial burden on already struggling families, the federal government began giving advanced Child Tax Credits.

These advanced tax credits came in the form of a monthly monetary deposit, which improved the livelihood of families across the country. The American Rescue Plan extended the Child Tax Credit to families that normally wouldn’t qualify due to their income level by raising the credit from $2,000 to $3,000 for children 6 to 17 and from $2,000 to $3,600 for children under the age of 6.

u201cBack at it again. #Day2 #118thCongressu201d

— Rep. Jimmy Gomez (@Rep. Jimmy Gomez)
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That’s all fantastic news, right? It would be but the expanded Child Tax Credit ended in December 2021, which is why Gomez called special attention to it when he cast his vote. Ending the expanded credit catapulted 3.7 million children back into poverty, according to the Center on Poverty and Social Policy.

Once the House elects a speaker, members can revisit the expired expanded tax credit, and Gomez did his part to ensure that his colleagues don’t forget. Here’s hoping the next time baby Hodge has to come to work with dad, it’s a lighter work day. Sitting in the House chambers voting on things seems like a pretty tough job for a baby.

In 2023, there are a lot of reasons not to like Airbnb. What was once a unique way to experience your travel destination is now… kind of wack when compared to a good ‘ol hotel. Where did Airbnb go wrong? That’s easy, it’s the hosts. If you’re an Airbnb host, this might be hard for you to hear but: You. Are. All. Kinds. Of. Nuts.

We understand you’ve probably been burned by shitty guests in the past, but the fees, the rules, the random pop-ins, that ominous feeling you give off that makes it feel like you’re watching us — it’s turning the public off and driving us back into hotels because hotels know how to f*ck off and let us live without asking anything of us aside from cold hard cash.

We know your gripes, Airbnb hosts, but remember — “That’s what the money’s for!” If you can’t handle that… Maybe you weren’t cut out to be a mini-hotelier?

This conversation bubbled a number of times over the past year and people are having it again now, after a recent post by Twitter user and writer Jeremy Gordon — who fired off a tweet over the weekend that has since been viewed over 7 million times. That post has become a peg for people to roast the Airbnb brand (again).

Getting compared disfavorably to a Holiday Inn is not a good look, but Gordon has a point, with everything that the typical Airbnb stay requires of its “guests” the Holiday Inn, with its low prices and privacy, feels like a f*cking godsend. Airbnb clearly needs to revamp its whole model and if the brand is scratching its head over how to do that, we gathered up some of the best tweets in response to Gordon’s post that highlight everything the brand is doing wrong.

Even though Rooney Mara had everyone rallying behind her as Mark Zuckerberg’s ex-girlfriend in The Social Network, the actress was pretty close to ending her movie career just before she landed that iconic role.

While speaking on LaunchLeft, Mara said that one experience, in particular, made her rethink her career goals. “A few years before [The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo], I had done a Nightmare on Elm Street remake, which was not a good experience. I have to be careful with what I say and how I talk about it,” Mara began.

Though Mara didn’t go into details about what exactly went on, it was enough for her to feel like she didn’t want to pursue acting anymore unless she found a project that she felt was worth it. “It wasn’t the best experience making [Nightmare] and I kind of got to this place, that I still live in, that I don’t want to act unless I’m doing stuff that I feel like I have to do. So after making that film, I kind of decided, ‘Ok, I’m just not going to act anymore unless it’s something that I feel that way about,” she explained.

That mentality lasted only a few months until she was cast in The Social Network. Mara says that director David Fincher was the sole reason that she ended up in the movie and subsequently continued acting. “[David] had to fight really hard for me to get the part because the studio didn’t want me for it. It was a definite real turning point in my life and my career.” Mara then went on to lead Fincher’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo which Mara earned an Academy Award nomination, no thanks to Freddy Kruger.

(Via Variety)

Lola Índigo is unleashing the dragon in her “Corazones Rotos” music video . On Friday (January 6), the Spanish pop star released the dark video for her new dance track featuring Luis Fonsi.

El Dragón is the name of the upcoming album from Índigo. For the album’s third single, “Corazones Rotos,” she teamed up with Puerto Rican superstar Fonsi. Among pulsating house music beats, Índigo and Fonsi trade verses about drinking away heartbreak in the club. In the post-breakup banger, the two singers prove to be a dream duo that is ready to shake off the bad vibes.

For the “Corazones Rotos” video, Índigo leans fully into her El Dragón album era persona. First, she is shown sulking at home from heartache. Índigo is later portrayed as a fallen angel with arrows in her back. The tattoo of dragon wings on her back becomes real wings by the video’s end. After partying with Fonsi in the club, she spreads her massive wings on top of a car.

Índigo started teasing her El Dragón album last year with the track “An1mal.” She later joined forces with Argentine singer María Becerra for the second single “Diskoteca.” In 2021, Índigo achieved global success with the girl power anthem “Niña De La Escuela” featuring Tini and Belinda.

The original 2009 Avatar movie and the new Avatar: The Way Of Water film are both major hits. Box office numbers don’t lie. Regardless, there have been questions about what cultural impact the series (the first movie, more specifically) has actually had. Of course, this discourse is all subjective, but if Avatar didn’t have impact, then why is Lizzo on the beach doing Na’vi thirst traps?

In a TikTok video shared today (January 9), the right half of the frame shows a female Na’vi walking on the beach. On the left is Lizzo, doing a spot-on imitation of the character in a clip that was Avatar-ized with a video filter. She later shared another video of herself with the filter, enjoying some time in the water. “tell James Cameron I’m ready…,” she captioned the second video.

Hey, James Cameron: Lizzo is ready.

Speaking of Cameron, he addressed the “cultural impact” conversation in a recent interview, saying, “There’s skepticism in the marketplace around, ‘Oh, did it ever make any real cultural impact? Can anybody even remember the characters’ names?’ When you have extraordinary success, you come back within the next three years. That’s just how the industry works. You come back to the well, and you build that cultural impact over time. Marvel had maybe 26 movies to build out a universe, with the characters cross-pollinating. So it’s an irrelevant argument. We’ll see what happens after this film.”

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

Bob Saget died one year ago today. On the anniversary of his passing, the Full House star’s wife, Kelly Rizzo, tweeted at Twitter CEO Elon Musk with a request. “Hi @elonmusk — today on the 1 year anniversary of Bob’s (@bobsaget) passing, I saw he’s no longer verified? My husband truly loved Twitter. Out of respect for his legacy, can something be done? Thank you kindly (friends, please help),” she wrote.

In a follow up, Rizzo added, “And the only reason I’m addressing this at all is because I know Bob would be very bummed about this. He’d say “hey, if someone goes to see my page and all the jokes I’ve tweeted over the years, how will they know it’s for sure me!?”

It’s not only Saget’s jokes that need to be verified. It’s his love of Fetty Wap.

And Rihanna.

And Yo Gotti.

“6 months without my best friend, my travel buddy, my loving husband. 6 months without your silliness, laughter, music, cuteness, caretaking, sharp wit, thoughtfulness, cuddling, and warmth,” Rizzo wrote on the six-month anniversary of Saget’s passing. “But it’s also been 6 months of looking for silver linings, learning how to brave the world without you, 6 months of care and compassion from so many who love you, 6 months of getting even closer to your magical daughters and trying to all be strong together.”

After an entire week of voting that lasted late into Friday night and almost resulted in a fist fight on the House floor, Kevin McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker of the House in a fraught process that could fall apart any moment thanks to the large number of concessions he made it to Matt Gaetz and a handful of Republican holdouts. However, one of those holdouts was not Marjorie Taylor Greene who continued to back McCarthy throughout the entire process and is now facing fire from the more fringe elements of the GOP that, normally, she’d be in lockstep with.

Case in point, Greene appeared on Charlie Kirk’s show on Monday where she defended her vote for McCarthy, but also made it a point that she was doing exactly what Donald Trump told her to do, so everyone should maybe back off.

Via Raw Story:

“I just also need to remind everyone, while people are mad at me, President Trump endorsed and supported Kevin McCarthy,” Greene said. “Jim Jordan endorsed, supported, voted for and nominated Kevin McCarthy.”

“So, people that are overly mad at me, I shouldn’t be your punching bag,” she added. “Be very clear-eyed about what this is and I’ll continue to prove exactly who I am through my actions and not my words and emails, social media posts and interviews on television.”

In Greene’s defense (from the crazies who don’t think she’s crazy enough), she’s already embroiled in another controversy. The congresswoman posted a video of herself triumphantly walking around Congress as “Still D.R.E.” plays in the background. “It’s time to begin… and they can’t stop what’s coming,” Greene captioned the video.

There’s just one small problem. She never cleared the song’s use with Dr. Dre who wanted nothing to do with her.

“I don’t license my music to politicians, especially someone as divisive and hateful as this one,” Dre told TMZ. Shortly after, the video was pulled from Twitter for a copyright violation. That’s the ol’ Marj we know and love.

(Via Raw Story)

Following the recent controversy of throwing a fan’s phone, Bad Bunny appears to be taking a step back. Today (January 9), the Puerto Rican superstar shared the cryptic message: “You’re going to miss me.”

Bad Bunny started off 2023 in a storm of controversy. Last week, a video went viral of the singer tossing a fan’s phone after they were in his face trying to take selfies with him. Bad Bunny responded to the backlash from the incident by calling the fan’s behavior “a lack of respect.”

Now Bad Bunny’s actions on social media appear to be hinting at taking a break. He set his Instagram account that boasts over 44.9 million followers to private. Over on Twitter, Bad Bunny deleted his statement about tossing the fan’s phone. He changed his bio to read: “Me van a extrañar,” which translates to “You’re going to miss me” in English. Bad Bunny also changed his profile photo on Twitter to a picture of Bart Simpson.

After his record-breaking year thanks to the success of his Un Verano Sin Ti album, Bad Bunny previously said that he would be taking a break in 2023. Maybe the mysterious moves on social media could be leading up to the announcement of his rumored headlining spot at Coachella this year. Hits Daily Double released a report that named Bad Bunny, Blackpink, and Frank Ocean as headliners for the upcoming festival.