According to right-wing media watchdog group, TheRighting, Comscore data for Truth Social shows a significant drop in users over the past two months. Trump’s site reportedly reached a peak high of 4.02 million visitors in August, and it’s been downhill from there. In September, Truth Social was down to 3.38 million, and by October it was sitting at 2.85 million visitors. That’s a loss of 1.17 million visitors, over a quarter of its peak high numbers.
Why the sudden drop? The most likely reason is even diehard MAGA users are getting tired of Trump, and he may retreat back to Twitter, which has been turning into right-wing love-fest thanks to Elon Musk. Via Confider:
“It suggests a decreasing interest in what Trump is saying on his platform,” Howard Polskin, a lifelong media vet and founder of TheRighting, told Confider. “If the numbers keep declining, he may be tempted to go back to Twitter to reach a much larger audience.”
Of course, Trump might not be able to return to Twitter without triggering claims of securities fraud. Truth Social is in the middle of a merger deal that could go south if Trump bails on the platform after convincing investors that it would be the exclusive home for his social media presence. Then again, caring about laws or investigations has never been Trump’s strong suit, so literally anything can happen if he’s not getting the attention he craves from Truth Social’s shrinking user base.
It turns out Drake’s flurry of activity this year — releasing Honestly, Nevermind in the wake of his 2021 album Certified Lover Boy, then following up with the surprise release of Her Loss with 21 Savage just a few months later — was all part of a plan. Although the albums may seem to be unrelated to each other and vary in their approaches and sounds, Drake says that thematically, they form a trilogy that follows the dissolution and aftermath of a relationship — a common subject in his music as a whole.
In an interview that found its way to Twitter via audio clips, Drake calls Her Loss the conclusion of this trilogy and compares it to a middlingly popular millennial jam, “No Pigeons” by Sporty Thievs, which was a spiteful response to TLC’s “No Scubs.” “We got CLB, Certified Lover Boy, that was like, ‘I’m trying my best to make her love [me], I’m chasing you,’” he explains. “And then Honestly, Nevermind is the realization that maybe that lifestyle is not for me.”
Finally, he says, “Then Her Loss is like ‘No Pigeons.’”
Elsewhere in the interview, Drake calls Her Loss one of his top five albums, but there seems to be some disagreement among his fans.
Singer Kim Petras is calling for divine intervention after a series of tweets landed her in hot water. At a time when the Grammy-nominated pop star should be celebrating her breakout year, thanks to the success of her No. 1 single, “Unholy” with Sam Smith, Petras is now finding herself at odds with her fans online.
In a heated exchange with one Twitter user, Petras stood by her decision to continue working with music producer Dr. Luke, despite the sexual misconduct allegations he has faced against fellow musician Kesha, Katy Perry, and Lady Gaga.
The now-deleted tweet read, “Five million people work with him. Why y’all only coming at me? I have nothing to say or be ashamed of at all. Go away.”
Kim Petras defends her decision to work with Dr. Luke, the alleged rapist of Kesha, in a now deleted tweet.
Supporters of the “If Jesus Was A Rockstar” singer were shellshocked by her statement. On several occasions, Petras said her opinion on the allegations against Dr. Luke has wavered due to their close friendship but eventually she supported assault survivors.
Back in 2018, during an interview with i-D, Petras shared, “While I’ve been open and honest about my positive experience with Dr. Luke, that does not negate or dismiss the experience of others or suggest that multiple perspectives cannot exist at once. I didn’t communicate this clearly in the past.”
Petras made it clear she needed to untether herself from Dr. Luke professionally stating, “It’s time for me to be my own person, and do my own sh*t,” adding, “It definitely took a little courage for me to do that right now.”
Since deleting the tweets, Kim Petras has remained silent online and as award season approaches and Petras continues work on her upcoming project, it is probably for the best.
Cardi B recently opened up about how her and her husband, Offset, are coping following the loss of his cousin and Migos member, Takeoff, earlier this month. In a now-deleted voice note that Cardi shared on Twitter, she noted that people should stop “trying to be funny to get clout” while the couple are grieving.
“We living our life normally, but deep down inside, our hearts have been so heavy,” she said. “I feel like if I talk about the incident so desensitized, I feel like if we talk about how we really feel or what motherf*ckers really been going through, y’all will start saying, ‘Oh, sympathy,’ and we don’t want no sympathy. We ain’t no charity case. But no lie, I have been feeling so hopeless trying to make my husband happy.”
The Bronx rapper went on to detail just how hard she’s working to make her husband feel better during these tough times. In her own words, just because fans see them together on her Instagram Stories doesn’t mean they know the full story.
“Trying to make him crack a smile, f*cking seeing him randomly cry, see him trying to distract his mind completely, f*cking schedules been changing, trying to keep up with work after everything that he’s been going through these past couple of weeks,” Cardi added. “Stop f*cking playing.”
Cardi B speaks on feeling hopeless trying to help Offset after the passing of his cousin Takeoff.
“I been feeling so hopeless trying to make my husband happy, he no longer smiles… seeing him randomly cry.. I am heartbroken” pic.twitter.com/1lskk52aVr
Ever since federal agents raided Mar-a-Lago back in August to retrieve boxes full of stolen classified documents that Donald Trump (illegally) took with him when he left the White House, the former president hasn’t been able to successfully pick a lane as to his defense. On a good day, Team Trump might allow that maybe, possibly, some classified documents might have gotten mixed up in his personal belongings when he was hastily packing. Other times, Trump swears he declassified the documents with his mind. But on Monday, as Raw Story reports, Trump essentially just outright confessed to stealing the documents, and lying about it.
Trump was off on one of his now-regular TRUTH Social tears when he suddenly — and presumably accidentally — revealed the reality of the situation while playing the victim card. The target of Trump’s tirade was Jack Smith, the new special counsel tasked with investigating the former president’s many indiscretions. But it was Trump himself who ended up being on the losing end of this one-sided dialogue in which he raged:
This fully weaponized monster, Jack Smith, shouldn’t be let anywhere near the political persecution of “President Donald J. Trump.” I did nothing wrong on January 6th, and nothing wrong with the Democrats’ fix on the Document Hoax, that is, unless the six previous Presidents did something wrong also….
….When will you invade Bill and Hillary’s home in search of the 33,000 emails she deleted AFTER receiving a subpoena from the U.S. Congress? When will you invade the other Presidents’ homes in search of documents, which are voluminous, which they took with them, but not nearly so openly and transparently as I did?
“Not nearly so openly and transparently as I did?”
Oopsie!
Mary McCord, the DOJ’s assistant attorney general for national security from 2016 to 2017, pounced on Trump’s message right away and pointed out that this admission really negates his ability to try and go back to his whole “I believed these documents belonged to me” BS.
“So, even if there was a Pollyannaish defense, he has destroyed it with his own changing of stories,” McCord said. “I think he is going to say his defense to what he said today in that Truth Social post is ‘Oh, no — again I do everything transparently and openly, of course, it wouldn’t be anything I had any knowledge of that was unlawful.’ … But at some point, that just doesn’t hold up anymore.”
Andrew Weissmann, former FBI general counsel and prosecutor who worked with Robert Mueller’s team, added that: “With Donald Trump, one of the things that you have learned through history and you know is a posture is… this is never about the actual facts.” But Weissmann, too, believes that Trump just inadvertently changed the rules of the game by brazenly stating that he took the documents and knew that they were classified (two things he hasn’t always admitted to).
“He seems to be saying, ‘Oh, I, openly and notoriously took these documents, but I believed they were my personal documents,’” said Weissmann. “That the mere act of taking them from the White House sort of magically transmogrified them to be my personal documents. That is belied by the fact that, of course, he didn’t have the power and he has said inconsistent things with that latest defense as has his lawyer, where they agreed that these were documents that belonged to the Archives. So, again, I think again I think it’s really important to remember that this is not at all about the actual facts. It is really Donald Trump engaging and media relations, and it’s going to hurt him at trial.”
As with all things Trump, his words and his actions don’t always match up — so only time will tell how his slip-up might affect his future defense.
Yesterday (November 28), Vanity Fair shared its sixth annual “same interview” with Billie Eilish. This time around, Eilish did something a little different: Early in the taping, she posted an Instagram Story asking her followers for questions. Later in the segment, Eilish scrolled through the many responses, was delighted by the quality of them, and answered a few.
At 11:56 into the video, she started with the question, “least favorite song of your own?” Eilish immediately answered with “Watch,” from her 2017 debut EP Don’t Smile At Me. As for her favorite show of her current tour, she took a second to think and answered, “Boston.” When asked how many songs she’s working on, she replied, “One, currently.”
Somebody asked for the year during which Eilish has experienced the most growth and she answered, “I’ve changed more from the beginning of this year until now than I have in the last, like, five years. I mean, honestly.” She also named her favorite band (“I think I gotta just say The Beatles”), revealed if she’s ever smoked weed (she hasn’t), if she wants to have kids (she does), and if she’s “truly happy” (“I think so”).
Check out the full Vanity Fair interview video above and listen to “Watch” below.
Port City/Clown Shoes/Ommegang/Modern Times/istock/Uproxx
Ever since famed Vermont brewer John Kimmich brewed the first New England-style IPA back in 2004 (Heady Topper, for those wondering), we’ve been in love with this hazy, juicy, tropical fruit-filled IPA style. I remember the first time I ever drank a hazy IPA and how the creamy flavor and sweetness, while still having a nice (yet not bitter) hops presence, knocked my proverbial socks off.
West Coast IPAs, get their bitterness from adding more hops during the boil stage at high heat, thus bringing more biting, sometimes aggressive bitterness. And while there’s a time and place for dank, piney West Coast IPA action, I find myself craving a ride on the fruitier, sweeter side far more often. New England-style IPAs get their juicy flavors from having hops added after the boil and during the fermentation process. (You’re also likely to find a lot of dry-hopping to add even bolder flavors.)
In the years since Heady Topper started an IPA revolution, the style has become increasingly popular, leaving the confines of Vermont (although many breweries there still make their own hazy IPAs) far behind. Craft breweries from Petaluma to Palm Beach have made their fair share of these juicy, hazy bangers. As have some of the largest, most popular breweries in America. And while Sierra Nevada and its iconic Hazy Little Thing always hits the spot, want to take a look at some of the lesser-known, underrated hazies out there.
From Belching Beaver to Modern Times and even Port City, today the smaller brands get their due. To do this, I picked eight underrated hazy IPAs and nosed, tasted, and ranked them. Keep scrolling to see how everything turned out.
The List:
Belching Beaver Hazers Gonna Haze
Modern Times Orderville
Sweetwater H.A.Z.Y. IPA
Clown Shoes Rainbows Are Real
Heretic Make America Juicy Again
Terrapin High and Hazy
Port City Hazy IPA
Ommegang Neon Rainbows
Part 1: The Taste
Taste 1
Christopher Osburn
Tasting Notes:
Aromas of tangerine, pineapple, sweet malts, and just a hint of dank pine are prevalent on the nose. The palate is loaded with orange, pineapple, grapefruit, caramel malts, and gentle hoppy bitterness. The finish is a mix of bitter dryness and tropical fruit juice.
Taste 2
Christopher Osburn
Tasting Notes:
Tropical fruit galore on this beer’s nose with mango, peach, and dank pine taking center stage. The palate is slightly more exciting with notes of pine needles, grassy hops, dank, citrus, and slightly floral flavors. The aroma was fruity, but the palate is a little more hop-centric, spicy, and floral than I personally prefer.
It lacks the juicy, fruity element most hazy IPAs have.
Taste 3
Christopher Osburn
Tasting Notes:
Grapefruit, orange peel, mango, peach, and spicy, floral hops are found on the nose. The palate keeps this trend with more citrus peels and juicy tropical fruit flavor. But the dank, slightly piney, bitter hops make a big appearance at the backend, making this is different beer than its hazy appearance would make it seem.
Taste 4
Christopher Osburn
Tasting Notes:
The nose has a mix of bready malts as well as tangerine, pineapple, mango, and citrus rinds. It’s inviting, but sadly the palate is thinner than expected with dank pine, tangerine, and sweet malts making the most noteworthy appearances. It’s sweet, dank, and juicy, but more watery than anticipated.
Taste 5
Christopher Osburn
Tasting Notes:
It starts with a nose of lemongrass, orange pulp, and lime zest and delves into bready malts, and earthy, floral, slightly dank pine. Drinking it reveals notes of caramel, slight pepper, biscuit-like malts, as well as tangerine, grapefruit, mango, and gentle, pleasing hop bitterness at the finish.
Taste 6
Christopher Osburn
Tasting Notes:
The aroma is dank pine, tangerine, pineapple, mango, and grassy, earthy hops. The palate is slightly herbal with notes of dank pine, earthy, grassy, slightly spicy hops, orange, pineapple, mango, and ripe peaches. The finish has a slightly bitter, citrus kick that leaves you wanting more.
Taste 7
Christopher Osburn
Tasting Notes:
A nose of wet grass and bright citrus starts off great. The problem is there’s nothing else noticeable on the nose. The palate continues this trend with some melon rind, pineapple, tangerine, and sweet tropical flavors. The finish is sweet with very little bitterness.
Overall, not a bad beer. It’s just a little sweet and one-dimensional for my liking.
Taste 8
Christopher Osburn
Tasting Notes:
Complex aromas of lemon peels, orange pulp, mango, and pineapple are notable on the nose. The flavor, while propped up with tangerine, lime, grapefruit, and juicy tropical fruit flavors, also has a nice sweet, malty backbone and a lightly bitter, piney finish. A truly complex hazy IPA.
This 5.8% hazy IPA is brewed with 2-row malts, wheat, and flaked oats. It gets its hoppy, citrus-filled flavor profile from the addition of Citra, Simcoe, and Idaho 7 hops. To add to that, it’s dry-hopped with even more Citra, Simcoe, and Idaho 7 hops at the end of the brewing process.
Bottom Line:
If you enjoy very sweet citrus-filled hazy IPAs, this is the beer for you. Otherwise, keep looking for something with a little more balance and complexity.
This highly complicated hazy IPA is brewed with 2-row malts, oats, and wheat as well as Mosaic, Citra, El Dorado, and Azacca hops. It’s dry-hopped with Mosaic, Citra, El Dorado, Azacca, and additionally Simcoe hops.
Bottom Line:
This is the kind of New England-style IPA you’ll likely start your journey with and then eventually move on to something bolder and more flavorful. Rather unexciting.
We all know that rainbows are real, we just didn’t know that we wanted to drink them until right now. This hazy IPA proves it with a mix of sweet malts and Mosaic, Citra, and Azzaca hops. The addition of the terpenes Beta-Pinene and Linalool gives it extra juicy, bright flavors.
Bottom Line:
If you’re more of a West Coast IPA fan who is looking to try a hazy IPA, this is a great beer for you. If you prefer beers that more resemble orange juice than beer, this isn’t the one for you.
This 7.2% ABV hazy IPA is brewed with two-row and optic malts. It gets its fruity, juicy flavor from Mosaic hops as well as a bunch of unlisted “dank” hops. The result is a juicy, fruity, slightly dry hazy IPA that appeals to all IPA fans.
Bottom Line:
This is an interesting beer. It doesn’t know whether it wants to be a sweet, juicy tropical hazy IPA, or a piney, slightly bitter West Coast IPA.
This 6.5% ABV hazy IPA is a comic, beer-centric take on a phrase we’ve all heard many times in the last few years. It gets its tropical fruit, citrus, and slight bitterness from Mosaic, Citra, and the lesser-known Belma hops.
Bottom Line:
This beer looks like it will be an absolute juice bomb. But it’s not and that’s okay. There are more bitter, floral, dank hops than many hazy IPA fans will be prepared for. Drink it anyway, You’ll be glad you did.
This year-round, 6.8% ABV hazy IPA was brewed to have a complex mix of caramel malts and juicy tropical and citrus fruits. It’s loaded with flavors like mango, ripe peaches, orange peel, and just the right amount of hop bitterness.
Bottom Line:
While I love a great juicy, hazy, tropical fruit-filled New England-style IPA. I can also understand the appeal of a hazy IPA balanced between citrus, tropical fruits, malts, and bitter hops.
This juicy, fruity, complex hazy IPA is unfiltered and brewed with London ale yeast before being double dry-hopped with Mosaic, Citra, Simcoe, Centennial, and Topaz hops.
Bottom Line:
While this beer does has a complex, well-balanced flavor profile, it also has a more tropical and citrus-based juicy, creamy flavor than some of the other hazy IPAs on this list.
You absolutely know what you’re going to find when you crack open a beer called Hazers Gonna Haze. Brewed with 2-row malts, flaked oats, and malted oats as well as Citra, Mosaic, and Galaxy hops, it’s known for its hazy, juicy, citrus, and tropical fruit-forward flavor.
Bottom Line:
This hazy IPA ticks all the boxes. It’s filled with tropical fruit and citrus flavors but has enough dank, earthy pine to appeal to all IPA drinkers. It’s a truly well-rounded, memorable beer.
Part 3: Final Thoughts
While balance is the name of the game when it comes to most beers, for hazy IPAs I usually look for massive juice bombs. And while Ommegang Neon Rainbows faired quite well, I was surprised to see a more piney, slightly bitter, hoppy beer take the top spot over some sweeter, juicier beers. That’s a testament to the craft of that brew — surpassing my own personal preferences!
Will Smith continued to open up about the now infamous moment at the Oscars where he walked onstage and slapped Chris Rock after the comedian made a joke about his wife. By candidly discussing how he failed as a human being, Smith is hoping to protect his upcoming film, Emancipation, from being overshadowed by the viral assault. The actor received a hand in that department from The Daily Show‘s Trevor Noah, who actually made Smith cry by being so gracious.
“[There are] many nuances and complexities to it, you know, but at the end of the day, I just, I lost it, you know,” Smith confessed to Noah. “I guess what I would say, you just never know what somebody’s going through.”
As Smith expanded on the personal journey he’s been on since slapping Rock onstage, Noah shared that he pushed back on a friend who called him and said that what everyone saw that night was the “real Will Smith.” Via The Hollywood Reporter:
The Daily Show host continued that things were becoming “relentlessly shi*ty” and Smith reacted for the first time.
“It was a lot of things,” the actor said. “It was the little boy that watched his father beat up his mother, you know, is that you know, all of that just bubbled up in that moment. You know, I just that’s not who I wanna be.”
When Noah told Smith he thinks he made a mistake and doesn’t think that’s who the actor is, The Daily Show audience cheered, and Smith began tearing up.
Smith agreed that he pushes himself too hard, and he’s been humbled by the experience that’s forced him to grapple with the fact that he’s human like everybody else.
“I’ve always wanted to be Superman,” he told Noah. “I’ve always wanted to swoop in and save the damsel in distress, you know. And I had to humble down, you know, and realize that I’m a flawed human, and I still have an opportunity to go out in the world and contribute in a way that fills my heart, and hopefully helps other people.”
Spain’s annual Primavera Sound music festival unveiled the 2023 lineup today, and it does not disappoint. Next year’s bill includes Halsey, Kendrick Lamar, Rosalía, Calvin Harris, Depeche Mode, and another Blur reunion appearance. Hosted between Barcelona’s Ciudad de Rock (June 1 to 3) and Madrid’s Parc Del Forum (June 8 to 10), the acts will mainly remain the same for both weekends as the fest aims to stick to a “mirror” theme this year.
Other notable acts include Ghost, FKA Twigs, Måneskin, St. Vincent, The War On Drugs, Turnstile, Pusha T, Caroline Polachek, Maggie Rogers, Japanese Breakfast, Bleachers, Baby Keem, and many more.
“Look for yourself in the Primavera Sound 2023 line-up… and find yourself,” a statement read, via Billboard. “Because we assure you that you are there. After twenty editions, the festival is the mirror in which the community that will come from near and far to Barcelona and for the first time to Madrid next June looks at itself and recognizes itself, but after everything it has experienced, this reflection goes in two directions, marking the richest musical itinerary we can think of: Primavera Sound also looks for and finds itself in its own audience.”
Tickets for the two weekends of 2023’s Primavera Sound festival are available to buy beginning December 1. There are also options for VIP packages and one-day passes. More information is available via the official website.
Continue scrolling to view the full lineup.
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Jesse Eisenberg has worked with some of the best directors around, including David Fincher, Noah Baumbach, and whoever directed Now You See Me, the best movie I’ve ever seen about magicians who commit bank heists. Now, Fleishman Is in Trouble star is making his directorial debut with When You Finish Saving the World. The A24 comedy-drama stars Julianne Moore as Evelyn, who runs a shelter for survivors of domestic abuse. At home, she struggles to relate to her teenage son, Ziggy (Finn Wolfhard), who has a large online following for playing “classic folk rock with alternative influences.”
You can watch the trailer above. Here’s the official plot synopsis:
Evelyn (Julianne Moore) has devoted herself to helping people in hard times, but she struggles to connect with her son Ziggy (Finn Wolfhard), an aspiring internet star oblivious to the problems of the world. As Evelyn attempts to become a parent figure to an unassuming teenager she meets at her shelter, and Ziggy fumbles through his pursuit of a brilliant and politically conscious young woman at his high school, this emotional comedy reveals a funny and sharply perceptive portrait of a mother and son who may seem at odds but who are more alike than either would care to admit.
When You Finish Saving the World opens in theaters on January 20th.
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