Two years ago, when we were all still trying to make sense of what our futures would look like in the wake of the pandemic, The War On Drugs appeared on The Tonight Showwith Jimmy Fallon. They performed an unreleased song called “Oceans Of Darkness,” but as was the custom in those times, each of the band’s members were in their respective homes and playing the tune on Zoom. It was a gorgeous glimmer of hope through music and now, “Oceans Of Darkness” is out as one of two new additions (along with “Slow Ghost”) to the deluxe edition of I Don’t Live Here Anymore.
The deluxe album is streaming now and a vinyl box set edition will be out on September 30th featuring an art book with photos, a poster, a 7″ record of “Oceans Of Darkness” and “Slow Ghost,” and other goodies. Singer Adam Granduciel of The War On Drugs — who are currently on tour — shared a statement about making “Oceans Of Darkness” and the circumstance that led up to it’s eventual release today:
“One night in LA, while we were many months into working on what would be I Don’t Live Here Anymore, Dave [Hartley] uncovered a stripped down demo in my dropbox called ‘Oceans Of Darkness,’ and insisted we try recording it. We were frustrated and exhausted at the time, but we set up in a circle after dinner and worked it out as the tape was rolling. It’s rare that a song of ours could feel this complete after only a few takes, but it had all the desperation and urgency that we had been looking for. Ultimately I didn’t include it on the record because I couldn’t find a home for it among the other songs. We’re happy we can share it with you now.”
You can listen to “Oceans Of Darkness” above and “Slow Ghost” below.
I Don’t Live Here Anymore (Deluxe Edition) is out now via Atlantic Records. Listen to it here.
The War On Drugs is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Middle school has to be the most insecure time in a person’s life. Kids in their early teens are incredibly cruel and will make fun of each other for not having the right shoes, listening to the right music, or having the right hairstyle.
As if the social pressure wasn’t enough, a child that age has to deal with the intensely awkward psychological and biological changes of puberty at the same time.
Jason Smith, the principal of Stonybrook Intermediate and Middle School in Warren Township, Indiana, had a young student sent to his office recently, and his ability to understand his feelings made all the difference.
The child was sent to the office for refusing to remove his hat in class. “So, I sat down with him and asked him why, what was going on,” Smith told WRTV. “He said he just got his haircut, he didn’t like the way it looked, and he thought his hairline look a little funny.”
Having a haircut that’s a little off can be like waving a red flag at middle school bullies. So, Smith decided to fix the situation by offering the child a haircut.
“I’ve been cutting hair most of my life. I played college basketball and I cut my teammates’ hair before games and I’ve been cutting my son’s hair for 17 years so I had professional clippers and edgers at home, so I said, ‘If I go home and get my clippers and line you up, will you go back to class,’ and he said, ‘Yeah, I will,'” Smith said.
A photo of the cut was posted to Facebook where it’s been seen over 21,000 times.
After Smith fixed the child’s hairline, the student kept up his end of the bargain and returned to class.
“You know that age is a time for peer acceptance. It’s huge. And So a young man, especially an African-American young man the barbershop is a big deal in the community. Looking good a representing and presenting yourself is huge for kids,” Smith said.
A few days later, Smith posted a photo on Facebook of some memorable cuts he’s given in the past. “Who knew a skill that helped me survive in college would be useful 20 years later?” he captioned the post.
via Jason Smith / Facebook
Smith saw the situation as a way to help the child in the moment instead of having to resort to disciplinary actions. From the child’s perspective what’s worse — being ridiculed in front of your peers or having a parent get angry?
“We’re not disciplining with a hard fist. You could call and have the parent pick up the kid up for defiance. Or you can sit and get to the root of the problem and see what can I do to help you? What do you need right now?” Smith said.
Imagine what the world would be like if more people simply asked each other, “What do you need?”
“He really was not trying to get out of class. He just thought that he would be laughed at. So, we took the time and did what we could to help him,” Smith said.
Smith recently posted a quote by professor Brené Brown on Facebook that serves as a great reminder of the practical power of solving problems at the root through compassion and direct action. “Leaders must either invest a reasonable amount of time attending to fears and feelings, or squander an unreasonable amount of time trying to manage ineffective and unproductive behavior.”
Like many spirits, the tequila marketplace is dominated by big names. We’re talking the likes of Don Julio, Jose Cuervo, and Patrón. Those tequila brands (and some other big hitters) are popular for many reasons. They produce high-quality tequilas, they brand well, and they’re available almost anywhere. But while we’ll throw back a Patrón shooter or enjoy a glass of Don Julio any day of the week, we also like to broaden our horizons whenever possible.
That’s why we decided it was time to seek out some lesser-known, underrated tequilas. Luckily, with the popularity of the spirit in recent years, there are a lot of brands and expressions just waiting to be discovered. To find some of these hidden gems, we turned to the professionals for help — asking a handful of well-known distillers and spirits experts to tell us their picks for the most underrated tequilas to drink right now.
Keep scrolling to see all of their sweet agave picks!
La Gritona Reposado
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Melissa Katrincic, founder of Conniption Gin in Durham, North Carolina
I am going to highlight La Gritona Reposado Tequila based on word of mouth and my admiration of a fellow woman owner and distiller, Melly Barajas. Like my team here at Durham Distillery being majority women, Melly built and runs her distillery with a team of only women in Jalisco. Their meticulous processes ensure their tequila’s reputation for quality and authenticity. She also supports her local community by donating the agave remnants to local farmers for cattle feed, and she uses hand-blown recycled Mexican glass for her bottles.
Espolòn makes the best value tequila, and I’m a big fan of value especially when it comes to tequila. The tequila is very mixable, but I don’t necessarily recommend drinking it straight. It’s really at the right price point if you’re going to make or order a mixed cocktail. Especially, the always reasonably priced Espolòn Blanco is made with 100% Blue agave to give it a vegetal sweet, clean flavor profile that mixes well.
Lalo Blanco. There is such a great lineage of distillers behind Lalo, starting with Don Julio. I’ll take that over a celebrity endorsement any day. No additives, no barrels, no BS, just plain world-class, excellent tequila. It’s highlighted by simple, clean flavors like cooked agave, vanilla, and light spices.
Ayate Añejo is my pick because it’s a really smooth sipping tequila. It also has a great-looking bottle and design for your shelf. It’s underrated because they don’t have different profiles or expressions, so they’re focused on just the aged tequila. In addition, the founders were winemakers originally, so the product is produced in Mexico and then aged in chardonnay barrels on the West Coast which produces a sweet and oaky flavor.
Even though they’re not heavily represented in the market, I like it and we serve it at the restaurant.
Santo Tequila Mezquila
Santo Tequila
Jackie Zykan co-owner and whiskey blender at Hidden Barn Whiskey in Sparta, Kentucky
Santo tequila. Don’t let the frosted tips celebrity endorsement fool you. Every expression is balanced and well structured, capturing the quintessential profile of clean, quality-made agave spirits. A personal favorite of mine is their Mezquila. Try it in a Paloma, thank me later. This blend of mezcal and tequila is sweet, smoky, and surprisingly complex.
I’m a big fan of tequilas that have a robust flavor that is true to its origins. You can taste the flavors and aromas in Hiatus Tequila without the bite that’s associated with tequila, therefore it’s smooth in a cocktail but also great on its own. Since the owner lived in Mexico for several years, the brand is developed the way that tequila should be made, slowly so that the agave is ripe before going through the process of creating the tequila. My favorite expression is the reposado which is the perfect balance of sweetness and smokiness from the aging process.
I love sipping this tequila on its own but at the restaurant, we sometimes use it in cocktails that would normally require a brown spirit. The reposado happens to be awarded a few times, so I know that I have great taste.
IXA Reposado
IXA
Dr. Nicola Nice, founder and CEO of Pomp & Whimsy in Los Angeles
My favorite organic tequila is IXA, which is a highland 100% organic blue agave tequila produced by Greenbar Distillery in Jalisco. The Silver has an incredibly rich, herbal, almost vegetal flavor profile with a mineral quality similar to wine, which is due to the white wine yeasts that are used in its fermentation and the oxygen-rich steel tanks that the tequila rests in for two weeks before bottling.
The reposado and añejo are aged in toasted American oak, which gives them an almost cognac-like quality.
Casa Noble has made a name for itself in the tequila world in the last few years. But it still deserves more acclaim and notoriety than it gets. It starts with its Añejo. It’s matured for at least two years in new, French oak casks. The result is a complex, rich tequila with notes of dried fruits, vanilla beans, toffee, vegetal agave, and rich oak.
For a younger tequila, Mijenta Reposado is surprisingly well-balanced and complex. It’s only aged for around six months in a mixture of American oak, French oak, and French acacia barrels. But this is long enough to impart flavors like sweet honey, vegetal, cooked agave, butterscotch, and bold oak.
An ancient tale lives again: the TV gods decided to regurgitate another franchise, this time with the late Anne Rice’s gothic fantasy saga, Interview With The Vampire, taking another whirl on AMC. Hollywood cannot resist a formerly profitable endeavor, and more often than not, these revivals aren’t worth their weight in blood. Yet occasionally, the practice works, and I’m pleased to report that this vampy revamp is well worth the outing. I use that last word literally, so hang tight for elaboration, but this show is not only a horror tale befitting October but also a dramedy. It’s a pulpy but not (as much as the original) campy ride, and it’s an extremely bloody relationship soap-opera that’s fully watchable. Amazingly, the show soars further than the film. Let’s talk this out.
Back in 1994, the Interview With The Vampire movie gave us a very different Tom Cruise character than we’d ever seen. The role was a leap from his string of golden-boy blockbusters like Top Gun, Days of Thunder, Cocktail, and so on. To put it mildly, Cruise as the Vampire Lestat de Lioncourt seemed like an unlikely casting decision, one that even upset Anne Rice. And it’s easy to see why given that the generally straight-laced Tom (well before he was leaping off buildings and mountains and perching atop speeding trains) didn’t sound believable as wild Lestat. His antagonist was a merciless creature who sucked the life out of humans and gave Louis de Pointe (Brad Pitt) little choice but to vamp out in a pairing that felt maybe homoerotic and closeted.
Even in a film that felt frustratingly muted, Tom did give one of his most interesting performances. He seduced New Orleans and threw fiery tantrums and then, after he was seemingly defeated, he swooped back into view, invigorating himself with a drink of blood and whining about Louis’ “whining.” He ended the movie by firing up Guns ‘n’ Roses’ “Sympathy of the Devil” cover and roaring off into the distance while Christian Slater’s hapless journalist languished in the passenger seat. It was fun. (This even inspired me to pick up The Vampire Chronicles books, which took me as far as horrible The Tale of the Body Thief, the only time I’ve literally thrown a book across the room.)
For all of the movie’s enjoyability, however, there was a major problem: this was still a Tom Cruise juggernaut, which lost much meaning on the big screen. The story got shortchanged (oddly, in a script by Rice) and emphasized star power with Brad Pitt (in the midst of his heartthrob phase). And yes, the performances were fine — Pitt portrayed Louis with wild-eyed abandon as the story’s so-called moral center (very awkward, since he owned slaves). Kirsten Dunst chilled as the unruly young Claudia who met a tragic end while attempting to acquire a mother. Yet the show makes it very apparent that the movie kept things comparatively subtle, not only with the new male-lead vamps (Jacob Anderson as Louis and Sam Reid as Lestat) but also with Claudia (now played by Bailey Bass). She gets fleshed out beyond brattiness here, and the show explicitly makes Lestat and Louis an actual romantic couple, and a randy one at that. Louis’ story gets updated to being a Black business owner who’s wrestling with the difficulties of being a Black business owner (albeit of an illicit business) in 1910 and beyond. All of this, and especially the out-in-the-open queerness, adds more layers.
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The show has the luxury of time to do all this, and to give Lestat and Louis’ relationship many phases, and it paces itself well (I’ve watched the 5 episodes released for critics out of the 7 that will make up the first season). Mind you, they are not a dream couple. They have significant issues, but the vampire duo takes on a full-on romance, one that will thrill fans, and Anderson gets to do so much more here as he did as Grey Worm in Game of Thrones, whereas Reid confidently parades around as the mesmerizing Lestat. Oh, and about Claudia: her diary becomes a secondary narrative framing device.
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Granted the first framing device remains the journalist who’s hearing Louis’ story. Here, he’s portrayed by Eric Bogosian as a much more world-weary version of the Slater character. In 2022, this isn’t his first rodeo with Louis, who wants to update the situation in Dubai. Yes, you read that correctly. Louis now lives in the endlessly sunny Dubai and is probably richer than Jeff Bezos while living in a high-rise (that’s not unlike one that Tom Cruise scaled for the Mission: Impossible franchise) that somehow keeps him safe from the scorching rays. It’s one of the least likely places to find a vampire, and it’s a place of effective contrast between the present and those rollicking NOLA years.
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Mr. Journalist has a full-on personality and life outside of interviewing vampires, and he’s kind-of had enough of Louis’ sh*t, but not quite enough to not be curious about what a vampire’s doing in a world that’s even more messed up than it was a century ago. So, we get a whole modern spin with much of the story still taking place in early 1900s New Orleans. And boy, Louis has some marginalized community sh*t to deal with (being undead actually doesn’t solve the societal pressures involved with being Black and queer) through the decades. These diverse angles don’t get too heavy but do help to ground the fantasy while it still soars.
Speaking of those great heights: ironically, a sky-high scene takes characters to rock bottom; the real flying takes place on the ground. That includes a scene where Louis begins to fall for Lestat, who has frozen time during a scene that will be talked about by fans for its beauty and splendor and hypnotic qualities. These supernatural detours provide a respite from horror, when the ugly parts of vampire life loom large in blood-spattered conquests. We’ve also got telepathic conversations, which lead to tweaked family dynamics, and of course, the story’s as decadent as one can imagine.
And thank god for debauchery when it comes to the undead. These are pretty vampires, but this ain’t Twilight. Lestat and Louis climb into coffins together, and there’s no secret about what they’re doing. This sexual spin on the story also extends to Claudia, who’s older in this show but eternally of her late teens. This presents its own troubles, for which her fathers are ill-equipped to help her. Claudia’s quest for love takes her in a different direction than it did in the movie, and her stumbles are heartbreaking as she narrates her family’s adventures. It’s both a blast and a gut punch to see her character expanded in a way that shows how she’s as tragic than the Dunst character and how Lestat, as marvelous as he can outwardly be, is essentially a terror to all.
This project’s one of a few (including The Lives Of The Mayfair Witches) Anne Rice adaptations that will soon hit AMC, and ultimately, bringing Lestat and Louis back is an effort that more than justifies its existence. The series is a once much more complex and frivolous than the cinematic predecessor, and it’s thrilling to watch all of the soap operatics and the spectacle with new shades of relevance. It’s worth noting that Rice, who passed away last December, is listed as an executive producer here, so she must have enjoyed Anderson’s presence more than the Tom Cruise casting. And again, Tom did alright! Yet things work out much better with the show, which is a more enthralling (and sensual) sight to witness.
AMC’s ‘Interview With The Vampire’ premieres on Sunday, October 2 at 10:00pm EST.
Nicki Minaj is on the run competing with none one other 2010 Minaj, at the height of her Young Money reign. She’s fresh off the stage from headlining Rolling Loud New York, hosting the VMAs and receiving the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award that evening, a woman rapper empowerment moment on “Super Freaky Girl (Remix),” a feature verse on Bleu’s “Love In The Way,” and now she’s back again on Skeng’s “Likkle Miss (Remix).”
Skeng is dominating the dancehall scene following his breakthrough hits “Gvnman Shift” and “London.” Teaming up with Minaj this time around seems to be a match made in heaven, as Minaj is known to patois-bar tracks up on charting dancehall records like on Skillibeng’s “Crocodile Teeth (Remix).”
The Barbie shared a clip of her listening to Skeng’s hit last month while revealing she was in the process of writing her verse for the collaboration. “Likkle Miss (Remix)” originally appeared on Minaj’s Queen Radio: Volume 1 compilation album of songs we’ve heard before and a few added gems.
The vibrant visual includes a gang of bountifully endowed women in fishnet tights and shorts twerkin’ on Skeng, alternating between scenes of Minaj and women sitting pretty in a Rolls-Royce and Minaj and Skeng posted in the back seat.
Watch the video above but beware while watching, the Andre “DreVinci” Jones-directed video might make you want to get up and (attempt to) shake ya stuff, too.
While the feud between Cardi B and Nicki Minaj has cooled down since they sent footwear flying in 2018, it looks like Cardi now has a beef brewing with Akbar V, an up-and-coming rapper who received Nicki’s co-sign via the “Super Freaky Girl” remix. Like Cardi, Akbar V came up through an installment of the reality show Love & Hip-Hop, and like Cardi, she isn’t afraid to mix it up with rivals on public platforms like Twitter. However, their Twitter feud has now escalated, with Cardi sharing what appears to be a leaked sex tape of Akbar’s.
While it’s always a little hard to tell where these things get started, it appears that Akbar felt disrespected by one of Cardi’s recent tweets. After Cardi asserted, “I take care of kids ..since the day they came out my p*ssy,” Akbar took it personally. The Atlanta rapper quoted Cardi’s tweet, adding her own two cents. “You was able to baby,” she wrote. “u … i wasn’t but i got all of mine now …see the difference between me and u i was really in that jungle t hugging with real n$$$as….u forgot u had kids when u got some money ?… u was just selling it to any man that ran up on u cricket teeth..”
You was able to baby…u … i wasn’t but i got all of mine now …see the difference between me and u i was really in that jungle t hugging with real n$$$as….u forgot u had kids when u got some money ?… u was just selling it to any man that ran up on u cricket teeth.. https://t.co/qD8sbyEwO3
Akbar continued badmouthing Cardi on her timeline until Cardi started quote-tweeting her, reminding both rappers’ followers, “I came from The Bronx ..Highbridge to be exact ….clearly ain’t forget since I’m wasting my time arguing with you.” She also posted a video, allegedly of Akbar getting beaten up by another Atlanta native, as well as another… shall we say, less kosher one. Cardi deleted the video when Akbar wrote “u dead wrong for that uploading that porn stuff about me again u scoop so low but kool,” but seemed appalled to learn that the Atlanta rapper had used a still from the video for a single cover.
I came from The Bronx ..Highbridge to be exact ….clearly ain’t forget since I’m wasting my time arguing with you https://t.co/waAwbXa6oT
Unmmmm wasn’t you bragging about it when the video first came out … talkin bout you got good head ?Anyways imma respect your kids and take it down https://t.co/LFiTV7d1ei
Meanwhile, Nicki, who appeared to have conveniently logged in just in time for the fireworks to promote her own new single, “Likkle Miss (Remix)” with dancehall artist Skeng, switched strategies midstream, instead prompting fans to tweet the #QueenMix hashtag and retweeting fans’ praise of Akbar V. Whether her intention was to defuse the situation or stoke the fire, it’s clear that fans are still choosing sides and goading the mess instead of realizing that they could just as easily stream both “Super Freaky Girl” and “Tomorrow 2.” Sadly, the patriarchy wins again.
The Lakers enter the 2022-23 season with a lot of questions facing a roster that’s seen an awful lot of turnover aside from the three stars at the top. LeBron James, Anthony Davis, and Russell Westbrook (despite the Lakers best efforts to trade him this summer) all return, but around them is an almost entirely new team, including a new head coach in Darvin Ham.
The most notable addition to the Lakers is Patrick Beverley, who they traded for in a move most anticipated signaled an impending Westbrook trade. Beverley and Westbrook’s history is well known, with the two being longtime rivals, sparring on the court and in the media for years. However, the two have, at least publicly, smoothed things over as they get ready to be teammates, hugging it out at Beverley’s intro presser and Beverley even going so far to say they’ve been “best friends” of late since they both workout early in the morning at the facility.
The goal of adding Beverley to the roster was to bring an edge they lacked last year defensively, and as one of the league’s top irritants in the backcourt, he figures to lead what they hope is a much improved defense at the point of attack. Part of the deal with Pat is that he is never not Pat, and LeBron got a taste of that at media day when Chris Haynes informed him that, when asked for his favorite LeBron highlight of all time, Beverley said “the block I had on LeBron.”
.@patbev21 on his favorite Bron highlight: “The block I had on LeBron” @KingJames: “Pat got problems, man”
LeBron loved it, noting “Pat got problems, man,” and chalking that up to him being from Chicago. It’s terrific, light media day content (especially on a day where there have been a lot of awkward moments and heavy topics being discussed) and for a Lakers team that has a lot of weirdness going on, they did better than some at putting on a happy face for media day at the very least.
At the moment, it looks like Harry Styles’Harry’s House hit “As It Was” cannot be stopped. It had enjoyed a historically long run in the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and now the number is only getting bigger: On the new Hot 100 dated October 1, “As It Was” is No. 1 yet again, for a 15th total week.
Last week, “As It Was” was in a many-way tie for 4th place on the all-time list of most weeks spent at No. 1. Now it has sole ownership of that fourth spot, behind only Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men’s “One Sweet Day” (16 weeks); Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee, and Justin Bieber’s “Despacito” (16 weeks); and Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus’ “Old Town Road” (19 weeks).
A title “As It Was” has now already claimed, though, is the highest-charting song without an accompanying artist. It’s also the longest-running No. 1 by a UK artist. Furthermore, the song extends its record for the most weeks spent in the top two positions on the chart, with 24 in total. It’s also the first track to spend its first 25 weeks on the chart in the top three spots.
This news comes shortly after another major career moment for Styles, when he wrapped up his spectacular 15-night run at New York’s Madison Square Garden by having a banner raised in the storied venue.
Billie Eilish has been supporting her sophomore album, Happier Than Ever, with a world tour by the same name since early February, and the 20-year-old pop phenom can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. Eilish announced Monday (September 26) that a live Happier Than Ever show will exclusively hit Apple Music on Friday (September 30) beginning at 7 p.m. Pacific time.
“!!!!!!!!!!happier than ever, the world tour comes to apple music live this week on september 30!!!!!!!” the seven-time Grammy winner captioned the announcement video, a tour montage set to the album’s rollicking title track. “never been so proud of any show as i have been with this whole tour. was so excited with the idea of filming one & couldn’t be happier for you all to see it and watch together from all over.”
According to Billboard, the livestream concert “was filmed during one of Eilish’s five stops at London’s famed O2 Arena earlier this summer,” and the streaming event will be preceded by a sit-down interview with Zane Lowe premiering Thursday (September 29) at 10 a.m. Pacific time. While bringing Happier Than Ever to The O2, Eilish took the opportunity to stage a climate seminar.
Eilish will conclude her world tour with back-to-back shows at the RAC Arena in Perth, Australia, on Thursday and Friday.
Outside of Happier Than Ever, Eilish has had a memorable 2022. She became the youngest headliner in the histories of the Coachella and Glastonbury festivals, dropped her sustainable take on Nike’s Air Force 1 silhouette, and appeared on the final episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show. She is also now the youngest-ever “triple crown” winner after proving victorious at the Grammys, Golden Globes, and Oscars for the “No Time To Die” theme song penned alongside her brother, Finneas.
Here’s a name you haven’t heard for awhile: Edward Snowden made headlines today for a reason that he possibly would have previously celebrated, but in 2022? The timing can’t be something that he’s thrilled to see. The 39-year-old ex-intelligence contractor and NSA whistleblower has been hiding out in Russia since 2013 after Putin gave him temporary asylum, which later turned into permanent residency in 2020. Fast forward a few years, and he’s still wanted by the U.S. government on espionage charges, and now, it’s looking about 100% unlikely that he’ll ever answer to that call. The alternative, though, doesn’t look much better because as NBC News reports, Snowden’s formally been granted Russian citizenship by Putin.
The timing of this news is, well, interesting. Putin’s been waging a dismal Ukraine war, and Snowden has stayed largely silent on the issue. And it’s no wonder because the Russian president’s always ready to punish everyone, including elected officials, who criticizes this war. And Snowden certainly didn’t want to get the boot, although he’s anti-war to the point where he released documents (which were considered damaging) regarding the Vietnam War.
Now, however, Snowden has a Russian passport, and it’s unavoidable to ignore how he’s also of fighting age. He should be a little wary, too, considering that Putin’s so desperate for replacement troops (the body count on the Russian side has been
been extremely high) that he recently rounded up 300,000 troops. His regime even reportedly passed out draft papers to Russian civilians who protested the war. That’s tantamount to a death sentence.
In other words, Edward Snowden can’t be excited about today’s news. And people are making the same morbid joke — that he’s eligible to be on the Ukraine frontlines — on social media.
BREAKING: Putin grants former NSA contractor turned traitor to the United States Edward Snowden Russian citizenship via Presidential decree. What great timing for him. Now he can be conscripted to fight in the war against Ukraine. I’m sure he can’t wait.
Vladimir Putin granted Russian citizenship to Edward Snowden which means that Edward Snowden is now eligible to be mobilized to the front lines of the war.
So Edward Snowden was granted Russian citizenship – SO NOW THEY CAN DRAFT HIM & SEND HIM TO DIE IN UKRAINE. That’s one way to make sure we never get our hands on that piece of work.
As of now, there’s been no formal statement by Snowden on his newfound status, but he might regret choosing Russia.
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