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On May 9, acquitted murderer Kyle Rittenhouse posted a tweet that, given his deep and abiding love of guns, sounded only vaguely threatening to the students and faculty of Texas A&M University:

Last week, per NBC News, Rittenhouse gave further context to the photos. While appearing on The Charlie Kirk Show, he slapped an Aggies hat on his head and announced that he was going to be attending Texas A&M and, like a true scholar, announced that “it’s going to be awesome.” There was just one problem: Texas A&M disputed the claim. “He has not been admitted as a student this summer or fall,” Kelly Brown, a university spokesperson, told the press.

Rather than admit an outright lie, Rittenhouse took a woe-is-me approach and explained that he had been “robbed” of the end of his high school career — though he failed to elaborate that it was because he had “robbed” two men of their lives. The teen did say that instead he would be attending Blinn College in Brenham, Texas, which he described as “a feeder school for Texas A&M.”

As Raw Story reports, a spokesperson for Blinn did confirm that Rittenhouse has applied, but he has yet to enroll in any courses for the current or upcoming term. Blinn is an open enrollment college, meaning that any student who wants to attend can — they just need to enroll in their desired classes. Which makes Rittenhouse’s claim that “I’m excited to join Texas A&M in 2023!” seem a bit premature.

In the meantime, Rittenhouse is doubling down on his claims that by virtue of being the kid who fatally shooting two men and injured a third amidst police protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, living a normal life has been hard for him. On Monday night, as Mediaite reports, Rittenhouse spoke with Tucker Carlson about how he plans to “make the media pay for what they did to me. They made it hard for me to live a normal life. I can’t go out in public. I can’t go to the store. It’s hard for me to go anywhere without security. Doing basic things like taking my dog to the dog park is difficult. So, they made it really difficult to be normal. And they affected future job opportunities… I don’t think I will ever be able to work or get a job because I’m afraid an employer may not hire me.”

Perhaps Rittenhouse should place a call to Matt Gaetz, who was very vocal about his intentions to snatch the teen up as an intern. Or Paul Gosar, who challenged Gaetz to an arm-wrestling match for the pleasure of hiring Rittenhouse. Lauren Boebert wanted in on Kylemania as well, and claimed that Madison Cawthorn did, too — so joked (?) that they would settle the matter with a sprint.

(Via Raw Story)

We are now just a few days removed from the release of Post Malone’s new album Twelve Carat Toothache, which he dropped on Friday. Already, though, he has expanded the LP by dropping a deluxe edition today, which adds two new songs to the tracklist.

Taking to Twitter and Instagram (and even Reddit) yesterday, Malone declared, “2 new songs tonight,” and offered a 30-second preview of one of the songs, “Waiting For Never.” The other song is called “Hateful.”

“Waiting For Never” is an emotional, lovelorn tune on which Posty sings, “When all these tattoos fade / I will never look back, you’ll be in thе same place / I keep tellin’ mysеlf if I wanted you to change / I’d be waiting for never, waiting for never.” Then there’s “Hateful,” a more hip-hop-leaning and aggressive tune that also deals with issues of love.

Of the base Twelve Carat Toothache album, Malone previously told Billboard, “Trying to shove 20 to 25 songs, it doesn’t work. Talking to the label [it’s like], ‘Oh, if you have less songs, you’re not going to stream as much,’ but the whole thing is that you don’t want to compromise your art and your gut vibe on anything. I’ve made a lot of compromises, especially musically, but now I don’t feel like I want to anymore. I don’t need a No. 1; that doesn’t matter to me no more, and at a point, it did.”

Listen to “Waiting For Never” and “Hateful” above.

There are plenty of great movies about baseball — like Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch — but few great TV shows about America’s pastime. The list includes Eastbound and Down, Brockmire, the “Homer at the Bat” episode of The Simpsons, and not much else.

A League of Their Own wants to change it.

Based on the classic 1992 movie of the same name, the Amazon series “evokes the joyful spirit of Penny Marshall’s beloved classic, while widening the lens to tell the story of an entire generation of women who dreamed of playing professional baseball,” according to the official plot description. “The show takes a deeper look at race and sexuality, following the journey of a whole new ensemble of characters as they carve their own paths towards the field, both in the League and outside of it.”

A League of Their Own stars Abbi Jacobson (who also co-created the series with Will Graham), Chanté Adams, D’Arcy Carden, Gbemisola Ikumelo, and Nick Offerman in the Tom Hanks role as the male manager of the all-female baseball team. I can’t wait to see which annoying child gets clocked in the face with a glove this time. You can watch the first teaser trailer (set to “Edge of Seventeen” by Stevie Nicks) above.

A League of Their Own premieres on August 12.

Lindsey Graham’s known for dancing back and forth on his support for ex-President Trump, and naturally, the far-right isn’t happy that the senator from South Carolina distanced himself from the Big Lie. It also didn’t bode well for Graham with the QAnon crowd when Graham was recorded while praising President Biden (although he took that gushing back). Fox News host Tucker Graham was horrified and angry while goading Graham as too ‘fraidy-cat to appear on this show.

As for Marjorie Taylor Greene, well, you can imagine how upset she’s been at Graham. The congresswoman from Georgia was so very angry (according to Business Insider) that Graham wouldn’t support Trump pardoning the Jan. 6 insurrectionists. And this week, she raged against Graham for a over half an hour because she believes that she’s sold out to Joe Biden. She didn’t quite dox him (by giving out his personal number), but she did instruct her followers to call his office.

According to federal lawyer (and Ron DeSantis detractor) Ron Filipkowski, Greene raged for a full 38 minutes and considered it an emergency podcast to do so. Remember when lawmakers didn’t podcast or tweet? Yeah, those days are over. Here’s Marjorie directing far too much energy at her perceived enemy:

One might wonder whether Greene actually has any supporters who will follow her instructions, but she did win her recent primary, so she may very well win the midterm election, too, which means at least two more years. Lindsey will be thrilled.

Seth Meyers has had enough of Ted Cruz’s BS. Not that he’d expect any less from the Texas senator, mind you. But on Monday night, Meyers tore into Cruz for attempting to stir up drama where there absolutely is none.

While the lamenting how “the endless bad faith and lying from the Republican party just keeps getting more exhausting,” Meyers cited Cruz specifically, explaining how:

Texas Senator Ted Cruz recently tried to blame the Biden administration for rising electricity prices in his state, tweeting: ‘The impact of President Biden being beholden to the Green New Deal radicals in his party has electricity costs through the roof in Texas.’

Two things: First of all, Texas has its own power grid where electricity is generated and used only within state lines. So Texas’ electric grid is separate from the rest of the country—you know, the way [Cruz] becomes separate from the rest of [the] country every time there’s a crisis in [his] state.

While it’s entirely plausible that Cruz is so out-of-touch with his own state that he wasn’t aware of that whole power grid thing, there is plenty of evidence to the contrary. So Meyers is leaning heavily toward Ted Cruz: Liar—in large part because of the second point he wanted to make, which is that “Democrats, much to the dismay of progressives and anyone who doesn’t want the planet to turn into a climate changed-induced apocalypse, have NOT passed the Green New Deal. This is yet another reminder that the Democrats should do more stuff because whether they do or not, Republicans are going to attack them for it. They don’t care if it’s true. Ted Cruz is going to b*tch about how Biden outlawed red meat and took his guns away while he flips with the butt end of his AR-15.”

You can watch the full clip above, beginning around the 0:25 mark.

Pusha T released his new album It’s Almost Dry in April. Since then, he’s been promoting it with music videos and late-night television performances. The rapper is back with more of the latter: On Friday, he went on Jimmy Kimmel Live! to perform the track “Let The Smokers Shine The Coupes.”

The performance is charismatic and bright, with a kaleidoscope of colors bouncing off of him. His confidence is obvious; it’s what he’s known for. Before the release of It’s Almost Dry, he called it an “untouchable body of work,” mentioning that having Kanye West and Pharrell Williams as producers gave it a kick. He said, “I had the best of both worlds in regard to production. In regard to two people who actually understand who I am and they like two different things from me.” He added: “Just from that aspect, I feel like this body of work is untouchable because it doesn’t lean too heavily on either side. It’s like you get the whole spectrum — probably my most well-rounded body of work.” He’s definitely allowed (and right) to flex: It’s Almost Dry was his first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart.

Watch his performance of “Let The Smokers Shine The Coupes” above.

Thursday brings a big milestone: the first televised hearing for the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. But if you’re a Fox News devotee, that will be news to you: As per Deadline, the much-watched right-leaning network will not be airing it during its primetime hours.

The hearing, which kicks off nearly a year of inquiry into what led to the events of that fateful day, is scheduled to start at 8 pm on Thursday. It will be aired on CNN and MSNBC, but also on the top three major networks, ABC, NBC, and CBS. Fox News, meanwhile, will be business as usual, devoted to Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham, all of whom have slammed the committee (and in the case of the former, aired a bizarre doc series floating tinfoil hat conspiracy theories).

The hearing won’t be completely ignored in the Fox News building. Brett Baier and Martha MacCallum will be anchoring coverage over at Fox Business, which receives a fraction of the main channel’s viewership. Meanwhile, the main channel, a network spokesperson said, “will cover the hearings as news warrants.”

Then again, perhaps Hannity and Ingraham will discuss the show at least a little bit, especially given that they were texting Donald Trump’s then-chief of staff Mark Meadows, begging him to get his boss to do something, anything about his violent supporters.

Since July of last year, the committee has been patiently amassing a treasure trove of information. They’ve dodged Trump’s desperate attempts to stop them, talking to just about everyone, including willing former Trump staffers. Even the ex-president’s oldest son reportedly took a break from wacko videos to do some squealing.

(Via Deadline)

In January, former Disney star Demi Lovato held a funeral for their pop sound. It was quite obvious that they would be turning to heavier music, which they’ve expressed interest in before. Today, Lovato has officially announced their new album Holy Fvck, which will be out next month.

The lead single, “Skin Of My Teeth,” is set to arrive this Friday. It was produced by Warren “Oak” Felder and written with Alex Niceforo, Keith Sorrells, Laura Veltz, and Lil Aaron. This LP follows last year’s Dancing With the Devil… The Art of Starting Over, which featured an Ariana Grande collaboration on the devilish “Met Him Last Night.”

“The process of making this album has been the most fulfilling yet, and I’m grateful to my fans and collaborators for being on this journey with me,” Lovato said in a statement. “Never have I been more sure of myself and my music, and this record speaks that for itself. To my Lovatics who have been rocking out with me since the beginning and those who are just now coming along for the ride, thank you. This record is for you.”

Check out the album art for Holy Fvck below.

Holy Fvck is out 8/19 via Island.

Dave Chappelle has been pushing a lot of people’s buttons recently, but this is some straight-up do-goodery: As per Deadline, the comic is planning to give all the proceeds from one show to the victims of one of the (many) recent mass shootings.

On Sunday, Chappelle came to Buffalo, New York for a last-minute show. The event was held mere weeks after a gunman, who believes in the far-right “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory peddled by the likes of Tucker Carlson, killed 10 Black people and injured three more at a supermarket in the city’s East Side neighborhood. That is indeed what brought him there.

“He said, and I’m paraphrasing, ‘I came here to Buffalo to recognize the victims and for these families,’” said Kevin Sweeney, the director of marketing and communications for the venue he performed at, Shea’s Performing Arts Center.

At the end of his set, Chappelle informed the audience that all the proceeds from the sold out show, in a venue that seats over 3,000, would go to families of the victims of the massacre.

Chappelle’s set comes about a month after his own brush with violence, in which a man stormed the stage at one of his shows and tackled him before being quickly detained.

(Via Deadline)

Kacey Musgraves can sometimes stir up a conversation — whether it be through subtweeting the Grammys or doing a naked SNL performance. Most recently, it’s because of a complaint she made about American Airlines from her Twitter account. Read it below.

Just ended my travels to/from my show in Spain on the most intense and honestly f*cking awful flight on @americanair.

It’s extremely rare for me to want to come to a social-media platform to complain about something like this. I know there are way bigger things going on in the world at the moment. But I truthfully just don’t want anyone else to have my experience.

I wish it were as simple as complaining about the broken seat that wouldn’t recline for 7 hours overnight or there being no wifi. But it was the appalling and shockingly hostile behavior of a certain male employee (the flight’s chief purser) that I will be filing a massive complaint against along with many other passengers that were subject to his extremely overblown, unnecessary aggression and erratic behavior. He made me feel unsafe and upset to the point of crying and I witnessed another passenger he also made cry. The female flight attendants on board vocalized their own disbelief, and struggles with him as well.

@americanair, I will be going through the proper channels but I need to make it extra known that you have a liability on your hands with this man.

Though some are praising her for bringing attention to the issue, most are criticizing her for using her privileged platform to get an employee fired rather than communicating this information to American Airlines through less controversial means. The airline’s Twitter account did respond to the country-pop star, telling her to check her DMs.