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Madison Cawthorn recently took some time out from his busy schedule of dissing Ukraine, getting speeding tickets, and prowling Waffle Houses in a desperate search for supporters. In an interview with the arms group Warrior Poet Society, the North Carolina representative was asked how closely House of Cards is to the real D.C. Cawthorn claimed it was pretty much dead-on.

Calling it a “really well-done show,” Cawthorn drew on his own experiences of being in Congress for the last year and change, saying that he’s become familiar with the “the sexual perversion that goes on in Washington.” Then he painted a portrait of the nation’s capital as a drug-filled bacchanalia.

“Being kind of a young guy in Washington, where the average age is probably 60 or 70, and I look at all these people — a lot of them I’ve looked up to all my life, always paid attention to politics — then all of a sudden you get invited to ‘hey, we’re gonna have kind of a sexual get together at one of our homes, you should come,’” Cawthorn said. “Then you realized they’re asking you to come to an orgy.”

Cawthorn also claimed he’d seen key lawmakers, even ones trying to “remove addiction in our country,” doing cocaine bumps right in front of him. He didn’t name names, and he didn’t go into details. But as usual truth is stranger than fiction, even when that fiction is House of Cards.

(Via The Daily Beast)

Nicki Minaj and Remy Ma have not seen eye-to-eye for the better part of a half-decade, and through their beef, we’ve seen them take aim at each other on a number of rap records. Remy has dissed Nicki on songs like “SHEther” and “Another One” while Nicki took aim at her rival on tracks like “No Frauds” and verses on DJ Khaled’s “Nobody” and “I Can’t Even Lie.” Things have been a bit quiet between the two over the last few years, and during a recent interview on the Drink Champs podcast, Remy Ma claimed it was because of an agreement that she and Nicki arrived at.

“We had conversations, regular conversations,” Remy said on the podcast. “I never saw that one coming, because I felt like we had a conversation with her, because I’ve been in this predicament before, where I was the girl just coming in…” She added, “I just always felt like anything I say, people are gonna say I’m talking about her, anything she say, people are gonna say she’s talking about me, so let’s make an agreement that we never talk about each other.”

Remy continued, “Conversations. This is not even telling her. It’s like a conversation—a back-and-forth. I feel like any woman, you’re supposed to feel like you’re the sh*t. What you’re supposed to do? Get on a song and be, like, ‘Yeah, I’m number 2, or I’m number 3?’ No. You’re supposed to talk like you’re that b*tch and you’re the sh*t. Just never let it get there. And it was just certain sh*t that transpired behind the scenes, messages that I seen, that I know wasn’t fabricated. And I was just like, ‘Nah.’”

Despite this, Nicki chimed in to say that Remy’s claims were not true. “He must be misunderstanding what she saying to him,” she wrote in an Instagram comment. “Did he say? ‘This is you telling her that?’ For the record, I’ve never had this conversation with her or anyone.”

Remy has yet to respond to Nicki’s comment, so we’ll just have to wait and see where this goes — if anywhere at all.

You can view the Drink Champs episode and Nicki’s comment above.

A large majority of the music world has taken time at some point this weekend to remember Taylor Hawkins. The Foo Fighters was found dead in a hotel room in Colombia on Friday night came during the band’s tour stop in Colombia where they were set to perform. While many artists around the world have shared touching posts and messages to remember Hawkins, others have taken to the stage to do so. For example, Coldplay performed “Evermore” as a tribute to Hawkins during their concert in Mexico. Just a day later, Miley Cyrus used the concert stage to remember Hawkins.

Prior to taking the stage at Brazil’s Lollapalooza Festival, Miley announced her performance would be in honor of Hawkins. “Tonights show is in honor of my friend Taylor Hawkins,” she wrote. “The most bad ass dude I know who would want me to shine and sing LOUD for the love of rock n roll! I’ve got this with a little help from my friend TH above & all of you. Let’s do it.” During her actual set on Saturday, Miley spoke further about Hawkins and revealed that he was the first person she called after she had an emergency plane landing last week.

“He was already at the festival and that would have been a time that I would have gotten to see my friend and I didn’t,” Cyrus said as she fought back tears. “I would have done anything to hang out with him one more time.” She continued, “I know that any time that I get onstage and any time that I get to play with my band — which if anything ever f*cking happened to any one of them it would fucking kill me. So I couldn’t imagine how the Foo Fighters felt today.”

You can listen to Miley’s speech in honor of Taylor Hawkins in the video above.

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A few days ago, Doja Cat found herself in a Twitter argument between herself and fans. It came after she canceled a performance in Paraguay due to a heavy rainstorm that would’ve made it dangerous for her to perform, as well as for her supporters to watch her set. Additionally, some were upset that Doja did not share any photos or videos from her time in that country.

In response to their complaints, Doja wrote on Twitter, “It’s gone and i don’t give a f*ck anymore i f*ckin quit i can’t wait to f*cking disappear and i don’t need you to believe in me anymore.” She added, “Everything is dead to me, music is dead, and i’m a f*cking fool for ever thinking i was made for this this is a f*cking nightmare unfollow me.” However, after some time to think and reflect on the situation, Doja has had a change of heart and she returned to Twitter to apologize to her fans.

“I can travel, I can eat good food, I can see new people, I can smile,” she wrote as she reflected on her career and accomplishments so far. “I can make memories that I dreamed of having, I can laugh, I can support my family and my friends, I can learn about the world, and I can give back to everyone because of you.” Contrary to her previous statements, she said, “I do owe people sh*t. I owe a lot.”

Doja continued, “I owe myself a lot too. I owe myself the chance to open up and be good to people. “I owe myself the death of my fears that don’t allow me to expand my heart. I didn’t come to another country to do something i can do everywhere else. that would be pointless in a way. I came here because I knew there was something new. New people. New things. New stories to learn. I came and I gave not enough. I need to give more because I noticed I’ve been taking a lot. Taking from almost everybody who’s reading this.”

In later tweets, Doja went back to her previous posts from her initial reactions with fans in Paraguay to she where she felt like she was wrong. “This is an example of me not reciprocating all the shit that’s been given to me,” she wrote in reply to a previous post she shared where she tweeted, “Don’t ask me for sh*t.” Doja replied to another old tweet where she wrote, “I’m not sorry,” and corrected herself saying, “I am.”

A pair of fans responded to Doja’s tweet with one saying they’re sorry for how Doja was treated while the other reminded Doja of her ability to put on amazing shows. In response to the former, Doja wrote, “I wasn’t any better,” and as for the latter, Doja wrote in part, “I’m not discrediting myself. I work my ass off. I know that. It’s tiring but i’m not suffering because of people like you. My suffering comes from myself. Not everybody else.”

You can check out all of Doja’s tweets above.

For nearly two decades, Chris Wallace was one of the few voices of reason at Fox News. Unlike most right-leaning hosts, he wasn’t openly partisan. He asked tough questions of figures others treated with kid gloves. He regularly enraged Donald Trump and his followers. Still, it was a bit of a shock late last year when he announced he was leaving the network, decamping for the forthcoming streamer CNN+. Now, nearly three months later, he’s finally opening up about why he split.

“I just no longer felt comfortable with the programming at Fox,” Wallace told The New York Times. “I’m fine with opinion: conservative opinion, liberal opinion,” he added. “But when people start to question the truth — Who won the 2020 election? Was Jan. 6 an insurrection? — I found that unsustainable.”

Last year it was reported that Wallace had complained to Fox News brass about Tucker Carlson, who has used his popular shows to spread misinformation about the pandemic, the 2020 election, the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, and more. Wallace confirmed to NYT that that was true.

“Before, I found it was an environment in which I could do my job and feel good about my involvement at Fox,” Wallace said. “And since November of 2020, that just became unsustainable, increasingly unsustainable as time went on.”

He admitted to being a bit of a “slow learner” when it comes to Fox News’ turn into, shall we say, more explosive content, but he maintains that it’s “changed over the course of the last year and a half.” So he “spent a lot of 2021 looking to see if there was a different place for me to do my job.” Now, at CNN+, he’ll host a daily interview show, where he’ll do less politics, chatting with the likes of William Shatner, former Disney honcho Bob Iger, even singing with folk legend Judy Collins.

Even though he was disturbed by the sudden exit of former CNN head Jeff Zucker, who hired him, he also says of his Fox News exit that “there has not been a moment when I have second-guessed myself about that decision.”

(Via NYT)

This year’s Academy Awards promise to be more chaotic than usual, which is saying something. There’s been brouhaha over atypical host choices and awards that won’t be televised live. There’s also the matter of how they’ll deal with the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. Co-host Amy Schumer has tried to get Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky to take time out of defending his nation to make an appearance. And if that doesn’t happen, there’s one Oscar-winner who will be peeved.

As per Deadline, Sean Penn — who’s been nominated five times and won twice, for Mystic River and Milk — has given the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences an ultimatum: get Zelensky on the Oscars or else he will publicly destroy his two trophies.

“If it turns out to be what is happening, I would encourage everyone involved, though it may be their moment, and I understand that, to celebrate their films, it is so much more importantly their moment to shine, and to protest and to boycott that Academy Awards. I myself, if it comes back to it, when I return, I will smelt mine in public,” Penn told CNN’s Jim Acosta. “I pray that’s not what happened. I pray there have not been arrogant people who consider themselves representatives of the greater good who have decided not to check in with leadership in Ukraine. So I’m going to hope that’s not what happened, and I hope everyone walks out if it is.”

Penn has always been one of the more political figures in Hollywood, and he’s currently in Ukraine, shooting a documentary for Vice. He even met with Zelensky last week. It’s been over a month since Ukraine was invaded by Russia, who have not been faring well, to put it mildly.

(Via Deadline)

It’s been four months since the tragedy that occurred in Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival. It resulted in ten deaths and hundreds of injuries, and for the most part since then, Travis has kept a rather low profile. He’s made few appearances in the public in the months that followed and he’s also done his best to help the families of the victims and give back to the community as a whole. An example of the latter is his recently announced Project HEAL which listed a number of community-based initiatives he plans to put in motion. However, as of late, Travis has been stepping out a bit more.

A recent example of that came during a pre-Oscars party on Saturday where Travis delivered his first performance since the Astroworld tragedy. According to Rolling Stone, Travis performed a small set at the private party, playing songs like “Sicko Mode” and more. The event took place in Bel Air, California and it features a star-studded guest list that included Leonardo DiCaprio, Venus and Serena Williams, YG, Tobey Maguire, and more.

Travis’ performance at the private party came after he and longtime girlfriend Kylie Jenner had their second child together. They initially revealed that the baby boy’s name was Wolf Jacques Webster, with Jacques being Travis’ legal first name. However, a month later, Kylie announced that they would be changing their son’s name because they “didn’t feel like it was him.”

(SPOILERS for this week’s Power Book IV: Force will be found below.)

From the start of Power Book IV: Force, it’s been Walter Flynn’s hope that Tommy Egan would eventually realize that there was no place for him in Chicago and that he’d eventually leave and let things go back to normal. Unfortunately for him, the complete opposite has happened. Tommy has convinced Vic to work with him on a few occasions while also, unbeknownst to Walter, connecting with Claudia Flynn to sell their new drug, Dahlia. Walter is running out of options to get the upper hand on Tommy, and it seemingly left him with one choice.

What Does Walter Flynn Offer Tommy?

After calling Tommy over for a meeting at his house, Walter offers him a position in the Irish Crime Family. With this, it’s clear that Walter’s mindset is “if you can’t beat them, join them,” but even then, it seems like Walter has something up his sleeve. Nonetheless, Tommy turns down Walter’s offer citing his inability to trust him as someone who will stick to their word. It’s also through this conversation that Tommy learns of Walter’s desire to kill Gloria and finally remove her from Vic’s life.

New episodes of STARZ’s ‘Power Book IV: Force’ are available to watch on Sunday at 12:00am EST.

(SPOILERS for this week’s Power Book IV: Force will be found below.)

Vic and Gloria’s relationship has been a complicated one from the get-go. Gloria has yet to be accepted into the Flynn family due to their desire to have Vic marry an Irish woman in order for him to take over the family business — that being the Irish Crime Family. Vic has struggled to pick between his responsibilities to the family and his true desires, and this battle nearly drove Gloria away from him. However, after she disappeared in last week’s episode, Vic made the decision to finally place her above the family. So, finally, when she returns, Vic only sees one option for them: run away.

What Happens When Vic And Gloria Try To Run Away?

Vic’s decision to run away with Gloria is aided by a courteous head’s up that he received from Tommy. After a meeting with Walter, Tommy informs Vic that Walter is going to try and kill Gloria, and despite his initial skepticism, Vic believes Tommy and decides it’s time to head out of Chicago. Tommy gives Vic the keys to a clean new car to drive away in and instructs him to use backroads and quiet streets. Unfortunately, Vic doesn’t listen to Tommy and it seemingly costs Gloria her life as she and Vic are ambushed at an intersection in Chicago. Gunshots are exchanged and it results in Gloria being shot in the head which leaves Vic in absolute devastation.

New episodes of STARZ’s ‘Power Book IV: Force’ are available to watch on Sunday at 12:00am EST.

Colombian officials have offered new details regarding Taylor Hawkins’ death a little over a day after his passing was announced. The Foo Fighters drummer was found unresponsive in a hotel room in Colombia before the band’s scheduled performance there on Friday night. Foo Fighters were in Colombia as a part of their South American tour which got underway before their string of shows in North America which is set to kick off in May. The investigation into Hawkins’ death is still ongoing, but a new toxicology report is helping to paint a picture of what led to Hawkins’ death.

On Saturday evening, just a day after Hawkins’ death was announced, the Attorney General’s Office of Colombia reported that a urine toxicology test revealed that Hawkins had ten types of substances in his system. According to TMZ and Billboard, the substances included THC (marijuana), tricyclic antidepressants, benzodiazepines, and opioids. The Attorney General’s Office also made sure to note that the National Institute of Forensic Medicine will continue its investigation in order to come to “total clarification of the events that led to the death of Taylor Hawkins.”

The new report arrives after Bogota’s District Health Office revealed that Hawkins had an ambulance called to his hotel due to “chest pains” prior to his passing. “Efforts to resuscitate Hawkins were tried,” the Spanish-language press release read. “However, there was no response, and the patient was declared deceased.”