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Birthdays. Sports games. Holidays. Sharing a bowl of cereal on a Sunday afternoon … these are just some of the moments, big and small, that are missed when a parent is incarcerated. And sadly, they can’t be replaced.

But sometimes, second chances do come around. For father and daughter Bill Lorance and Justine Tuckett, that second chance came in the form of a TikTok dance. They didn’t take it for granted, and now they’re making up for lost time. It’s not only a win for the father-daughter duo, it shows how rehabilitation is possible and that people don’t have to be defined by their mistakes.

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On the day she picked her father up from prison, Tuckett posted to Instagram:

“Words can not express the emotions and feelings I’ve had this week. Picking up my Father from prison after 22 years was amazing.
When I was younger every time I blew out my birthday candles 🎂 I would wish that he would get out of prison…until I was old enough to realize that he wasn’t going to be wished back to me.

My Dad put in the work everyday, he is unrecognizable from the person he used to be before prison. Some resilient people CAN be reformed. Some people DESERVE to re-enter society again. Some WILL embrace their children, grandchildren, and family one again. Someone like my Dad. 💕”

Bill Lorance had been convicted for the murder of his stepfather, and served 22 years in a California state penitentiary. He didn’t make it to his daughter Justine’s wedding, in addition to many other milestones.

According to BuzzFeed News, Lorance and Tuckett both shared a love of dance. Before incarceration, Lorance had a passion for dancing in clubs and making home videos; Tuckett teaches a fitness dance class called Dirtylicious. It seems almost destined that after Lorance’s release, their TikTok debut would happen.

The video, which now has more than 45 million views, starts with the words, “My Dad has been in prison for 22 years. I got to pick him up this week,” as Tuckett gives some fun, funky shuffle steps.

Then dad leaps into frame and the two deliver some awkward yet undoubtedly onbeat moves that many fathers and daughters have been able to share. Tuckett might be a grown woman, but in that moment it seemed like her 12-year-old self got to come out and play with dad.

Creating this video had been a dream for Lorance, to do something really special with his kids to celebrate their reunion. Though he never dared risk the additional time to sneak a smartphone in prison, he wasn’t completely unsavvy to social media, having seen trends like Drake’s “In My Feelings” car dance and the Ice Bucket Challenge. Still, it was a new world for him. Tuckett noted that for her father, “how much phones can do was shocking and mesmerizing and wild.”

In favor of simple movements and a slow tempo, Lorance’s daughter-slash-dance instructor chose the song “Forget Me Nots” by Patrice Rushen (though “WAP” and “Fancy Like” were also music contenders). Lorance admitted flossing was a tad too difficult.

So much more than a few likes and followers came from their viral video (though jumping from 200 to 40,000 followers is pretty impressive). Tuckett and Lorance teamed up to create more content that helps others understand not only how to maintain a relationship with an incarcerated loved one, but to remind everyone that people really can change.

In an emotional series of Instagram Live videos, Tuckett and Lorance discuss a multitude of topics brought in from Tuckett’s followers: how Lorance got incarcerated, how they maintained their relationship, anger and addiction, and the role outside families play in accountability. Through teary, heartfelt conversations, their core message provides an insightful takeaway: treat these crimes as bad decisions, rather than mistakes.

As for what’s become of Lorance now, BuzzFeed reported that he’s opened a bank account, is working toward securing a car and has quickly acclimated himself to the digital world of social media, posting sunrise beach jog and morning omelette photos to Instagram. Suddenly these simple things we often take for granted become symbols of a fresh new start.

A couple of weeks ago, a longtime friend of mine sent me a text message asking, “Wait, do you like horror movies now?” This was, I assumed, in response to my Letterboxd account diary being filled with horror movies over the last four weeks. Now, this friend has known me since college and I have never liked horror movies. I don’t enjoy being scared. It is not an emotion I enjoy experiencing. But, at the same time, it was hard to deny that, yes, I have been watching a lot of horror movies. Do I like them now? The answer didn’t feel like an easy yes or no. So I’ve really been giving this some thought and I think something is going on here, at least with those of us who, in the past, identified as people who do not like horror movies. I think, for people like us, and because of the pandemic, there’s been a bit of a reset with a lot of people and how they feel about horror movies, especially older horror movies.

The overwhelming majority of the horror movies I’ve been watching came out between 1968’s Night of the Living Dead and up to around 1990, around the time of Child’s Play 2. Some I had seen before. Or at least tried to watch as a kid before bailing out. I remember the first time I tried to watch the first Halloween when I was maybe around 10. That scene when Michael Myers is wearing the ghost sheet when he comes into the room with P.J. Soles? I honestly used to think that was the scariest thing I had ever seen in my entire life. I remember trying to watch the opening scene of the original When a Stranger Calls. Same thing. Just pure, real terror. Because growing up as an only child, this means there were many times I found myself alone in the house. And being alone and scared really stinks. I wanted no part of any of this. Also, I didn’t have a particularly religious upbringing, at least in respects of “going to church on a regular basis.” But I was born into Catholicism and the specter of a lot of the religious imagery in these movies being “real” freaked me out to no end. Again … no thank you. (The two exceptions to any of this was, first, Poltergeist. I always loved Poltergeist even though it very much frightened me. The second was, a few years later, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors. I think I figured any movie that featured a Dokken song couldn’t be a bad thing.)

Then I pretty much avoided horror the rest of my life. At least until I started doing what I do now for a living and I’d be forced to go to new horror movies as part of my job. And I had a weird reaction: I still did not like them, but the format seemed to be less focused on the eerie and more focused on jump scares. Now, look, I know a lot of people complain about jump scares. Or defend jump scares. I find jump scares effective, which is why I don’t like them. As a kid, what scared me was the idea that Michael Myers or Jason Voorhees was hiding upstairs in our empty house and was going to “get me.” Not just something popping out at me and a manufactured loud noise. Anyway, regardless of the changes, I still found horror movies unpleasant.

Something changed around the start of the pandemic. And it wasn’t just me. There sure seemed to be a lot of people who were not horror fans dipping their toes into the horror waters. Like a lot of people early on I watched The Thing, a movie that was on cable a lot when I was a kid and could never make it though because it was way too scary. I promised myself I would make it through, no matter how unpleasant I found the experience, just in a, “well, I’ve finally finished that,” kind of way. What I did not at all expect was how much I enjoyed the movie. There were moments I found myself applauding. It’s scary, but it’s also fun. And it’s not a movie where things are jumping out at you, it’s just a really well done story about isolation and a secret killer who may or may not be literally everyone around you. The same thing happened with The Exorcist, a movie I could NEVER make it through as a kid. Watching it now, it just felt like a great movie. At no point did I feel like I did not want to be watching it. And, now, if I find The Exorcist to be a good movie and not particularly scary or unpleasant, what else am I missing out on?

Last October, I watched a few more horror movies to see if I felt the same way. (It was October of 2020 when I first watched Halloween III: Season of the Witch and met Dr, Dan Challis. I remember a kid in elementary school trying to tell me about it. After hearing this description about masks that melt kids’ faces and turn them into bugs, there was no way I was going to be watching Halloween III: Season of the Witch. Smash cut to today and it’s one of my favorite movies for about 1000 reasons.) Anyway, I enjoyed the horror movie experience so much last October I wish I had watched more, so this October I’d cram in as many as I could. (As I type this, I’ve watched 33 in the last month. Yes, I am now someone who has seen Killer Klowns from Outer Space.)

Part of me wants to give this a name. Like “The Great Horror Reset,” or something else dumb like that. Because there for sure something going on, especially with people like me who have never really watched horror movies before. But what I’m finding is the movies from this era (again, roughly 1968 until 1990) range from legitimately great movies (Night of the Living Dead) to fun, creepy and hilarious (the aforementioned Halloween III: Season of the Witch) and fun and stupid (pretty much every Friday the 13th movie). But the one thing they really aren’t are … scary.

When I interviewed John Carpenter recently I asked him about this. When horror movies got into the Hostel era, that’s when Carpenter basically checked out. The movies had lost their sense of fun. I presented him what I think is happening now, with all these non-horror fans watching older horror and enjoying it, and Carpenter responded, “That’s interesting. I hadn’t really paid much attention to that, but it’s much more fun than the torture movies. The only one of those that was any good, the only one of those that was fun, was the Saw movies, which were fun. But no, horror: there’s an edge. You don’t want to step over that edge. That’s not something that you should do.”

And that’s the thing: maybe I’d grown so accustomed to modern horror that uses jump scares (again, they are effective) that I kind of got reprogrammed to like older horror. I swear, when I watch a modern horror movie in a theater I can’t even look at the screen. I don’t want to jump out of my seat when the thing jumps out at me and the loud noise happens. (Keep in mind I am generalizing a bit here. But most mass-marketed studio horror movies do this.) But when I went back to watch these older movies, I couldn’t (and still can’t) get over how much fun they are. Some are downright hilarious. (Honestly, I think this is why I enjoyed Halloween Kills. It plays like a movie from 1982 and all the characters seem in on this idea. And I think my brain is currently wired for movies exactly like this. But, also, admittedly, I am in the minority on this opinion. But I have little doubt if Halloween III: Season of the Witch came out today in theaters, most people would hate it.)

There’s a kind of hilarious clip of Roger Ebert having a meltdown about Friday the 13th Part IV: The Final Chapter. Basically, Ebert hates this movie so much he thinks it will cause the downfall of civilization. So much so that Gene Siskel had to chime in and basically tell Ebert, look, I don’t like it either, but maybe let’s take it down a notch. And it’s funny because, now, that’s “the good one.”

I do love that before I watched Friday the 13th Part IV: The Final Chapter I was told, “oh, that’s the good one.” I finally kind of get how non-Star Wars fans feel when I try to explain how some of them are good and some are bad. Because most of these movies just feel like, “stab, stab. stab.” Then I’ll be told the next one subverts the formula and I’ll watch it and it’s still, “stab, stab. stab.” But I’m finding the whole, “stab, stab. stab,” of it all just kind of fun and stupid and, again, not at all scary. To the point I was at a bar over the weekend and got into an in-depth conversation about the history and mythos of Jason Voorhees and was saying things like, “Actually, of the first five movies, Jason himself only has his mask the whole movie in Part IV,” and dropping names like Shelly Finkelstein from Part III. To the point I had to stop a second and think, “Wait, who am I now?”

(Also, I’m looking forward to inevitably getting some sort of, “Um, you don’t understand horror at all,” response on Twitter. Which, yes, I suppose it’s fair to say I’m not an expert on something I’ve spent most my life avoiding. But that’s also the point.)

The truth is I haven’t quite figured this one out, but also something is happening because I’ve been talking to way too many people who feel the same way. But, with actual Halloween fast approaching, that’s a pretty hard deadline for this piece. (I do wonder if April Fool’s Day was at the end of April, would people spend the whole month watching comedies? I kind of wish that were the case.) But where I’m sort of leaning is, people like me are so accustomed to more modern horror, which went through its someone recent “torture porn” phase, and with a healthy dose of jump scares, and decided this is not for me. Then almost out of necessity for something to do, went back to the older horror movies and realized that, yeah, these might have been scary as a kid, but compared to modern horror, they are just a whole lot of fun. Oh, and I now casually drop references to Shelly Finkelstein.

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It seems as if the Philadelphia 76ers have a problem with a star to deal with aside from Ben Simmons’ continued absence. On ESPN’s NBA Today, Ramona Shelburne stated that, after bumping knees during the team’s season opener against the New Orleans Pelicans, Embiid was unable to walk for a few days.

“He told me after this game in New Orleans, he couldn’t walk for two days,” Shelburne said, “but he still went out and played in Oklahoma City, and obviously, he played against the Knicks and the Nets.”

As for why Embiid is continuing to push through despite being obviously banged up — particularly because this is the same right knee that gave him trouble last year — Shelburne reports that it goes back to the ongoing saga involving the team’s other All-Star.

“He’s playing because Ben Simmons is not playing, and they need one of them on the court, and [Embiid] wants to show leadership,” Shelburne said. “At this moment, you don’t want to fall behind to where you cannot come back. But he’s settling for a mid-range game that he doesn’t have right now.”

Shelburne also mentioned that Embiid’s injury woes might have cost him an MVP award last year, and that there is some chatter that Embiid should sit a game or two in order to let his meniscus heal.

The Sixers have four consecutive home games on the horizon, including back-to-back games on Friday and Saturday. It is unclear if the team will opt to let Embiid rest at any point during that stretch.

The great Taoist philosopher Lao Tzu is known for saying, “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” It’s a simple but powerful way of approaching goals by seeing them as a series of simple actions, rather than a massive undertaking.

Chris Nikic, 22, has a similar life philosophy that he says helped him become the first person with Down syndrome to complete an Ironman. An Ironman is an incredible feat of endurance where athletes must complete a 2.4-mile swim in open water, a 112-mile bike ride and a full marathon of 26.2 miles, in 17 hours or less.

In November 2020, Chris completed his first Ironman at Panama City Beach, Florida.

Chris attributes his success by trying 1% more every day. That could mean an extra push up, a few more seconds on the treadmill or one more sit up. “It represents me better than I was yesterday,” Chris told News 6.

Chris’ father, Nik Nikic, says the philosophy is a way for people to achieve great things without overdoing it and injuring themselves. It also prevents people from biting off more than they can chew and giving up.

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“1% is pretty powerful,” Nik told Today. “Our hope is that people can take it and apply it in their life. It’s a really simple way to get them started on that journey to achieving their potential.”

Nik has seen these small incremental changes result in big improvements in Chris’ performance.

“He always does a little bit more or a little bit faster each time,” Nik said. “It requires a lot of patience to do the 1% … This is designed to be easy and long-term sustainable.”

Chris also follows three rules to create lifelong habits. Rule No. 1 is have fun. Rule No. 2 is “there can’t be any residual pain.” Rule No. 3 is “always just one more.”

The 1% philosophy can be applied to a lot more than running a marathon. Imagine if you got 1% better at any skill. After 100 days, you’d be 100% better than when you started. The philosophy can apply to anything from learning a musical instrument to improving your parenting skills.

Eating 1% better every day could completely transform your body in just a few months.

All you have to do is create a plan and stick to it.

Chris and Nik have outlined their philosophy in a new book “1% Better: Reaching My Full Potential and How You Can Too.” The book explains how Chris implements the philosophy to achieve his goals such as completing the Ironman or the Boston Marathon.

Nik believes that Chris’ achievements are about a lot more than just meeting his personal goals. They give people with Down syndrome a road map for independence.

“The message that we wanna send is: It takes us as parents to be willing to trust to have our kids really be included in the rest of the world,” Nik said. “When other people start doing for you, you’re not gonna get the benefits of life. You’re always gonna be counting on someone else. So our kids need to do more for themselves.”

For many, Thanksgiving was canceled last year, family gatherings having been deemed unsafe due to a certain pesky public health crisis. Not that the pandemic ever ended, but thanks to vaccines, things are much, much safer than last November. (Even if some, uh, still refuse to get dosed.) So if you and your relatives didn’t get to pow-wow over turkey in 2020, your reward this year is a new South Park movie arriving on the big day.

As per The Hollywood Reporter, part of that ginormous $900 million deal Trey Parker and Matt Stone hatched with Paramount was the promise that they would make no less than 14 (!!) South Park made-for-Paramount+ movies, to be dropped on the company’s new streamer. The first, due on Thanksgiving Day, is called South Park: Post Covid — a hopeful, one could even say inaccurate title, considering the pandemic is far from over.

When Post Covid drops, it will have been almost two years since the last proper South Park episode. Since the Season 23 finale in December 2019, the show’s studios have remained shuttered, save two specials — one entitled “The Pandemic Special,” which aired in late September 2020, the other called “South ParQ Vaccination Special,” which bowed in early March 2021. That means Post Covid is the third consecutive South Park thing about COVID. But the other 13 made-for-streaming movies will almost certainly branch off to other topics.

“We’re at where a lot of people are at, which is the future kind of sucks,” Stone told THR. “We would like to get back to where each week we can to doing something totally different. We tried to experiment with serialization. That had mixed results. And the past five or six years have been dominated by Trump, being political and the tonal change of society. And then the pandemic. We don’t want everything to be about the pandemic, but that is what is going on.”

South Park: Post Covid will drop on Paramount+ on Nov. 25. The second of 14 movies is due at some point this December.

(Via THR)

Welcome to SNX DLX, our weekly roundup of the best sneakers to hit the market. For the last couple of weeks, we at SNX have been heavily anticipating this year’s special Halloween drops that come out every year like clockwork from the likes of Nike, Adidas, and the other big brands. Well… they’re here, and they are so awful and lazy that not a single one of them has made it into our weekly roundup. We can’t, in good faith, recommend this shoe to you for example. Or this half-assed effort.

Nike makes billions of dollars every year, and the most they can offer us is a glow-in-the-dark Air Presto and Air Force 1? Do better Nike.

Luckily this week is stacked with dope collaborations and colorways that you’re sure to get a lot more mileage out of than a gimmicky Halloween drop. This week, we’ve got a Red October-esque Yeezy, Billie Eilish’s latest Jordan collaboration, and, like every week, another must-cop Jordan colorway just waiting to join your wardrobe as your new favorite pair of kicks.

Let’s jump into this week’s best sneakers.

Nike WMNS Dunk High Up Varsity Maize/ Summit White

Kicking off the week is a WMNS-exclusive two colorway drop of Nike’s Dunk High Up in Summit White and Varsity Maize. The High Up is a mixed-up rendition of the usual Dunk High style, with wild overlays, alternative paneling construction, and a mini and oversized Swoosh (one of which is embroidered) all on top of a stacked midsole.

The Summit White iteration features white leather mixed with Sail accents while the Varsity Maize features a much bolder design built on a Varsity Maize base with Midnight Navy and University Red accents. Both are dope and offer something very different.

The Nike WMNS Dunk High Up Varsity Maize/Summit White is out now for a retail price of $120. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.

Yeezy Foam Runner Vermillion

I wish I had a time machine so I could go back seven years and show every Kanye West fan — which in 2014 was everyone — this Vermillion red Yeezy Foam Runner. Brains would melt, not because the Foam Runner is a ridiculous piece of footwear (albeit a very comfortable one), but because 2014 is also the year that Kanye and Nike dropped the iconic Air Yeezy 2 Red Octobers.

It’s not quite the same shade of red, but it’s an interesting throwback. Fans of Ye’s footwear have been waiting years to get a Yeezy that attempts to capture some of the magic of the Red Octobers, the fact that Kanye decided to reuse the color on a Foam Runner and not a more traditional sneaker is hilarious. Kanye is still trolling, even if his music has fallen off.

If you’re picking up a pair of Foam Runners, be sure to order a full size up for the right fit.

The Yeezy Foam Runner Vermillion is set to drop on October 29th for a retail price of $80. Pick up a pair via the Adidas webstore, Yeezy Supply or on aftermarket sites like GOAT.

Air Jordan 3 Pine Green

I’m not completely sure we’ve ever seen a colorway of the Jordan 3 that we didn’t like, this is just a perfect piece of footwear. This week’s Pine Green iteration features black coated nubuck leather with popping Pine Green accents, a perforated leather collar, and that classic elephant print pattern on the forefoot and heel overlays.

It’s not a radical redesign, but it doesn’t need to be — it’s a Jordan 3!

The Air Jordan 3 Pine Green is set to drop on October 30th for a retail price of $190. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app or on aftermarket sites like GOAT or Flight Club.

Air Jordan 15 Billie Eilish

I’ve read a lot of online chatter surrounding Billie Eilish’s Air Jordan 15 design. If you’re one of those people, I have to ask: have you seen the Air Jordan 15? This is easily one of the ugliest Jordan silhouettes, and it doesn’t get a lot of collaboration love, for good reason. So I actually applaud Billie Eilish for picking a reviled silhouette and trying to flip the cultural conversation about it.

That’s punk rock baby. Are these ugly? Absolutely. So are “dad shoes” but Kanye has been able to make sneakerheads pretend that they aren’t for almost a decade now. Maybe Billie can do the same.

The Air Jordan 15 Billie Eilish is set to drop on October 28th for a retail price of $225. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.

Adidas SST AEC SUPEREARTH SW

Sean Wotherspoon is back with another wild design that combines his love of mixed media fabrics and sustainable fashion. A follow-up to summer’s white iteration of the new silhouette, the big draw of the SUPEREARTH was its sustainable construction, the sneaker is made entirely without animal-derived products and utilizes recycled rubber and yarn accents, and an upper composed of partially recycled polyester.

This new iteration of the sneaker is constructed the exact same way but features a more eye-catching black colorway that serves as a better contrast to the bright yarn embroidery.

The Adidas SST AEC SUPEREARTH SW is set to drop on October 28th for a retail price of $110. Pick up a pair via the Adidas webstore.

Air Jordan 1 Zoom Air Comfort Gold Laser

This new Zoom Air Comfort version of the Air Jordan 1 is so tricked out that it looks like the type of shoe you’d find on a sneaker customizer’s Instagram. There are just too many sought-after details on this thing, laser-etching against glittery gold panels, an icy outsole rim, and a shimmery blue indented Swoosh, it’s like a sneakerhead’s wet dream.

The Zoom Air Comfort was made with, well, comfort, in mind and features a base made from genuine and synthetic leathers, promising a broken-in feel.

The Air Jordan 1 Zoom Air Comfort Gold Laser is set to drop on October 28th for a retail price of $190. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.

Nike LDWaffle x Sacai x UNDERCOVER Collection

Nike, Sacai, and UNDERCOVER have teamed up once again for a triple sneaker LDWaffle collection that brings new colorways to the silhouette. Dropping in your choice of Black and Bright Citron, Night Maroon and Team Royal, and Midnight Spruce and University Red colorways, the collection features leather and suede overlays (or in the case of the Waffle, underlays) over a nylon upper with tri-branding throughout the shoes and the Waffle’s usual layered construction.

Christmas has come early for fans of the Waffle.

The Nike LDWaffle x Sacai X UNDERCOVER collection is set to drop soon October 29th for a retail price of $170. Pick up the Black and Bright Citron, Night Maroon and Team Royal, or Midnight Spruce and University Red via the Nike SNKRS app.

Disclaimer: While all of the products recommended here were chosen independently by our editorial staff, Uproxx may receive payment to direct readers to certain retail vendors who are offering these products for purchase.

Former President Donald Trump prides himself on making the best deals, but that’s not what Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene got when she bought stock in his recently announced social media platform.

According to CNBC, Greene filed a public disclosure for the transaction — a requirement for serving members of Congress — that revealed she spent $50,000 for a stake in Digital World Acquisition Corp. (DWAC). The company saw prices for its shares skyrocket after announcing its plans to merge with Trump’s social media company, which should’ve been good news for Greene.

Unfortunately, stock prices have since dipped from the starting point of $118.80 a share to around $63 per share. Greene got in on the deal soon after it was announced, so she likely paid close to top-dollar for her shares, which means she’s probably lost a good deal of money on Trump’s latest business venture.

“At best, Greene has lost about 4.5% on her investment,” CNBC reported. That translates to thousands of dollars.

In an email from Greene to CNBC, she addressed the investment, saying, “This transaction was reported in compliance with House rules and provides all required details about the transaction.” Since she bought in when the market price was at its highest, the only thing she seems guilty of right now — other than having a financial interest in the future misinformation tactics of a disgraced ex-president — is making really terrible business decisions.

(Via CNBC)

No matter how one feels about Facebook, it’s clear that Mark Zuckerberg’s been through some stuff lately while attempting to salvage the social media network’s reputation. Like, Jimmy Kimmel’s launching Bond villain remarks around, and Joy Behar had even more unflattering words. Well, Zuckerberg is starting to read the room and realizes that his audience is largely skewed. He’d like to entice more young adults onboard, which might mean that he knows that everyone’s crazy uncle is the one dominating timelines with talk of Ivermectin and (nonexistent) election fraud.

No one can argue too much about how social media helped the MAGA-misinformation machine to flourish, so one would think that former President Trump would at least be slightly grateful to the big ones, like Facebook, but nope, he’s incensed. Trump is now blaming Mark Zuckerberg, along with former Attorney General Bill Barr, for the “rigged” election. Trump’s argument responded to a Wall Street Journal editorial that discussed Pennsylvania and mail-in ballots and also how “Mr. Biden won the state by 80,555, but the country is lucky the election wasn’t closer.” Well, Trump still believes that his rigging claims should prevail, and he concluded by listing his reasons why he believes that Zuckerberg and Barr screwed him:

• Attorney General Bill Barr ordered U.S. Attorney Bill McSwain to stand down and not investigate election irregularities.

• Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook poured over $17 million to interfere in the Pennsylvania election, including $5.5 million on “ballot processing equipment” in Philadelphia and $552,000 for drop boxes where the voting pattern was not possible.

And so much more! This is why Democrats and the Fake News Media do not want a full forensic audit in Pennsylvania. In reality, 80,555 ballots are nothing when there is this much corruption or voter irregularities.

The reasons for Trump being upset with Barr are clear. He believed that the AG should do his bidding. As for Zuckerberg, what’s actually the case is that the ballot-counting process could have used an infusion in cash, and federal funds were lacking, so (as NPR previously reported) “Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife donated $350 million to the Center for Tech and Civic Life, a nonprofit that works to make elections more inclusive and secure.” Sure, this may have been a redemptive strategy on Zuckerberg’s part (for not shutting down election misinformation), but whatever the case, Trump’s only looking for someone else to blame. And he’s angrily shaking his fist at the most convenient cloud.

(Via Wall Street Journal)

While Timothée Chalamet might now be a fully-fledge movie star, renowned for his subdued performances and prominent bone structure, long before he ever starred alongside Saoirse Ronan he was sharing the spotlight with a different co-star: an Xbox 360 controller. Back in 2010, Chalamet entertained people not on the big screen but on his YouTube channel, ModdedController360, where he shared the custom paint jobs he did on his Xbox 360 controllers. While the actor only uploaded three videos showcasing his artistic talents, the channel currently has over 17,000 followers — though we suspect him revealing his channel name in a recent interview might have something to do with that.

In the interview with internet personality Nate Hill, Chalamet and his Dune co-star Zendaya sat down with the YouTuber to talk about their new Fortnite skins and show off their impressive gameplay skills. However, one thing led to another and during the interview Chalamet let it slip that he and gaming go way back, casually admitting to Hill that he once had a YouTube channel that some dedicated fans had even stumbled upon despite his face not appearing in any of the videos.

“I had a YouTube channel people found,” Chalamet said. “It’s YouTube dot com back-slash ‘ModdedController360. And I used to paint-mod controllers.”

Despite Chalamet only uploading three videos during his brief career as a YouTuber, each one of them is truly something special, with the video of Chalamet showing off his “nice” and “sexy” red tiger print design being particularly delightful.

In addition to the red tiger-striped controller, Chalamet also designed a blue and sliver controller as well as a Christmas-themed green and red one that “works perfectly” and “is not for sale.” While in his videos Chalamet urged viewers to comment what colors he should use next, the comments have, unsurprisingly, since been turned off.

Unfortunately, Chalamet’s days of designing and potentially selling Xbox 360 controllers have come to a close. However, much less unfortunately, the young star is pretty consistently blowing fans away with his acting chops and is making a real name for himself among Hollywood’s best and brightest. You can catch Chalamet in both Dune and Wes Anderson’s newest film, The French Dispatch, in theaters now. Or on his YouTube channel.