Congratulations to Joe Biden for winning the state of Arizona… again, and by even more votes than previously thought. Nearly a year after the 2020 presidential election, former president and sore loser at large Donald Trump is still doing his damndest to prove that the election was rigged and he indeed was the rightful winner. So how’s that working out for him? Errr… not so well.
For months, a group of Trump-y security experts called the Cyber Ninjas (yes, really—check out their website) has been engaged in a time-consuming hand recount of the votes of residents of Maricopa County, Arizona, a key district that Trump lost but swears he didn’t. So that #45 could give the country a big “I told you so,” a number of his supporters behind the “Stop the Steal” movement handed over millions of dollars to the Ninjas to dig in and show who really won the county’s vote for president. They did, and it turns out, yep, it was Biden. As we were told almost a year ago. But, as the Arizona Republic reports, the Ninjas’ work wasn’t a total waste of time, as they did uncover one important discrepancy: Trump actually received 45,469 fewer votes than Biden—not 45,109, as was officially reported.
While the Cyber Ninjas’ findings are scheduled to be presented to the Senate today at 1 p.m., Maricopa County Board Chairman Jack Sellers has already weighed in on the results, simply to reiterate that “the tabulation equipment counted the ballots as they were designed to do, and the results reflect the will of the voters.”
The best part? According to Raw Story, at just about the very same time copies of the report were being leaked to news outlets on Thursday, Trump was busy hounding Texas Governor Greg Abbott about having a group like the Cyber Ninjas do a recount in Texas as well… despite the fact that Trump won that particular state.
Rudy Giuliani’s leadership following the tragic events of September 11, 2001, gave him the nickname, “America’s Mayor.” He was named Time‘s “Person of the Year” for “taking on half a dozen critical roles and performing each masterfully. Improvising on the fly, he became America’s homeland-security boss, giving calm, informative briefings about the attacks and the extraordinary response,” the magazine’s glowing profile reads. “He was the consoler in chief, strong enough to let his voice brim with pain, compassion, and love.” Giuliani even appeared in an Adam Sandler movie, the greatest milestone of all.
Oh, how things have changed. Giuliani is now a sweaty ooze monster who shaves in public, lost his law license in New York, hustles cigars and coins on YouTube, and gives incoherent speeches (no wonder people think he’s hitting the sauce). As The Daily Show host Trevor Noah put it, “Only Rudy can spend the 9/11 anniversary talking about the time he hung out with Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged pedophile friend. You know your speech went off the rails when people watching it are like, ‘I wish this guy would talk more about 9/11.’ What is he doing?” Even Fox News has had enough of his shenanigans.
Politicoreports that Giuliani “has been banned from Fox News for almost three months. As if the sting of that weren’t painful enough, the ‘9/11 mayor’ learned of his banishment… on the eve of Sept. 11.” To quote a circa 2001 joke, that’s gotta hurt!
Giuliani was slated to appear on “Fox & Friends” to mark the 20th anniversary of the attack. But the night before, host PETE HEGSETH called Giuliani to say he’d been cut from the show and apologize. The ban extends not just to GIULIANI, but also to his son ANDREW, who has not been on Fox News since he launched his campaign for governor of New York in May despite many requests to go on the network. His team has been frustrated that rival GOP gubernatorial candidate Rep. LEE ZELDIN is a frequent guest.
Giuliani is reportedly “really hurt” about the ban “because he did a big favor for Rupert [Murdoch]. He was instrumental in getting Fox on Time Warner so it could be watched in NYC.” Maybe Rudy, who’s being sued for $1.3 billion in a defamation lawsuit, can start his own news network to appear on. I know which journalist would be his first hire.
Rihanna is gearing up for her upcoming Savage X Fenty fashion show, and during the lead-up, she took time to indulge James Corden, who took over as her assistant for a Late Late Show segment. Corden didn’t do much actual assisting, as he was more focused on doing gags and kind of just being a nuisance.
He did manage to gather some insight on the show, though, like when Rihanna told him it takes months to put it together. She continued, “I’m really impressed by what my team and I have been able to put together, especially off a pandemic. So many restrictions, so many rules and boundaries.” Rihanna then trailed off as she noticed a Corden headshot had been added to a board of the show’s models and broke out into laughter.
Corden later asked Rihanna about the inclusivity of the show, and Rihanna said, “That’s all that I ride on. That’s my bottom line. My foundation is built on inclusivity, not just because it’s a thing. That’s a thing because people are making it a thing, right? But I only know my household, my childhood, my mom. She’s a Black woman with curves: I don’t know anything else. So when I make something, I’d be an idiot to want to exclude anyone. I don’t care what size you are, what race you are, what religion you come from: I want you to feel like you’re represented here.”
Ultimately, at the end of the segment, Rihanna understandably fired Corden given the poor job he had done throughout the day.
Fall is upon us this week, and that means that various state fairs are open for business, too. That’s happening for better or worse, and if you’re (wisely) planning on avoiding large crowds again this year, then the good news is that Netflix has tons of TV options coming your way this week. Some new series and returning ones, and an inspiring film, are all onboard for your binging pleasure.
Among the many options? You’ll be able to binge the latest from the Haunting of Hill House creator, and that show includes the spookiest priest that you’ve seen in a long time, all before Halloween season officially arrives. Then a popular and punchy series returns, along with more of a ridiculously overwhelming baking franchise. You’ll also find the latest offbeat Netflix dating show and an unusual true crime series and a Melissa McCarthy movie. In other words, Netflix continues to make good on its promise to entertain us all the way through the pandemic and beyond.
Here’s everything else coming to (and leaving) the streaming platform this week.
Midnight Mass (Netflix series streaming 9/24)
Get ready, The Haunting of Hill House and The Haunting of Bly Manor addicts, because creator Mike Flanagan’s back to cause us more horror fits. This happens to be his favorite project so far and revolves around an isolated community that lives on spooky Crockett Island, which gets even spookier due to a charismatic priest’s arrival. Naturally, a whole lot of supernatural shenanigans are afoot, but human nature (as we are currently experiencing in-real-life these days) can often be scarier than the ghosts that people can dream up. It’s dark, real dark.
Dear White People: Volume 4 (Netflix series streaming 9/22)
Enjoy this version of a post-pandemic future while the characters take on senior year look back on their most pivotal year yet. This season’s a 90s-inspired musical event that’s also Afro-futuristic in its bent, all to prove that moving forward often involves the all-important act of looking towards the past.
Love on the Spectrum: Season 2 (Netflix series streaming 9/21)
More stories of people on the autism spectrum arrive to show how they meet the challenges of dating and relationships. Expect an even greater variety of personalities, which will illustrate exactly how much diversity arises on the easily misunderstood spectrum.
Melissa McCarthy stars as as a grieving woman who goes battle with a territorial bird, all in interest of dominating a singular garden. Somehow, this leads her to renew her ability to love while gaining the courage to really grieve.
The Great British Baking Show: Collection Nine (BBC One series streaming 9/24)
John Oliver can’t be happy about this return, but let’s do this anyway. Here’s a new batch of amateur bakers engaging in absurd challenges, and week after week, contestants will fall by the wayside until (much like The Highlander) there can be only one.
Crime Stories: India Detectives! (Netflix series streaming 9/22)
An unexpected true-crime entry follows the Bengaluru City Police through every phase of the police process. Crimes will span murder and kidnap and extortion, all the way through what’s known as India’s Silicon Valley. It’s a journey like no other when it comes to law enforcement TV, and expect some truly shocking and compelling developments.
Here’s a full list of what’s been added in the last week:
Avail. 9/20 Grown Ups
Avail. 9/21 Go! Go! Cory Carson: Chrissy Takes the Wheel
Love on the Spectrum: Season 2
Avail. 9/22 Confessions of an Invisible Girl
Dear White People: Volume 4 Intrusion
Jaguar
Monsters Inside: The 24 Faces of Billy Milligan
Avail. 9/23 Je Suis Karl
Avail. 9/24 Blood & Water: Season 2 Ganglands (Braqueurs)
Jailbirds New Orleans
Midnight Mass
My Little Pony: A New Generation
The Starling
Vendetta: Truth, Lies and The Mafia
And here’s what’s leaving next week, so it’s your last chance:
Leaving 9/26 The Grandmaster
Leaving 9/30 Air Force One
Austin Powers in Goldmember
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
Boogie Nights
Cradle 2 the Grave
Evil: Season 1 Fools Rush In
Insidious
The Karate Kid
The Karate Kid Part II
The Karate Kid Part II
Kung Fu Panda
Kung Fu Panda 2
No Strings Attached
The Pianist
Prom Night
The Queen
Star Trek
Star Trek: Enterprise: Seasons 1-4 Star Trek: Seasons 1-3 Star Trek: Voyager: Seasons 1-7 The Unicorn: Season 1 Why Do Fools Fall in Love
Donald Trump’s dream is to apparently have every state in the Union recount their election results and show him magically winning the 2020 presidential election he lost to Joe Biden. But perhaps he should be careful what he wishes for if the results of the bizarre Arizona recount are any indication.
This week Trump actually argued that states like Texas need to recount their votes despite him actually winning the state’s electoral college votes. But the much-talked-about recount of Maricopa County’s votes by Cyber Ninjas officially showed that he lost the state in 2020 despite the company conducting it having a significant interest in finding ways that Trump claims he got cheated.
BREAKING: The #azaudit draft report from Cyber Ninjas confirms the county’s canvass of the 2020 General Election was accurate and the candidates certified as the winners did, in fact, win.
In fact, the draft report from the company Cyber Ninjas found just the opposite: It tallied 99 additional votes for President Biden and 261 fewer votes for Mr. Trump in Maricopa County, the fast-growing region that includes Phoenix.
The results are a huge blow to MAGA fans desperate to find any proof of the election fraud that Trump predicted before the election and rallied for months about afterward. For months, some of Trump’s biggest supporters claimed a domino effect would take place after massive fraud was uncovered in Arizona and led to other states finding similar issues. But despite the shady nature of Cyber Ninjas’ months-long, delay-plagued review, they ultimately didn’t turn up anything of interest.
For many loyalists, the investigation has been seen as the first in a string of state inquiries that would, domino-like, topple claims that Mr. Biden was legitimately in the White House.
State Senator Wendy Rogers, a Republican who is among Arizona’s most ardent advocates of the stolen-election canard, underscored that faith in a single sentence posted Thursday on Twitter: “Tomorrow we make history.”
Instead, election experts said, an inquiry run by Trump partisans that was granted unrestricted access to 2.1 million ballots and election equipment failed to make even a basic case that the November vote was badly flawed, much less rigged.
The full report is still forthcoming, and will certainly be scrutinized by those worried about the security of the Cyber Ninjas recall. But right now it’s even more clear that, much like last November, Trump didn’t get what he was looking for in Arizona.
BIA’s rise to stardom has been an impressive thing to watch over the past year and the Massachusetts-born rapper continues her streak with help from G Herbo for their new collaboration “Besito.” The track sees BIA flaunt her bilingual rap skills by switching back and forth between English and Spanish bars about her ability to draw attention no matter where she is. G Herbo arrives with a verse of his own that shows love to the special lady in his life while he flexes some muscle of his own.
BIA’s newest release comes after Nicki Minaj joined her for a remix of her breakout hit, “Whole Lotta Money.” The remix was preceded by the rappers speaking about the new version of the song and how it came together during a joint Instagram Live. The song grew to be so popular that a store’s sold out their collection of Bottega Veneta heels, the luxury brand that BIA raps about on the song. BIA was amused by the situation and shared a tweet about it, writing, “Not the store clerk at Bottega saying the heels are sold out bc of the song.”
“Besito” comes ahead of the deluxe reissue of BIA’s debut project, For Certain next month. The update comes with six new songs that include “Besito” and the “Whole Lotta Money” remix with Nicki Minaj. Herbo and Minaj will join Lil Durk, Lil Jon, Doe Boy, and 42 Dugg as guest acts on the project.
You can press play on BIA’s new song in the video above.
For Certain (Deluxe) is out 10/22 via Epic Records. Pre-order it here.
After putting up an impressive year thanks to his 2020 EPs Take Time and When It’s All Said And Done, Giveon is back in action with his very strong single, “For Tonight.” The track is quote the emotive release as it finds the Long Beach native pleading for a brief moment of intimacy with a special love in his life. Despite his pleas, the singer’s partner seems skeptical towards opening up to Giveon as their concerns lie with what the future holds for the couple. Giveon asks them to focus on the present while allowing the future to take care of itself.
The track comes after Giveon repackaged his Take Time and When It’s All Said And Done EPs into one project titled When It’s All Said And Done… Take Time and the re-release came with “All To Me,” a lustful addition to the singer’s project. Giveon also earned his first No. 1 track thanks to his guest appearance on Justin Bieber’s “Peaches” with Daniel Caesar. Other highlights from the past year for Giveon include his appearance on NPR’s Tiny Desk, a video for “Still Your Best,” and his debut on daytime TV with a performance of “Heartbreak Anniversary” on Ellen.
You can press play on Giveon’s new single in the video above.
I can’t write a better intro than the one Lil Wayne drops on Run The Jewels’ nuclear bomb from last year, “Ooh La La.” Weezy comes out swinging, landing haymaker after haymaker in a verse stuffed with electrifying, face-scrunching rhymes. If it seemed like Lil Wayne would feel out of place on a track with the anti-establishment Run The Jewels rappers El-P and Killer Mike, he lays those fears to rest near instantly.
The remix is one of the new tracks appearing on the newly released deluxe edition of RTJ4, which also adds a new mix of “JU$T” with Pharrell and Zack De La Rocha, the Royal Blood remix of “The Ground Below,” and the rebellious rap duo’s Cyberpunk 2077 soundtrack contribution, “No Save Point.” There are also instrumental versions of all the songs on the original album, giving fans a chance to try to rhyme like Lil Wayne over favorites like “Walking In The Snow” and “A Few Words For The Firing Squad.”
The Phoenix Mercury played host to the New York Liberty on Friday night for the first round of the WNBA playoffs, with the right to play the Seattle Storm (or, for the Liberty, the Minnesota Lynx) in Round 2 on the line.
The favored Mercury took an early lead, but the young Liberty went on an extended run from late in the first quarter into the second to swipe a 41-37 advantage at halftime that had many — including Chicago Sky coach James Wade — stunned.
In the fourth quarter, the two teams traded leads and big threes late, starting with another three from Cunningham, who finished the game with 21 points off the bench.
WE GOT OURSELVES A BALL GAME @sophaller knocks down ANOTHER clutch three
After the Mercury increased their lead to three, the Liberty turned to Betnijah Laney, who led the way with 25 points on the night, for the answer and she delivered, stepping up to hit a sensational shot to tie the game at 82 with under three seconds to play.
After a timeout to advance the ball, Phoenix drew up a beautiful play to get the Liberty in rotation on defense, slipping Brianna Turner to the basket after a screen got two Liberty defenders to go to one player, leaving no recourse for Sami Whitcomb but to swipe down on Turner, catching her arm (which the reverse angle showed clearly) and sending her to the line with 0.4 to play.
Turner would split the two free throws, missing the first and making the second to give Phoenix an 83-82 advantage, with New York unable to get a decent look at the rim, as Sabrina Ionescu, who had 14 points and 11 assists in the loss, could only muster a near halfcourt heave on the inbounds play as Britney Griner forced her to simply launch a prayer high into the air that fell short of the basket.
It was an impressive performance from a Liberty team that squeaked into the playoffs, and, while no one wants to talk about moral victories right after the playoffs, it should eventually only breed confidence that they can build on this performance. For Phoenix, it was a shakier start to their postseason than they hoped against an 8-seed, but they showed some impressive fortitude in fighting off the Liberty at every turn. Diggins-Smith finished with 22 points, 5 assists, and four rebounds as she led the way, while Griner had 16 points, 10 rebounds, and six assists in a terrific outing from the center spot.
Now, it’s on to the reigning champs in Seattle for another win-or-go home game before a hopeful trip to the conference finals for a 5-game series.
Joyner Lucas is on a streak of quality collaborations with popular names in the hip-hop world and the Massachusetts rapper’s latest example of that finds him beside J. Cole. The duo finds magic with “Your Heart,” on which the rappers admit to their wrongs in past relationships, which often left their past partner brokenhearted and hurt by the actions of Lucas or Cole. Both rappers use maturity and wisdom to criticize their wrongdoings while sympathizing with the person they hurt.
The song arrives after Lucas was at the center of one of the biggest stories in the past week. He accused well-known marketing strategist Karen Civil of stealing $60,000 from him nearly a decade ago after he reached out to her with the help of getting help for his aspiring rap career. Lucas fired off the accusations in a series of tweets and even went back and forth with Civil during a discussion about the matter on Clubhouse.
“My son was on the way and you stole 60k from me before I got in the game @KarenCivil,” Lucas wrote in a tweet. “I hired you as a consultant and below attached was the memo you sent me. I was desperate for help and you knew that. After you was paid you went ghost and didn’t expect me to pop. here I am.”
You can press play on the track in the video above.
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ESPN2 
WE GOT OURSELVES A BALL GAME 
