In a video making the rounds on social media, a mother claims she is being harassed by the Calmut Country Sheriff’s department in Wisconsin for allowing her seven-year-old-daughter go to a neighbor’s house for a play date.

In the video shot by a mother who goes by Amy, the officer asks her a direct question about the current stay-at-home order. “Are you aware that we’re at a stay-at-home order right now? By the government?”

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Amy confirmed she knew about the order but still allowed her daughter to visit a neighbor’s house.

“Stop having your kid go by other people’s homes,” the officer orders Amy.

At the end of the altercation, the officer asks Amy for her full name but she refuses.

According to the sheriff’s office, when the video was taken, it was the fifth contact they’d had with her in recent weeks.

Amy later elaborated on the situation with Inside Edition. “The way they talked to me was completely disrespectful,” Amy said. “I had done nothing wrong from the moment they opened up the door. He immediately started yelling at me.”

“I have a right to be outside my home,” she said. “I don’t have to be locked in my home.”

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The video has made Amy a hero to some who believe the government doesn’t have the right to tell us to stay inside our homes during the pandemic. So is she right? Has she done “nothing wrong” by violating the state’s stay-at-home orders?

Legal experts say that stay-at-home orders or similar proclamations “effectively carry the force of law.”

The Supreme Court hasn’t said much about people’s liberty during epidemics. Although, in 1905, during a smallpox epidemic, a pastor argued that a mandatory smallpox vaccine violated his Constitutional rights.

The Court acknowledged that “the liberty secured by the Fourteenth Amendment . . . consists, in part, in the right of a person ‘to live and work where he will.'” But it added: “in every well-ordered society . . . the rights of the individual in respect of his liberty may at times, under the pressure of great dangers, be subjected to such restraint, to be enforced by reasonable regulations, as the safety of the general public may demand.”

Most would agree that asking Amy and her child to stay indoors for a limited amount of time is “reasonable” to protect the safety of the general public.

The video has also made Amy the subject of scorn for those who believe she’s creating putting people’s health in danger for repeatedly allowing her child to visit friends’ houses during the pandemic.

Studies show that children are less likely to show signs of being infected with COVID-19. They are also less likely to be hospitalized or die because of the disease.

However, that doesn’t mean that people like Amy shouldn’t worry about allowing their children to play with other children.

The problem is that children can appear to be completely healthy and then transmit the disease to those who are more likely to be symptomatic.

“[Social] distancing and everyday preventative behaviors are recommended for persons of all ages to slow the spread of the virus, protect the health care system from being overloaded, and protect older adults and persons of any age with serious underlying medical conditions,” the CDC said in a special report.

As Americans, we should be forever vigilant that our Constitutional rights are upheld and maintained. But being a good citizen has less to do with the legal ramifications of our actions and more to do with how they affect our fellow citizens.

There are a lot of great reasons to argue over the legality of the state order, but there are far fewer ways to rationalize putting our friends’ and neighbor’s health in jeopardy.

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With livestreamed DJ sets and beat battles becoming the de facto official entertainment of the Great Quarantine Of 2020, it was only a matter of time until some of the biggest names in music began to hold their own digital concerts, festivals, and shows. While DJ D-Nice’s Club Quarantine and Swizz Beats’ Verzuz series give fans plenty to look forward to each weekend, the next evolution of the format has apparently arrived thanks to two of hip-hop’s original party starters: Will Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff.

This Saturday, May 9, from noon to midnight EST, Bel Air’s favorite hip-hop duo will host the “Break The Monotony Block Party” on Instagram Live featuring a star-studded showcase of their veteran DJ friends. Guests include DJ Clark Kent, D-Nice, Just Blaze, and Neil Armstrong, with each guest checking in from their own handle, with some of the sets running concurrently, festival style. The principal duo has also announced a limited-edition collection of Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air merchandise going on sale May 9, with a percentage of proceeds to be donated to No Kid Hungry‘s ongoing COVID-19 relief efforts.

In a press release, Jeff said of the block party, “It’s humbling to see how The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and our music has transcended time and continued to shape pop culture. Between this new collection and the block party, I hope we can come together during these trying times, celebrate culture, put smiles on people’s faces and raise money for an important cause.”

Check out the set list above and sign up for a newsletter to gain first access to the merch here.

The Last Dance has given us so much over the past three weeks that it’s hard to keep track of all its many joys and wonders. For those of us who grew up idolizing Michael Jordan, it’s both a trip down memory lane and revealing look behind the scenes of one of the most compelling sports figures of all-time.

Sure, the petty beefs and bitter rivalries that are still simmering all these years later are endlessly entertaining, but there’s also all sorts of random historical ephemera that adds so much texture to it all. Take, for example, the stunning curly-mulleted security guard that has popped up a few times in the archival footage from inside the Bulls locker room.

The man in question, John Michael Wozniak, has now become a viral sensation after episode six, after an incredible scene in which he took Jordan’s money pitching quarters, then hit him with the shoulder shrug.

This security dude hit Michael Jordan with the Jordan shrug after winning at quarters! #TheLastDance pic.twitter.com/yxFs2kcVnm

— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) May 4, 2020

Sadly, Wozniak died earlier this year after a battle with colon cancer, but his son Nicholi says his father would’ve loved all the attention its garnered him.

Via Matt Fortuna of The Athletic:

The 35-year-old Nicholi never stopped giving his old man grief for his eccentric hairstyle. If father’s responses to son over the years were any indication, then John had a good laugh Sunday night up in heaven.

“Dad, why don’t you cut your hair and wear it like Pat Riley? Your hair is like 20 years old,” Nicholi recalled of his pleas. “I was a kid in grammar school, and he was like, ‘Nick, it’s my mark. It’s my brand. It’s my emblem. It’s like a lion’s mane.’ And I was like, Dad, you’re gonna get roasted one day. And I swear to God if he knew (about Sunday) he would be doing the same thing to me, ‘I told you!’ It was his mark. Everybody is playing into exactly what he wanted.”

Wozniak was a long-time narcotics officer in Chicago who quickly endeared himself to Jordan after once accidentally busting out the back window of his SUV while parking it at Chicago Stadium. He worked on Jordan’s security detail for more than 20 years after that, and, as we learned Sunday, had a mean quarters game.

(The Athletic)

The NBA 2K League will kick off its third season on Tuesday night with a pair of games at 7 p.m. ET — Cavs Legion will take on Pacers Gaming, while 76ers GC and Raptors Uprising GC will go head-to-head. Then, in a pair of virtual tilts scheduled to tip off at 9 p.m., Kings Guard Gaming and Warriors Gaming Squad will take the floor, as will Mavs Gaming and Hawks Talon GC.

As always, the games will be broadcast on Twitch, but this year, the 2K League will feature a new way to watch. The league announced on Tuesday morning that games will be broadcast by ESPN during the 2020 campaign. For the first few weeks of the season, the games that occur on Tuesday evenings will take place on ESPN2, while games on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday will air on the ESPN App and on ESPN.com.

According to a release, games will air on ESPN2 through May 19, with details about where games will be broadcast starting on May 26 coming some time in the future. With few other live sports going on right now due to the COVID-19 pandemic, eSports have been thrust into the spotlight, and as a result, Tuesday’s broadcast on the Worldwide Leader will serve as the first linear telecast of 2K League games in the United States.

Aside from Jerry Krause, the chief villain of The Last Dance thus far has been Isiah Thomas. The leader of the Bad Boys Pistons teams is still hated by Michael Jordan and many of the other players from those Bulls teams of the late 80s and early 90s, and that tension has been well-documented for years but has been thrust back into the spotlight thanks to this documentary.

This past Sunday’s episodes included a section on the Dream Team, where Thomas was famously excluded and is considered the biggest snub by far. Thomas still doesn’t understand his exclusion, but it’s pretty clear that it wasn’t basketball talent that kept him off the squad that went to Barcelona. Michael Jordan insisted in the documentary that he was not the reason for Thomas’ exclusion, noting that damn near half the Dream Team roster had previously had issues with Thomas. Rod Thorn has stated that in discussions with Jordan, Thomas never came up, and in the documentary the two recall their phone call with Mike asking “who’s going to be there” and Thorn simply saying, “not the guy you’re thinking of.”

Jordan’s insinuation that others like Magic Johnson and Larry Bird also didn’t like Isiah and could’ve been part of keeping him off the roster led to Magic addressing that issue on First Take on Monday.

“You have to be with each other for two months, and there was four or five guys who just had problems with him [Isiah Thomas],” Magic said. “He was unfortunately not going to be a part of the Dream Team because of those problems, because we all had to live with each other for two months, practice with each other, hang out with each other, all those things.”

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“Now, did I have a hand in him not being on the Dream Team? No. They didn’t ask me who should be on the team. The only thing David Stern and Rod Thorn asked me to do was to call Larry Bird and Michael Jordan and tell them they should play on the Dream Team.”

At this point, given the recollection Jordan had of his conversation with Thorn and Magic’s insistence here that Isiah never came up in conversations between he and the USA Basketball executives, what seems most likely is that none of the players had direct conversations that led to Thomas’ exclusion — which, in turn, gives them all plausible deniability here. Thorn, as the executive VP of basketball operations for the NBA, knew very well the tensions between all of those players and Thomas and did not need to have explicit conversations with them to know that keeping Thomas off the roster was the best way to ensure they got the rest of those top stars to agree to join the squad.

So, while those players were surely the reason Isiah didn’t land on the roster, they didn’t have to say anything for that to happen. From Thorn’s perspective, it’s understandable. You leave off one player to ensure you get five of the biggest names in basketball — and most importantly, the biggest in Michael Jordan — and while it’s unfortunate for Thomas that he was left off, it couldn’t have been a very difficult decision for Thorn and USA Basketball.

It has been just over a year since Irish rockers Fontaines DC released their debut album, Dogrel, in April of 2019, but they’re already ready for more. Today, the group has announced their second album, A Hero’s Death, and shared the title track.

The video for the post-punk tune features fellow countryman and Game Of Thrones star Aiden Gillen playing a tormented talk show host. The band’s Grian Chatten says of the song and accompanying video:

“The song is a list of rules for the self, they’re principles for self-prescribed happiness that can often hang by a thread. It’s ostensibly a positive message, but with repetition comes different meanings, that’s what happens to mantras when you test them over and over. There’s this balance between sincerity and insincerity as the song goes on and you see that in the music video as well. That’s why there’s a lot of shifting from major key to minor key. The idea was influenced by a lot of the advertising I was seeing – the repetitive nature of these uplifting messages that take on a surreal and scary feel the more you see them.

The title came from a line in a play by Brendan Behan, and I wrote the lyrics during a time where I felt consumed by the need to write something else to alleviate the fear that I would never be able follow up ‘Dogrel.’ But more broadly it’s about the battle between happiness and depression, and the trust issues that can form tied to both of those feelings.”

The band also notes of the album, “It feels like time hasn’t ticked since we announced our first record just over a year ago. We wrote these songs during the 12 months after finishing Dogrel as a necessary reaction to assure ourselves we will always be the band we set out to be. A sincere thank you to everyone who has supported our music since and before then.

Watch the “A Hero’s Death” video above, and below, find the A Hero’s Death art and tracklist.

1. “I Don’t Belong”
2. “Love Is The Main Thing”
3. “Televised Mind”
4. “A Lucid Dream”
5. “You Said”
6. “Oh Such A Spring”
7. “A Hero’s Death”
8. “Living In America”
9. “I Was Not Born”
10. “Sunny”
11. “No”

A Hero’s Death is out 7/31 via Partisan Records. Pre-order it here.

Though Jpegmafia only recently released his record All My Heros Are Cornballs, the rapper isn’t slowing down any time soon. Since his album debuted, Peggy has released several stand-alone singles, including the tongue-in-cheek track “Bald.” But the rapper didn’t stop there. Jpegmafia has called on Denzel Curry to offer up a verse for a chipper remix of the single.

Curry’s verse interrupts Peggy’s blown-out instruments in favor of a clapping beat. “My life was written already so I was gifted already / And with this God-given talent I knew the Devil been met me / Can’t compare me to Jesus because he ain’t Noah’s father / He told me, ‘Please be still and see that steel is revolver,’” Curry raps.

This isn’t the first time the two rappers have joined forces. Peggy appeared on Curry’s 2018 track “Vengence | Vengence.” Later, the duo linked up and Curry appeared in a promotional video for Peggy’s recently-released record.

Ahead of the remix’s release, Peggy sat down with Talib Kweli for a recent interview on People’s Party. Peggy told Kweli that fans don’t understand the intricacies of producing music. “The touring we do, the work we put in — it’s not understood,” he said. “Even producing, it’s not a craft that’s appreciated right now. In 20 years, people might appreciate it, but [not] right now.”

Listen to “Bald (Remix)” above.

Making a great plate of nachos is a mix of solid ingredients and layering. Don’t forget that word, folks, “layering.” The best nachos you’ve had were the “best” because they were layered. You got an even distribution. And, yes, also because the right ingredients were used from the cheese to the protein.

What makes nachos so damn good is that the dish kind of has it all. They’re a blissful matrix of crunchy, gooey, crisp, and soft textures with umami, cheesy, tangy, acidic, sweet, and savory flavors. You can also shove them in your mouth quite easily, usually by the handful.

The thing is, with so many factors involved, the opportunity to mess things up is high. Choose the wrong chips and welcome to soggy town. Choose the wrong cheese and you’ll be abandoned at the table. Go cheap on the protein and you might as well pack it in. So here are some hard and fast rules for making the perfect plate of Tex-Mex nachos just in time for you to share with your quarantine crew on Cinco.

1. CHOOSE THE RIGHT CHIPS

We’re not making Chilaquiles here. And while I love me a good breakfast with a heaping plate of tortilla chips smothered in red sauce, stewed meat, and melty queso, that ain’t nachos.

Nachos require a sturdy corn chip. Toasted Corn Doritos work well here. The heavy dose of corn and saltiness is the perfect savory base for nachos. Santitas are another great option. Tostitos tend to be a little thin. You want a chip that has heft and a high “soaking up all that salsa”-point. Corn chips tend to crisp up nicely, due to all the oils in the chip adding a crispy roasted dimension that helps a plate of nachos shine.

Plus, a sturdy corn chip is strong enough to hold up to the weight of the toppings. The last thing you want is a thin tortilla chip that shatters every time you dig into your nachos. That’s just the worst.

2. CHOOSE THE RIGHT CHEESE

Good cheese is crucial to any plate of nachos. You’ll want to focus on a mild and sharp semi-hard cheese here — avoid funky, soft, and super-hard cheeses.

I like to use a mix of equal parts Monterey Jack and mild yellow cheddar. The Jack cheese has a good melting point and serves as more of a base for the stringy and melty aspects of the nachos. The cheddar is all about taste. It’s an umami hit that amps up the middle-of-the-road flavor of the Jack. The mild yellow cheddar also brings a nice balance of orange to the Jack’s white, to give your dish that “classic nachos” look.

3. CHOOSE ONE PROTEIN

When it comes to toppings, don’t overdo it. You don’t need carnitas, asada, and black beans all on your nachos. It’s too much for the chips to handle. Choose one great flavor and do that one well. You can, of course, kill it with some dope shredded pork, adobe prawns, or even Taco Tuesday ground beef. You do you.

I like to go with either stewed and spicy black beans or braised steak. In this case, the steak was the way to go as no vegetarians were dropping by. I seared the steak with toasted spices (allspice, smokey anchos chili powder, and cumin) and then braised it with a cup of beef stock. Once the stock is braised off, I did a rough chop on the meat and then fried it up in pork lard to add a crispness. It becomes a crisp and tender umami bomb. It’s also really hard not to straight-up just eat the steak at this point.

4. ALWAYS LAYER

Layering is key. Chips. Cheese. Chips. Steak. Cheese. The bottom layer of chips and cheese add that dimension to a plate of nachos that takes it from good to great. And, honestly, what dish isn’t better with an extra layer of melted cheese in the middle? Yeah, none.

Pop that dish in the oven on a lower heat (around 325F) and let slowly bake for a good 15-20 minutes. You want the cheese to melt while the chips have a chance to just start to crisp up a bit.

Once you’ve reached the look below, you’re ready to top.

5. CHOOSE YOUR TOPPINGS WISELY

I like to live by the rule of three with a lot of food. For instance, never top a pizza, burger, or nachos with more than three extra toppings after the cheese. It will get too muddled and a lot of the distinct flavors will get lost in the mix.

I go with sour cream for a silky smooth and, well… sour and creamy texture and taste. Then I like to choose a sweet and spicy salsa. I go with classic mango habanero. It’s got an interesting texture and sweetness thanks to the mango yet still hits the classic fresh salsa (or even pico de gallo) marks with the red onion, cilantro, chili, tomato, lime, and plenty of good salt. It’s refreshing, tart, sweet, very spicy, and acidic.

Lastly, a dollop of guacamole is a must. Don’t go overboard here. Make classic guacamole — a couple of Haas avocados, plenty of cilantro, red onion, cumin, lime, tomatoes, and a generous pinch of good salt. The guacamole adds that lush aspect to the whole dish which counterpoints the crunch, cheese, protein, sour, tart, acid, umami, and sweet. It ties the whole plate together like The Dude’s rug.

Don’t be afraid to dollop these right on top of the nachos with a good sprinkling of fresh cilantro. Get those hands dirty. After all, quarantine won’t last much longer — get messy while it’s still totally socially appropriate!

This article was previously published in a different form.

Matt Riddle‘s time in WWE has included a fair amount of off-screen feuds and backstage rumors along with the Original Bro’s in-ring accomplishments. He’s beefed with Goldberg and declared he’ll retire Brock Lesnar, but does he have the kind of backstage heat that could hold back his career? In a recent interview with Sportskeeda, Riddle says he does not. In his words:

I’ll tell you this. Do I have heat with WWE or NXT or the people that run the show? No. Do I have heat with some people who think I’m disrespectful at times because they don’t understand how business works? Yes. Do people take things too seriously? Yes.

And honestly, I’ve had to give talks at NXT, is not like I stopped the place, but it’s like, interjecting. I’m like, ‘Hey. I’m going to tweet or say something that offends you. Realize I’m not trying to actually offend you, I’m just trying to make people think I am. I’m putting out an image, a facade, you know?’

Riddle points out that at the end of the day, his coworkers don’t sign his checks:

If the employer’s happy and I can make them money and make them a profit, and I’m worth my weight and I’m pulling my weight, I don’t see a problem. To answer your question, yes, some people I have heat with. But most of it’s just high school, catty, ‘He said this,’ people who just can’t take a joke or a work.

In the same interview, Riddle gave his take on the booking of the recent Universal Championship reign of Goldberg, who he’s criticized in the past for wrestling unsafely. The NXT Tag Team Champion observed that “If Bray Wyatt wasn’t as good as he is and so charismatic… he wouldn’t be able to survive” the way he lost the title to Goldberg.

Riddle also wasn’t crazy about the way Goldberg lost the title.

I don’t think it was a poor move bringing him back for a match, but to bring him back to win the title, to destroy the character like The Fiend being so unstoppable and then just have Braun Strowman beat him… You know, it doesn’t really do much for Braun Strowman beating him. It’s not like it was a passing of the torch or a great match. It was a couple of spears and a powerslam… As a fan, like yourself and myself, we all agree and every fan that watched that, even if they wanted Braun to win or whatever, was disappointed.