Новости за 14.05.2024

Commencement speeches at colleges across the country are being disrupted by graduates in protest for Palestinian liberation. At Emerson, some of the class of 2024 accepted their certificates whilst wearing Palestinian flags and keffiyehs; at the University of Wisconsin, a number of graduates turned their backs to their chancellor as she spoke; and at Duke University, scores of students walked out of guest speaker Jerry Seinfeld's remarks. So because the commencement discourse is all the more oversaturated than usual these days... Читать дальше...

The New York Times published a profile of Anya Taylor-Joy on Sunday, timed to coincide with the release of Furiosa, the prequel to 2015's Mad Max: Fury Road. The story focuses largely on details related to the forthcoming film—and includes some rather eyebrow-raising comments about the production. “I’ve never been more alone than making that movie," Taylor-Joy said. "I don’t want to go too deep into it, but everything that I thought was going to be easy was hard.” Hmm. Sounds like a something of a union grievance, if you ask me. Читать дальше...

A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced anti-abortion activist Lauren Handy—who stole five aborted fetuses from an abortion clinic in 2022—to almost five years in prison for invading a Washington, D.C., clinic in 2020, following her conviction under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act in August.  Handy's eight co-defendants, who joined her in illegally invading and blockading the D.C. clinic by chaining themselves together to the premises, received the same sentence. One of her co-defendants... Читать дальше...

A truth about being on the internet as a woman is that however bad you think you have it on dating apps, you’ll inevitably encounter a story or a screenshot of an app interaction that manages to one-up your own worst experiences. For that reason, I cannot blame women (myself included) for steering clear of the apps lately, and for that reason I was also unsurprised when Bumble’s marketing campaign shaming women for avoiding dating apps drew backlash over the past week. Well ladies, Bumble hears you... Читать дальше...

Bonjour! Mademoiselle Taylor Swift kicked off the European leg of the Eras Tour in Paris this past weekend, introducing audiences to her new era: The Tortured Poets Department—not that Parisians need more reasons to be more tortured or poetic… In her between-song banter, Swift has started referring to her latest album as “Female Rage: The Musical.” I am personally not a Swiftie so I can’t really confirm how accurate that is based on the songs, but seeing how worked up some Swifties got over negative reviews of the album, I’m sure it’s fitting. Читать дальше...