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Trumpism curdles into ‘unmitigated disaster’ as tradwife aesthetic collapses: columnist
The internet’s most famous “tradwife” is running from the label that made her rich, and a New York Times columnist says her retreat is a sign of something bigger: the whole retro-domestic, MAGA-adjacent aesthetic is losing its grip as Trumpism curdles. The trigger was Nara Smith, the model and influencer who built more than 12…
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Lindsay Clancy’s diary reveals her inner torment before she killed 3 kids: ‘I want to die’
Lindsay Clancy’s diary from the months before she strangled her three young kids revealed the dark thoughts and inner torment she struggled with — including once telling her husband, “I want to die” in response to hearing her baby’s cries during sleep training. The 35-year-old former labor and delivery nurse detailed in the journal her…
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It’s So Hot in Japan That Zoo Animals Are Dropping Dead
Temperatures in Japan have gotten so extreme that zoo animals are dropping dead — though this may be as much an indictment of the conditions that the animals are made to live in as it is climate change. On Monday, Tokyo’s Tama Zoological park announced that three of its female lions had died of what’s…
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MAGA senate candidate swiftly rebuked by critics after devastating gaffe
GOP Senate candidate Mike Rogers mixed up Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed with progressive influencer Hasan Piker on Wednesday — and swiftly drew backlash. Rogers’ response to the Democratic Senate nominee’s victory attributed Piker’s comments to the Michigan candidate just hours after voters cast their ballots for him. “I spent years hunting terrorists and bringing Osama…
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Tom Brady caught with his hand down his swimsuit during steamy yacht shower in France
All hands on deck. Tom Brady was caught with his hand down his swim trunks while vacationing on a yacht near the South of France on Wednesday. According to photos obtained by Page Six, the former New England Patriots quarterback was shirtless as he showered on the pricey vessel. Tom Brady (seen above) was caught…
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Williams sisters reunion: Serena and Venus will play doubles together at Cincinnati Open
The Williams sisters are back on track for their doubles reunion. Serena and Venus Williams were awarded a wild-card entry for the doubles tournament at the Cincinnati Open, organizers announced Monday. Venus was also awarded a wild-card entry for the women’s singles competition. The event will take place Aug. 8-23, with matches kicking off on…
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Trump caves on promise to gift ‘flying palace’ to his presidential library: report
President Donald Trump’s plan to display the Qatari-gifted Air Force One at his future presidential library has apparently been scrapped, according to his son. Eric Trump, who is involved in developing the library complex in Miami, told NBC News by text message that the $400 million jet donated by Qatar last year “is not the…
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Molly Ringwald Considers ‘Secret Life of the American Teenager’ Her Worst Work Experience
Molly Ringwald considers “The Secret Life of the American Teenager” to be one of her worst work experiences. While talking with Andy Cohen on Tuesday’s “Watch What Happens Live,” the ’80s icon played a game where she was asked to rank some of her roles randomly selected from her IMDB. The list included “Secret Life,”…
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Are AI Companies Really Destroying Books?
Last week, the internet raged as social-media posts and news articles accused AI companies of “destroying the world’s books”—including “millions of rare” ones—by chopping off their spines to scan them more easily, and discarding them afterward. One article said the news was “sparking concerns that the last remaining copies of out-of-print texts are being destroyed.”…
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From ’80s L.A. rich kids to a Canadian mystery, coming-of-age sagas offer different strokes
If we are lucky enough to survive into our 20s, and have attained some degree of adult consciousness, we all will have lived a coming-of-age story. It’s a powerful, relatable basis for fiction or memoir or some combination of the two. Poignant. Piquant. It might be hilarious or depressing or, probably, both at once. Stories…