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Four days after Hurricane Ida hit Louisiana as a Category 4 hurricane, much of New Orleans and its surrounding areas remain in the dark, both literally and metaphorically: Power outages persist and Entergy, the corporation responsible for fueling the region, has still not said clearly when power will be restored. …

Back in 2018, Diana Deets, a cam performer, was burnt out. She’d been camming for a few years and had amassed 700,000 followers on Instagram — an impressive following, though not necessarily superstar status. But she was famous enough to be recognized when she went out in public, something that …

There’s a tendency among the geriatric users of the internet (namely, people 25 and older) to develop a bizarre fixation on the sexual habits of younger people. Often, this manifests in a slow-moving, primordial sludge of concern-trolling trend pieces that gripe about zoomers either having too much casual sex, or …

Joe Budden has apologized to DJ and podcast host Olivia Dope, who accused the rapper and media personality of sexual harassment. Dope leveled the allegations in a video posted on Instagram on Monday, May 17th. She said Budden sat in on the recording of Episode 16 of See, the Thing …

Dave Chappelle, Talib Kweli, and Yasiin Bey have launched a new podcast, The Midnight Miracle, on the subscription podcast network Luminary. The show was recorded last summer during Chappelle’s 2020 Summer Camp shows, which he hosted in Ohio and featured an array of guests from music and comedy. The episodes …

ATLANTA – Triller Fight Club is looking to change the game when it comes to sports entertainment. Saturday’s sophomore event was the continuation of a vision that appears willing to pull out all the stops for success. “When you say Coachella, it’s not just music — it’s the experience of …

Over the past few years, there has been an emerging body of evidence that psylocybin, or the active compound in magic mushrooms, could serve as a potentially effective treatment for major depressive disorder. On Wednesday, the New England Journal of Medicine added to that body of research with a small …

Selena Gomez, Janelle Monáe, and Laverne Cox are among the over 465 signatories of an open letter from GLAAD that responds to recent anti-trans legislation and rhetoric. The letter was issued in observance of Transgender Day of Visibility, which is Wednesday, March 31st, and Women’s History Month. The letter opens …

On Monday, the recently elected government in Myanmar was overthrown by the military. According to the Associated Press, Commander-in-Chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing has taken power in the country for one year due to the military’s claims of the results of the November democratic election being fraudulent. The country’s …

Both aspiring and well-established QAnon influencers are directly profiting off the paid subscription service platform Patreon, despite the website publicly cracking down on accounts pushing the conspiracy theory last winter. Rolling Stonefound nearly a dozen examples of creators on the platform using language that identifies them as followers of QAnon, …