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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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, …
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On a Thursday in mid-November, Kelli Eaves and Whitney Fang loaded up their van and set out across the country. Driving through the night, they left Dallas, Texas, for Brooklyn, New York. This wasn’t an average road trip, and that’s not just because we’re in the midst of a pandemic. …
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Jurnee Smollett detailed a harrowing encounter with the police in an exclusive clip fromQuestlove Supreme, Questlove’s interview podcast. As part of a longer conversation about personal experiences with police brutality, the star of Lovecraft Country described her and Questlove’s experience with getting pulled over by the police in the largely …
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Since the start of the pandemic back in March, most companies have taken a tremendous financial hit — but that’s not so for OnlyFans. A subscription platform where creators sell content directly to fans that has, since its inception in 2016, primarily been used by sex workers, OnlyFans has seen …
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Amidst weeks of unrest in Chicago, Mayor Lori Lightfoot has announced the creation of a “task force” to monitor protesters’ social media activity and prevent “looting,” NBC Chicago reports. The social media monitoring is part of a five-point strategy to combat unrest in Chicago, where more than 100 people were …
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