If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. With skyrocketing cases of Covid-19 due to the Omicron variant, there’s a lot of new information out there about which face masks can actually help protect you against …
Read More »Being Distanced and Maskless Outside Is Safe. So Why Are We Fighting Over It?
It only took one instance of public shaming for me to never leave my home maskless again. In April 2020, I went for a jog, bare-faced, along a wide boulevard in my Brooklyn neighborhood. “Wear a mask!” a man shouted, scandalized, as I passed him several feet away. He’d been …
Read More »Why Are Black Communities Being Singled Out as Vaccine Hesitant?
When Dr. Thomas Beavers concluded Sunday service on March 15th, 2020, he never imagined that it would be the last time he’d see congregants fill the pews of theNew Rising Star Church— affectionately known as “The Star” in the Eastlake community of Birmingham, Alabama — for at least a year. …
Read More »Rush Limbaugh Did His Best to Ruin America
When Rush Limbaugh, the Great Bloviater of the AM dial, signed off from the “Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies,” two days before Christmas, he warned the faithful in the raspy remains of his famous trumpeting baritone: “The day is gonna come, folks, where I’m not going to be able …
Read More »Rally-Goers Hit Peak Trump Cult Status as Crowd Boos Mask Wearing Announcement
As the president took his potential super-spreader events on the road, Trump supporters in New Hampshire on Friday not only ignored their own state’s mandate to wear masks, they jeered an announcement requesting they do so. The Republican governor of New Hampshire, Chris Sununu, imposed a mask mandate for events …
Read More »Trump Wore a Mask. Sadly This Is News
The president of the United States finally decided to act like an adult on Saturday and wore a face mask during his visit to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Washington. This marks the first time the president has been seen in public wearing a facial covering that his …
Read More »Celebs Are Bored: Andrew Scott From 'Fleabag' Gives Reassuring Poetry Reading
As much of America continues to self-quarantine, the propensity to go stir-crazy increases with each passing day. Celebrities are no different: bored out of their minds while sitting at home indefinitely. Maybe they are ceaselessly launching Instagram Lives just for some human connection. Maybe they’re teasing us with some quarantine …
Read More »Jack Dorsey Donates $10 Million to Meek Mill and Jay-Z's Reform Alliance
Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey has donated $10 million to Reform Alliance, the prison reform non-profit co-founded by Meek Mill, Michael Rubin and Jay-Z. The funds, donated as part of Dorsey’s #startsmall initiative, will go toward boosting COVID-19 relief efforts in U.S. prisons and delivering personal protective equipment (PPE) …
Read More »Trump Blocks Fauci Testimony Before Democratic House, But He Is Free to Speak Before Republican Senate
In a move that is all but impossible to label as anything but partisan, the White House has blocked their top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, from testifying before a Democratic-controlled House subcommittee next week, but will allow the doctor to testify in front of a Republican-led Senate committee …
Read More »Bob Weir and Wolf Bros Cancel 2020 Touring 'Out of an Abundance of Caution'
Former Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir has canceled all of his upcoming 2020 solo dates with his backing band the Wolf Bros. “The health, well-being and safety of everyone in our live music community continues to be our priority,” Weir explained in a joint statement with Wolf Bros Don Was …
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