What happens when side-hustle culture, relaxing cultural norms around cannabis, and the draconian overhang of the Drug War collide in the Deep South? For Georgia sheriff’s deputy Caleb Cavin — accused of baking marijuana edibles at home with his wife and selling them online — it looks like getting fired, …
Read More »Someone Spent $450,000 for 'Land' Next to Snoop Dogg's NFT House
Want to be Snoop Dogg’s neighbor in the metaverse? It could cost you about $450,000. That’s how much one NFT collector spent on Friday, Dec. 3rd, to own a plot of virtual land in the Snoopverse — an interactive world the rapper is developing in The Sandbox, an Ethereum-based platform …
Read More »3 Takeaways From the First Week of Ghislaine Maxwell's Sex-Trafficking Trial
The first week of the Ghislaine Maxwell trial in New York’s Southern District courthouse concluded on Friday. The jury has heard from nine witnesses so far, including Epstein’s former pilot and domestic employee; an alleged victim of Epstein’s and Maxwell’s who spoke under the pseudonym Jane; an expert on childhood …
Read More »Ron Jeremy Gets New May 2 Trial Date in Los Angeles County Rape Case
Jailed porn star Ron Jeremy has a new trial date in his serial rape case — and a new lawyer on his defense team. At a hearing in Los Angeles Wednesday, the adult film veteran agreed to push the start of his jury trial from late February to May 2. …
Read More »From 'Mother God' to Mummified Corpse: Inside the Fringe Spiritual Sect 'Love Has Won'
God is dead. Or, at least, she has shed her physical vessel, ascending from this life to a higher plane of existence, one of pure love and enlightenment. So say the followers of Love Has Won, who believe that God is a 45-year-old woman. On April 28, 2021, Miguel Lamboy …
Read More »Malikah Shabazz, Daughter of Malcolm X, Dead at 56
Malikah Shabazz, the daughter of the late civil rights leader Malcolm X, was found dead in her Brooklyn home on Monday, NBC 4 New York reports. She was 56. Police officials said she was found unconscious and unresponsive by her daughter. Per the station, a medical examiner responded to the …
Read More »Kyle Rittenhouse, Who Killed Two People, Acquitted of Homicide Charges
Kyle Rittenhouse has been acquitted of all charges. The jury in the high-profile trial found the teenager was acting in self-defense during a pair of deadly encounters last summer in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Rittenhouse, 18, had been charged with five counts including reckless homicide, intentional homicide, and attempted intentional homicide. He …
Read More »QAnon Believers Have New Batshit Theories About the Rolling Stones
After JFK Jr. failed to materialize in Dallas on Tuesday, Nov. 2, per the abstruse predictions of a numerology-obsessed QAnon sect, some of the followers of the theory have surmised that Keith Richards is, in fact, JFK Jr. in disguise. Oh, also Michael Jackson is impersonating Mick Jagger. If this …
Read More »Grumpy Old Spacemen: George Takei Mocks William Shatner Over Space Flight
George Takei didn’t let a little thing like interstellar travel dampen his long-fiery feud with his former Star Trek co-star William Shatner. The actor who portrayed Sulu on the series mocked Captain Kirk over the latter’s trip to space Wednesday aboard a Blue Origin craft. Speaking to Page Six after …
Read More »'They've Got Biden, We've Got Kyrie Irving': Top Anti-Vaxxers Turn NBA Stars Into Disinformation Heroes
Kyrie Irving is living in the shadows of vaccine denial. The Brooklyn Nets superstar has also vanished from the opening of his team’s run at the NBA championship, apparently because he refuses to comply with a New York City law requiring proof of vaccination against Covid-19 at indoor sporting events, …
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