Former Miss Universe Olivia Culpo is facing backlash for wearing a modest wedding gown at her marriage ceremony with American football star Christian McCaffrey, who is an outspoken Christian, stating in a later interview with Vogue that she “didn’t want it to exude sex in any way, shape, or form.”
How evil is that! From Hollywood in Toto, Gina Carano Celebrates July 4th by Defending Free Speech
Double standards on full display. It’s a constant and obvious elephant in the room in Hollywood. There is example after example, such as Mark Ruffalos below that prove this. Whom btw, I believe should have the right to express himself without getting fired, although I cringe at most all of his political posts. He is an actor, but he is a human being passionately engaging in something that he feels strongly about. It must be a nice feeling to express yourself so freely. Not everyone in this country has that privilege without having everything that they love taken from them. Do we wonder why he has that privilege and I did not? The answers are in my case. I know people would prefer basketball players to just dribble or actors to just act, but when you’re in a world where lives are being destroyed and lost, all around you, how does any human being become forced to stay silent when death by injustice surrounds them.
@Disney @Lucasfilm maliciously twisted the narrative of a meme I posted which was encouraging neighbors NOT to demonize their neighbors or history could repeat itself. . . .
ABC, German city renames itself after Taylor Swift — at least for a few
weeks
The Swifties are about to take over the German city formerly known as Gelsenkirchen, where American superstar Taylor Swift is set to give three Eras Tour concerts later this month.
In honor of the singer, the city has renamed itself “Swiftkirchen" — at least temporarily — to welcome the tens of thousands of fans who are expected to come for her shows on July 17, 18 and 19, German news agency dpa reported.
A yellow city sign with the new name — which translates roughtly to “Swift's Church” — was unveiled Tuesday by Swift fan Aleshanee Westhoff, who suggested the name to the city's mayor and started a petition a few weeks ago. Mayor Karin Welge thanked the teenager for her “great idea” in a letter accepting the proposal.
Are you "ready for it"? Here's the insane plan, along with the insane take-away:
According to its authors, the country would be captivated. Donations would pour in. And Biden would be celebrated as a “modern-day George Washington,” the proponents argue.
- Biden would step down as the Democratic nominee in mid-July, and announce the new system, with backing from Vice President Kamala Harris.
- Potential candidates would have a few days to throw their respective hats in the ring. The Democratic Party then would begin a primary sprint in which the six candidates who receive the most votes from delegates pledge to run positive-only campaigns in the month leading up to the convention.
- The “blitz primary” would involve weekly forums with each candidate moderated by cultural icons (Michelle Obama, Oprah, and Taylor Swift are among the names floated in the memo) in order to engage voters.
- The nominee would ultimately be chosen by the delegates using ranked choice voting before the start of the Chicago convention on Aug. 19.
- It would be announced with plenty of fanfare on the third day of the gathering. The memo imagines the nominee unveiled on stage with Biden, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.
Actress Minnie Driver has insulted supporters of former President Donald Trump, claiming they “really quite like a bit of a racist attitude” in their candidate. She also dissed America’s founding fathers, saying there should have been some “mothers” involved in the creation of the country. The Good Will Hunting star held forth on Trump and his tens of millions of supporters in an interview with The Times of London on Saturday.
Driver spoke about the “revelation of the 70 million people who really quite like a bit of a racist attitude and non-existent immigration policies and dismantling the environmental agencies.” “They were always there,” she added. “They weren’t created by him. He’s just a symptom, and now they’ve got a mascot.”
Driver — who is British and obtained U.S. citizenship in 2017 — said she believes Trump belongs in jail. “Of course he deserves to be in prison — of course he does,” she said.
In her early teens, Madison Marsh attended a space camp and met several astronauts. “I just fell in love with the idea of being the first woman on Mars,” she said. So she took flying lessons at age 15 and joined the Air Force Academy to work toward her goal. She loved the thrill of flying and became an Air Force officer. When Marsh, 22, was crowned Miss America in January, she became the first Miss America to also be an active duty member of the military.
She hopes her win will show people that you can achieve anything you set your heart to, and that women can embrace their feminine and strong sides in the service of others. “I love being able to lead others and serve in something that’s bigger than just me,” she said.
German athlete Alica Schmidt, termed the ‘world’s sexiest athlete,’ publicly shared a video of herself receiving a call to confirm her status for the upcoming 2024 Paris Olympics last week.
Schmidt previously went to Tokyo for the pandemic-delayed Summer Games in 2021 but did not compete and later announced plans to “take a break” from track and field in August 2021. She expressed dissatisfaction with her performance and the challenges she faced throughout the year.
Schmidt, 25, expressed her excitement for the Olympic season after qualifying for the mixed 4x400m relay at the World Athletics Relays in May.
An influencer platform called Fanvue recently announced the results of its first "Miss AI" pageant, which sought to judge AI-generated social media influencers and also doubled as a convenient publicity stunt. The "winner" is a fictional Instagram influencer from Morocco named Kenza Layli with more than 200,000 followers, but the pageant is already attracting criticism from women in the AI space.
"Yet another stepping stone on the road to objectifying women with AI," Hugging Face AI researcher Dr. Sasha Luccioni told Ars Technica. "As a woman working in this field, I'm unsurprised but disappointed.
Instances of AI-generated Instagram influencers have reportedly been on the rise since freely available image synthesis tools like Stable Diffusion have made it easy to generate an unlimited quantity of provocative images of women. And techniques like Dreambooth allow fine-tuning an AI model on a specific subject (including an AI-generated one) to place it in different settings.
The six people who watched the ESPYS on ESPN last night got a front row seat to the Olivia Dunne show. Fine. I'm sure more than six people watched. Did the annual awards show become complete garbage about a decade ago? Absolutely. Most things on ESPN did.
Do we really need to tune into a woke network in the middle of July to watch a bunch of woke, Hollywood elites tell us how bad Harrison Butker is? Or how white people love Caitlin Clark? I mean, I don't. Do you? I doubt it. But whatever. That's not the point here.
Point is, while Paul Skenes was mowing down hitters in Pittsburgh Thursday afternoon, Olivia Dunne was firing off heaters – and channeling her inner-Game of Thrones – at the ESPYS . . .
Paige has already accepted a challenge from fellow golf influencer Hailey Rae Ostrom to hit the course in what promises to be an all-time showdown in the history of golf. An event that can grow the game like none other. Now she's facing what appears to be another attempt at a battle of content from arguably her greatest competition on the content front, Grace Charis.
She posted a slow-mo video of her swing on Instagram - where she's up to 3.4 million followers - that, given Paige's recent use of slow motion, could only be seen as a challenge. At first glance, this would look like an attempt by Grace to copy an idea from Paige. However, when you do a little investigating you find that this is hardly the first time Grace has used slow-mo in her content.
I'm not going to turn the tables here and accuse Paige of stealing the idea from Grace. We all know that there have been plenty of copycats of Paige's work. Besides, great content is good for everyone. It's a rising tide that lifts all influencer boats. Now Grace might feel differently about that. She might want to go toe to toe in a content battle where, let's face it, everyone wins. You have to beat the best to be the best after all.
On Friday, Grace fired another shot at Paige with her own "Golf is fun" answer to one the world's No. 1 golf influencer posted.
Shannen Doherty, known for her roles on the wildly popular series “Beverly Hills, 90210” and on the witchcraft fantasy “Charmed,” has died after being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015. She was 53.
“It is with a heavy heart that I confirm the passing of actress, Shannen Doherty,” Doherty’s publicist Leslie Sloane said in a statement. “On Saturday, July 13, she lost her battle with cancer after many years of fighting the disease. The devoted daughter, sister, aunt and friend was surrounded by her loved ones as well as her dog, Bowie. The family asks for their privacy at this time so they can grieve in peace.”
The Wombat makes up time with Rule 5 Sunday: Hangar Queen Double-Scoop Sunday!
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