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Tennessee conductor fired after telling July 4 passengers America is greatest country, critics should ‘leave’
A part-time conductor on the Incline Railway in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was dismissed after a TikTok video showed him making patriotic Independence Day remarks to passengers, telling those who disagreed that they “could leave”. The transit agency that operates the railway publicly apologised and fired him the same day, framing his comments as exclusionary and in…
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6 Worst 2000s Horror Movies That Are Truly 0/10
From The Happening, to FeardotCom, to House of the Dead, these 2000s horror flicks are horrendous.
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Michael J. Fox Lands Emmy Nom for ‘Shrinking’ After Ending His Five-Year Acting Retirement
Michael J. Fox has received an Emmy nomination for his guest-star role on the Apple TV comedy “Shrinking”, a part that prompted him to end a five-year acting retirement he began in 2020. The nomination, announced on Wednesday as part of the 78th annual Emmy Awards, marks a notable return for the actor, whose career…
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Ex-SLIPKNOT Drummer JAY WEINBERG Teams Up With SOFTCULT On New Single ‘Drown Fountain’
Former Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg has released a new collaborative single, “Drown Fountain”, featuring the Canadian “grunge-gaze” duo Softcult. The track is a notable departure from his heavy-music roots, swapping powerful percussion for shoegaze, drone and atmospheric textures, and it also marks Weinberg’s debut as a vocalist. He described the song, which he began writing…
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How ‘Off Campus’ Helped The Beaches’ Queer Anthem “Edge of the Earth” Get Its Second Wind
The Canadian all-female rock band The Beaches have enjoyed a dramatic surge in popularity after their 2023 song “Edge of the Earth” featured in Prime Video’s hit hockey romance drama Off Campus, which premiered on 13 May. A single line of dialogue praising the band, followed by the song’s use as a “yearning” track between…
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Chartbreaker: How ‘TruckTok’ and Angst Powered Vincent Mason’s ‘Damned If I Do’
Country singer-songwriter Vincent Mason has scored his biggest breakthrough yet with “Damned If I Do”, a gritty, rock-leaning track that became his first entry on the Billboard Hot 100. The 25-year-old, who built his following by posting to TikTok during the pandemic, credits a mix of relentless live performance, streaming momentum and an unexpected boost…
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Crypto VC firm Paradigm raises $1.2B to invest in ‘technical frontier’ startups
Crypto-focused venture capital firm Paradigm has raised a $1.2 billion fund, its third venture vehicle and fourth fund overall, to invest in what founder Matt Huang described on Wednesday as the “technical frontier”. Crucially, the firm is broadening its remit beyond its cryptocurrency roots to include robotics and artificial intelligence, reflecting the surging interest in…
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Platner ripped cheaters as ‘garbage’ in unearthed posts before his own early-marriage sexting scandal
Fox News reports that Maine Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner repeatedly attacked a Republican lawmaker on Reddit for infidelity years before his own campaign confirmed that he had sent sexually explicit messages to women other than his wife early in his marriage. The report highlights an apparent inconsistency between his past public condemnations of cheating…
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Prisoners are being offered ‘woke’ yoga classes to help control their behaviour as part of £30,000 contract at taxpayers’ expense
The Ministry of Justice has awarded a £30,000 contract to Prison Yoga Project UK to run “trauma-informed” yoga classes for prisoners in England and Wales over 21 months. The stated aim is to reduce tensions and violence behind bars, particularly among inmates whose offending is linked to drug and alcohol abuse, but the spending has…