Lauren Evans
Jezebel
Philadelphia, PA, United States
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Liz Cheney Gets to Keep Her Job After All
House Republicans have voted to allow Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney to remain at her post by a margin of 145 to 61, in defiance of the many in her party who vowed to remove her after she supported the impeachment of Donald Trump. → Read More
A Fitness Instructor Accidentally Caught Myanmar's Coup While Filming Her Dance Routine
Myanmar’s military has crushed the country’s young democracy by staging a coup and seizing power from its elected leaders. Fitness instructor Khing Hnin Wai certainly knows this now, but she didn’t when she unwittingly filmed a video of herself dancing as a convoy headed down the deserted streets of the country’s capital to take over its parliament. → Read More
Congrats to Lil Uzi Vert on His Giant New Forehead Diamond
When I think about saving up for something, it’s usually a decent pair of pants or moisturizer that doesn’t come in an industrial sized jug from the supermarket. For Lil Uzi Vert, it’s a $24 million diamond he’s had affixed to his forehead. → Read More
Cloris Leachman, Actor and Comedic Icon, Dies at 94
Cloris Leachman, an actor known for her incredible range and inimitable wit, has died at the age of 94. → Read More
The New White House Press Secretary Doesn't Seem to Hate the Press
Jen Psaki, the new White House press secretary under President (!) Joe Biden, has promised to bring truth, transparency and normal syntax to her briefings. → Read More
Officer Who Diverted Capitol Riot Mob Escorts VP Kamala Harris to Inauguration
Among the many deeply disturbing facets of the Capitol insurrection was precisely how close the angry, violent mob was to members of Congress. One story to emerge from the chaos was the effort of Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman, who potentially saved lives by leading the rioters away from the Senate chamber. → Read More
Danny Masterson Pleaded Not Guilty to Rape Charges
Danny Masterson has pleaded not guilty to charges that he raped three women between 2001 and 2003. → Read More
Now the Authorities Are Involved With Armie Hammer's Finsta
Armie Hammer, star of Call Me By Your Name and alleged cannibal/abuser, was investigated by the Grand Cayman authorities after posting “inappropriate” footage of a woman he initially identified as “Ms. Cayman” in his private Instagram. → Read More
Ex-Michigan Governor Rick Snyder Charged for His Role in the Flint Water Crisis
Former Michigan Governor Rick Snyder has been charged on two counts of willful neglect of duty for his role in the Flint water crisis, a disaster that exposed more than 100,000 residents of the majority Black city to contaminated drinking water. → Read More
Biden Plans to Majorly Expand Child Tax Credit in His Relief Plan Proposal
While the rest of us are consumed with high-stakes impeachment drama, President-elect Joe Biden is prepping to release the details of a hefty economic package that will include $2,000 stimulus payments, increased resources for coronavirus vaccine distribution, and expanded tax credits for children. → Read More
After the Insurrection, Black Cleaning Staff Were Left to Pick Up the Pieces: Report
The rioters who pillaged the U.S. Capitol last week left the place in shambles, the wreckage including everything from splintered antique furniture to feces smeared on the walls. Once the mob cleared out for whatever sewers they call home, it was Black and brown workers who were left to pick up their mess. → Read More
Don't Hire Kevin Bacon to Do Your Bikini Wax, Advises Kyra Sedgwick
While some of us have spent the last year plastering our sourdough efforts across Instagram, others have been quietly mastering essential skills that we’d previously paid others to do for us. Learning to wax was one of my first quarantine projects, and I am thrilled to say that I’ve reached a place where I can get it done with minimal time and blood loss. Kyra Sedgwick has...not. → Read More
Oil Companies Aren't Super Interested in Drilling in Alaska's Arctic Refuge After All
The Trump administration has been hellbent on doing as much damage to the environment as it’s physically able, including auctioning off the rights to drill in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. But as it turns out, no one is particularly interested in bidding on one of the last wild places in the country after all! → Read More
What Do We Think Trump Will Do With His Time While He's Locked Out of Social Media?
It took a riot in the Capitol, but Donald Trump has been temporarily banished from the various social media platforms that have enabled his presidency—Facebook and Instagram for 24 hours, and Twitter for 12 hours. → Read More
The Rats Are Jumping Ship
Stephanie Grisham, chief of staff to Melania Trump and one of many former White House communications directors, has resigned following today’s violence at the Capitol. Who is going to shove spiked heels onto her boss’s feet and facilitate her non-existent good works now?! → Read More
What Time Is the 25th Amendment Happening?
The possibility of invoking the 25th Amendment—that is, the removal of a President if they’re found to be unfit to do their job—has been brought up numerous times over the course of the Trump presidency. Today, just two weeks before the dripping Spam loaf we call our leader is to be drop-kicked from the Oval Office and hopefully into a high-security prison cell, Democrats are once again… → Read More
A Nurse Stripped Off His PPE to Have Sex With a Covid-19 Patient in Indonesia
A nurse in Indonesia has been suspended after he apparently stripped out of his PPE to have sex with a covid-19 patient in a hospital bathroom. Truly the romantic tale we needed to cap off this special year. → Read More
Whatever Happened to That Undressed Reboot, Anyway?
Nickelodeon’s Are You Afraid of the Dark reboot had a successful enough first season that it’s coming back for another. The network today released a short new teaser trailer which, like all teaser trailers, is generally uninteresting to anyone save diehard fans eager to analyze every new character and potential plot line based on a 15 second clip. → Read More
End of an Era: Olivia Jade Is Returning to YouTube
2021 may be the year we’re allowed to hug family members and go on vacation again, but sadly, it will also be the year that Olivia Jade returns to YouTube, more powerful than ever. → Read More
The UN Seems to Have Stopped Taking Its Sexual Harassment Problem Seriously
The United Nations—the international body created to address global issues, gender abuses among them—has put the problem of sexual harassment within its own organization on the back burner, driving victims to stay quiet for fear their complaints will be ignored. → Read More