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Laura Jane Grace set out to make a point with a recent performance of a new song. It turns out, the song went right over the heads of the people she was hoping would hear it most.
On Friday (March 7), Sen. Bernie Sanders hosted a town hall as part of his “Fighting Oligarchy” tour across the country in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and invited Grace to perform on stage. One of the songs she performed — her February released “Your God (God’s D–k)” — caused immediate outrage online over its profane lyrics and religious themes.
In the song, Grace makes a point that while religious conservatives have a problem using the proper pronouns for trans people, they seem to have no problem imposing gender on an omnipresent, non-physical deity. “Does your god have a big fat d–k? ‘Cause it feels like he’s f—ing me,” Grace sings on the track. “Are his b–ls filled with lightning?/ Do they dangle like heaven’s keys?”
In an interview with Rolling Stone, Grace said that the purpose of the song was to open people’s eyes to the double standard of gender constructs today. “I’m not being profane to be profane, I’m not just saying ‘d–k’ to say ‘d–k.’ I’m asking a genuine question,” she said. “If you refer to your God as he and him, but you will not refer to a transgender person with the pronouns that are theirs … that’s just insane.”
Grace continued, adding that the outrage itself was representative of the larger problem around the right’s attack on trans people. “It’s such blatant hypocrisy. You can’t prove God exists with biology or chromosomes,” she said. “So if you’re gonna throw science continually in my face, let’s stick to that: Your god doesn’t exist.”
Sanders’ event was aimed at protesting president Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers’ proposed plans to cut federal programs like Medicare and Medicaid that low-income families rely on. “4,000 people came out to say: NO tax breaks for billionaires,” he wrote on Instagram following his Kenosha event. “NO cuts to Medicaid. NO oligarchy. NO authoritarianism. NO MORE billionaires buying elections.”
The White House has since stated that Trump “will not cut Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid benefits,” but has alleged that there is “waste and fraud in entitlement spending” without providing concrete evidence of where that waste and fraud exists in programs like Medicare or Medicaid.
What happens when a beloved pop star, a RuPaul’s Drag Race winner, a lucky fan and one piece of discarded jewelry collide? As Chappell Roan and Violet Chachki proved, that particular formula leads to online chaos.
In a viral TikTok posted over the weekend, one of Roan’s fans revealed that her roommate had a very rare piece of memorabilia — a single earring that Roan wore during her second weekend performance at Coachella 2024. “me everytime I remember my roommate caught Chappell Roan’s earring at the weekend 2 Coachella set and it just lives in my room,” the fan wrote over a video of the earring sitting in a frame on their bookshelf.
The video went so viral, in fact, that Roan herself saw it and decided to comment revealing some key context around the earring. “Ok the tea is I was very much not supposed to throw them because I didn’t realize they were violet chachki’s and she loaned them to me,” Roan wrote. “I apologized profusely& it’s fine loll but Iconic nonetheles [sic].”
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Chachki, never one to waste an opportunity to create some funny drama, posted a video response to Roan’s comment, jokingly threatening to take the singer and her stylist Genesis Webb to court over the missing trinket. “This means f–king war. My long lost earring that I have been searching high and low for has been discovered by the children of the internet,” she said in the clip. “And you will pay Genesis Webb and Mx. Roan!” The caption for her video summed up her feelings: “justice for my bare lobes!!!!!”
At this point, even Webb herself chimed in, commenting on Chachki’s video by apologizing and offering to make amends. “I bend the knee, holding a plate of Swarovski crystals and cheese I can’t pronounce,” the stylist wrote. Chachki responded with a series of thinking emojis, followed by a few knife emojis.
For anyone who was convinced that the fan was in actual trouble, Chachki set the record straight in the comments — they responded to Chachki’s comment on their video saying that if the queen wanted her earring back, “we will make sure it gets back to you queen.” Chachki responded, saying they could keep the jewelry. “No diva it’s fine — Earrings are meant to be lost. Just keep supporting queer art,” she wrote with a purple heart emoji.
All the “drama” comes hours before Roan drops her much-anticipated new single “The Giver.” After initially premiering it on a November 2024 episode of SNL, Roan revealed to Country Heat Weekly that the purpose behind the track was simply not that deep. “I’m not trying to convince a country crowd that they should listen to my music by baiting them with a country song,” she said. “I just think a lesbian country song is really funny, so I wrote that.”
Check out the original TikTok and Chachki’s hilarious response video below:
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UFC is heading back home to Las Vegas (UFC Vegas 104). Two premiere middleweight fighters are set to battle in the octagon as the main event for UFC Fight Night. Marvin Vettori (19-7-1) faces off against Roman Dolidze (14-3-0) in a rematch on Saturday, Mar. 15.
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Two years ago, Vettori won the first matchup with a decision in the third round, so Dolidze is looking to settle the score with victory.
UFC Fight Night: Vettori vs. Dolidze 2 takes place at UFC Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada, with a start time of 4 p.m. ET/1 p.m. PT. The main card is expected to begin at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT.
If you want to watch UFC Fight Night: Vettori vs. Dolidze 2 (also known as UFC on ESPN+ 112) online, the MMA event livestreams on ESPN+ for subscribers only.
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Check out the complete UFC Fight Night: Vettori vs. Dolidze 2 fight card below:
Main Card, 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT — ESPN+
Marvin Vettori vs. Roman Dolidze (Flyweight) — Main Event
Chidi Njokuani vs. Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos (Welterweight)
Alexander Hernandez vs. Kurt Holobaugh (Lightweight)
Da’Mon Blackshear vs. Cody Gibson (Bantamweight)
Diyar Nurgozhay vs. Brendson Ribeiro (Light Heavyweight)
Choi Seung-woo vs. Kevin Vallejos (Featherweight)
Prelims Card, 4 p.m. ET/1 p.m. PT — ESPN+
Waldo Cortes-Acosta vs. Ryan Spann (Heavyweight)
You Su-young vs. AJ Cunningham (Bantamweight)
Carlos Vera vs. Josias Musasa (Bantamweight)
Stephanie Luciano vs. Sam Hughes (Women’s Strawweight)
Daniel Barez vs. André Lima (Flyweight)
Josiane Nunes vs. Priscila Cachoeira (Women’s Bantamweight)
Yuneisy Duben vs. Carli Judice (Women’s Flyweight)
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What Is Vettori vs. Dolidze’s Walkout Music for UFC Fight Night?
While UFC has yet to announce each fighter’s walkout music for the main event of UFC Fight Night, the fighters usually go out to the octagon to the same songs during their matches. Marvin Vettori typically walks out to “The Italian Dream” by Greg Willen, while Roman Dolidze prefers to walk out to “Vígspá” by Danheim & Skarphedin Son. So these songs will likely make an appearance during the MMA event.
UFC Fight Night: Vettori vs. Dolidze 2 is streaming on ESPN+ on Saturday, Mar. 15, starting at 4 p.m. ET/1 p.m. PT. The main card begins around at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT on ESPN+.
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Wendy Williams is set to make a rare public appearance this week as the former talk show host sits down for an interview with the hosts of The View.
Williams’ episode airs this Friday, March 14 at 11 a.m. ET/PT on ABC and marks her first television interview since she was reportedly removed from her assisted living facility for a mental evaluation this week. It’s not clear whether the TV personality will appear in-person at the ABC studios in New York or if she’ll be dialing in (some reports have leaned towards the latter).
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And while The View panel features Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Ana Navarro and Alyssa Farah Griffin, Goldberg is normally absent from Friday dates, and is not expected to be part of Williams’ episode.
Want to watch Wendy Williams’ appearance on The View? You can watch The View on TV through your local ABC affiliate with a digital antenna, or with any basic cable package.
You can also livestream The View online without cable using a streaming service like Fubo or DirecTV Stream. Both streamers carry a live feed of ABC that you watch from home on your TV, phone, computer or tablet. Even better: both Fubo and DirecTV Stream offer free trials that you can take advantage of to watch Wendy Williams on The View online free.
Fubo’s free trial includes free DVR, so you can record Williams’ View episode to watch back on-demand later. Since The View is a daily live talk show, the episode is not expected to repeat or replay on air.
Williams has been relatively missing from the public eye ever since she was put under a guardianship a few years ago (the host and former radio DJ has compared it to feeling like she’s “in prison”). Her eponymous daytime talk show, The Wendy Williams Show, meantime, finished its run in 2022.
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