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02 Jun 2025

Megan Thee Stallion Is Teaming Up With ‘Boondocks’ Producer For New Prime Video Anime

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Megan Thee Stallion is taking her love for anime to another level.

Hitting the stage dressed as Bleach anime character Yoruichi Shihōin, Megan Thee Stallion announced she has an anime series coming to Prime Video.

Thee Stallion also revealed to the crowd in attendance that she will be teaming up with Boondocks’ creator Carl Jones to bring it to television screens everywhere.

“You ain’t never seen an anime like this ever in your life,” Thee Stallion teased.

Megan Thee Stallion’s deep-rooted love for anime has never been a secret; in fact, she has put it on the front street by using the Japanese style of animation in one of her music videos and teaming up with Crunchyroll. This Sony-owned American company distributes anime, for a limited capsule collection.

In an interview with Crunchyroll, Megan Thee Stallion described her growth as akin to that of an anime character.

“I’m half anime character, half rapper,” the “Savage” rapper said. “I like how you see a character, and it starts off, he’s not really the strongest, he might be a little weak, but he has to go through all this training. You grow with the character. You see all the trials and tribulations they go through. Then you meet new people along the way that help them become the person he needs to be. I apply that to my life a lot.”

Megan Thee Stallion Has Been Very Busy

Megan Thee Stallion is also coming off an epic moment in Miami during Swim Week, where she and her teeny weeny bikinis from her swimwear line hit the runway. While Tory Lanez, who was found guilty of shooting her continues to put out useless information to prove his innocence after the fact, to prove his innocence, Thee Stallion continues to branch out and become a whole mogul.

It’s genuinely going to be a hot girl summer at the beach and pool near you.

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02 Jun 2025

50 Cent Claims He Will Talk To Donald Trump About Potentially Pardoning Diddy, X Applauds His Commitment To Being A Hater

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Allegedly, Diddy is out here trying to get a pardon from Donald Trump while he continues to them hand out like Halloween candy, but 50 Cent wants to make sure that his long-time rival rots in a prison cell.

Using his favorite soapbox, Instagram, in a series of now-deleted posts, 50 Cent is letting his followers know that he’s not playing regarding his hate for Diddy and that he will do whatever it takes to keep Diddy from securing a pardon from Felon 47.

“He said some really bad things about Trump, it’s not ok. Im gonna reach out so he knows how I feel about this guy,” the G-Unit general said in one Instagram post.

In another, he added, “Donald doesn’t take well to disrespect, and doesn’t forget who chooses to go against him. while working tirelessly to make America great again there is no room for distraction. He would consider pardoning anyone who was being mistreated not Puffy Daddy.”

Is Trump Seriously Considering Pardoning Diddy?

Now, it’s unlikely that Trump will grant the disgraced rapper/mogul a pardon, but he was asked about it during a Friday press conference, telling reporters, “People have been very close to asking” regarding a pardon for Diddy. However, he claims that no one has reached out to him yet. “I would certainly look at the facts. If I think somebody is mistreated, whether they like me or don’t like me, it wouldn’t have any impact on me.”

50 Cent Claims He Wants To Make Trump “Aware” of Diddy

In a hilarious twist, 50 Cent tried to clarify his comments after The Daily Beast reported on him trying to “nuke” Diddy’s chances for a pardon.

In another IG post, sharing a screenshot of the article, 50 Cent wrote, “I didn’t say I would Nuke anything, I simply said I will make sure Trump is aware.”

Welp.

Users on X, formerly Twitter, have been reacting to this latest development in the ongoing saga between 50 Cent and Puff with many applauding his commitment to making Diddy’s life a living hell.

You can see those reactions in the gallery below.

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02 Jun 2025

Ryan Clark Cites Stephen A. Smith Snub For Career Push

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ESPN analyst and podcast host Ryan Clark shared that being slighted by Stephen A. Smith motivated him to professionally match his success. The Pivot Podcast co-host opened up about it during his appearance on the latest episode of the Idea Generation podcast hosted by Noah Callahan-Bever of Complex.

Clark, a former NFL star safety and Super Bowl Champion with the Pittsburgh Steelers, spoke about the moment that changed his motivation for doing media at the 5:10 minute mark of the interview. “I didn’t really have this great reason for getting up and doing it…I told this story maybe once: Stephen A. was asked years ago who are like the next Stephen A.s, who are the athletes who would be the next guys.” Clark said, “And he didn’t mention me. And I was the first player to have a TV contract – first active player.”

He continued, “Well, naturally, that’s my trajectory, right? I’m supposed to be a trendsetter.”But you said those two dudes? Aight, bet. I got you. I’ll show you.” Clark stated that the non-mention put him in “competing” mode against the other two Smith named. “And when I walk off this set I want to know and feel in my heart, ‘Man, I killed dude,’” Clark added. “As great as I want him to do, because he might be my friend, he might be my colleague, I want to crush him. And that was kind of how things started to change for me.”

Clark has parlayed that moment into becoming one of the top analysts in sports media, becoming a fixture on ESPN’s First Take as well as the network’s NFL coverage and its premier show, NFL Live. Along with former Miami Dolphins linebacker Channing Crowder and Jacksonville Jaguars running back Fred Taylor as co-hosts of The Pivot Podcast, Clark has seen the show attain 1.2 million subscribers on YouTube alone.

Clark has also not been one to shy away from confronting certain issues, evidenced by his recent back-and-forth with former ESPN analyst and former Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III over his comments regarding WNBA player Caitlin Clark’s hard foul on Angel Reese. The dispute went viral on social media, and Smith vocalized his support of Clark after he faced numerous attacks from trolls.

Check out the entire interview above. 

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01 Jun 2025

New York Knicks Fans Sick After Indiana Pacers Send Their Beloved Knickerbockers Packing For A Second Straight Year

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It’s no longer orange and blue skies after the NBA’s “most overrated player,” Tyrese Haliburton, and the Indiana Pacers once again sent New York Knicks, Ben Stiller, Timothee Chalamet, Spike Lee, and the rest of the diehard Knickerbocker fans on summer break.

The New York Knicks and their fans thought their 52-year championship drought was coming to an end, but unfortunately, the Indiana Pacers had other plans.

Last night, in a game that started close, the Pacers eventually cruised to a 125-108 Game 6 win over the Knicks, punching their ticket to the NBA Finals for the first time in 25 years to face the Oklahoma City Thunder, where they hope they can win the franchise’s first NBA title.

Out of the gate, the Knicks didn’t let the Gainbridge Fieldhouse crowd affect them, keeping the contest close, trailing by only four points at halftime. But it was clear they couldn’t keep pace with the Pacers, who turned it on in the second half, ending the third quarter with an 11-point lead that the Knicks couldn’t overcome.

It didn’t help that the Knicks’ offense was stifled by the Pacers’ defense in the second half. The clutch player of the year and Knicks’ top offensive weapon, Jalen Brunson, was held to just 19 points and shot 4/10 at the half because Andrew Nembhard locked him down.

Turnovers Killed The Knicks’ Chances

The Pacers also forced 18 Knicks turnovers, scoring 25 fastbreak points, a recipe for disaster for any team trying to win an Eastern Conference Finals series.

After being stifled in Game 5, Tyrese Haliburton returned to form, scoring 21 points and dishing out 13 assists. However, it was Pascal Siakam’s 31-point performance that helped put the Knicks away for good, earning him the series MVP award, which also provided a classic meme moment.

Jalen Brunson Still Has Confidence In This Knicks Team

Despite solid offensive efforts from OG Anunoby, who led all Knicks scorers with 24 points, and Karl-Anthony Towns with 22, it just wasn’t enough.

It didn’t help that Josh Hart, who has been reliable all season, didn’t leave his mark on the game, scoring only 4 points.

Following the game, Brunson says he still believes in this Knicks team as it is constructed, telling reporters he has “The most confidence, overconfident, seriously,” Brunson said. “There’s not an ounce of any type of doubt that I’m confident with this group.”

A Magical Season Comes To A Bitter End

Jalen Brunson and the New York Knicks looked like they were on the verge of a special season after two big playoff series wins, including knocking off the defending champion Boston Celtics.

But it would turn out their biggest test would be the franchise’s longtime rivals, the Indiana Pacers, who have played boogeyman to the Knicks franchise for many years.

Coming into the series, the Knicks had all the momentum, especially after pulling off one of the biggest comebacks in playoff history en route to denying the Celtics the opportunity to defend their 2023-24 NBA championship.

It would turn out that the Knicks would get a taste of their own medicine after they dramatically blew a significant lead in game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals, which led to an insane Tyrese Haliburton buzzer-beater to force overtime, where the Knicks came up short, and eventually would go on to lose the series.

As you can imagine, Knicks fans’ emotions are all over the place. Some are proud of their Knickerbockers, while others feel a change is needed, calling for the firing of head coach Tom Thibodeau, whose rotations and refusal to use his bench were once again the subject of discussion.

Welp, there’s always next year.

You can see more reactions in the gallery below.

1. A proud Knicks fan

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30 May 2025

Calls To Free Larry Hoover Made After Trump Axes Fed Charges

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On Wednesday (May 28), President Donald Trump issued an order commuting the federal prison sentence of the former leader of the Gangster Disciples, Larry Hoover. The federal sentence of three life terms was given to Hoover for running the Gangster Disciples from his prison cell. However, Hoover remains in jail for state murder charges in Illinois. Advocates are calling on Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker to give Hoover clemency.

Hoover’s commutation was part of a group of 26 acts of clemency and pardons issued by Trump. That group includes rapper NBA Youngboy and reality television stars Todd and Julie Christley. It was announced by the White House’s “pardon czar”, Alice Marie Johnson.

In a separate interview with TMZ Hip Hop, she said that she hoped that Governor Pritzker would consider giving Hoover clemency. Ye, aka Kanye West, has also made pleas to Trump to release Hoover, bringing one of his lawyers to the White House during his first term in 2018, saying it was “very important for me to get Hoover out.”

The 74-year-old is currently serving a 200-year sentence for his conviction for murdering rival William Young in 1973. In order for him to be freed, a petition has to be approved by the Illinois Prisoner Review Board. Hoover was denied parole in 2022, after letters from Young’s family protested his release.

“I think there’s a mass pressure here for JB to show that he believes in redemption,” said community activist and Hoover friend Ja’mal Green. “If we’re going by what he claims he believes and the policies that he has signed on with his pen then Larry Hoover represents that. This is merely politics if JB Pritzker does not use a stroke of his pen.”

“I understand folks on both sides some who quite frankly felt a lot of pain, but also those who can believe in the power of redemption,” said Illinois State Senator Willie Preston, representing the 16th District, to local NBC network News 5 Chicago.

According to a representative for the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Hoover remains in custody at the United States Penitentiary Florence ADMAX in Florence, Colorado. There has been no word from Pritzker’s office that signals that they’re open to giving Hoover clemency.

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30 May 2025

RFK Jr’s MAHA Report Is Full of Fake Citations Leading Many To Believe It Was Written Using AI, X Is Not Surprised

RFK Jr. Clowned For Error-Filled MAHA Report Created Using AI

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This latest mess involving RFK Jr. and his “Make America Healthy Again” commission report highlights just how dysfunctional and stupid the Trump administration is.

We already know that RFK Jr. is a certified quack and conspiracy theorist who has no business being the head of Health and Human Services, and he continues to show us why.

The MAHA report, which is intended to address the reasons for the decline in US life expectancy, is currently being criticized because all signs indicate that it was generated using AI, specifically ChatGPT.

An investigation by NOTUS revealed that the MAHA report is marred by errors, including broken links, missing or incorrect authors, and incorrect issue numbers.

Other damning revelations highlighted by NOTUS included some studies in the report being misstated to support the report’s claims, as well as studies that didn’t exist.

NOTUS found that at least seven of the cited sources weren’t even real.

But Wait… There’s More

The Washington Post conducted its own investigation and found that 37 of the 522 citations appeared numerous times in the report. URLs in the report were found to contain “oaicite,” a marker used by OpenAI and applied to responses provided by AI models, such as ChatGPT, which is a strong indication that Kennedy and HHS used AI to make the report.

Another giveaway that the MAHA report is nothing more than the product of blatant AI use is the presence of “hallucinations” throughout it, a term used to describe the false information that artificial intelligence models tend to produce.

There is also the fact that RFK Jr. hasn’t been shy about what he describes as the “AI Revolution” and said during a House Committee meeting in May that HHS is “already using these new technologies to manage health care data more efficiently and securely.”

The White House Claims It Was Just “Formatting Issues”

When pressed on the report, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt referred to the errors as “formatting issues,” while avoiding discussion of the use of AI tools.

Leavitt, who has put on a masterclass in lying like her boss since taking on the role of press secretary, also added that the MAHA report is “backed on good science that the federal government has never recognized.”

The Washington Post says the report has since been “updated” with some of the oaicite markers being removed and the nonexistent sources replaced with alternate citations.

In a statement sent to The Washington Post, Department of Health and Human Services spokesman Andrew Nixon said “minor citation and formatting errors have been corrected, but the substance of the MAHA report remains the same — a historic and transformative assessment by the federal government to understand the chronic disease epidemic afflicting our nation’s children.”

Social media isn’t shocked by these developments because of RFK Jr.’s reputation for being a liar and a pusher of medical falsehoods. He also claimed he would find the cause of autism by September.

You can see more reactions in the gallery below.

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30 May 2025

President Donald Trump TACO Memes Gain Traction Online

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President Donald Trump has a penchant for using nicknames and hurling insults at folks, especially those who aren’t politically aligned with him or his administration. TACO, an acronym that stands for “Trump Always Chickens Out,” is gaining traction online, and as a result, TACO is getting the meme treatment across social media.

TACO, coined by Financial Times columnist Robert Armsrong, made its way to the ears of President Trump during a press event on Wednesday (May 28). A reporter asked Trump about the acronym, sparking a furious reply from the president, who demanded that he never get asked about the acronym again.

Because of Trump’s visible distaste for the acronym, savvy social media users and those who oppose President Trump seized upon the opportunity to dig in their heels with jokes, commentary, and memes as mentioned above.

In an interview with CBC Radio’s As It Happens, Armstrong was asked if it were a dream that the acronym got floated during the midweek press event at the White House.

From CBC:

It’s not the dream, it’s the nightmare. The thing about Trump chickening out is that it’s good.

Trump’s tariff policies are very bad and destructive, right? When I talk about TACO and Trump chickening out, I’m like, “There’s this good thing happening where he doesn’t follow through on these bad ideas.”

I don’t think this is gonna happen, but I have this slight worry that now he knows the phrase, and it’s banging around in his head, he’ll stop chickening out, which is exactly the outcome I don’t want.

As it stands, TACO is growing legs, especially on social media apps like X and Blue Sky. We’ve got some of those memes listed below.

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30 May 2025

Martin Lawrence And Eddie Murphy’s Kids Marry In Quiet Ceremony

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Comedy now has a royal family. Martin Lawrence and Eddie Murphy’s kids recently married in a quiet ceremony. 

As per Page Six, Eddie Murphy was recently a guest on The Jennifer Hudson Show. The two discussed their time as co-stars in Dreamgirls, his historic career, new projects and more. During the conversation, she asked for a status update on his eldest son Eric dating Martin Lawrence’s oldest daughter Jasmin. The Beverly Hills Cop actor went on to reveal that the two jumped the broom earlier this month. “Actually, they got married, like, two weeks ago,” he explained. “They went off…Everybody was making the big wedding plans, and they decided they wanted to do something quiet with just the two of them,” the comedian added.

When asked if he or Martin provided entertainment at the ceremony he made it clear that the couple kept things very small. “They went off and they got married at the church,” he said. “They just had the two of them and the preacher. They had a quiet little thing. So, I think we’ll have like a big party or something.” The couple officially announced their engagement on Instagram back in November 2025. “We’re engaged!! God truly blessed us with a love that feels like destiny. We couldn’t be more excited for this next chapter,” the caption read.

While Martin Lawrence has yet to publicly comment on the nuptials, Eddie Murphy joked that the Bad Boy star “doesn’t have to pay for that big wedding now.” The two have worked on projects in the past including Boomerang and Life. You can see Eddie discuss the news below.

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29 May 2025

Stephen Miller’s Wife Leaves White House To Work With Elon Musk, X Jokes He Lost His Wife To An Billionaire Immigrant

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According to X, formerly Twitter, Donald Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff and known hater of immigrants, Stephen Miller, might have lost his wife to the richest immigrant on the planet.

Katie Miller, the wife of Stephen Miller, is reportedly following Elon Musk out of the White House, starting rumours that there is trouble in racist paradise, aka the Trump White House.

Three sources familiar with the matter told CNN Katie Miller, who had been working as a top adviser and spokesperson for the Department of Government Efficiency, is joining Musk in the private sector.

Like Musk, Katie Miller was employed as a special government employee since Felon 47’s unfortunate return to the White House while previously being paid by the Republican consulting firm P2 Public Affairs in an advisory capacity for private clients, including Apple, before deciding to work with DOGE.

Miller’s special government employee was set to expire on Friday, hitting the limit of 130 days of service, and according to Raw Story, has been helping Musk by setting up interviews for the Tesla chief not related to his “work” with the government.

In one of his most recent interviews, which many believe was the nail in the coffin for Trump and Musk’s MAGA bromance, Phony Stark was critical of the Orange Menace’s legislative centerpiece of his political agenda, his “big beautiful” budget bill.

Social Media Is Clowning Stephen Miller

When news of Katie Miller joining Musk hit the timelines, “throuple” began trending, with many clowning Stephen Miller, saying that he lost his wife to an immigrant.

Other posts joked about Miller being the next sucker to carry a child for the billionaire procreator. “extremely buried lede today is that Elon Musk probably seduced Stephen Miller’s wife to impregnate her with another test tube baby,” one user on X wrote.

While all of this is happening, Stephen Miller has been rage-tweeting about the fact that Trump’s “big beautiful bill” will explode the debt. He also had kind words to say about the “work” DOGE did, claiming it was just the start of things to come.

We won’t be shocked if he was typing that while grinding his white nationalist teeth.

He’s still gonna get these jokes though. We compiled the best ones in the gallery below.

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28 May 2025

MAGA Bromance Over: Elon Musk Announces Exit FromTrump Administration After Critizing “Big Beautiful BIll,” X Reacts

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Was it worth it? X is asking the billion-dollar question after Elon Musk, aka Phony Stark, announced he is leaving the Trump administration.

Musk announced on the platform he allegedly sold to xAI that his time leading DOGE has come to an end. He also wrote in the same post that he was thankful to Donald Trump for allowing him to run the “cost-cutting” agency, which, however, didn’t achieve significant cost-cutting results.

The Tesla chief was appointed as a “special government employee,” which allowed him to work for the federal government for 130 days. Musk came on board on January 20, Felon 47’s inauguration, which means his tenure would be coming to an end at the end of May.

Elon Musk’s announcement comes after the billionaire criticized his former boss’s legislative centerpiece of his Trump’s political agenda, his “big beautiful” budget bill.

“As my scheduled time as a Special Government Employee comes to an end, I would like to thank President @realDonaldTrump for the opportunity to reduce wasteful spending,” Musk wrote on X.

“The @DOGE mission will only strengthen over time as it becomes a way of life throughout the government.”

Speaking with the BBC, Musk explained why he was not feeling Trump’s “big beautiful bill.”

Per BBC:

The BBC understands that the White House will begin “offboarding” Musk as a special government employee on Wednesday night.

Musk’s exit comes after he said he was “disappointed” with Trump’s budget, which proposes multi-trillion dollar tax breaks and a boost to defence spending.

The SpaceX and Tesla boss said in an interview with BBC’s US partner CBS that the bill would increase the federal deficit, adding that he thought it “undermines the work” being done at Doge.

Musk’s association with the MAGA movement has also not been beneficial for his business, which has been struggling since he invested in Trump and the Make America Great Again initiative.

Tesla is currently experiencing a slump in Europe, with sales plummeting by nearly 50 percent, which many believe is also the reason Musk decided to step back from politics.

Social media has been using the moment to take shots at Musk, as well as point out that he used his time as a donor to Trump to ensure he stays wealthy despite his business taking a hit.

You can see those reactions in the gallery below.

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