Tom Ford Tom Ford, chairman of the CFDA, addressed his industry looking like the Zoolander cliché of a fashion person, wearing oversized sunglasses and an all-black ensemble featuring a satin scarf tied around his neck. He spoke with the affected accent of an American college student just back from studying in London. What should clothes look like right now? “The last thing I want to see are serious clothes,” he said. “We want to escape, we want to smile—what’s going on in the world doesn’t make us want to smile, but the customer is going to walk into the store in spring and […]
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Democrat activist and former presidential hopeful Tom Steyer says the wildfires in California, Oregon, and Washington are due to climate change, and the “only solution” to them is Joe Biden. The number-one thing people can do to stop the wildfires raging, according to Steyer, is to “elect a different president who is going to recognize the problem, deal with it forcefully at home, deal with it forcefully overseas.” And the “only solution” to the fires, Steyer told CNN’s ‘New Day,’ is “honest to God, Joe Biden.” Steyer, a billionaire Democrat donor and activist, ran briefly for the Democrat Party’s presidential nomination […]
Hall of Fame pitcher Tom Seaver, pictured in July, was the galvanizing leader of the ‘Miracle Mets’ 1969 championship team. Jeff Chiu/AP hide caption toggle caption Jeff Chiu/AP Hall of Fame pitcher Tom Seaver, pictured in July, was the galvanizing leader of the ‘Miracle Mets’ 1969 championship team. Jeff Chiu/AP Hall of Fame pitcher Tom Seaver died from complications of Lewy body dementia and COVID-19 on Monday, the Baseball Hall of Fame and MLB announced. He was 75. Seaver was one of baseball’s greatest all-time pitchers. Known as ‘Tom Terrific’ and ‘The Franchise,’ the right-hander started his MLB career with the […]
Minnesota Representative Tom Emmer will accept crypto donations for his campaign. The Chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) and member of the Congressional Blockchain Caucus opened his first cryptocurrency town hall on Thursday with the announcement, telling CoinDesk that BitPay will process all donations. The town hall, announced last week, was held in conjunction with the Chamber of Digital Commerce (CDC) to celebrate innovators in the crypt industry and to encourage engaged voters to participate in political discourse. CDC founder and president Perianne Boring told CoinDesk that contributors can make donations to Emmer’s campaign using any one of the […]
A new poll to measure people’s trust in a potential Covid-19 vaccine asked respondents whether they would be more likely to take it if select celebrities and sports stars gave it their stamp of approval. “If each of the following people or groups encouraged Americans to receive the coronavirus vaccine, would you be more or less likely to get vaccinated or would it not have an impact on your decision?” the Politico/Morning Consult poll – which was conducted among a national sample of 1,991 people – asked. Some names listed seemed suitable as they are either medical professionals, like Dr Anthony […]
The hosts of Fox & Friends waited until the final moments of their interview with Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) to bring up the comments he made about slavery and The New York Times’ ‘1619 Project’ over the weekend. Cotton used the opportunity to accuse them of spreading “fake news.” “Senator Tom Cotton, you’re in the eye of the storm, you like to take on red-hot issues, including ‘The 1619 Project,’” Brian Kilmeade said as the senator smiled awkwardly. He then quoted directly at length from Cotton’s interview with the Arkansas Democrat Gazette. “We have to study the history of slavery and […]
In his first major interviews since becoming the first major celebrity to contract COVID-19 four months ago, Tom Hanks has been highly critical of anyone in America who is not taking the pandemic seriously. “Shame on you,” he told anyone who refuses to take basic precautions. “If you can’t wear a mask and wash your hands and social distance, I’ve got no respect for you,” he added. The two-time Oscar winner and star of the new film Greyhound took things to the next level Tuesday night during an extended conversation with Stephen Colbert on The Late Show. “As somebody who’s gone […]
In a wide-ranging interview, ‘Westworld’ star Thandie Newton opened up about her experiences with Hollywood sexism and recalled specific ‘toxic’ interactions with former studio head Amy Pascal and ‘Top Gun’ star Tom Cruise. Hollywood may be home to some of the most vocally progressive voices around, but the industry has been cast in a revealing light following years of #MeToo allegations, as well as stars opening up about harmful work environments. Newton is the latest to recount such experiences, telling Vulture about the sexism she has faced in the industry – as well as some less than pleasant experiences with major […]
Tom Hanks: ‘I grew up looking to our leaders for calm and informed guidance and I don’t think we’ve got that.’ Photograph: Daniel Dorsa/The New York Times/eyevine Guardian: “Welcome to the future, Hadley!” Tom Hanks says from my computer screen, as he makes a quick glance to the right of his own to check my name. “Can you remember the last time you felt comfortable running around with other people?” he asks. I tell him it was probably the last time I saw him, which was when we were at the Academy Awards in February, where he had ratcheted up his fifth […]
Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) put mob rioters destroying the Andrew Jackson statue in DC on notice. Criminal vandals on Monday night prepared to tear down the iconic statue of Andrew Jackson outside the White House. The DC police stepped in and fought back against the criminal vandals. Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States, a general in the United States Army and served in both houses of the U.S. Congress. TRENDING: “Tear Them Down”: Race Activist Shaun King Calls for Removal of All Statues, Murals and Stained Glass Windows of “White Jesus and his European Mother” Senator Cotton […]
Tom Petty posed in New York in 1976. On Saturday, Petty’s estate issued a cease and desist order to the Trump campaign after it used his song at a rally. Richard E. Aaron/Redferns hide caption toggle caption Richard E. Aaron/Redferns Tom Petty posed in New York in 1976. On Saturday, Petty’s estate issued a cease and desist order to the Trump campaign after it used his song at a rally. Richard E. Aaron/Redferns The family of the late American rock legend Tom Petty has sent a cease and desist letter to the Trump campaign, after it blasted the song “I Won’t […]
US President Donald Trump held a rally on Saturday for his November 2020 re-election campaign. While the event was roundly criticised for its small turnout, the family of a musician whose song was used has produced another denunciation of Trump, followed by legal action. Relatives of the late Tom Petty issued an official cease and desist notice to US President Donald Trump for illegally using the songwriter’s 1989 hit ‘I Won’t Back Down’. In a Sunday statement, the family noted that Trump was not “authorized” to use the song and that the celebrated musician, who died in 2017, would “firmly stand against […]
Senator Tom Cotton has accidentally kicked off an effort to rechristen the Washington Monument after mockingly dubbing it the “Obelisk of Wokeness.” Inspired netizens soon ran with the idea, however, even starting a petition. The Republican lawmaker laid into what he called the “woke child mob” in a speech on the Senate floor on Thursday, taking aim at a “cancel culture” that seeks to tear down anything not in line with fashionable progressive attitudes, from movies to monuments. “So, where does this cancel culture take us? What is the logical conclusion? What is the end of the cancel culture?” Cotton asked. […]
The New York Times apologized to its staff on Friday in a lengthy, tense meeting in which the paper’s top editors strongly suggested they will overhaul the oft-controversial and scrutinized opinion page. Earlier this week, the Times published an op-ed, headlined “Send in the Troops,” in which Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) enthusiastically called for the deployment of American military forces to suppress the ongoing protests against police brutality. The column sparked immediate criticism from readers and many of the paper’s own staffers, who publicly denounced the decision to publish it. One by one during Friday’s staff meeting, the paper’s top leaders […]
On Friday night, Bill Maher returned to his HBO show Real Time and offered solidarity with protesters during his monologue, conceding that the police had clearly gone too far not only when it comes to brutalizing black bodies but their aggressive, violent, escalatory tactics against protesters. Later, the political satirist took issue with Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) and his outrageous op-ed in The New York Times effectively calling for the president to declare war on protesting civilians by sending in the military to strike them down. The piece, surely part of a 14-year vendetta that the conservative lawmaker has held against […]
Lindsey Graham’s new, Trumpy bouffant. Bill Barr’s little authoritarians’ playbook. Tom Cotton’s status masturbation. They’re all featured on a very not-safe-for-Democracy edition of The New Abnormal, The Daily Beast’s podcast for a world gone off the rails. As Rick puts it, “These guys are jacking themselves off like, well, why can’t we have a spotter on the White House to call in the drone strikes on these hippie fields, the Antifa.” But that’s just the tip of the fuckery. In Episode 14, Molly Jong-Fast and Rick Wilson talk about Cotton’s “over the top” New York Times’ op-ed and how it is […]
One by one this week, New York Times staffers started tweeting “Running this puts Black @NYTimes staff in danger” along with the screenshot of an op-ed by Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) titled “Send in the Troops.” On Thursday night, Seth Meyers entered the fray. As the Trump administration “defends violent crackdowns on peaceful protesters,” the Late Night host called out the Republican Party as a whole and Sen. Cotton in particular for “openly embracing calls for military violence towards American citizens.” Meyers highlighted this line from the “chilling” op-ed: “One thing above all else will restore order to our streets: an […]
Republican Senator Tom Cotton wrote an op-ed calling for the military to be used to stop the rioting in American cities. That is a position shared by a majority of Americans. The New York Times published Cotton’s column, and now the far left activists pretending to be journalists at the paper are freaking out. Townhall reports: TRENDING: Los Angeles Mayor Garcetti Will Cut $150 Million From LAPD Budget, Reinvest Money in Black Communities The Thought Police Are Out in Full Force, Demanding Compliance Cortney touched on today’s truly insane New York Times controversy, in which Times “journalists” and others on the […]
Captain Tom Moore, the 100-year-old British veteran who stole headlines with his viral backyard fundraiser for the NHS, is due to be knighted by Queen Elizabeth, but is taking it all in stride with some heartwarming humor. “I hope she’s not very heavy handed with the sword,” he said Wednesday, in reference to the knighting ceremony in which the monarch taps the recipient’s shoulders with a sword. “By then I might be rather a poor old weak soul.” The 100-year-old World War II veteran raised £33mn by walking 100 laps of his garden in Bedfordshire before his 100th birthday on April […]
Tom Gores has enough money to shape the future of this country in profound ways. The businesses he controls impact the lives of millions of people, every day. He’s worth $5.7 billion. Last year, Forbes ranked him as the 118th wealthiest American. He owns the Detroit Pistons and is chief executive of an investment firm called Platinum Equity that controls more than $19 billion in assets. As far as oligarchs go, his public image is pretty good. Despite the revelation back in 2008 that he was sleeping with his sister-in-law, he generally has a reputation for being a decent guy. A […]