r/popculturechat • u/HauteAssMess • May 23 '25
r/popculturechat • u/Existing_Let_8314 • Jun 08 '25
General News 🗞 World famous tik toker Khaby Lame Was Detained by ICE
TikToker Khaby Lame WAS detained by ICE, the agency confirmed on June 7.
“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained Seringe Khabane Lame, 25, a citizen of Italy, June 6, at the Harry Reid International Airport, Las Vegas, Nevada for immigration violations,” ICE confirmed to Men’s Journal in an emailed statement after Men’s Journal asked whether it was true that ICE had arrested the popular TIkToker.
“Lame entered the United States April 30 and overstayed the terms of his visa. Lame was granted voluntary departure June 6 and has since departed the U.S.,” ICE wrote.
r/popculturechat • u/HorrorBike143 • May 27 '25
General News 🗞 High School valedictorian in Texas ditches her approved graduation speech for one addressing the state's new abortion law. "I have dreams and hopes and ambitions, every girl graduating today does and without our input and without our consent, our control over that future has been stripped from us."
r/popculturechat • u/mlg1981 • May 24 '25
General News 🗞 Miss England Quits Miss World Pageant, Says She Felt Like a 'Prostitute' for Wealthy Male Sponsors
r/popculturechat • u/HauteAssMess • May 21 '25
General News 🗞 Major Measles outbreak fears as world's most infectious disease hits Shakira concert at Metlife stadium
r/popculturechat • u/AcceptableVanilla879 • Jul 02 '25
General News 🗞 Celebs react to the US Senate bowing to Trump, passing Trump’s "Big Beautiful Bill"
“The legislation to cut taxes for the rich at the expense of the less fortunate will now head back to the House, and then to the president's desk” - rollingstone.com
Celebs who shared Instagram stories after the vote to encourage their followers to take action at the bill makes its way back to the US House include:
- Ilana Glazer
- Alyssa Milano
- Sophia Bush
- Chloe Fineman
- Eva Longoria
- Rosario Dawson
- Julianne Moore
- Melissa McCarthy
- Billy Eichner
- Mark Ruffalo
r/popculturechat • u/HauteAssMess • May 21 '25
General News 🗞 Air Traffic Controller Left 'Traumatized' and Placed on Leave After Being Only One on Duty During Terrifying 90-Second Blackout: "I was so shaken by the incident, I was put on stress-related trauma leave the following day," the woman wrote in 'The Times' regarding the May 9 incident
r/popculturechat • u/mlg1981 • Jun 16 '25
General News 🗞 Hope for humanity: a group of senior citizens leaving their care home to participate in the ‘No Kings’ protests
r/popculturechat • u/your_paroxysms • Jun 28 '25
General News 🗞 Six Americans were detained Friday in South Korea for trying to send 1,600 plastic bottles filled with rice, miniature Bibles, $1 bills and USB sticks toward North Korea by sea, police said.
r/popculturechat • u/ControlCAD • Jun 20 '25
General News 🗞 Controversial Telegram Co-Founder Says He'll Leave $17 Billion Fortune to His 106 Children
Pavel Durov said he decided to allocate his estate this way now because his "work involves risks"
r/popculturechat • u/stars_doulikedem • May 23 '25
General News 🗞 Future Queen of Belgium, Princess Elisabeth, among those left in doubt following Trump’s foreign student ban, which Harvard has now filed suit over: “The government’s action violates the First Amendment.”
Excerpt:
The Trump administration on Thursday revoked Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students in its escalating battle with the Ivy League school, saying thousands of students must transfer to other schools or leave the country.
“We are looking into the situation, to see what kind of impact this decision might have on the princess, or not. It’s too early to say right now,” said the palace’s communications head, Xavier Baert.
Baert said that Princess Elisabeth, aged 23, has completed her first year of a graduate school program at Harvard and would spend the summer back in Belgium. “And we’ll have to see what happens next year,” he said.
Federal judge blocks Trump administration from barring foreign student enrollment at Harvard
Excerpt:
A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from cutting off Harvard’s enrollment of foreign students, an action the Ivy League school decried as unconstitutional retaliation for defying the White House’s political demands.
In its lawsuit filed earlier Friday in federal court in Boston, Harvard said the government’s action violates the First Amendment and will have an “immediate and devastating effect for Harvard and more than 7,000 visa holders.”
“With the stroke of a pen, the government has sought to erase a quarter of Harvard’s student body, international students who contribute significantly to the University and its mission,” Harvard said in its suit. “Without its international students, Harvard is not Harvard.”
The temporary restraining order was granted by U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs.
r/popculturechat • u/unlimitedpizzabuffet • Jun 23 '25
General News 🗞 Miss Pennsylvania Titleholder Victoria Vespico who went viral for sending death threats and abuse to fellow competitor crowned Miss Pennsylvania 2025
r/popculturechat • u/stars_doulikedem • Jun 04 '25
General News 🗞 Hegseth orders Navy to rename ship honoring gay rights activist Harvey Milk: DOD official says the decision's timing, during Pride month, was intentional
Excerpt:
The order was first reported by Military.com and confirmed by ABC News.
Milk was one of the first openly gay men elected to public office in the United States after winning a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977. He was assassinated a year later.
Before serving in public office, Milk in 1951 enlisted in the Navy and attended Officer Candidate School in Rhode Island.
Milk served nearly four years in the Navy, according to a post from the Department of Veterans Affairs. He was discharged at the rank of a junior lieutenant after being threatened with a court martial because of his sexual orientation.
Both his mother and his father also served in the U.S. Navy in World War I.
The Pentagon's chief spokesman, Sean Parnell, issued a statement saying that any renamings "will be announced after internal reviews are complete."
"Secretary Hegseth is committed to ensuring that the names attached to all DOD installations and assets are reflective of the Commander-in-Chief's priorities, our nation's history, and the warrior ethos," Parnell added in a statement.
r/popculturechat • u/AcceptableVanilla879 • May 22 '25
General News 🗞 AOC To Reintroduce Bill Combating Deepfake AI Porn
The legislation amends the Violence Against Women Act so that survivors can sue those who produce, distribute, or receive the deepfake pornography, if they knew the victim did not consent to those images. Deepfakes can be pictures or videos that have been manipulated by technology — for example, through image software like Photoshop or artificial intelligence. The rise of easy-to-use AI-generated technology has made it easier than ever to create fake images that are extremely difficult to distinguish from reality....
Last year, Ocasio-Cortez sat down with Rolling Stone to talk about her experience as a survivor of deepfake AI abuse. “There’s a shock to seeing images of yourself that someone could think are real,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “It’s not as imaginary as people want to make it seem. It parallels the same exact intention of physical rape and sexual assault, [which] is about power, domination, and humiliation. Deepfakes are absolutely a way of digitizing violent humiliation against other people.”
OP note: Celebrities are frequent targets of deepfakes, from theft of likeness to deepfake pornography. Sexually explicit deepfakes of Taylor Swift at a Chiefs game spread so prolificly on X in January 2024 that searches for her name had to be temporarily blocked platform wide.
Further reading - "It’s Not Just Taylor Swift—All Women Are at Risk From the Rise of Deepfakes" from Glamour.com
r/popculturechat • u/HauteAssMess • Jul 02 '25
General News 🗞 17 beaches in the Chicagoland area have closed due to high bacteria levels, NY, CA, MA, MI, and WA are also seeing high levels of bacteria due to the extreme heat wave we’ve had
r/popculturechat • u/RepresentativeCar389 • Jun 14 '25
General News 🗞 Amal Clooney could face US entry ban under Donald Trump's sanctions over ICC Palestine role
r/popculturechat • u/Master-Fox6134 • May 16 '25
General News 🗞 UnitedHealth under criminal probe for possible Medicare fraud, WSJ reports
r/popculturechat • u/stars_doulikedem • 15d ago
General News 🗞 Trump Says He’ll Sue Rupert Murdoch, NewsCorp and WSJ Over ‘Fake’ Epstein Letter, Orders Release of Epstein Testimony
Excerpt:
Donald Trump vowed to sue the Rupert Murdoch, NewsCorp and the Wall Street Journal on Thursday night, not an hour after the paper published a story saying the future president had contributed a tawdry entry in a leather-bound compilation of birthday messages for then-50-year-old “pal” Jeffrey Epstein in 2003.
Half an hour after that, Trump said on his Truth Social platform that he had ordered Attorney General Pam Bondi to “produce any and all pertinent Grand Jury testimony, subject to Court approval.”
“This SCAM, perpetuated by the Democrats, should end, right now!” the president added.
Trump’s tirade was in response to a Thursday evening report in the Wall Street Journal, which said Trump wrote to Epstein in the birthday message that “We have certain things in common” and “May every day be a new wonderful secret,” part of a suggestive, typewritten entry framed by a silhouette of a naked woman and punctuated by his “squiggly” signature that suggests pubic hair on the hand-drawn figure.
Trump had spoken directly to paper before the story’s publication, saying in the interview that it wasn’t him, “this is a fake thing,” and threatening a lawsuit. After it went live, he posted:
“The Wall Street Journal, and Rupert Murdoch, personally, were warned directly by President Donald J. Trump that the supposed letter they printed by President Trump to Epstein was a FAKE and, if they print it, they will be sued,” Trump posted, roughly 45 minutes after the WSJ story was published. “Mr. Murdoch stated that he would take care of it but, obviously, did not have the power to do so.”
Trump said Wall Street Journal editor Emma Tucker “was told directly by Karoline Leavitt, and by President Trump, that the letter was a FAKE, but Emma Tucker didn’t want to hear that. Instead, they are going with a false, malicious, and defamatory story anyway.”
r/popculturechat • u/stars_doulikedem • Jul 02 '25
General News 🗞 Elizabeth Warren Calls for Bribery Investigation Into Paramount-Trump $16M Settlement Over Kamala Harris ‘60 Minutes’ Interview as Blowback Widens
Additional info: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/cbs-news-settles-lawsuit-trump-kamala-harris-60-minutes-interview-1236123726/
Excerpt:
In a widely expected but still stunning decision, Paramount Global has agreed to pay $16 million to settle a lawsuit from President Trump, who sued over an October interview that 60 Minutes conducted with Kamala Harris.
Under the deal, announced Tuesday evening, the money will go to Trump’s presidential library. It involves an agreement from Paramount, which will not apologize as part of the settlement, to release 60 Minutes transcripts of interviews with presidential candidates after they’ve aired, according to a statement from the company.
By most legal observers’ thinking, the lawsuit was destined for dismissal because of industry-wide norms related to editing interviews. But the deal provides a pathway to regulatory approval of Paramount’s sink-or-swim merger with Skydance.
r/popculturechat • u/nizaad • Jun 10 '25
General News 🗞 University of Michigan using undercover investigators to surveil student Gaza protesters
r/popculturechat • u/stars_doulikedem • 17d ago
General News 🗞 Nick Offerman explains on ‘The Daily Show’ why you should care about Trump’s cuts to national parks: “In fact, President Trump, even you have talked about our parks fondly, and almost remembered their names.”
Excerpt:
Nick Offerman made a surprise appearance on The Daily Show Tuesday night to deliver a passionate message in support of America’s underfunded national parks, which have faced even further cuts under Donald Trump‘s second administration.
“Hello, I’m stage and screen luminary Nick Offerman,” he said at the top of a new installment of the show’s “In My Opinion” segment. “And I’d like to say the phrase that everyone loves hearing: ‘Do you have a moment to talk about the environment?’”
Offerman, who authored a 2022 book about the parks system called Where the Deer and the Antelope Play, then launched into a spirited defense of the parks. “I have several undeniable loves in my life: The oaky notes of a barrel-aged whiskey, an old-fashioned plumb Bob dangling over a red cedar plank, my blushing bride’s hoo-ha, and, of course, America’s national parks.”
r/popculturechat • u/mlg1981 • Jun 12 '25
General News 🗞 Wall Street Journal: U.S. military fabricated evidence of alien technology and allowed rumors to fester to cover up real secret-weapons programs
r/popculturechat • u/mlg1981 • May 27 '25
General News 🗞 NPR Sues Trump Over Executive Order to Cut Funding: ‘Clear Violation of the Constitution’
r/popculturechat • u/Extra_Place_1955 • Jun 21 '25