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Rock legend slams Ed Sheeran as US tour crumbles over Macklemore-Palestine controversy

Get the inside track from Roisin O’Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters has dubbed Ed Sheeran a “p****” who has “done the wrong thing” amid the ongoing controversy over Macklemore being pulled as a support act from Sheeran’s tour after expressing solidarity with Palestinians on stage. Ahead of Sheeran’s main performances on 3 and 4 September in New Jersey, Macklemore – the US rapper best known for his 2012 hit “Thrift Shop” – called for a “free Palestine” and told the gathered crowds he wanted people in Gaza and the West Bank to know they had not been forgotten amid the conflict with Israel. Within days, Macklemore announced that he had been dropped from the rest of the tour, and claimed that the decision came after an intervention from the billionaire Robert Kraft, who owns one of the concert venues that Sheeran is next scheduled to play at. Sheeran has since …

The Daily Show at 30: Can Jon Stewart Stay Relevant as Late Night Crumbles?

Published by Sam Flores

All of the departed shows had different weaknesses and met their demise for varying reasons. But in addition to dealing with a declining TV industry, The Daily Show alumni were battered by a common headwind: The cultural moment for political satire seems to have passed, as politics in the age of Trump lurched beyond shame and into self-parody. The Daily Show itself could have easily become a relic. Instead, it is now enjoying a ratings resurgence; in February, it scored its second-highest audience share ever, with its largest gains among younger viewers. “We may be past the point where there are big late-night shows or big political comedy shows,” says James Poniewozik, the New York Times TV critic. “But we are still very much in the moment where that sort of thing is relevant. At a time when politics is so absurd and disturbing, maybe political comedy is less funny. I’m not sure it’s less potent or less effective.” Stewart immediately demonstrated that The Daily Show still matters when he returned in 2024 and blasted …

MAGA in Shambles as Trump’s “Made in America” Phone Crumbles Into Dust

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech All that glitters is not gold — or even a flashy phone of the same color. Trump Mobile, a company backed by president Donald Trump’s sons Donald Jr. and Eric, unveiled a $499 gold-colored smartphone last June, with an original release date slated for August 2025. Use the handset, and you could supposedly tap into Trump Mobile’s 5G cellular service. Presumably loads of MAGA faithful paid $100 deposits to pre-order the devices but to date, not a single one has shipped. The delivery date first slipped from August 2025 to November 2025, then to Mid-March this year. With that last deadline now passed as well, there’s currently no official release date at all. In fact, the Trump Mobile website struck any mention of when the supposed gilt-edged phone — emblazoned with an American flag and the Trump name — would finally release, leaving the president’s loyal and most furious soldiers in the dark. “Hey, Trump supporter here,” a …

Figure skating-Shaidorov shocks rivals to capture gold as ‘Quad God’ Malinin crumbles

Published by Sam Flores

MILAN, Feb 13 : Kazakhstan’s Mikhail Shaidorov emerged as the shock winner of the men’s competition at the Milano Cortina Games on Friday as heavy favourite Ilia Malinin’s free programme fell apart and he finished out of the medals in one of Olympic figure skating’s biggest upsets. Japan’s Yuma Kagiyama took silver and his countryman Shun Sato captured bronze on a night when many top skaters struggled to execute their jumps. Malinin had been expected to pack in seven quadruple jumps, including the quad Axel which only he has landed in competition, but the American’s display unravelled spectacularly as he made one mistake after another. From the moment he turned an expected quad Axel into a single Axel, Malinin appeared to be in freefall as he made two crash landings onto the ice and ended up executing only three quads cleanly. NIGHTMARE FOR MALININ He looked absolutely distraught by the end of his free skate and kept shaking his head, scarcely believing the nightmare he had just endured on the biggest stage for his sport. …

As Saudi Arabia’s 100-Mile Skyscraper Crumbles, They’re Replacing It With the Most Desperate Thing Imaginable

Published by José Betancourt

No one is surprised that Neom — Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s $1.5 trillion-with-a-t plan to build a futuristic megacity smack dab in the middle of the desert — has turned out to be a disaster. Its centerpiece was supposed to be a towering skyscraper called The Line, over 100 miles in length, that could accommodate millions of people, something that the laws of reality always suggested would be impossible to pull off. But, according to new reporting from the Financial Times, the saga may yet have a twist in store for us. The Saudi government is now considering drastically downsizing the linear city-skyscraper so it can instead turn Neom into a hub for — we swear we are not kidding — data centers. It’s a proposal that reeks of a Saudi leadership desperate to find a way out of the multibillion dollar hole it’s dug for itself, as the dysfunctional monarchy rushes to follow what everyone else is doing and cash in on the AI race. But royal insiders briefed on the matter …

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