February 23, 2026Longtime disability advocate and social media influencer Imani Barbarin explains the crux of the problem with the BAFTAS discourse — “The issue comes with the accommodations beforehand and everybody justifying why people shouldn’t be upset afterwards.”
February 23, 2026Olympic gold-winning U.S. women’s hockey team declines Trump’s invitation to State of the Union address
February 23, 2026Police in Britain arrest Peter Mandelson, a former ambassador, in probe into Epstein ties
February 23, 2026Delroy Lindo says him and Michael B. Jordan did “what we had to do” to continue presenting at the BAFTAs after John Davidson shouted the N-word in an involuntary tic. He said he wishes “someone from BAFTA spoke to us afterwards.”
February 23, 2026Rob Jetten has been sworn in as the Prime Minister of the Netherlands. At age 38, he is the youngest Prime Minister in the nation’s history, and its first openly gay PM.
February 23, 2026Gavin Newsom in conversation with Mayor Andre Dickens addresses the Atlanta crowd: “I’m like you…I’m a 960 SAT guy. I can’t read.”
February 23, 2026Variety: BAFTA and the BBC failed Michael B Jordan, Delroy Lindo, the Tourette’s community and the viewers when they allowed the N-word to be aired during the BAFTA Film Awards ceremony. With a tape delay, this moment could have been handled differently.
February 23, 2026NYU Professor Scott Galloway on tech companies’ manipulation of vulnerable young men: “We figured out there’s something that sells better than sex, and that’s rage.”
February 23, 2026Doja Cat accidentally shows her email address during a Twitch stream: “I’m fucked. [I’m going to] get hacked by a Barb. Let me check my email. Yeah, my email just got blown up. Someone tried to make a PornHub account.”
