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After a roller coaster of an awards season, the Oscars are off to a heartwarming and historical start. Cassandra Kulukundis won the first ever Academy Award for casting Once Battle After Another after an incredibly sweet tribute to the nominees and the job itself!
Instead of having one person present the award, members from each of the nominated films took to the stage to give a personal tribute to their respective casting director. This was a smart move for the broadcast. Granted, I’m still not sure everyone watching the Oscars knows what “sound mixing” means, but this is a brand new category! Tell the people what casting is all about. They should take a moment to introduce us to these amazing people and the work they do to make the films we love. All of the nominees were absolutely glowing and clearly so happy to finally be recognized.
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the second generation Moray units smelled like a Red Lobster dumpster
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Dressing up for a day with the girls is a fun experience. The ritual boosts self-confidence while taking a break from the mundanity of daily life to enjoy yourself. Essentially, you’re dressing your best for yourself. Instead, the clothing Florida-based woman and her friends decided to wear got them sent out moment they stepped into Casa Neos.
In an eight second clip, TikTok creator Anaya (@ms.wrldwide) stands in front of a mirror, donning a long, strapless leopard print dress to over 209,000 views. As she pans the camera over, she unveils her friends’ ensembles. On the left, one friend is wearing a polka dot pant suit and the other a short, low cut tight fitted dress. When she moves over to the right, another friend has on a long, geometric patterned form fitting dress. Nothing appears out of the ordinary. But it is for the establishment they are at.
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Air travel usually comes with a standard level of cabin anxiety. But for TikTok creator Macy Kuhn (@macykuhn_), a routine flight almost left her paralyzed. And she’s not even a new traveler.
Macy explains that as her plane descended through severe straight-line winds, she experienced a physical reaction so intense it almost froze her. So much so, that she was unable to move her limbs.
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Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who used to defend President Donald Trump at every turn, is calling on her former MAGA allies to stop the war in Iran. She went on an interview with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins to speak against the war.
“I’m a strong supporter of our military and the great men and women who serve,” she said of the thirteen servicemembers who died because of Operation Epic Fury.
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Returning home after a long trip usually calls for a comfort meal. Boston-based TikTok creator Samantha Taormina (@samanthataormina) had a weakness for chicken cutty. But when she ordered, the cutlets nearly became her final order.
In a storytime on March 13, Samantha detailed a terrifying incident at her best friend Mikayla’s house. A piece of buffalo chicken cutty transformed her casual meal into a medical emergency. Surprisingly, her friend had already predicted it hours ago.
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The latest Saturday Night Live skit happened at the most expensive place on earth—the gas station. With the soaring gas prices, the show could only point to one culprit. And no, it’s not the war in Iran.
The cold open started with a family of four on their way to a grandmother’s house. When the father told them that he would have to refill the gas tank to full, the mother freaked out. “Fill up? Not all the way though, right?” she lamented. “We have to!” The father insisted, even if the cost is a whopping $5 per gallon.
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One conservative pundit thinks birth control breaks people’s sexuality, and Elon Musk apparently agrees. Responding to a X post by Evie Magazine about women’s sexual preferences, Turning Point USA alum Lauren Chen wrote “thinking Timothee Chalamet is more attractive than Henry Caville is what happens when you’ve been on birth control for 10 years.” After Elon Musk reposted her quote with a bullseye emoji, the internet decided to use him for target practice.
“Now Elon’s judging people by their looks,” responded one user, accompanied by a pre-hair plug picture of the Space X CEO. Another sarcastically took Musk’s statement for a coming out moment, writing, “so you agree you’re attracted to men?” One user took issue with the whole debate entirely, saying, “And this is what happens when culture wars take over an entire political party. Instead of solving real problems, they’re arguing about which actor women are allowed to find attractive.”
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The new cast of Hadestown has been announced, and the internet is not pleased. In a post on X, the official Hadestown account uploaded a video showing a handful of actors from the production, one of whom is former CSI star Gay Douden, who was arrested for felony battery in November 2011. The caption for the post was “give him just a chance,” a lyric from the Fleetwood Mac song “Silver Springs” that accompanied the video.
Users in the comment section believe the post to be in extremely poor taste. In response to the post, one X user commented “no, I don’t think I will.” Another user wrote “‘give him a chance’ he broke a womans nose.” Douden avoided serving jail time for allegedly attacking his partner, and pled “no contest” to his felony charge. He was sentenced to five years of formal probation and was ordered to complete 52 weeks of domestic violence counseling. While serving his probation, he was legally forbidden to see his now ex-girlfriend.
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A woman went on a date with an older man from another country. Then, when she got home and let him know she was safe, he slipped and told her that he had slipped “melatonin pills” into her pills that night.
TikToker Dudewateryoutalkingabout (@pinkunicorn[expletive]) posted a concerning exchange with an older man she went out with. After their date, he ended up rambling to her and admitting that he “slipped her” something during the night.
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When you think of horror film premises, your first thought usually involves some sort of outside force acting on the main characters. Sometimes that’s in the form of a supernatural entity, or any sort of killer. But with Drag, the feature debut of director/screenwriters Raviv Ullman and Greg Yagolnitzer, that initial driving factor is more mundane than that, which, in turn, ups the fear factor.
Drag opens up on two sisters, played by Lizzy Caplan and Lucy DeVito, who are staking out a house to rob it. Seems simple, right? That’s what they think, too. And it seems like it does, as Caplan (who is listed as simply “Fuckup”) leaves DeVito (who is listed as “Sister”) to wait in the car. But when a pained, panicked call on the walkie comes through to DeVito, it seems like something has indeed gone very wrong. Once she gets into the house, she finds her sister slumped in the master bathroom’s spacious tub, her back thrown out and unable to move.
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While eating out has become common with how busy people’s lives are, we sometimes forget how much trust we’re putting in strangers to make sure what we’re served is hygienic.
One Cupertino woman was reminded of this fact while eating at a BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse in Cupertino, California.
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President Donald Trump called for the allies of the United States to come to Operation Epic Fury’s aid. Although Trump expects allies to participate, he maintains the opinion that the United States has won over Iran.
Trump wrote on social media, “The United States of America has beaten and completely decimated Iran, both Militarily, Economically, and in every other way, but the Countries of the World that receive Oil through the Hormuz Strait must take care of that passage.”
languagelog_feedChina to Enshrine Xi-Era Ethnic Policy in New Law
by Chenghao Wei, NPC Observer (3/5/26)
The following is the introductory paragraph to the prospectus for the NPC's proceedings next week:
Next week, China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) is expected to adopt a Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress (Law) [民族团结进步促进法]—designed to codify General Secretary Xi Jinping’s new orthodoxy for governing China’s ethnic minorities. That doctrine, known as the “Important Thinking on Improving and Strengthening Ethnic Work,” reflects the “Second-Generation Ethnic Policies” promoted by several prominent scholars. In a nutshell, this new “assimilationist” approach aims “not just to strengthen citizens’ sense of belonging to a larger, unified Chinese nation under the Party but also to mute expression of other—in the Party’s view, competing—identities.”
Chapter II is where the plan focuses on language policy:
Chapter II (Building a Shared Spiritual Home)lays the ideological foundation for the assimilation project. It affirms the policy of fostering identification with “the great motherland, the Chinese nation, Chinese culture, the Communist Party of China, and socialism with Chinese characteristics” through patriotic education, education in official historical narratives, publicity of “the fine Zhonghua traditional culture,” and promotion of “Chinese cultural symbols and image of the Chinese nation” (arts. 11–14).
This Chapter then affords language and education particular attention. It incorporates the relevant rules of the newly revised Law on the Standard Spoken and Written Chinese Language [国家通用语言文字法], but often goes beyond them. For instance, it codifies the goal of having preschoolers become proficient in Putonghua and requires that Chinese characters be displayed more prominently than minority scripts if both must be used in public (art. 15, paras. 2, 4). It also tasks the education and ethnic affairs ministries with developing textbooks on “the community of the Chinese nation,” while requiring all schools to integrate that concept into their curricula (art. 16, paras. 1–2; art. 18, para. 1). This Chapter does vow to support the standardization, digitization, and preservation of minority texts (art. 15, para. 5), but the goal of such investment is to “protect languages from being completely forgotten rather than protecting their ongoing, everyday use by living people.”
Finally, this Chapter broadly requires media, internet service providers, families, among others, to promote the Party’s ethnic policy (arts. 19–21). Parents are reminded of their duty to provide lawful family education and are prohibited from “instilling in minors ideas detrimental to ethnic unity and progress” (art. 20, para. 2).
There's not much ambiguity about where they're headed with regard to language.
Selected readings
[Thanks to June Teufel Dreyer]
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