<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">President Trump is not on board with the NFL’s decision to have ICE-bashing artist Bad Bunny as the Halftime Show performer at Super Bowl LX in February.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“This guy does not seem like a unifying entertainer and a lot of folks don’t even know who he is,” Newsmax’s Greg Kelly </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFUyM6auMns&amp;list=PLanUqPajptu5g083z-0ggsIxzKhWXNBrW&amp;index=3"><span style="font-weight: 400;">said</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> during a phone interview. Kelly asked Trump if people should “entertain blowing off the NFL.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I never heard of him. I don’t know who he is, I don’t know why they’re doing it, it’s crazy, and then they blame it on some promoter that they hired to pick up entertainment, I think it’s absolutely ridiculous,” Trump added.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The NFL and Apple Music announced on September 28 that the Puerto Rican recording artist will be performing during the most watched television event of the year. Critics were quick to point out that the artist, whose real name is Benito Ocasio, had already refused to perform in the United States due to Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers doing their jobs.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ocasio referred to ICE agents as “motherf***ers” and “sons of b****es” in a video he posted to Instagram.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The three-time Grammy Award-winner said during a recent interview that he didn’t book any tour stops in the United States because he was worried ICE agents would target concert attendees.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“There was the issue of — like, f***ing ICE could be outside. And it’s something that we were talking about and very concerned about.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Social media users also pointed out that none of Bad Bunny’s songs are in English.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He later addressed the backlash he and the NFL received following the announcement, advising viewers to learn Spanish if they didn’t like it.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Especially all of the Latinos and Latinas in the world here in the United States who have worked to open doors,” Bad Bunny said in Spanish during a monologue on “Saturday Night Live.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It’s more than a win for myself; it’s a win for all of us. Our footprints and our contribution in this country, no one will ever be able to take that away or erase it.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The singer then switched to English, saying, “If you didn’t understand what I just said, you have four months to learn.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There have been calls to boycott the NFL and replace Bad Bunny as the halftime performer ever since the announcement was made.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Super Bowl is scheduled to take place at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, on Sunday, February 8, 2026.</span></p>


Trump and Bad Bunny

Trump: ‘Absolutely Ridiculous’ That NFL Chose Bad Bunny For Super Bowl Halftime Show

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<p>Taylor Swift’s new album is predictably at the top of the charts, but some of her most devoted fans are not pleased with her departure into what’s been described as the “trad life.”</p>
<p>“Taylor Swift is handing the conservative agenda on a silver platter to the masses,” TikTok influencer Liittle Debbie said in a lengthy <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@beysus.christ/video/7557367237150035231" target="_blank" rel="noopener">critique</a> of Swift’s newest and much-hyped album, “The Life of a Showgirl.”</p>
<p>“You cannot convince me that the master lyricist of our generation, akin to Shakespeare, that the Easter egg master of our generation, is not aware of what her entire optics and lyrics and album and everything is giving at this very moment,” she added.</p>
<p>In her viral video, the influencer insists the album is not “satirical,” as some desperate Swifties have suggested as a way to explain away Swift’s apparent turn from feminist hero to suburban romantic.</p>
<p>For her part, Swift has described the project as a labor of love.</p>
<p>“We knew that we had to bring the best ideas that we ever had,” she said during her appearance on the “New Heights” podcast, hosted by her fiancé, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, and his brother, Jason. “I also know the pressure that I’m putting on this record by saying that, but I don’t care because I love it that much.”</p>
<p>“This is the record that I’ve been wanting to make for a very long time,” the pop star added.</p>
<p>To some fans, that statement was practically an admission of betrayal. Liittle Debbie accuses Swift of “aligning” her brand with the NFL, “one of the most racist and problematic industries in our country,” she adds, and of “creeping [her] way down the conservative pipeline.”</p>
<p>The proof, in her view, lies in Swift’s high-profile engagement to Kelce.</p>
<p>“She’s aligning herself with him,” the influencer argues, incredulous that the same conservative commentators who once derided Swift as a “childless cat lady” have also celebrated her engagement. To her, this represents a horrifying shift from Swift being a girlboss to a white picket fence proponent.</p>
<p>The TikTok creator points to some of the lyrics in “The Life of a Showgirl” as proof.</p>
<p>In the song “Eldest Daughter,” Swift admits, “When I said I don’t believe in marriage, that was a lie.”</p>
<p>The lyrics to Swift’s new track “Wi$h Li$t” only pour more gasoline on the fire of outrage:</p>
<blockquote><p>“They want those bright lights and Balenci shades/And a fat ass with a baby face/They want it all./“Hope they get what they want/ I just want you/ Have a couple kids, got the whole block looking like you/ We tell the world to leave us thе f*** alone, and they do, wow/ Got me dreaming about a driveway with a basketball hoop.”</p></blockquote>
<p>The influencer hears those lines as evidence of something sinister, saying Swift’s supposed desire for a “racially homogenous neighborhood” and a glorification of marriage and motherhood represent abandonment of her childless cat lady fans.</p>
<p>To many observers, the outrage says more about the culture than about Taylor Swift.</p>
<p>For years, progressive fandom has treated female pop stars as symbols of what women should be. The idea that one of them might want to write about — or <span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>simply want</em></span> — domestic life, love, or marriage is being perceived as an attack on that ideology.</p>
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<p>Longtime Swifties know the singer has been a hopeless romantic for most of her career, and that singing about fairytales and daydreams of being rescued by a knight in shining armor have featured in tracks spanning her entire catalog of music.</p>
<p>In “Starlight” (2012), the singer fantasized about running off, getting married, and having lots of children. “We’ll have 10 kids and teach them how to dream,” Swift sang.</p>
<p>Perhaps this latest album feels more urgent, not just because conservatives are finally back in charge of the government, but also because Swift is closer to that kid-filled happy ending than ever before. After a string of bad relationships, she’s now engaged to a man who is clearly smitten. Her engagement photo announcement was incredibly traditional. This album, coupled with the much-maligned “optics,” likely signals the end of Swift’s girlboss cat lady days.</p>
<p>Her fans, who had bought into embracing eternal singlehood, feel betrayed.</p>
<p>But there are some supporters arguing that Swift’s seeming to head down the trad wife road doesn’t prove she’s an anti-feminist, because true feminism was always about having the choice. And the billionaire singer flat-out said it was “<a href="https://people.com/taylor-swift-shuts-down-theories-about-last-album-marrying-travis-kelce-11824657" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shockingly offensive</a>” that anyone suggested she was quitting music during this next phase of life.</p>
<p>Whether she has the 10 kids and basketball hoop in suburbia and releases a bunch of songs about parenting remains to be seen. But Swifties may want to get used to the fact that their favorite singer is changing — or else find a new cat lady idol to worship.</p>


Taylor Swift

Wife, Or A Showgirl? Taylor Swift’s New Album Is Breaking Liberal Feminists

Wife, Or A Showgirl? Taylor Swift's New Album Is Breaking Liberal Feminists

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Country star Zach Bryan is facing some serious backlash online following the release of his anti-ICE song, “Bad News.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The lyrics specifically target Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers with lyrics that say, “ICE is gonna come, bust down your door / Try to build a house no one builds no more / But I&#8217;ve got a telephone / Kids are all scared and all alone.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I&#8217;ve got some bad news / The fading of the red, white and blue,” the song goes on.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The song’s messaging has inspired country fans to come out in force to blast Bryan for his anti-ICE stance.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Who&#8217;s ready for the Zach Bryan-Dixie Chicks tour? Prob a huge Bud Light sponsorship for this one,” country star John Rich joked on X, mocking both the Chicks’ infamous 2003 feud with President George W. Bush and Bud Light’s controversial tie-up with trans activist Dylan Mulvaney.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Nashville is full of guys like this,” Rich wrote in a follow-up.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“&#8217;Cocky motherf****** ain’t they. And ICE is gonna come, bust down your door. The fading of the red, white, and blue.&#8217; He just drew over 112,000 fans to what became the largest concert in U.S. history last week. Now, that will never happen again. When will they learn?” conservative podcast host Benny Johnson </span><a href="https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1975290487926935876"><span style="font-weight: 400;">wrote</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We were just invaded by over 10 million illegal aliens and who does Zach Bryan cheer for? The illegals,” another commenter wrote. “I smell a boycott brewing.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Dear Zach Bryan, F*** you. Sincerely, American Patriots,” another popular comment </span><a href="https://x.com/Notwokenow/status/1975258380299116710"><span style="font-weight: 400;">said</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. “ICE agents risk their lives daily. Violent leftists throw bricks at them, attack them, spit at them, even shoot at them. And this is the song he released. Career over.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The song release comes after a recent episode of “Law &amp; Order: SVU” portrayed ICE agents as villains who target innocent immigrants to deport for no apparent reason.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rapper Bad Bunny, who was just tapped to play the halftime show at the Super Bowl in February, has avoided touring in the United States due to a perceived threat that ICE could pose to his fans.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“…There was the issue of — like, f***ing ICE could be outside (my concert). And it’s something that we were talking about and very concerned about,” he said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Meanwhile, ICE has been hard at work enforcing the federal immigration laws and has been villainized for its trouble. </span></p>
<p>Attacks on ICE agents and their families have skyrocketed nearly 1,000% in just eight months — and many are pointing the finger at Democrats and the media for painting them as villains.</p>


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Country Singer Zach Bryan Torched After Dropping Anti-ICE Song

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As the world comes to terms with the loss of slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk, many musically-minded supporters are finding ways to honor his legacy.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Several recording artists have written original songs or reimagined existing music in honor of Kirk.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Conservative artist Tom MacDonald released a single called “Charlie” on September 11, just one day after the Turning Point USA founder was assassinated. The tribute song </span><a href="https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/tom-macdonald-charlie-kirk-song-digital-sales-hot-100-chart-1236073284/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">rocketed up</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the Billboard Digital Song Sales chart, reaching the number one spot in just one week.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While MacDonald typically performs in the rap genre, “Charlie” is a more soulful, acoustic ballad meant to capture the emotion of losing Kirk. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Shot down and he was barely 31… He left behind a wife and a daughter and a son,” the song’s first lines say.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“And I’m so tired of the hatred and the narratives… They shot and killed the father, sent a message to Americans,” the lyrics say at another point. “And I’m so tired of the left and all the wokery… Scared I might be next to die when I’m just buyin’ groceries.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The song ends on a hopeful note. “Pray that God will take care of us… And I can’t just be quiet, so I gotta be brave/ ‘Cause this is America, lately it’s scarin’ us/ But one good man can change it all in a day.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He wasn’t the only one. Country artist Cole Swindell also wrote a tribute for Kirk called “Make Heaven Crowded.”</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The singer promoted a preview of the song on social media, introducing it with clips of Kirk’s widow, Erika, speaking about her husband’s deep faith. She initially said the line “making heaven crowded,” which serves as inspiration for Swindell’s song.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I’ve blamed my sinning on ‘I ain’t no saint/ I’ve bit my tongue said that it ain’t my place/ And I’ve kept Jesus in the backseat/ But I can’t any longer/ After what we all saw last week/ I can’t help but wonder/ What if churches had a longer line outside than all them bars on Friday night,” the lyrics say.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“What if people prayed for people who ain’t on their side/ What if good ran off the bad/ Them streets of gold up there’d be packed/ This whole world would look a lot better than we found it/ If we make heaven crowded,” Swindell sings on the chorus.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The song has not been officially released, but fans in the comments are begging for the single. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Christian singer-songwriter Matthew West also wrote a demo dedicated to Kirk after being inspired by Erika’s first public speech following her husband’s killing.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Be Close” is about turning hate into peace. “When there is evil, be not dismayed/give me the strength to stare that evil in the face and say, Jesus be close/to the brokenhearted/save those who are crushed in spirit/we know that You’ve always been our only hope.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Country star Jason Aldean reimagined an existing song and turned it into an acoustic duet with his wife, Brittany, as a way to honor Kirk. The couple shared their rendition of Luke Bryan’s song, “Drink a Beer,” on Instagram.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Funny how the good ones go/Too soon, but the good Lord knows/The reasons why I guess,” the lyrics say in part. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Sometimes the greater plan/Is kinda hard to understand/Right now it don’t make sense. I can’t make it all make sense/So I’m gonna sit right here/On the edge of this pier/Watch the sunset disappear/And drink a beer.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Social media followers expressed their love for Aldean’s cover of the song, calling it “beautiful” and “touching.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kirk was shot and killed while speaking at an event at Utah Valley University on September 10. The impact of his death has been felt across the nation and around the world, with everyone from average citizens to celebrities and world leaders paying tribute and mourning the loss. </span></p>


Charlie Kirk

Heartfelt Musical Tributes Pour In Honoring Charlie Kirk’s Legacy

Heartfelt Musical Tributes Pour In To Honor Charlie Kirk's Legacy

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Country singer Jason Aldean released an acoustic cover of Luke Bryan’s song “Drink a Beer” as a tribute to slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The black and white video shared to Instagram is captioned “For Charlie.” It shows Aldean sitting on a kitchen counter, guitar in hand, while his wife Brittany stands beside him. Brittany also sings with her husband in the clip.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Drink a Beer” was written by Jim Beavers and Chris Stapleton and became a number-one hit for Bryan, as fans connected with the deeply emotional message. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Funny how the good ones go/Too soon, but the good Lord knows/The reasons why I guess,” the lyrics say in part. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Sometimes the greater plan/Is kinda hard to understand/Right now it don&#8217;t make sense. I can&#8217;t make it all make sense/So I&#8217;m gonna sit right here/On the edge of this pier/Watch the sunset disappear/And drink a beer.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Social media followers expressed their love for Aldean’s cover of the song, calling it “beautiful” and “touching.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Earlier in the week, Brittany had posted on social media that she was moved by Kirk’s memorial service and was going to try to “live like Charlie,” as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jason-aldeans-wife-brittany-vows-to-live-like-charlie-after-attending-memorial-service">reported</a>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“This man’s legacy that he has left, the impact that he has had on so many people … like, I knew he had impacted a ton of people, but this was just, this feels different.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She said that Kirk’s legacy was “so big” and that he “had a different purpose in life.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“There was just a different plan that was greater for him that God knew,” Brittany added. “They keep saying, ‘Live like Charlie.’ So I’m going to. I’m going to really try to do that.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kirk was assassinated on September 10 during a speaking event at Utah Valley University. His memorial service, 11 days later, was attended by 100,000 people along with nearly the entire Trump administration, and was streamed by 100 million viewers worldwide.</span></p>


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<p>Performer Bob Vylan celebrated the assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk during a performance, shouting vile insults from the stage as he referred to the Turning Point USA founder as a &#8220;piece of s***&#8221; and worse.</p>
<p>Vylan — who recently made headlines for chanting &#8220;Death to the IDF&#8221; from the stage at Glastonbury&#8217;s famed music festival — trashed Kirk from a stage adorned with a Palestinian flag, saying he&#8217;d deserved to get shot.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">BOB VYLAN CELEBRATES DEATH OF CHARLIE KIRK</p>
<p>Calls Charlie &#8220;An absolute piece of sh!t&#8221;</p>
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<p>“Coz if you chat sh!t, you get banged.” Followed by a gun gesture.<br />
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<p>&#8220;I want to dedicate this next one to an absolute piece of s*** of a human being,&#8221; he began, pacing back and forth across the stage.</p>
<p>&#8220;The pronouns: Was/Were,&#8221; he said, prompting cheers from the audience. &#8220;&#8216;Cos if you talk s***, you will get banged. Rest in peace, Charlie Kirk, you piece of s***.&#8221;</p>
<p>He made a shooting gesture with his hand and then proceeded to dance around the stage as the crowd cheered some more.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/police-consider-criminal-charges-after-rapper-leads-death-to-the-idf-chant-at-festival">Vylan</a> prompted backlash after his Glastonbury performance when he led chants of &#8220;Free, free Palestine&#8221; and &#8220;Death to the IDF&#8221; during the show in June. Police in the United Kingdom even considered formal charges against him at the time.</p>
<p>&#8220;We are aware of the comments made by acts on the West Holts Stage at Glastonbury Festival this afternoon,” Avon and Somerset Police <a href="https://x.com/ASPolice/status/1939025011844485405" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post on X. “Video evidence will be assessed by officers to determine whether any offences may have been committed that would require a criminal investigation.&#8221;</p>
<p>Festival officials rebuked Vylan in a statement, saying, &#8220;We are appalled by the statements made from the West Holts stage by Bob Vylan yesterday. Their chants very much crossed a line and we are urgently reminding everyone involved in the production of the festival that there is no place at Glastonbury for antisemitism, hate speech or incitement to violence.&#8221;</p>


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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pop star Sabrina Carpenter threw her support behind “trans rights” during her performance at the VMAs on Sunday night.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The 26-year-old singer made the overtures while promoting her new single “Tears,” a track from her latest album called “Man’s Best Friend.” After arriving onstage via a manhole, she was joined by a cast of dancers dressed in drag. They included known drag stars from the competition show “RuPaul’s Drag Race” such as Honey Balenciaga, Symone, Dashaun Wesley, and Richie Shazam. Colman Domingo, who also appears in Carpenter’s music video for the single, was also there.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The people in drag next proceeded to pull out picket signs with wording such as &#8220;protect trans rights,&#8221; &#8220;Dolls dolls dolls,&#8221; &#8220;In trans we trust,&#8221; “we are everywhere,” “for the theys and the gays,” and &#8220;If you hate you&#8217;ll never get laid.&#8221; That last message was likely a reference to Carpenter’s single, “Never Getting Laid.”</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Carpenter seemed to allude to her stance later while accepting the award for Best Album.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;I&#8217;m just the luckiest girl in the world,&#8221; the “Manchild” singer said during her speech. &#8220;And I do want to say to my incredible cast and dancers and my queens on stage with me tonight: This world, as we all know, can be so full of criticism and discrimination and negativity, so to get to be part of something – so often more than not – that is something that can bring you light, make you smile, make you dance, and make you feel like the world is your &#8230; oyster, I&#8217;m so grateful to do that.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The internet was not on board with Carpenter’s stance.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Right after a trans person shot up a school in Minnesota? This feels insensitive tbh. Maybe I’m wrong?” one person </span><a href="https://x.com/HowieLynch_/status/1964861170940330337"><span style="font-weight: 400;">replied</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Literally supporting a terrorist cult. So brave, so inclusive,” another </span><a href="https://x.com/thereal_bigjake/status/1964969382976823366"><span style="font-weight: 400;">agreed</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Pushing the agenda in all of our faces,” </span><a href="https://x.com/Femola3030/status/1964862096111505666"><span style="font-weight: 400;">echoed</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> a third commenter.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This isn’t the first time Carpenter made controversial moves. Last November, the pop singer was criticized for filming a provocative music video inside a Catholic church, which many critics said was disrespectful and blasphemous.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Diocese of Brooklyn condemned the video upon its release, with Bishop Brennan saying he was “appalled at what was filmed at Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church in Brooklyn,” as The Daily Wire previously </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/priest-who-let-sabrina-carpenter-film-provocative-video-found-guilty-of-administrative-impropriety?author=Katie+Jerkovich&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Priest+Who+Let+Sabrina+Carpenter+Film+Provocative+Video+Found+Guilty+Of+%E2%80%98Administrative+Impropriety%E2%80%99"><span style="font-weight: 400;">reported</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>


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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kristin Cabot, the woman caught on camera in a romantic pose with a man who was not her husband at a Coldplay concert in July, has filed for divorce from her spouse.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The former Astronomer employee also left her position as Chief People Officer following the national attention given to the story. Now NBC News is </span><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/woman-seen-coldplay-kiss-cam-astronomer-ceo-files-divorce-husband-rcna229570"><span style="font-weight: 400;">reporting</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that Cabot filed a petition for divorce on August 13 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in a process that’s ongoing.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The documents say that a hearing is scheduled in the family division of New Hampshire&#8217;s 10th Circuit Court on November 26.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The internet has been obsessed with the alleged Astronomer affair scandal since it was made public following the July 16th Coldplay show.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A viral video shows Byron, who is also married, and Cabot embracing one another at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, when the kiss cam landed on them. The couple reacted immediately, with Byron letting go of Cabot and stepping out of frame. Cabot had a similar reaction as she immediately hid her face and turned away from the camera.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Coldplay frontman Chris Martin called out their reaction. “Oh, look at these two,” the singer can be heard saying. “Either they’re having an affair or they’re very shy.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The popularity of the video spurred many fake reactions, including a faux statement attributed to Byron and images of a fake social media post attributed to Coldplay saying, “Starting with our next show, we’re introducing camera-free audience sections for people and their sidepieces.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Byron has served as CEO of Astronomer since 2023, while Cabot had been with the company for less than one year.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Byron’s wife, Megan Kerrigan Byron, removed her last name from her Facebook account before deactivating it entirely just after the incident happened. Byron was on LinkedIn, but removed his profile in the wake of the scandal.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Astronomer CEO resigned from his position, and the company attempted to do </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/astronomer-hires-gwyneth-paltrow-to-be-temporary-spokesperson-after-kiss-cam-drama"><span style="font-weight: 400;">damage control</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> by hiring Coldplay frontman’s ex-wife, actress Gwyneth Paltrow, as their “very temporary spokesperson.”</span></p>


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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Singer Gloria Gaynor is causing a meltdown among leftists after news recently surfaced that she made financial contributions to Republicans. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The 81-year-old two-time Grammy Award winner first made waves after it was revealed that she would be honored by President Donald Trump with a Kennedy Center award. While many leftists expected Gaynor to decline the tribute, she surprised them all by graciously accepting it. Then, it was revealed by the leftist outlet Meidas News that the singer had donated $22,000 to Republican candidates between 2023 and 2024. Gaynor is widely regarded as a gay icon, primarily because of her 1978 disco anthem “I Will Survive.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The outlet linked to the </span><a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/?contributor_name=Gloria+Fowles"><span style="font-weight: 400;">FEC register</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> showing that the singer made small donations under her real name, Gloria Fowles, to the campaigns of Kevin McCarthy, the National Republican Senatorial Committee, Marsha Blackburn, Dave McCormick, Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Vivek Ramaswamy, Nikki Haley, and others.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Gaynor has not been outwardly political during her career. She </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkotDkXDk9w&amp;t=400s"><span style="font-weight: 400;">said</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> during a Library of Congress speech in 2017, &#8220;I’m really not a political person so I’m not about to really become political,&#8221; but added, &#8220;a lot needs to change.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We’ve got to get back to absolutes. Without absolutes, we will perish,” she added. “We know right from wrong. We know good from evil. We know how to cure the ills of this nation. We’ve got to change this infection of greed and selfishness that has consumed this nation.”</span></p>
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<p>Trump’s other nominations for the Kennedy Center honors include country music star George Strait, actor Sylvester Stallone, the rock band KISS, and “Phantom of the Opera” actor Michael Crawford.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The president said he turned down potential award candidates for being &#8220;too woke.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I turned down plenty, they were too woke. … I had a couple of wokesters. No, we have great people. This is very different than it used to be,” Trump said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The president called Gaynor &#8220;one of the most revered singers of the American disco era” and further called “I Will Survive” an “</span><a href="https://youtu.be/W2K2j_Wakgs"><span style="font-weight: 400;">unbelievable song</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I have heard it, like everyone else here, thousands of times. And it is one of those few that get better every time you hear it,” he said when announcing the nominees. “And no one can sing it like her.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Social media was abuzz with negative comments about Gaynor after it was revealed that she had donated to Republicans. “I never thought I’d see the day where I say F*** GLORIA GAYNOR, but here we are,” one popular comment said, echoing what so many other leftists were saying. </span></p>


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Leftists Melt Down Over ‘Gay Icon’ Gloria Gaynor Being A Republican Donor

Leftists Melt Down Over 'Gay Icon' Gloria Gaynor Being A MAGA Donor

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Will Smith is being accused of using AI-generated footage of fans singing along to his music.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The rap artist and movie star has been staging a comeback to the music scene with the release of a new album, “Based on a True Story,” earlier this year. The new music didn’t get great reviews, with one </span><a href="https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/will-smith-based-on-a-true-story/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">reviewer</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> calling it “corny” and “calculated.” Now, a hype video posted to the singer’s official YouTube page is causing even more drama.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fans pointed out that the people in the background of some clips have distorted appearances and extra limbs, and they are engaging in repetitive motions similar to those found in AI-generated video content. Their reactions call Smith out for the video, which is titled “My favorite part of tour is seeing you all up close. Thank you for seeing me too.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As of Wednesday, neither Smith nor his rep has commented publicly about the video, and it remains available to view on YouTube. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Ok, this guy definitely has a humiliation fetish. No other explanation for releasing a crowd of AI abominations holding up misspelled signs about how he saved their lives,” one popular comment under the video says.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It’s over, bro. Just enjoy your retirement,” another comment says.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Imagine being this rich and famous and having to use AI footage of crowds and bot comments on your video. Tragic, man. You used to be cool,” a third viewer added.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On the album, Smith </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/will-smith-references-infamous-oscars-slap-on-his-first-album-drop-in-20-years?author=Amanda+Harding&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Will+Smith+References+Infamous+Oscars+Slap+On+His+First+Album+Drop+In+20+Years"><span style="font-weight: 400;">referenced</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the infamous moment at the 2022 Academy Awards when he slapped presenter Chris Rock across the face.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One of his new song lyrics says, “I heard he won the Oscar but he had to give it back/ And you know they only made him do that sh** because he’s black.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Another line in the song mentions the incident again: “Him and Jada both crazy girl, what you talkin’ bout?/ You better keep his wife’s name out of your mouth.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The album’s second song, “You Lookin’ for Me?” also references the drama in his personal life. The lyrics say, “Took a lot, I’m back on top/Y’all gon’ have to get acclimated/Won’t stop, my sh** still hot/ Even though I won’t get nominated.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Previously, Smith mentioned that he had received guidance from Jay-Z and Kendrick Lamar for the new album. He said Jay-Z told him to “be true to your story,” which helped inspire the title. Lamar told Smith to “say that sh** you always been scared to say.”</span></p>


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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It&#8217;s rare </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">that </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">we have news so big, so incredibly important, that it trumps not only all the other news of the day, but all the other news of the year, the decade, the century, nay, perhaps the millennium.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yes, it&#8217;s finally happened. The most important event of our lifetime: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are engaged.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I know. I, too, am flabbergasted. Shocked. I am also ecstatic.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yesterday was a magical day in the history of the United States and perhaps all of Western civilization.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Listen, I will admit when I&#8217;m wrong. Two years ago, when these two lovebirds began their relationship, I thought this was just another one of Taylor Swift’s relationships that would end with a breakup album in which she sang like a 17-year-old about how sad she was that she&#8217;d been rejected, but don&#8217;t worry, she don&#8217;t need no man.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But she does need a man — and that man is Travis Kelce.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I have to say, unironically, I think it&#8217;s great. I hope they have a wonderful marriage. I hope they have lots of kids. I hope she sings lots of songs about being married and having kids, and all those songs are better than her normal songs.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That&#8217;s what I hope for her, because I think that would be a very good thing for the West, for America, for young women particularly — who have been taught for generations that a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle, and that romance is somehow a giveaway to patriarchal institutions.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A core component of human happiness has always been finding a member of the opposite sex, marrying them, having babies with said member of the opposite sex, and enjoying a long-lasting relationship built on love and mutual commitment. That is a very good thing.</span></p>
<h3><strong><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-2268-bombshell-taylor-swift-engaged-plus-other-stuff-happens-but-nobody-cares?elementPosition=3&amp;row=2&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+Episodes&amp;rowType=Horizontal+Show+Episodes+Carousel">WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show</a></strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">According to </span><a href="https://variety.com/2025/music/news/taylor-swift-travis-kelce-engaged-1236135520/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Variety</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, “The couple shared the big news on Instagram with a carousel of photos and the caption, ‘Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married.’”</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Forget the whole idea that Taylor Swift would be a great English teacher; the pictures are quite charming and quite normal, and I&#8217;m here for it. The normie revolution is happening.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sure, she&#8217;s a billionaire, and he is a multimillionaire athlete, and that is a very, very large ring. That is some serious jewelry. They can afford it.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But you know what? Good for them. It&#8217;s charming and it is good.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I hope that many other people take advantage of the situation to get married and follow in their footsteps, and then have long-lasting, decades-long marriages filled with children and grandchildren.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This is culturally significant because over the course of the last few decades, there has been a rebellion against normality, against the very idea that men and women ought to get married to one another.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Instead, the idea that was purveyed was that </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">any </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">decisions that men and women made with regard to relationships were equally praiseworthy, and equally useful, and equally likely to lead to happiness.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s not true. Tacitly, the reason people are celebrating this marriage is that </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">singledom is not ideal</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. It is not, in fact, a wonderful, happy existence.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That doesn&#8217;t mean you have to be miserable if you&#8217;re single. What it does mean is that aspiring to be married, to be part of a happy marriage, is a wonderful thing. It&#8217;s an aspiration that is natural to the human heart.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And that is why people are happy for Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce. The idea that a traditional romance between the high school cheerleader and the high school quarterback is a platonic ideal in America is because that is the basis of the forwarding of civilization.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Marriage is the fundamental, bedrock institution of all successful civilizations. That&#8217;s good.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This is tacitly a cultural rejection of the idea that the actual ideal is non-marriage, that the actual ideal is prancing around like Madonna in your 70s, being a faded pop star, and trying to convince everyone that you are super-duper happy waking up drunk in the mornings by yourself in a five-star hotel.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">These images of Swift and Kelce are great. They&#8217;re wonderful. They&#8217;re good for the world.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Perhaps we’ll get a Taylor Swift baby boom. That would be an excellent development for Western Civilization.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What&#8217;s going to be fascinating is to see what comes next for Taylor Swift, aesthetically and musically. We made fun of her album cover a couple of weeks ago on the program, a very kind of over-sexualized album cover, and pointed out that she&#8217;s been getting more and more sexual on her album covers.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It&#8217;s going to be hard to do that when you&#8217;re married and you presumably go on to have kids; it won’t have quite the same sort of resonance.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So what&#8217;s going to happen to Taylor Swift?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Taylor Swift is amazing at marketing herself. But pop music is a teenager’s medium. It is a medium made for teenage girls and people who have a prolonged adolescence in their mid-twenties.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pop music is based on certain tropes; being brokenhearted about your latest breakup, being messed up about your latest breakup, or something else about your latest breakup. All pop music is basically rooted in sexual lust in terms of its lyrics and or emotional problems. That&#8217;s what pop music is about, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">which is why people age out of it.</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> The minute that women stop being sexually alluring, it&#8217;s very difficult for them to be successful in the pop world.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Women age out of that in the pop world pretty quickly. Katy Perry, who is five years older than Swift, is the butt of enormous mockery online for her latest tour. She&#8217;s considered to be too old for the game.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I would not be shocked if Taylor Swift&#8217;s next album moves back toward country music. It&#8217;ll be fascinating to watch.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But again, my great hope here is that an entire generation of young people — particularly young women who have been told by the feminist movement and by pop stars like Taylor Swift that relationships are bound to fail and thus they should act with teenage angst — start to mature, along with Taylor Swift.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That would be amazing.</span></p>


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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Country singer Morgan Wallen will not be submitting his top-selling album, “I’m the Problem,” for Grammy Awards consideration, despite its massive popularity with fans.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The album is currently in the top position on the Billboard 200 chart for the 11th non-consecutive week, per <a href="https://www.billboard.com/music/awards/morgan-wallen-im-the-problem-not-submitted-2026-grammys-1236047754/">Billboard</a>, but that didn’t sway the recording artist to submit any of the 37 songs on the album for consideration. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I’m the Problem” included massive hits such as “Lies, Lies, Lies,” “What I Want” featuring Tate McRae, “Love Somebody,” and the title track, “I’m the Problem.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As of Thursday morning, Wallen has not issued a statement on why he’s not submitting the album or any of the songs. There’s speculation that it’s because the country star felt snubbed by the Grammys before as he was never nominated until being acknowledged for the hit single “I Had Some Help,” which he made with Post Malone, in 2025.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The duo got nominated for Best Country Duo/Group Performance and Best Country Song thanks to that song. Ultimately, &#8220;II MOST WANTED&#8221; by Beyoncé featuring Miley Cyrus won best duo and “The Architect” by Kacey Musgraves took home best song.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This all comes after Wallen was ostracized from the music community in 2021 after video footage of him using a racial slur went viral. The country singer apologized at the time, but the Academy of Country Music Awards and the Country Music Association Awards disqualified Wallen from eligibility for awards that year. The ban has since been lifted.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Since then, Wallen took home Entertainer of the Year in 2024 at the CMAs and won three ACM awards.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While most artists do submit for the Grammys, in the past, some big names have opted not to, usually after feeling like they’d been snubbed. Both The Weeknd and Drake have opted to not submit albums to the Grammys for this reason, as the outlet noted.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wallen is fine with going against the mainstream. He </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/morgan-wallen-causes-stir-for-abruptly-exiting-snl-stage-get-me-to-gods-country"><span style="font-weight: 400;">made headlines</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in March after appearing on “Saturday Night Live” and abruptly exiting the stage before all the other cast members. The singer later posted a photo of a private plane to social media and included the caption, “Get me to God’s country.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He followed that up by selling merchandise bearing the same message.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The 68th Grammy Awards are scheduled to air on CBS on February 1, 2026.</span></p>


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