by Allison Detzel | Jul 30, 2026 | culture, immigration, News
Nicolle Wallace honored the life and legacy of beloved New York City youth baseball coach Youman Wilder after his family announced that the 63-year-old died unexpectedly earlier this month. Wilder, founder of the Harlem Baseball Hitting Academy, gained national prominence last year after he intervened when immigration agents approached a group of his students who were practicing in a local park and began to question them.
During an appearance on “Deadline: White House” last July, Wilder, who also held a master’s degree in law, called the questioning from agents “inappropriate” and advised his players to “implement their Fifth Amendment right.”
Wilder told Wallace that a majority of his teams consisted of Black and Latino players. Through his organization, he helped more than 400 young men earn college baseball scholarships and developed several major-league players.
The MS NOW host described Wilder as a “local legend” and said that with his death, “the baseball community has lost an iconic and now-famous coach and mentor, and this country has lost a patriot who used America’s pastime to show what this country looks like at its best.”
“For me, Youman was the first person who I saw do something that the powerful people refused to do in that first year of Trump’s presidency,” Wallace said, noting that the Brooklyn native “stood up against ICE when law firms were capitulating basically by the day, when universities were cutting deals basically by the week,” and when Republicans “were falling in line behind military troops in the streets of American cities, behind ICE raids that were sweeping up American citizens, behind detentions of young children at the Dilley Detention Center.”
The “Deadline: White
by Katelyn Burns | Jul 29, 2026 | culture, Opinion, White House
In a TikTok video shared Sunday evening, actor and influencer Dylan Mulvaney addressed the fact that the Friday before, President Donald Trump mentioned her name a total of four times at his awkward and meandering White House Correspondents’ Association dinner speech. In his address, the president mocked the appearance of CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins, who won an award for her coverage of the administration earlier that evening. Trump called Collins’ award “fake,” saying he thought she should not have won it, before comparing Collins’ appearance to Mulvaney’s in reference to a short form video Mulvaney filmed for Bud Light in 2023.
Why is the right so adamantly fixated on us trans folks, who make up less than 1% of the country’s population and just want to live our lives in peace?
“I thought Kaitlan had really made it big with a major new sponsorship, but then I informed her that it wasn’t her on the Bud Light can, it was Dylan Mulvaney,” Trump said in his speech. “Dylan Mulvaney cost Bud Light $35 billion in market cap.”
In her video, Mulvaney asked herself why the right, a good three years later, is still thinking about her and her infamous Bud Light ad video, which sparked vicious backlash and a boycott from conservative celebrities and politicians who were outraged that the company partnered with a transgender woman for an ad.
“It seems to me that I might be the one that got away for these men, like I am permanently burned into their retinas, I am microchipped into their minds,” Mulvaney mused.
@dylanmulvaney A response please support trans and non binary people today and every
by Kaivan Shroff | Jul 28, 2026 | culture, Opinion, White House
During the make-up White House Correspondents’ Dinner last Friday, the President of the United States tried to take a swipe at an old foe. “Even Rosie O’Donnell reached out from Ireland,” he told the room. “She was desperate to come back to the United States and pay her respects to Donald J. Trump. But that didn’t work out, unfortunately, because nobody wanted her to come back.”
The joke wasn’t merely unfunny, it was also inaccurate. O’Donnell already came back to the country. Two nights before Trump’s speech, she opened her new comedy show, which centers on her life and feud with Trump, at Manhattan’s Daryl Roth Theatre. On Thursday, she appeared on “Late Night with Seth Meyers.” And next month, she will guest host “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”
Two decades and two presidential inaugurations later, Trump still hasn’t let it go – and O’Donnell hasn’t backed down.
After the 2024 presidential election, O’Donnell actually did what many Americans threatened to do – leave the country. But now she is back, and that matters – because the story was never just about O’Donnell herself. It was also about the rest of us, the people watching Trump attack her.
While co-hosting a 2006 episode of “The View,” then one of the biggest daytime platforms in America, O’Donnell said that Trump was not self-made and was in no position to lecture anyone about morality. At the time, the landlord-turned-game show host was furious, but the feud was tabloid fodder rather than national news.
Two decades and two presidential inaugurations later, Trump still hasn’t let it go – and O’Donnell hasn’t backed down. There were years of insults, including the 2015 primary debate where moderator Megyn Kelly
by Erum Salam | Jul 26, 2026 | culture, News, Sports, White House
Katy Perry lambasted the Trump administration over the weekend for using her song “Firework” in one of its social media videos about U.S airstrikes on Iran.
The pop star said she was “deeply appalled and angry” over the use of her song in a White House TikTok video featuring bombs exploding set to Perry’s 2010 hit — specifically featuring her lyrics “boom, boom, boom.” A caption on the video, which has more than 6 million views, reads: “Iran has been warned.”
“I did not approve this, I was not asked, and I absolutely do not condone it. I wrote this song to be an anthem of hope, healing, and inner strength for people going through their darkest personal moments,” Perry wrote in an X post on Saturday. “To see a message of self-worth and upliftment weaponized to soundtrack destruction and violence is a complete violation of everything my song stands for. My music is for bringing people together, not celebrating warfare.”
White House aide Kaelan Dorr responded to Perry, saying, “This you?” He posted Perry’s own military-themed music video of her song “Part of Me,” in which she’s dressed in combat uniform.
Perry, who is in a romantic relationship with former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, is among many other prominent artists who have rebuked the Trump administration for using their music in videos on official accounts.
Kesha publicly admonished President Donald Trump’s administration in March after the official White House TikTok account used her song “Blow” in another video about military action. “Stop using my music, perverts,” she said on X.
Stop using my music, perverts @WhiteHouse— kesha (@KeshaRose) March 3, 2026
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by Sydney Carruth | Jul 25, 2026 | culture, Donald Trump, News, White House
If President Donald Trump gets his way, the first thing visitors to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will be greeted with are signs warning them that because of “inaccurate information presented in the Museum” they should seek “accurate information” elsewhere.
The president on Friday ordered the installation of temporary “warning” signs on the museum’s sidewalks, marking a major escalation in his campaign to pressure the Smithsonian Institution to rewrite American history to better align with his administration’s ideology.
The executive order directs Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought and several other Cabinet officials to utilize “all available authorities to encourage” the Smithsonian Institution to “correct the issues found” in a scathing White House report released on July 4 that accused the museum of “extreme political activism” and claimed it “cannot be trusted to tell America’s story honestly and in a way that is inspiring, unifying, and worthy of our great republic.”
The sidewalks and walkways outside of the popular museum, which welcomes just shy of two million visitors annually, are federal property controlled by the National Park Service. The signs would “notify visitors that the Museum exhibits should be renovated consistent” with the findings of the July 4 report. They would also “direct visitors to locations and resources for accurate information regarding America’s history.”
Trump also accused the museum of failing to “to appropriately honor the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence during this 250th anniversary year of the founding of our country,” and instructed Burgum to install “temporary exhibits” on Smithsonian walkways to correct “inaccurate information presented in the Museum.”
“The Report demonstrates that the Smithsonian leadership
by Evan Greer | Jul 24, 2026 | culture, Opinion, Science
Earlier this month, an investigative journalist revealed that buried in a trove of hacked documents from Madison Square Garden, there was a three-page dossier about … me.
It was in a folder titled “Facial Recognition Activists,” and time-stamped screenshots made it clear that someone had been keeping close tabs on me.
As a public-facing activist, this isn’t my first time being targeted by powerful people I’m trying to hold to account. But the incident should raise alarm bells, even for those who don’t spend their days tussling with CEOs and lobbyists.
Madison Square Garden’s surveillance capabilities rival those of some small countries — but there are far fewer rules governing how they can be used.
In recent weeks, several outlets have reported on Madison Square Garden owner James Dolan’s unapologetic use of high-tech surveillance, including a detailed report from Wired that his company uses the technology to track critics who visit the venue, monitor activists and celebrities, and in some cases ban attorneys from firms who have sued him or his organizations.
Seemingly undeterred by a lawsuit filed by Madison Square Garden over an earlier report that said MSG used technology to track LGBTQ+ celebrities. (The venue alleges that the outlet published “false and defamatory statements and implications”; Katie Drummond, the magazine’s global editorial director, has called the lawsuit “baseless and ridiculous.”) Wired this week published a piece reporting that MSG temporarily turned off its controversial facial recognition system during the star-studded wedding of Taylor Swift over the Fourth of July weekend. Swift did not comment on the report. When contacted for comment, a representative from Madison Square Garden said the venue is unable to comment on
