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Politik : Pete Hegseth will Soldaten mit Testosteron „tödlicher“ machen – aber geht das überhaupt?
Möchte „die tödlichste Streitmacht auf dem Planeten“ aufbauen: „Kriegsminister“ Pete Hegseth Zwei Jahre, nachdem Donald Trump die Stimmen der amerikanischen Männer deutlich für sich gewonnen hat, zeigen Umfragen: Männliche Wähler sind zunehmend enttäuscht von einer Regierung, die Kriege führt und sich selbst bereichert.
Are you man enough? Republicans bet on ‘virile, brawny’ testosterone to juice the midterms
Two years after Donald Trump decisively won the vote of the American man, polls say male voters are increasingly disillusioned with an administration that has waged wars and enriched itself. Ahead of the midterms, Trump's strategy seems to be to find a way to get that masculine animus back, so the male populace will vote not with their heads or their hearts, but with their hogs.
He spent years investigating Opus Dei, a Catholic group accused of a vast conspiracy of abuse. Then Pope Leo asked to meet Original
Gareth Gore was granted a one-on-one audience with the pope two years after the publication of his 2024 book on Opus Dei.Composite: Corbis via Getty Images, Courtesy Gareth Gore (Composite: Corbis via Getty Images, Courtesy Gareth Gore) Gareth Gore was on a research trip to California earlier this year when he was told to expect a call from the Vatican arranging a one-on-one audience with the pope. Gore was stunned.
A decades-long archive captures cross-cultural womanhood
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‘Can I come over and take your picture?’: a decades-long archive captures cross-cultural womanhood
‘I turned my upbringing’s fixation with appearance into a sensitivity in my work. What happens when you meet it with curiosity rather than judgment?’Photograph: Clémence Polès Farhang (Photograph: Clémence Polès Farhang) Clémence Polès Farhang started Passerby magazine around the time she immigrated to New York City. She says she wanted to explore womanhood as she navigated her own, and used publishing as a way to “deconstruct the internalized misogyny” from her own education.
Trump voters for Mamdani and a new left coalition: the biggest surprises from New York’s election
Mamdani supporters cheer after he is declared winner of the mayoral election at a watch party in Brooklyn, New York, on 4 November 2025. Photograph: Julius Constantine Motal/The Guardian Two days before the New York mayoral election, Michael Lange made a big electoral prediction – not just of who would win overall, or in each borough or neighborhood, but block by block.
Like we won the championship: New Yorkers celebrate Mamdanis win with cheers, tears and DSA chants
Inside an election watch party hosted by the Democratic Socialists of America at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple in Fort Greene, under the din of pet-nat wines being cracked open, there was a sense of nervous anticipation. Im not sure if this is an accurate recreation of Solomons Temple, said one supporter in a Zohran Mamdani T-shirt. This is like a whos who of everyone Ive slept with, said another. The suspense didnt last long.
‘Like we won the championship’: New Yorkers celebrate Mamdani’s win with cheers, tears and DSA chants
Zohran Mamdani supporters cheer at the Brooklyn Paramount on Tuesday night.Photograph: Angelina Katsanis/AFP/Getty Images Inside an election watch party hosted by the Democratic Socialists of America at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple in Fort Greene, under the din of pet-nat wines being cracked open, there was a sense of nervous anticipation. “I’m not sure if this is an accurate recreation of Solomon’s Temple,” said one supporter in a Zohran Mamdani T-shirt.
Rightwing podcasters run rampant with Charlie Kirk conspiracies: ‘It’s craven opportunism’
Since Charlie Kirk’s killing, the rightwing podcast sphere has been in overdrive: eulogizing, grieving, praying, appointing blame and calling for retribution. Kirk’s podcast, The Charlie Kirk Show, now No 1 on the podcast charts, has had a rotating cast of hosts including Tucker Carlson, Glenn Beck and JD Vance, who used his appearance to announce a crackdown on “far-left” groups, promising to “dismantle” them in Kirk’s name.
Latte-swilling ‘performative males’: why milky drinks are shorthand for liberal
Another week, another somewhat fictional online buzzword to parse. This time it is the “performative male”, basically the idea that posturing straight men only read books to get laid, outlined in recent trend pieces including the New York Times, Vox, Teen Vogue, Hypebeast, GQ and millions of TikToks. According to the Times, this man “curates his aesthetic in a way that he thinks might render him more likable to progressive women.
El creador de la app que avisa de la presencia de agentes de migración y desespera al Gobierno de Trump: “Me protege la libertad de expresión” Original
La amenaza constante de las redadas del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas de Estados Unidos (ICE) convirtió en cárceles los hogares de muchos migrantes indocumentados que viven en Estados Unidos. Salir de casa para ir al trabajo, a la escuela, a comprar comida o al médico conlleva riesgos considerables.
"Me protege la libertad de expresión"
La amenaza constante de las redadas del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas de Estados Unidos (ICE) ha convertido en cárceles los hogares de muchos migrantes indocumentados que viven en Estados Unidos. Salir de casa para ir al trabajo, a la escuela, a comprar comida o al médico conlleva riesgos considerables.
Media Bits and Bytes - August 19, 2025
Media Bits and Bytes – August 19, 2025 Published August 19, 2025 Big Tech’s AI Offensive The ICE Alert App From MAGA to Meta Trump Helps Tech Moguls Evade the Law Without CPB, Docs for Broadcast Are on Hold Washpost Exodus Groups Tell FCC: End Media Mergers Christian Militias Recruit on Instagram In China: Appropriating Snow White for Women’s Rights ESPN vs Spike Lee and Colin Kaepernick Big Tech’s AI Offensive By Marty Hart-Landsberg Reports from the Economic Front We need to seize the...
The Ice alert app founder sparking fury in Trump officials: ‘Pam Bondi said I better watch out? Please.’
Launched without fanfare and with no intention of profit in April 2025, IceBlock offers real-time alerts about the presence of agents – while, Aaron claims, fiercely guarding the anonymity of its users. Within two months, the app had soared on the charts in Apple’s app store – prompting the US homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, to attack the app and its founder, claiming they were “obstructing justice”.
‘Everything we do is under siege’: small fundraisers try to provide lifeline in Gaza
Every day, new images come from Gaza that depict the most unimaginable horrors: hunger, despair and murder. It’s rare to see a glimmer of hope in this unrelenting suffering, but last week a video posted by Stephanie Shih, of fresh vegetables being purchased from one of the few remaining family farms in the Gaza Strip, provided one. Sadly, the prices were astronomical – sometimes as much as $40 for a few eggplants.
The song of the summer is … nothing? Why 2025’s charts are so stale
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The song of the summer is … nothing? Why 2025’s charts are so stale
The song of the summer is … nothing? Why 2025’s charts are so stale SZA and Kendrick Lamar has the most streamed song of 2025 so far with Luther, which came out in 2024 SZA and Kendrick Lamar has the most streamed song of 2025 so far with Luther, which came out in 2024 Photograph: George Walker IV/AP A spectre is haunting America – the spectre of Shaboozey.
Who are Bob Vylan? The British punks who had their US visas revoked for anti-IDF chants
Who are Bob Vylan? The British punks who had their US visas revoked for anti-IDF chants Until this week, the punk-rap duo Bob Vylan were largely unknown by mainstream audiences, despite having a UK top 20 album and an award from British rock magazine Kerrang! for album of the year. Now they’ve made headlines around the world after frontman Bobby Vylan led a crowd at Glastonbury in chants of “death, death to the IDF”. The chant was met with widespread condemnation in the UK.
On r/collapse, people are ‘kept abreast of the latest doom’. Its moderators say it’s not for everyone
The threat of nuclear war, genocide in Gaza, ChatGPT reducing human cognitive ability, another summer of record heat. Every day brings a torrent of unimaginable horror. It used to be weeks between disasters, now we’re lucky to get hours. For many, the only sane solution is to stop reading the news altogether – advice often shared by therapists, self-help books and even newspaper articles.
‘This is not comedy! Pay attention’: from Cabaret to Trump rallies, why does audience laughter feel so sinister?
default Every night on a new Broadway production of Cabaret, Adam Lambert waits to see how the audience will react to one of the show’s biggest numbers, If You Could See Her.
Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl half-time show review – game over for Drake
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Hartman Report: Make Election Day a Nat'l Holiday
If the United States can get every eligible citizen registered to vote for a given election, the next hurdle is to make sure that voters are able to go to a polling place and actually cast a ballot.
Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl half-time show review - game over for Drake
The Super Bowl half-time show is Plato’s perfect form of pomp and ceremony, a corporate-sponsored, highly choreographed musical performance used to entice people who don’t follow the NFL into watching TV in order to secure even higher ad fees from Doritos and Dunkin’ Donuts.
‘It’s the moment when genius comes into the universe’: the film recreating SNL’s chaotic first night
There is no show in history more obsessed with its own lore than Saturday Night Live.
‘A fatal miscalculation’: masculinity researcher Richard Reeves on why Democrats lost young men
In the months leading up to election day, pollsters were fixated on one demographic: young men. This group, often elusive in political data, was showing signs of a notable swing toward Donald Trump and away from the progressive viewpoints of young women. Traditionally a policy wonk, Richard Reeves became an unlikely media mainstay this election cycle, sought after by those trying to decode the concerns and motivations of these gen Z male voters.
‘A lot of fun’: will Trump’s rambling Joe Rogan interview rally young men?
In an interview in which Donald Trump said that he wants to be “a whale psychologist”, made the case for replacing income tax with tariffs and praised Confederate general Robert E Lee as a “genius”, the most striking thing about the former president’s encounter with podcaster Joe Rogan wasn’t the content as much as the length.
‘My music’s like a drunk punch in the face’: indie sleaze horndog the Dare and his 00s hedonism
The Dare delays our 10am interview by an hour. “He’s been having trouble sleeping,” explains his publicist. When he emerges bleary-eyed on Zoom at 11, I ask what’s been keeping him awake, wondering if he was out late. Apparently not. “But I actually have a harder time sleeping when I stay in,” he growls. “I go out so much that there’s a natural rhythm. I walk around all night and eventually get tired. When I stay in, I feel like I have too much pent-up energy.
Bill Gates, Dua Lipa, Meghan, Hillary: how interview podcasts became a must-have for celebrities
Pass the mic … the accessory that every Hollywood home needs, so actor can speak unto actor. Illustration: Spooky Pooka/The Guardian Things have come a long way since the 2004 Guardian article credited with coining the term “podcast”. That piece describes a new format that combines “the intimacy of voice, the interactivity of a weblog, and the convenience and portability of an MP3 download”, before speculating somewhat breathlessly that “one might soon be able to make a living doing this”.
‘I’m journalling, just like Taylor Swift’: Kim Gordon on TikTok, motherhood and her revealing new album
The Daft Hunks are two twentysomething YouTube influencers who don’t review music so much as react to it (their most-watched videos see them listening to Olivia Rodrigo and Lana Del Rey in real time). On their latest video they check out the new single from Kim Gordon. “She’s 70 years old and still doing it,” says one of the Hunks. “That’s crazy,” says the other.
Antisemites supporting Israel is weird. Jewish support of them is even weirder
By Sam Wolfson, 1 hour ago Perhaps the most bizarre spectacle of the past month has been watching some of the world’s most wretched antisemites lining up to give their unalloyed support to Israel. Even more jarring has been their embrace by those who are supposed to advocate for Jewish safety.
Raised to see Israel as a ‘Jewish Disneyland’, two US film-makers are telling a different story
Erin Axelman was a fervent Zionist by the time they reached high school in the late 2000s. For their bat mitzvah, they had received a copy of Exodus by Leon Uris. The 1958 novel, one of the bestselling books of the decade, tells a story about the creation of the Israeli state that helped cement American Zionism. “It’s this kind of heroic, almost mythical tale of the creation of the state of Israel and it was incredibly empowering,” Axelman said.
‘It was a perfect storm. I was dressing Tupac’: Tommy Hilfiger on fashion, race and aspiration
In the early 1980s, Andy Warhol invited Tommy Hilfiger for a tour around the Factory. At the time Hilfiger was a relative fashion unknown. He had just started designing clothes and launched a few fashion lines called Century Survival and Click Point. When he arrived at the Factory to meet his hero, Warhol was working on a Marilyn. “But he was also making movies, he was photographing celebrities, he was silkscreen-painting celebrities. Then he’d be out at Studio 54 handing out his own magazine.
The real star of The Bear is Carmy’s perfect white T-shirt
Why has The Bear, a US series ostensibly about a restaurateur in Chicago, become the most talked about menswear show on TV? The answer boils down to one item of clothing: a white T-shirt. In almost every scene its chef protagonist Carmy Berzatto, played by Jeremy Allen White, can be seen striding through the kitchen, temples bulging, sweat reaching sizzle point, in a perfect white T-shirt that makes him look like the James Dean of the kitchen pass. The T-shirt comes from Merz b.
Why do people, like, say, ‘like’ so much?
Saying the word ‘like’ has long been seen as a sign of laziness and stupidity. But its use is actually richly nuanced, goes back to Shakespearean times and is an indicator of, like, intelligence By Sam Wolfson / The Guardian I’m listening to BBC Radio 1, where they are interviewing the 26-year-old actor and singer Dove Cameron about her globally successful hit, Boyfriend.
Testicle tanning cure to America’s masculinity malaise?
By Sam Wolfson / The Guardian Are there three words in the English language that can strike quite as much trepidation into the hearts of the sane and rational person as Tucker Carlson original? Yes, the documentary strand that brought you such titles as “Hungary vs Soros: The Fight for Civilization” and “Patriot Purge,” a BS-laden fantasy about the Jan.
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Harry Styles headlining Coachella is a triumph of music’s influencer era
While the traditional rock band may have fallen from favor, the ascent of Styles suggests something rising from its ashes It was only 12 years ago that Harry Styles took the day off from his job at a bakery in Cheshire, north-west England, to go and sing Stevie Wonder’s Isn’t She Lovely for Simon Cowell at an entirely unremarkable audition for The X Factor.
Zuckerberg e Bezos fuggono dalla Terra dopo averla rovinata
New York, 28 ottobre 2021. Mark Zuckerberg durante l’evento virtuale per il lancio di Meta. (Michael Nagle, Bloomberg/Getty Images) Sam Wolfson, The Guardian, Regno Unito 5 novembre 2021 New York, 28 ottobre 2021. Mark Zuckerberg durante l’evento virtuale per il lancio di Meta.
Drive-in cinemas and Covid-compliant hedonism: welcome to 2021’s summer of arts
It is difficult to imagine – as we trudge past shuttered cinemas and boarded-up gig venues, theatres still displaying faded posters for 2019’s long-abandoned productions and galleries whose only patrons are security guards – that one day everything will be open again.
How 2020 revealed an antisemitism problem in the UK
An important part of Christmas festivities in the Wolfson household (yes, we celebrate Christmas: fressing, smoked salmon, and commemorating the birth of a nice Jewish boy – how can you say that it’s not a Jewish holiday?) is an annual review of “was it a good year for the Jews?” Jessie Ware gets a good review on Pitchfork? It’s a good year. Another Hollywood sex pest gets outed and their names starts with a “Wein” or ends with an “-offman”? Naht so much. This year, oy vey, where to start?
‘I’m living my highest purpose’: mogul monk Jay Shetty on free market teachings
Jay Shetty has a story he wants you to hear. He tells it on speaking tours, when people come on his podcast, or when he goes on chat shows like Ellen or Jada Pinkett Smith’s Red Table Talk. Now he’s written a book – a combination of memoir and self-help advice called How To Think Like A Monk – which begins with the same tale. Here it is: an 18-year-old Shetty is at Cass Business School in London.
Tracks of the week reviewed: Little Simz, Ariana Grande, Matt Bellamy
Little Simz Might Bang, Might Not A lot of music being released now was recorded in solitude. For many artists that means self-indulgent tracks in desperate need of notes from a producer. But holy smokes, not Little Simz. Made entirely in her bedroom, this back-to-basics freestyle is peerless, lyrics rolling like thunder across a breathless breakbeat. It’s from the Drop 6 EP, her best work to date, so might we suggest Simz never listens to anyone else ever again.
For my next trick: Dynamo's mission to bring back magic
Midnight in Tokyo. I’m standing in a narrow alleyway behind one of the hostess clubs in the capital’s red-light district. A large screen displays live updates of the gender balance inside, currently: ladies 113, men 87. Just around the corner is a famous hangout of the yakuza gangs, where a few months earlier there was a bloody shootout and a Korean crime boss was killed.
Most streamed tracks of the decade reviewed: Ed Sheeran, Drake and Post Malone
Ed Sheeran Shape of You Not really a song but a guide track, initially intended for Little Mix or Rihanna, with placeholder instrumentation and a chorus that was clearly written as a duet but with Ed singing both parts. This being the most-streamed song of the decade is like saying the initial illustrated storyboard for Avengers is the most-watched film.
'All the hood rats would jam with us': Grandmaster Flash, AJ Tracey and other artists on the generation gap
Grandmaster Flash – born Joseph Saddler on New Year’s Day, 1958 – is often credited as one of the pioneers of hip-hop, but his achievements are as much in the field of engineering as they are in music. It was Flash who invented the slipmat that allowed records to be manipulated by DJs; who used solder and Super Glue to give decks a separate headphone channel, so they could hear the record they were cueing up; and who invented the “quick-mix theory”, allowing small portions of tracks to be looped.
‘Tall Girl’ Review: Struggling to Rise Above
Streaming Movie Review Status anxiety reaches new heights in this unremarkable teen comedy. Image Luke Eisner as Stig and Ava Michelle as Jodi in a scene from the Netflix movie “Tall Girl.” Find Tickets When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. While the 16-year-old Jodi is smart, kind and pretty and comes from a loving, well-off family, she is endlessly mocked by her classmates and miserable for it.
Baby T rex goes on sale on Ebay, sparking paleontologists' outcry
You wouldn’t normally associate the world of dutiful natural history preservation with sporadic bursts of all caps letters and exclamation points – or at least not until last month, when the fossil of an infant Tyrannosaurus rex, potentially the only in existence, went on sale on Ebay for the “buy it now” price of $2.95m. The listing reads: “Most Likely the Only BABY T-Rex in the World! It has a 15 FOOT long Body and a 21” SKULL with Serrated Teeth! This Rex was very a very dangerous meat eater.
Trump’s revenge? Why an eight-year media grudge may be about to get settled
It’s one month until the White House correspondents’ dinner, the once glitzy get-together for Washington politicians and the journalists that cover them, which lost some of its allure after its guest of honour, Donald Trump, was a repeated no-show.
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