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One Trump voter issued a tear-filled video regretting his decision to vote for the president after his brother, who served with U.S. special forces, died while in Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In a video posted to social media, Naseer Paktyawal tearfully recalled his brother's serviceto the country and the moment that ICE"kidnapped" him in front of his son, Imrin. ABC News initially posted the video. "We never call each other a brother. We call best friends," Paktyawal said. "I talked to my sister-in-law, I was like, what happened exactly? She says, I was standing in front of the door and he opened the car door and told the kids to get in." "I saw two cars unmarked. Seven, eight people jump out of those cars," Paktyawal said. "One on the driver's side, one on the back of his car, and grabbed him from his seat and put a handcuff on him." Mohammad Nazeer Paktyawal's son, Imrin, was also featured in the video and recalled witnessing his father's arrest. "I was standing there, and then they came and just take him," the boy said. Full: https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/teary-trump-voters-regret-after-2009440?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=rmp

Birds of a pedo stick together

A Haitian student who died by suicide Monday, Aug. 31 was on the phone with his father before he walked into traffic on Interstate 70, his father said in a statement. Pierre Damas Bel, 20, who was a student at Wright State University, "took his own life Monday out of shame from the ICE leg monitor and taunting from fellow students," advocates said in a press release. According to local advocates, ICE has fitted hundreds of area Haitians with ankle monitors—either after detainment or during routine check-ins at the agency's Blue Ash office near Cincinnati. Many report that the devices cause physical pain, swelling, and blisters, or make it difficult to maintain employment. "He called me at 8:03 on a video call, [saying] I'm not feeling okay mentally because of the bullying, and I told him to come home so we can talk," Pierres Ronal Bel, his father, said in a statement. "Around 11 the Police showed at my door to report that my son threw himself under a truck." According to the Ohio State Highway Patrol Springfield Post, troopers were called at 8:45 a.m. to mile marker 66 of I-70 westbound. OSHP found that Bel had parked his 2006 Toyota Avalon on the right shoulder before getting out of the car and walking into the westbound lanes, according to a release. He was struck by a 2001 Kenworth tractor-trailer tanker combination and pronounced dead at the scene. Haitian Bridge Alliance President Guerline Jozef called Bel's death "one of the most tragic outcomes of the Trump administration's cruel and inhumane attacks on the Haitian community." "This administration is fully responsible for the tragic death of young Demas Pierre who told his father that he could no longer bear the stigma that comes with having this ankle monitor device on his foot," Jozef said. Full: https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/they-treated-my-son-like-an-animal-father-speaks-out-after-haitian-students-suicide/article_409ef5d4-02a0-5f76-97c1-a1a38a8ab099.html

Why do I feel like he'd be MAGA if he was alive today?

Cupcakke - Niagara Falls

The Fame, The Fame Monster, Born This Way, A Star is Born and Mayhem are all successful eras for GÁR. She wins.

So you're saying Sky Ferreira has been saving lives since 2014? We really don't deserve ha.

Lock his ass up.

Charli xcx's pivot-declaring single "Rock music" was built off a single, scuzzy, thick, overpowering guitar riff. She announced, tongue-in-cheek, that she was "making rockkkkkkkkk music," devoting herself to the sensibilities of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit of the Velvet Underground (Lou Reed, John Cale, Nico.) And others were quick to agree, appointing her one of the artists "making rock cool again" in 2026. If you looked too quickly, you could mistake the guitar-smashing, cig-bumming, crowd-surfing black-and-white "Rock music" music video for The 1975 lost media.) In 2024, David Feigelson coined the term "hyper-rock"for Paste Magazine, highlighting this new type of guitar-centric rock music that combines hyperpop sensibilities with power chords and thrashing riffs. Feigelson calls out everyone from Alex G to feeble little horse, citing their "surrealist indie-rock" and their glitchy textures as token signatures of the genre. Hyper-rock is the idea of rock music leaning poppier and emphasizing vocal manipulations, autotune, and effects (the guitar, since this is a subset of rock music, is a constant.) If hyper-rock is rock music absorbing pop's digital mutations, this is the inverse: pop absorbing the guitar without necessarily becoming rock. The synth-heavy maximalism that defined early-2020s hyperpop and dance-pop is giving way to songs with fundamentally guitar-rhythm-based DNA. They aren't necessarily pop rock songs, like your Olivia Rodrigos or your Blondshells or your Phoebe Bridgerses. In many cases, they still occupy the same sonic world as hyperpop, but guitar riffs and chord progressions are increasingly becoming the foundation, assuming roles previously dominated by synthesizers and electronic production. Guitar-forward pop isn't new; artists like Sky Ferreira, Kesha, and Lady Gaga blurred those lines in the late 2000s and early 2010s, which is how tracks like "The Fame" or "You're Not The One" got their bite. Recent offerings, however, feel like a distinct evolution. In a pop music landscape crowded with arpeggiating synths, frenzied drum machines, and overpowering basslines, the guitar has returned as a central part of the songwriting process, the foremost beat-thrusting vehicle that would (in hyperpop) typically be a role filled by a synth. Where hyperpop is mentioned, A.G. Cook must be acknowledged. Cook's PC Music revolutionized synth-heavy, electronic-leaning pop music, with SOPHIE, Yung Lean, and Arca, among others, leading the charge with warbling 808s and disorienting, otherworldly hooks. He was a synth champion, that is, until 2020's Apple and 7G brought guitars back to the fore. He told TANK Magazine in 2021, on blending synths and guitars: "'Person singing while playing guitar' is such a ripe, loaded image, and it will alert people, 'Oh, it's about songwriting.' It's just such a useful tool if you're trying to play with genre and the notion that anything could happen." Full: https://www.papermag.com/rock-pop-music-charli-xcx#rebelltitem7

She's guilty.

Joseph Duggar and his wife, Kendra Duggar, have withdrawn their not guilty pleas after being charged in a child endangerment case. Us can confirm the couple were permitted to skip a Monday, August 10, court hearing in Arkansas after both parties submitted a plea by order to the court. The legal move allows both Joseph, 31, and Kendra, 27, to enter guilty or no contest pleas to those charges, a spokesperson for the Washington County District Court told People. A judge overseeing the case will now have the opportunity to accept that pleas and determine if the two will serve time or pay any penalties for their alleged actions. Back in March, Joseph and Kendra — who have been married since September 2017 and share four children — were charged with endangering the welfare of a minor and four counts of second-degree false imprisonment. Kendra pleaded not guilty and was released on a $1,470 bond shortly after her arrest. She was initially required to avoid contact with her alleged victims, but in April, a judge signed off on her lawyer's request to have the order lifted. Full: https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/joseph-and-kendra-duggar-withdraw-their-not-guilty-pleas/?utm_medium=lBQMjkx&utm_source=liqsoc

Sky is a Cancer sun and a Scorpio moon, she doesn't deserve this.