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Rose is a Gemini sun, Aries moon, and Aquarius rising.

Rose Bean is so cute.

I did my part

The family of Charlie Kirk alleges in a newly obtained notice of claim that a "series of stunning failures and reckless decisions" by Utah Valley University led to the conservative activist's on-campus assassination last year. Kirk, the co-founder of the conservative student organization Turning Point USA, was fatally shot while speaking at an outdoor event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, on Sept. 10, 2025. The gunman fired from the rooftop of a campus building as Kirk was speaking before a crowd of approximately 3,000 people, authorities said. Utah Valley University was the first stop on Turning Point USA's nationwide tour of college campuses, dubbed The American Comeback Tour. The event "came against a well-known backdrop of risk," stated an emailed notice of wrongful death and survivor claims from the Kirk family's counsel dated Sept. 9 and addressed to the Utah Office of the Attorney General. The notice, which preserves the family's statute of limitations so that they can bring a lawsuit over Kirk's death, cited high-profile incidents as recent examples of political violence -- including the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump by a rooftop sniper at a 2024 campaign rally, the 2025 murder of a Minnesota state legislator and her husband at their home and the 2022 hammer attack against Rep. Nancy Pelosi's husband. "Through a series of stunning failures and reckless decisions, the UVU Parties created a foreseeable danger to Charlie," the notice, which ABC News obtained through the Kirk family's counsel, alleged. "Those decisions ultimately rendered Mr. Kirk helpless to the rooftop shooter in an assassination that could have been avoided had the UVU Parties only taken reasonable steps to plan and oversee a safe event, steps outlined below that have been standard practice for other universities hosting controversial speakers." The notice alleges that the university failed to conduct a "meaningful risk assessment" before approving the outdoor location and did not dedicate enough security resources. Six campus police officers were assigned to the event, university police have said. Full: https://abcnews.com/US/charlie-kirks-family-signals-intent-sue-alleging-stunning/story?id=136473715

How did she not win a single Grammy?

Which pop girl exudes the least amount of greed?

Oh please. Rebecca's is much more impressive.

The article is pointing out a bigger trend among these celebs not equating the overpriced and inaccurately labeled towel with the pine box in a direct 1-1 comparison. It's about the overall pattern that's been escalating.

It feels fairly faceless. It's fine, but not really something I'll go back to unlike some of her other songs.

Beyoncé is currently facing backlash over a $948.01 "Bey Keeper" collector's box, released to mark the 20th anniversary of B'Day. It's a solid-pine crate, limited to 500 numbered units, designed to store and display Beyoncé vinyl records. The vinyl is not included. The price, seemingly engineered to spell out her birth date, 9/4/81, has been widely mocked online, with one Twitter user estimating the box could be manufactured for around $30, and another comparing it, not unkindly, to "a coffin for a hamster." Her hardcore fans have already assumed the role of Earth's Mightiest Heroes and are hard at work figuring out how they should let this pass. Some have naturally called it memorabilia, an investment piece that'll appreciate once she's gone. Unsurprisingly, she's not the only artist who has done something like this in the last 12 months. Taylor Swift's fans have their own version of this story, and it's been building for longer. The recent flashpoint was a "The Life of a Showgirl" towel, advertised as 100% cotton, that buyers discovered on arrival was actually acrylic, a fabric that does the literal opposite of what a towel is supposed to do: repel water instead of absorbing it. According to longtime fans, this was not an isolated event. Swift has allegedly pulled nearly identical moves before. A previous jacket was advertised as featuring embroidery… until buyers received their orders and realized the "embroidery" was nothing more than a printed-on design. Instead of acknowledging the problem, her team reportedly quietly edited the product description after the fact. Full: https://www.tvfandomlounge.com/from-beyonce-empty-pine-boxes-to-taylor-swifts-fake-cotton-towel/

A ***** enhancement surgery has turned fatal for one influencer. Igho "Tiny" Ubiribo—who also went by Denisi or Ego on social media—died after undergoing a genital enlargement procedure in Thailand, the coroner confirmed to TMZ Sept. 5. He was 43. Ubiribo, a British-Nigerian businessman who documented his luxury lifestyle online, died of a pulmonary embolism—a sudden blockage of blood vessels in the lungs—caused by the cosmetic surgery, according to coroner Jean Harkin. During a trip to Thailand with his wife Danielle Simba Allen in March, he had 40 milliliters of hyaluronic acid and lidocaine injected into his *****, per an inquest at Inner West London Coroners' Court obtained by the outlet. While the procedure can increase the length or girth of the *****, there can be several side effects, including loss of sensation, erectile dysfunction, infection, inflammation and "having a bend or kink in the new ***** shape due to scarring," according to the Cleveland Clinic. After getting the operation, Ubiribo went to get a massage with his wife, but he reportedly began experiencing chest pain and passed out twice, according to TMZ. He was transported to a local hospital, where doctors determined he had suffered a pulmonary embolism. They performed CPR for more than 100 minutes, but he ultimately died of complications from the operation March 6. He was laid to rest during a funeral in London in May, with his friend known as Celebrity Bar Man sharing touching video footage of the ceremony. Full: https://www.eonline.com/news/1435793/influencer-igho-tiny-ubiribo-dead-after-*****-enlargement-surgery

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