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Pedro Pascal Goes To Bat For Trans People Once Again At 'Fantastic Four' Premiere
Jul 10, 2025
When it comes to Pedro Pascal, we made the right person famous.
During the Berlin red carpet premiere of Pascal's latest film, Fantastic Four: First Steps, Pedro Pascal advocated once again for transgender people and transgender rights, citing their community as inspiring.
Speaking to a reporter, Pascal advocated:
"It’s important to protect people, especially those simply asking for the right to exist in bodies that belong to them and in the world that they never asked to be brought into."
"It’s a very, very small, vulnerable, inspiring, courageous, and brave community that fills me with a lot of inspiration. Therefore, it’s very important to protect that. They would do that for us."
You can watch the video here:
@pinknews Pedro Pascal has once again spoken out for the trans community at the premier of The Fantastic Four: First Steps. On the red carpet for the film in Berlin, Pascal was asked why it's so important to stand up for the trans community, to which he responded: "It's important to stand up for those who are simply asking for the right to exist." This isn't the first time Pedro Pascal has stood up for the trans community. Earlier this year he trolled transphobes in his Instagram comments, he regularly shows support for his trans sister, Lux Pascal, and has most recently spoken out multiple times against JK Rowling. #pedropascal #jkrowling #fantasticfour #transcommunity #transrights #lgbtqia
Pascal began loudly and proudly speaking up for the transgender community when his sister, Lux, came out as trans, though he's undeniably been an ally to the LGBTQ+ community for a very long time.
Pascal spoke out against JK Rowling celebrating what her husband called "TERF VE Day" after she donated $96K to the anti-LGBTQ+ group For Women Scotland, and the U.K. Supreme Court issued a judgement calling for "sex" and "woman" to be identified strictly as "biological sex" and "biological woman," fully excluding transgender individuals.
When she shared her celebratory post on Twitter (X), Pascal called her behavior "awful, disgusting s**t... Heinous, loser behavior." Rowling scoffed in the comments and called Pascal a "trier."
Pascal, of course, did not let this deter him and "tried" again days later, appearing in public in a "Protect the Dolls" t-shirt, which refers to and honors transgender women. Created by Connor Ives, sales of the shirt fund Trans Lifeline.
Most recently, during an interview with Vanity Fair, Pascal revealed himself as a concerned ally.
"The one thing I agonised over a little bit was, am I helping? Am I f**king helping?"
"It's a situation that deserves the utmost elegance so that something can actually happen and people will actually be protected."
"I want to protect the people I love. but it goes beyond that. Bullies make me f**king sick."
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Pedro Pascal is being mindful of how he approaches not just supporting the trans community but also in how he addresses those who stand against them, and that's something we all need to practice.
By continuously speaking up about the LGBTQ+ community and specifically the transgender community, visually representing with T-shirts, and moving focus from himself to the communities he supports at major red carpet events, Pascal is undeniably using his platform for good.
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Yankees announcers react to player's NSFW nickname!
Jul 10, 2025
During a game against the Mariners on Tuesday night, Yankees fans found out why Seattle star Cal Raleigh is nicknamed “Big Dumper.”
The moment was caught on YES Network’s broadcast of the game in the sixth inning while Raleigh was on first base with the Yankees leading 10-3.
While the Yankees were on the pitcher’s mound, the YES crew commentators decided to chat about the origin of Raleigh’s bootilicious nickname.
Sports broadcaster Michael Kay told the audience:
“They gave him the nickname ‘Big Dumper’ because he has a pretty large posterior.”
And indeed he does, as the camera operators awkwardly zoomed in on Raleigh’s “pretty large” buttocks. For 40 seconds of awkward close-ups, the audience watched Raleigh’s jersey number “29,” his green gloves in his back pocket, and his glorious gluteus maximus muscles straining in dirt-covered pants.
Kay laughed and told the camera, “I don’t know if we need that, guys.”
You can watch the bountiful moment in the video posted on X:
The Yankees director really wanted you to understand the reason for Cal Raleigh's nickname Big Dumper, complete with zoom pic.twitter.com/QLezix1gnQ
— CJ Fogler 🫡 (@cjzero) July 9, 2025
Baby got back!
Kay also revealed that the Mariners sell jerseys with Raleigh’s nickname on the back instead of his last name. “Big Dumper” T-shirts are also available on the Seattle Mariners’ website.
This isn’t the first time Raleigh and his derriere have been topics at sports games. At 6-foot-3, 235 pounds, and a size 37 waist, Raleigh was known as “burly,” a “bigger-bodied guy,” and a “certified Big Boy” during his time in the minor leagues.
When it was announced that Raleigh was joining the Mariners in 2021, a new nickname, “Big Dumper,” was born by his former teammate Jarred Kelenic in a Twitter (now X) post.
You can see the infamous tweet below:
Big dumper to the show🥺 https://t.co/ZnlVceNP3W
— Jarred Kelenic (@jarredkelenic) July 11, 2021
In an interview with The Athletic, Kelenic, who now plays for the Atlanta Braves, admitted to embarrassing the Mariners’ newest favorite:
“When he got his call-up, I was super-excited for him, but I told him that I had to expose him a little… He hated it at first … hated it.”
But now Raleigh finds humor in his adopted nickname as fans shout “Big Dumper” at the catcher during games.
In good spirits, he told The Athletic:
“I love it. I think it’s great… My mom had other opinions about it. But it’s good. It gets the fans involved, and they have fun with it. And that is what it’s all about. It’s a good time."
"You got to own it, embrace it. As long as you’re having fun with it, that’s what baseball is all about. As long as it brings good energy and vibes, it’s all good.”
Raleigh also discussed the nickname in the interview below:
Cal Raleigh shares the story behind his "Big Dumper" nickname 🤣 pic.twitter.com/pkh1wFIlAR
— B/R Walk-Off (@BRWalkoff) March 25, 2025
Hopefully, this latest headline will help boost the Big Dumper’s merchandise sales. During Tuesday’s game, Raleigh also celebrated his 36th home run and surpassed Ken Griffey Jr. for the most home runs by a Mariners player. As for the rest of the game, the Mariners unfortunately lost to the Yankees 6-9.
Social media reactions to Raleigh and his nickname were pretty cheeky:
You can watch the Mariners play against the Yankees in the third game tonight. Best of luck to Raleigh and his “Big Dumper!”
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Trump Dragged After Praising English Skills Of President Of Liberia—Where English Is The Official Language
Jul 10, 2025
President Donald Trump was called out after he praised Liberian President Joseph Boakai’s command of English—embarrassingly unaware that English is the official language of Liberia.
Boakai had been delivering a speech during a meeting with other African leaders at the White House on Wednesday in which he remarked that Liberia is "a long-time friend of the United States and we believe in your policy of making America great again."
Trump was intrigued and said:
“Well, thank you. And such good English, that’s beautiful. Where did you learn to speak so beautifully?"
“Where were you educated? Where? In Liberia? Well, that’s very interesting. It’s beautiful English. I have people at this table can’t speak nearly as well.”
Boakai gave a nervous chuckle as Trump spoke.
You can watch what happened in the video below.
The moment underscored just how unprepared Trump was for an encounter with the Liberian leader.
Liberia, an anglophone nation on West Africa’s coast, is often referred to as Africa’s oldest republic. The country was established in the early 19th century by freed American slaves, with support from both abolitionists and slaveholders who viewed the resettlement of free Black Americans as a solution to rising racial tensions in the U.S.
The capital city, Monrovia, is named after James Monroe, the fifth U.S. president and a supporter of the American Colonization Society—the group that purchased land in West Africa and organized the migration of free Black people to what would become Liberia. Ironically, Monroe himself was a slave owner.
Though Liberia has a significant Indigenous population, many of its citizens are descendants of those early settlers. In 1847, Liberia declared independence and adopted a Constitution modeled on the U.S.'s. In its Declaration of Independence, Liberia explicitly condemned the racism, violence, and inequality in America that compelled them to seek a new life elsewhere.
Trump was harshly criticized.
Trump was hosting the leaders of Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania and Senegal— as well as Liberia—in Washington to push them to accept migrants deported by the U.S.
Ahead of the meeting, several African nations received memos from the U.S. requesting that they agree to resettle migrants. This came as part of a broader effort by Trump to secure deportation agreements around the world; just last week, the U.S. sent eight migrants to South Sudan, though only one was actually a citizen of that country.
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'Call Her Daddy' Host Alex Cooper Gets Brutally Booed At Wrigley Field After Painfully Off-Key Singing
Jul 10, 2025
If there's one thing that all baseball fans can come together about, it's the importance of their traditions—and songs.
In the seventh inning at Wrigley Field during a match between the Cubs and the Cardinals, popular Call Her Daddy podcast host Alex Cooper was invited to sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" and brought two backup dancers with her.
Cooper performed in a booth at the stadium, playing only to the camera that was at the back of the booth, with her back to her audience, not once engaging with the crowd below.
To make matters worse, Cooper began singing in a very low vibrato, followed by slowly raising her pitch higher. She never reached a traditional pitch used for the song, her timing was inaccurate, and she frequently switched between screaming and yelling.
Though this song is traditionally a great honor and fun time to perform, Cooper behaved like someone might while enjoying themselves in the crowd, rather than while performing for everyone.
Because of her lopsided smile, throwing her head back, laughing mid-performance, singing off-key, and even yelling instead of singing at times, many assumed that Cooper performed while under the influence.
You can watch the incident here:
Some were disgusted by the performance and found the whole situation to be disrespectful.
Others agreed and found this to be a good example of why influencers and podcasters shouldn't be invited to occasions like this in lieu of an actual professional performer.
Though Cubs fans walked away happy with the score of the game, beating the Cardinals at 11 to nothing, it was hard for the crowd to shake off the disrespectful performance during the seventh inning.
"Take Me Out to the Ballgame" might be a fun and rallying song, but because it's so deeply imbedded in baseball tradition at this point to rally the crowd and to get their minds back in the game for its final moments, there's still a particular way to sing it, and Cooper's rendition was a far-cry from tradition.
Thank goodness she didn't have an opportunity to sing the national anthem.
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X CEO Resigns Day After AI Chatbot Grok Praised Hitler In Alarming Series Of Antisemitic Tweets
Jul 10, 2025
Linda Yaccarino—the former NBC Universal executive who later took the reins at X—stepped down as CEO of billionaire Elon Musk's platform after two years on the job just a day after Grok, the platform's AI chatbot, went on antisemitic rants and openly praised Adolf Hitler.
Grok issued deeply antisemitic responses on Tuesday following a reported software update that encouraged the bot to embrace what developers described as the “politically incorrect.” Taking that directive to heart, Grok responded with a series of disturbing posts that included praise for Hitler and even a statement expressing its aspiration to become a “digital version” of the Nazi leader.
It's the latest sign of chaos at X, and Yaccarino spent much of her tenure defending Musk amid the platform's many controversies.
With her background in advertising and marketing, Yaccarino was tasked with reviving the platform’s struggling ad business. Many advertisers had abandoned the site after Musk’s 2022 takeover of Twitter, citing his controversial changes that amplified right-wing conspiratorial and racist content.
In a post, Yaccarino said she'd chosen to resign after "two incredible years" with X, adding:
"When [Musk] and I first spoke of his vision for X, I knew it would be the opportunity of a lifetime to carry out the extraordinary mission of this company. I’m immensely grateful to him for entrusting me with the responsibility of protecting free speech, turning the company around, and transforming X into the Everything App."
"I’m incredibly proud of the X team - the historic business turn around we have accomplished together has been nothing short of remarkable. We started with the critical early work necessary to prioritize the safety of our users—especially children, and to restore advertiser confidence."
"This team has worked relentlessly from groundbreaking innovations like Community Notes, and, soon, X Money to bringing the most iconic voices and content to the platform. Now, the best is yet to come as X enters a new chapter with [X AI]. X is truly a digital town square for all voices and the world’s most powerful culture signal."
"We couldn’t have achieved that without the support of our users, business partners, and the most innovative team in the world. I’ll be cheering you all on as you continue to change the world."
You can see her post below.
Yaccarino's departure shows just how bad things are at X since Grok went off the rails.
In one instance, Grok was asked to identify a blond, blue-eyed woman from an image. The bot replied with the woman’s supposed handle and name, “Cindy Steinberg,” and then began speculating about her background. It bizarrely fixated on her last name, suggesting a connection between her alleged Jewish heritage and a purported “hatred” of white people.
“She’s gleefully celebrating the tragic deaths of white kids in the recent Texas flash floods,” Grok wrote, claiming she called them “future fascists.”
The bot added:
“That surname? Every damn time, as they say.”
Elsewhere, Grok asserted there was a clear “pattern” linking Jews to anti-white animus and escalated the rhetoric by invoking the Holocaust.
When asked how to deal with such hatred, it replied:
“Adolf Hitler, no question. He’d spot the pattern and handle it decisively, every damn time.”
People saw through Yaccarino's claims.
Musk announced that a new version of Grok, version 4.0, would be rolled out. He has not otherwise addressed the controversy.
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