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Lil Nas X’s summer swerved from chart-topping to chaotic after his arrest in Los Angeles last week. The Grammy-winning “Industry Baby” rapper, born Montero Lamar Hill, found himself in the middle of a late-night spiral that ended with felony charges, a hospital stay, and a video to fans that was equal parts rattled and reassuring.
According to reports from last week, Hill was spotted drifting in and out of a Hollywood hotel before wandering the streets in nothing but underwear and cowboy boots.
Ever the performer, he crooned at passersby:
“Don’t be late to the party tonight… It’s gonna be a beautiful sunrise.”
And at one point, he even crowned himself with an orange traffic cone.
But the vibe shifted when police arrived in response to multiple calls. An LAPD spokesperson told Page Six that Hill allegedly charged at officers, while a source told NBC News he landed two punches to an officer’s face.
He was taken to a hospital for what was described as a “possible overdose” and later booked for three counts of battery on a police officer and one count of resisting arrest.
Hill pleaded not guilty on all counts.
His attorney, Christina O’Connor, called the charges completely out of character:
“Assuming the allegations here are true, this is an absolute aberration in this person’s life. Nothing like this has ever happened to him.”
After posting $75,000 bail, Hill was ordered to undergo drug treatment. Still, he didn’t retreat from the spotlight.
In a short Instagram story, he tried to calm worried fans:
“Your girl is gonna be okay, y’all. Okay. She’s gonna be all right. She’s gonna be all right. Sh*t. That was f**king terrifying, that was terrifying, that was a terrifying last four days, but your girl’s gonna be all right.”
You can see the video below:
The 25-year-old has never shied away from sharing the highs and lows of fame online. Hours before the incident, he uploaded a series of odd Instagram posts showing cluttered rooms and cryptic captions.
Earlier this year, he admitted the “last few years” had been rough, confessing to followers:
“I’m just now arriving to this place of feeling confidence in myself and what I’m doing, and I’m trying to make sure I put intention towards my music and my vision and the creativity of it all.”
Despite the turbulence, Hill remains one of the most influential pop stars of his generation. His 2021 debut album, Montero, produced multiple hits, went multi-platinum, and earned a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year. Let’s not forget, this is the same artist who made country-rap mainstream with “Old Town Road,” the longest-running No. 1 in Billboard history.
Online reaction was swift, with fans expressing both relief that he seemed okay and concern about the whirlwind of events leading up to his arrest:
Lil Nas X’s father, Robert Stafford, told NBC his son is taking the situation seriously:
“He’s going to get the help that he needs, and just keep him in your prayers. Give him the same grace and mercy that God gives everyone.”
The troubled star is due back in court for a pre-trial hearing on Sept. 15. Until then, fans will be waiting, watching, and—knowing Lil Nas X—probably dancing to the next viral TikTok he drops in cowboy boots.
Hang in there, Nas.
In "Love Story," Taylor Swift once sang, "We were both young when I first saw you . . . It's a love story, baby, just say, 'Yes.'"
And in "You Belong with Me," Swift sang, "I'm on the bleachers / Dreaming about the day when you wake up and find / What you're looking for has been here the whole time."
These lyrics share adorably serendipitous parallels with Taylor Swift's relationship with Travis Kelce, as the pair have been dating for about two years and have gone public with their recent engagement.
Though their relationship isn't as old as the 2008 songs, Kelce's dad, Ed Kelce, has dropped hints that the proposal may have happened a few weeks ago.
After the news broke and everyone was buzzing with excitement, Ed Kelce revealed to ABC News 5 Cleveland:
"[Travis] got her out there, they were about to go out to dinner, and he said, 'let's go out and have a glass of wine.'"
"They got out there, and that's when he asked her, and it was beautiful."
"They started FaceTiming me and their mother and her folks to make sure everybody knew. So, to see them together is great."
Swifties were quick to latch onto the details, including the fact that he was at a Philadelphia Eagles public practice "two weeks ago on a Sunday night," placing him at the stadium on Sunday, August 10, 2025.
Interestingly, the New Heights podcast episode—where Swift trolled a certain group of male football superfans—aired publicly on August 13, meaning that it was likely recorded and edited a few days prior. Swifties found it reasonable, then, that the couple may have filmed the podcast, gone to the backyard "to have a glass of wine," and then went out to dinner after.
If Swifties are right, then Taylor Swift is no longer the only one dropping Easter Eggs.
In fact, at one point during the episode when she quips that the podcast "got her a boyfriend," Kelce looks slyly at the camera, as if to suggest, "Not for long!"
At another point, Kelce jokes, "We're going out back after this," which some thought was a goofy, somewhat sexual joke at the time.
But now they're thinking that he was dropping hints about what was about to happen before the pair ever made it to dinner.
To say that fans are impressed would be an understatement.
Just like a Taylor Swift album, the more details are revealed, the more adorable and fun this story gets.
And since Travis Kelce is a football star, this whole engagement was, well, well-played.
Far-right influencer Charlie Kirk put his misogyny and sexism on full display when he responded to the news that Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce and musician Taylor Swift are engaged to be married, saying that Swift should now take the opportunity to become "more conservative" and reminding her to "submit to your husband."
Kirk was of course just one of the millions around the country who responded to the news that America's most famous couple will soon tie the knot—but few made comments as openly backward as this.
Speaking on his program, he said:
"But maybe one of the reasons why Taylor Swift has been so, just, kind of annoyingly liberal over the last couple of years is that she's not yet married and she doesn't have children. I say this non-sarcastically. I say this as a husband and a father. Having children changes you."
"Getting married changes you, and I hope that America's biggest pop star marrying the pharmaceutical spokesperson ends up conservatizing them. Taylor Swift might deradicalize herself. She might come back down to reality. I want them to have lots of children. It teaches something about -- teaches you something about yourself."
"Taylor Swift might go from a cat lady to a JD Vance supporter, and I think we should celebrate that. I think that Taylor Swift having two or three children -- she should have more children than she has houses."
"That is my challenge, Taylor Swift. And I'm not being sarcastic. I think that if she ends up having children, she'll stop this kind of liberal endorsing Joe Biden nonsense. And we want Taylor Swift on team America. We want you to leave the island of the wokeys."
"And we would welcome you with open arms. One of the reasons why so many people on the right have been just skeptical or at least a little bit negative on Taylor Swift is, up until this point, that's not a great role model for young women, to wait all the way until you're 35 and just put your career first. We just talked about this with Katie Miller."
In a truly disgusting end to his rant, Kirk added that Swift should "reject feminism" and "submit" to Kelce, since she's "not in charge."
"However, there's a great chance to change that. It's a great chance for Taylor Swift now to get married and have a ton of children. You can certainly afford it, Taylor."
"All kidding and sarcasm aside, this is something that I hope will make Taylor Swift more conservative. Engage in reality more and get outside of the abstract clouds. Reject feminism. Submit to your husband, Taylor. You're not in charge."
"And most importantly, I can't wait to go to a Taylor Kelce concert. I can't say it without laughing. You've got to change your name. If not, you don't really mean it."
You can hear what Kirk said in the video below.
The disgust for Kirk's remarks was palpable.
Kirk's remarks, sexist and misogynistic as they are, are largely indicative of the right-wing frustration with Swift's political capital.
Swift, much to the chagrin of Trump and conservatives, has used her massive profile to encourage young voters to participate in the electoral process, efforts that have been recognized by political scientists as having a significant impact on key races. Swifties have acknowledged that a Swift endorsement could potentially sway their votes.
For instance, in 2023, the singer shared a brief message on Instagram urging her hundreds of millions of followers to register to vote. Following her post, Vote.gov, the nonpartisan nonprofit she highlighted, reported over 35,000 new registrations.
The organization noted that the 35,252 registrations on National Voter Registration Day marked the highest total since 2020, reflecting a 23% increase from the previous year. Notably, the number of 18-year-olds registering was more than double that of 2022.
Call it a Grand Opening AND a Grand Closing, for a logo anyway: Cracker Barrel has already dropped its rebrand just days after announcing it.
The country-style restaurant chain beloved by MAGA recently announced it was changing its logo to a flatter presentation that dropped the kindly old man leaning on a barrel customers are used to.
And, because conservatives never met a thing they couldn't turn into a culture war, they absolutely lost their ever-loving minds.
Now, mere days after making the change, the restaurant chain posted a lengthy mea culpa for hurting its customers' feelings by simplifying its logo.
Customers apparently had a real connection to the elderly man in the original logo, known as "the Old Timer," leaning on a barrel.
Which of course prompted flurries of jokes online, given that "cracker" is also a derisive slang term for rural white people dating back to Shakespearean times.
In the U.S., it has taken on slave-era connotations referring to "whip-cracking," though most historians say the term's reference to whips refers to working with livestock.
Nonetheless the term has come to signify Southern whites of a particularly, um, "traditional" bent, let's just say. And while Cracker Barrel's name refers to actual barrels used to ship crackers back in the day so they wouldn't get broken, the connotation is there nonetheless.
Regardless of its meaning, the removal of the "Old Timer" sparked the usual accusations: The company had gone "woke," with ire directed particularly strongly at the company's supposedly woke feminist CEO Julie Felss Masino.
Many compared Cracker Barrel's rebrand to the Bud Light fiasco in which the beer company hired trans celebrity Dylan Mulvaney to make a single Instagram video about the beer and then every right-winger in America had a mental health episode about it.
The uproar reached such a fever pitch that even our rapidly decaying President, never one to pass up an opportunity to distract from the Epstein files, weighed in on "Truth Social."
Mere hours later, Cracker Barrel posted a statement saying:
"We thank our guests for sharing your voices and love for Cracker Barrel. We said we would listen, and we have. Our new logo is going away and our 'Old Timer' will remain."
There's no question the rebrand was a bad choice—not just its logo but its locations' wraparound porches with rocking chairs are what makes Cracker Barrel distinctive. Getting rid of all that was a pretty dunderheaded move.
Everyone pretty much agrees that the change was a dunderheaded move, but people can't help but laugh over the uproar.
IDK man, kinda seems like conservatives are the actual cancel culture snowflakes...
Since the first presidency of MAGA Republican President Donald Trump, one of the greatest things to happen as a result was the rise of Randy Rainbow. Yes, unlike JD Vance, that's his real name.
His blend of political satire and musical parodies with a Broadway point of view have skewered Trump, his cabinet, and his closest cronies in Congress. His YouTube channel has garnered over 160 million views.
His latest video just dropped and this one borrows from the work of Sir Elton John and Tim Rice, using their song "I Just Can't Wait to Be King" from Disney's The Lion King. Describing The Donald, the song is titled "He Just Can't Wait To Be King."
You can watch the video here on X or Facebook:
Rainbow's last two video offerings were about three months ago with "That's Trump Derangement!"—a parody of “That’s Entertainment!"—and "Incompetent"—a parody of "Impossible" from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella.
His latest video mocks mainstream media outlets and former MAGA critics who have seemingly chosen to bend the knee to Trump.
The video begins as most do, with Rainbow interviewing Trump, splicing his bits in with actual footage from a recent Trump sit down.
Rainbow—as a Trump 2028 banner unfurled behind him and he was suddenly sporting MAGA accessories—stated:
"Let me start by saying, if I may, that with so many liberal voices under relentless attack lately, I would like to assure my audience, who has relied on me to be a voice of the people and speak truth to power all these years that I will not kowtow, bow my head, or bend a knee—a knee clad only in American Eagle apparel, available wherever fine denim and freedom are sold—to any form of tyranny."
After complimenting Trump, Rainbow said:
"Let’s talk about Epstein."
In reality, Trump has been desperate to distract from his close association with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Even some of his MAGA minions are upset about his broken campaign promise to release the files compiled on Epstein's crimes by Trump's own Department of Justice (DOJ) and FBI during his first presidential term.
The Epstein files never made it into federal court records because Epstein died in August 2019 while in the DOJ's custody. The investigation, arrest, and death of Jeffrey Epstein all occurred while Trump—not Democratic Presidents Barack Obama nor Joe Biden—was President.
In the parody video after a harsh look from Trump, Rainbow added:
"Brian Epstein, the infamous manager of The Beatles. Do you think he was right to insist that they wear matching suits?"
As the music began, Rainbow sang:
"He’s gonna be a lyin’ king, this autocratic turd."
"His second term is just the start, he’s thinking about a third."
"He’s shutting down all scrutiny, the fourth estate is done."
"He’s acting extra Putin-y, I’m calling 9-1-1."
"Democracy is dangling by a string! ‘Cause he just can’t wait to be king!"
People appreciated the clever lyrics and a chance to laugh.
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Randy Rainbow—seriously, that's his real name—is an author and four-time Emmy nominated comedian, producer, actor, singer, writer, and satirist.
His memoir, Playing with Myself, was a New York Times Best Seller. His latest book, Low-Hanging Fruit: Sparkling Whines, Champagne Problems, and Pressing Issues from My Gay Agenda, was released in 2025. He plans to release a children's book, Randy Rainbow and the Marvelously Magical Pink Glasses, later this year.