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Bill Murray wasn’t in the mood for surprises at a recent movie screening—especially not from an overzealous fan who got a little too close for comfort.
The Ghostbusters star, 73, was at AMC Lincoln Square 13 in New York City for a Q&A session tied to his new film The Friend when things got tense.
In a TikTok video that’s now racked up over 1.9 million views, Murray is seen abruptly turning around to confront a man trailing him with a phone.
“Stop it. If you attack me like that again, I’ll step on your foot. Don’t do it.”
The clip doesn’t clearly show contact, but Murray stops in his tracks and appears rattled before confronting the man, who throws his hands up in surprise. A security guard quickly steps in as Murray walks away.
“That’s a physical assault you just—,” Murray says.
“Sorry,” the man responds.
“Don’t do it again,” Murray snaps back. “You’re not big enough to do that.”
@anthony_anderson5 Bill Murray Shuts Down Pushy Fan #newyork #billmurray #groundhogsday #paparazzi #ghostbusters #zombieland
Anton Gerasimenko, who captured the footage, told Storyful that Murray had already declined photo and autograph requests. “One fan ignored the refusal and tried to take a photo with Bill in the background,” he said. “The first attempt failed, and inside the theater, the fan tried again — accidentally bumping into Bill.”
Murray has not made a comment on the incident.
However, viewers of the now viral video certainly had some opinions.
Most people were clearly on Murray's side in this whole event.
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He's usually so nice to fans that this incident sticks out.
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Some commenters were just put off by fan behavior in public.
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Others were just confused by it.
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Most commenters trusted Murray's instincts.
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The Friend with Murray and Naomi Watts is in theaters now.
Harry Potter author JK Rowling must be growing bored with transphobia because now she's using her worldwide platform to whine about asexuals.
Sunday, April 6 was International Asexuality Day, and of course Rowling couldn't possibly just let the day go by.
She shared a celebratory infographic created by an activist organization and used it to mock asexual people instead.
It was tepid criticism compared to some of the things she's said about trans people, but another bizarre example of her obsession with LGBTQ+ people, nonetheless.
Rowling posted:
"Happy International Fake Oppression Day to everyone who wants complete strangers to know they don't fancy a shag."
Pretty hilarious to make claims about "fake oppression" in a post oppressing the people you're criticizing, but that's Rowling for you.
People had thoughts.
Anyway, why Rowling has a problem with people simply being aware that asexuality exists is anyone's guess, but Yasmin Benoit, an activist who co-created International Asexuality Day, spoke out to PinkNews about why Rowling's unkind words matter.
“A lot of people’s introduction [to International Asexuality Day] has now been through JK Rowling hating on it."
"It’s becoming a conversation in so many spaces I haven’t seen before, but for a negative reason. She kind of hijacked the occasion.”
Which is kind of her whole thing. Joanne loves attention!
JK Rowling is vile, and in no way an ally to LGBTQ+ people. Asexual people continue to be persecuted through forced sexualisation. People stigmatise their clothing choices and behaviors which lead to harassment. There’s need for increased visibility and education on this issue.
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— Thomas Willett (@thomaswillett.bsky.social) April 6, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Benoit went on to tell PinkNews that rhetoric like Rowling's contributes to stigma against asexual people that includes accusations that it is a mental illness, the result of mental health treatments like SSRIs, or part of the "trans agenda," all of which are false.
On social media, Rowling's comments did not go over well at all.
so jk rowling hates asexuals now? how often was that woman dropped as a baby jesus christ
— han (@hansoeii.bsky.social) April 7, 2025 at 8:25 AM
JK Rowling is cruel and stupid.
— Dana Terrace (@danaterrace.bsky.social) April 6, 2025 at 2:15 PM
And, of course, there were lots of asexuality-themed jokes about Rowling's infamous black mold problem she is alleged to have in her house.
Here's hoping that one day, Rowling finds a hobby or something so she's not so triggered by other people existing. Poor thing.
Far right Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene's ex-husband publicly apologized for an incident in which he was caught on camera harassing three Muslim women who were praying in a mall parking lot just north of Georgia.
Video filmed on March 31 showed Perry Greene leaning out of his Tesla Cybertruck and heckling the women, telling them they're "worshiping a false god because y'all are pieces of sh*t" and repeatedly telling them to "go back to your country."
The women had set up a prayer rug at an empty parking spot at the Avalon Mall in Alpharetta to get a quick prayer in before treating themselves to a day at the shopping and dining center on Eid Day, a Muslim celebration marking the end of the month-long fasting of Ramadan.
One of the women recalled the scary interaction with their harasser, saying, "The first thing I thought was either I'm going to get shot right now or…literally gonna get run over."
The women told WAAY 31 that the encounter lasted three minutes.
Here's a news clip.
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After the women's legal team demanded Greene apologize for his xenophobic remarks attacking the women, he showed up to express his regrets to the women at their place of worship.
At a news conference in Johns Creek, Greene stated:
“I came today just to meet with the young ladies that I was mean to and treated disrespectfully about their religion and about what they were doing.”
He continued:
“I just wanted them to know that I humbly apologize to them because no one should be treated that way, and that’s not the right way for us to treat anybody. ... We shouldn’t allow that in our society.”
Here's a news report of his apology statement.
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Social media users questioned the sincerity of his apology.
The women's attorney, Ali Jamal Awad, stated that Greene is entertaining the idea of donating to a non-profit combating anti-Islamophobia, which could lead to the lawsuit being dropped.
“People do make mistakes,” Awad told Fox 5 in Atlanta, adding, “But you have to ask yourself, why? Why is it that Muslims are so targeted and so attacked in this community?”
Anti-Muslim incidents have increased around the U.S. significantly since the genocide in Gaza began.
Greene has not responded to questions regarding his violent verbal rampage leveled at the victims.
He and MTG married in 1995 while in college and had three children before Greene announced he was filing for divorce in September 2022, stating that their marriage was "irretrievably broken." Their divorce was finalized on December 22, 2022.
MTG recently made headlines for berating a British journalist who was trying to ask a question about the Signal group chat scandal.
The MAGA conspiracy theorist refused to take Sky News reporter Martha Kelner's question and told her to "Go back to your country."
In 2013, 2016 and 2021, Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz was labeled the most hated man in Congress—by members of his own party. In 2023, Florida Republican Representative Matt Gaetz replaced him as the "most hated."
In a 2016 CNN interview, South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said:
"If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody would convict you."
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Ouch.
In a 2018 interview, former Republican political strategist Rick Wilson said of Cruz:
"You either hate him or you hate him."
Former House Speaker and Ohio Republican John Boehner said:
"I have Democrat friends and Republican friends. I get along with almost everyone, but I have never worked with a more miserable son of a b*tch in my life."
Cruz has never been particularly popular in the Senate. But he's been sent to Washington D.C. by the people of Texas in 2013, 2019, and 2025.
Maybe it's just to get him out of Texas.
On Monday, the University of Houston Cougars men's basketball team faced off against the University of Florida Gators in the NCAA national championship game. The junior Senator from Texas, Canadian-born Rafael Edward Cruz, AKA Ted Cruz, decided to attend the game.
His constituents wish he hadn't.
After Houston made it to March Madness—the nickname for the NCAA's single elimination tournament to determine the national champion—they advanced game after game until they found themselves playing for the championship.
But Houston fell to Florida in a real nail-biter. After being up by 10 points with 17 minutes to go, Houston saw their lead squander as Florida outscored them 35-23. In the end, only two points separated the winner from the loser.
And many noted that the Florida comeback started right after the Houston Chronicle tweeted about Cruz's attendance at the game.
It seemed that the Cruz Curse struck the people of Texas once again.
Conspiracy theorists—or the superstitious—have long blamed Cruz's attendance at games played by the Houston Astros, the Texas Longhorns, the Dallas Cowboys, and other Texas teams he supports for when those teams lose.
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It's a shame the Ted Cruz curse only works on sports and not on his political team.
— ETX Gov🏴☠️ (@etxgov.bsky.social) April 7, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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I think the funniest thing about the Ted Cruz Curse is he really won’t confine it to just a couple of teams; if you are a Texas school and you have a big game, there is a decent chance Ted is rolling in wearing your polo and bringing your doom with him
— Ryan Nanni (@celebrityhottub.bsky.social) April 7, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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The Cruz Curse is not the only conspiracy theory centered on Cruz.
The internet has long claimed Cruz is the Zodiac Killer.
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— Person of interest (@dee-luxe.bsky.social) March 20, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Ted Cruz is the Zodiac killer isn't a conspiracy theory. It's just funny.
— Brian Smith (@theactualbrian.bsky.social) March 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
also it’s no theory. ted cruz is the zodiac. and he will strike again.
— illumi (@illumi.meme) March 3, 2025 at 9:49 PM
As amusing as all the Cruz/Zodiac memes are, Cruz was born in 1970 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Cruz lived in Canada until 1974, when his family moved to Texas. The Zodiac Killer was active in the San Francisco Bay area of California from December 1968 - October 1969—before Cruz was born.
Following significant backlash, the National Park Service restored a previously-erased photo of Harriet Tubman from a webpage dedicated to the history of the Underground Railroad, in which she led 13 missions to rescue enslaved people.
A spokesperson said the changes were not authorized by the agency's leadership.
They stated:
“Changes to the Underground Railroad page on the National Park Service’s website were made without approval from NPS leadership nor Department leadership."
"The webpage was immediately restored to its original content.”
An image of the famous abolitionist and social activist, who was born into slavery in Dorchester County, Maryland, was removed following Republican President Donald Trump's being sworn in for a second White House term.
The webpage about the history of the Underground Railroad also showed controversial edits within the main body of the article, in which slavery wasn't mentioned until the third paragraph. It also deleted mention of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 entirely.
The updated article also described the Underground Railroad as “one of the most significant expressions of the American civil rights movement during its evolution over more than three centuries" and that the movement "bridged the divides of race, religion, sectional differences, and nationality."
Yahoo News noted that the Internet Archive site, Wayback Machine, featured a comparison showing the changes made to the webpage from January 21 and March 19.
The earlier image, featuring a large portrait of Tubman with one of her quotes, was swapped for a series of five commemorative stamps, including Tubman with William Still, Catherine Coffin, Thomas Garrett, and Frederick Douglass, all of whom aided enslaved people on a path towards freedom.
Each stamp touted "Black/White" cooperation.
People were enraged over the federal government agency reducing Tubman's presence on the site and for downplaying slavery history.
Fergus Bordewich, a historian and the author of a book about the Underground Railroad, condemned NPS's changes, calling them "both offensive and absurd."
Bordewich continued:
"To oversimplify history is to distort it. Americans are not infants: they can handle complex and challenging historical narratives. They do not need to be protected from the truth.”
Janell Hobson, a women’s studies professor at the University at Albany, State University of New York, described Tubman as “one of our greatest American heroes and definitely the greatest liberator in this nation."
She further stated in an email to CNN:
“I hope that National Park Service realize they owe it to her and other heroes like her to stand in the truth of what this history has been."
Here are some examples from the backlash on social media.
The changes on the webpage for NPS, first reported by the Washington Post, were one of many made to government websites after the Trump administration began eliminating diversity, equity, and inclusion programs that were instituted by the previous administration led by former Democratic President Joe Biden.
The newspaper reported that many of the pages run by the National Park Service have been downplaying “some of the most shameful moments” in American history.
The Trump administration has continued aiming at other departments deemed as promoting DEI efforts.
Another National Park Service webpage about the Stonewall Monument in New York City removed the words “transgender” and “queer."
The Pentagon also removed and restored a webpage on the Department of Defense’s website mentioning the first Black MLB star player, Jackie Robinson.