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Riley Gaines Ripped After Boasting About Getting 'Groveling' Apology From Simone Biles
Jun 16, 2025
Anti-trans activist and former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines was called out after she boasted about getting a "groveling" apology from Olympic gymnast Simone Biles just days after Biles criticized her for regularly attacking the transgender community for participating in sports instead of promoting inclusivity.
Last week, Biles ridiculed Gaines in a post on X after Gaines complained about a recent victory by a Minnesota high school softball team that has become a focus of conservative media attention due to the reported inclusion of a transgender girl on the roster.
Biles called Gaines "truly sick" for fixating on transgender issues since coming in fifth place in the NCAA freestyle final with a transgender woman, a development Gaines has said amounts to being deprived of a regular victory. Biles said Gaines is a "bully" and that "no one in sports is safe with you [Gaines] around."
Biles did apologize afterward but she did not change her stance; she merely said she was sorry for the personal insults:
“I’ve always believed competitive equity & inclusivity are both essential in sport. The current system doesn’t adequately balance these important principles, which often leads to frustration and heated exchanges, and it didn’t help for me to get personal with Riley, which I apologize for.”
"These are sensitive, complicated issues that I truly don’t have the answers or solutions to, but I believe it starts with empathy and respect. I was not advocating for policies that compromise fairness in women’s sports."
"My objection is to be singling out children for public scrutiny in ways that feel personal and harmful. Individual athletes—especially kids—should never be the focus of criticism of a flawed system they have no control over.”
But Gaines suggested Biles came to her "groveling" since "tweeting pro-trans propaganda":
“I accept her apology. I see this truthfully as a really big win. You have this really famous public figure who is now issuing a groveling and backtracks after, again, tweeting pro-trans propaganda, if you will, this scenario would have been unthinkable a year, certainly two years ago.”
“Whether it’s sincere or not, I think that’s a different question, but nonetheless, she learned we are not living in 2020 anymore."
You can hear what she said in the video below.
Gaines was swiftly called out.
Given that Gaines recently made headlines for complaining that the University of Maryland should have been "honoring entrepreneurs or veterans or innovators" instead of having Kermit the Frog give a commencement speech at a graduation ceremony, we probably shouldn't be taking her too seriously.
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Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for Women's Cancer Research Fund; Ms Rachel - Toddler Learning Videos/YouTube
John Mulaney Speaks Out After Wife Olivia Munn Gets Death Threats Over Ms. Rachel Comment
Jun 16, 2025
Actor and comedian John Mulaney has taken to Instagram to lambaste users for sending death threats to his wife Olivia Munn and their kids.
Munn sparked major controversy last week when she said in a People magazine interview that she hates watching popular kids' YouTuber Ms. Rachel, whose full name is Rachel Anne Griffin Accurso.
Given Ms. Rachel's outspoken advocacy for victims of the Gaza genocide, people assumed Munn's comments were a subtle dig at her work on the matter.
In an Instagram Story, Mulaney said the uproar escalated to death threats even after Ms. Rachel herself asked fans to direct their ire at People, not Munn.
Mulaney wrote:
“An innocent comment my wife Olivia Munn made about what children’s programs we like has somehow — unbelievably — been conflated with not caring about the deaths of children in Gaza."
" “Because of this, my wife and my two kids are now receiving violent and threatening comments and messages in her DMs."
"This is absolutely insane and needs to stop. The people doing this are so wildly out of line and so unhelpful to any conversation... This kind of behavior is not activism."
In the since-deleted People article in question, Munn also said she dislikes Blue's Clues and other kids' programming, simply because she finds children's television grating and annoying. That seemed to have escaped the notice of the "activists" in question.
What seems to have initially sparked the outcry was a since-deleted post from Ms. Rachel herself highlighting the way People was focusing on Munn's comment rather than her work in Gaza itself.
In that post, she explicitly laid the blame at the feet of People, not Munn, a sentiment she reiterated in a more recent post asking her fans to leave Munn and Mulaney alone.
Many online have praised Mulaney's response, especially because incidents like this give fodder to those who have consistently smeared Gaza advocates as unhinged.
"'This kind of behaviour isn’t activism' feels crucial. Streamline your efforts into something useful, like contacting your local politicians or donating or sharing information.:"
"I think people just want someone to cancel and hate and hide under the guise of caring about what’s going on in the world." —Dismal_Answer_2761
"they're sending threats to children to show... they care about children?" —Classic-Carpet7609
"It's extremely clear she's saying that she doesn't like to watch little kid's shows because they're not entertaining or interesting to adults... Munn is obviously not saying anything about Ms. Rachel's (good, cool) advocacy for Gaza, but she's also not even saying anything very negative about Ms. Rachel in general!"
"Are, we, like OK? As a species?" —ThatSpencerGuy
The answer to that question is no, we are not—and the fact that an entire mob of people ended up sending death threats to kids over a controversy they invented themselves due to their own lack of media literacy and refusal to read beyond a headline is the proof.
Meanwhile, how many more kids in Gaza died while these people were spending their time and energy screaming at Olivia Munn on Instagram?
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Florida MAGA Voter Tears Up After ICE Detains A Third Of His Workers—And Now He Can't Find New Ones
Jun 16, 2025
As MAGA Republican President Donald Trump ramps up the agenda put forth for him by the misogynist, White supremacist, Christian nationalist Heritage Foundation's Project 2025—which includes importing White people and deporting as many Black and brown people as possible in response to the Great Replacement conspiracy theory—more and more 2024 Trump voters are asking why they're being negatively impacted.
Business owners, who as a matter of routine hired non-White documented and undocumented immigrants, are complaining that the agenda they endorsed in the voting booth is now hurting their bank accounts. People like roofing company owner Vincent Scardina of Florida.
Six of Scardina's roofers—all from Nicaragua—failed to show up at a job. That's one third of his company's workforce.
When their vehicle was found by the side of the road, their families discovered the men—almost all of whom are in the United States on work permits—were abducted by the Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
It's a story that keeps repeating wherever ICE has taken up operations.
Scardina told local NBC News affiliate NBC6 that he agrees with most of what Trump does, but:
"It's going to be really hard to replace those guys. We're not able in Key West to just replace people as easily as, say, a big city, very limited people to pull from, and then you would have to train them, and that takes sometimes years."
Becoming emotional, Scardina added:
"Well, you know, you get to know these guys, you become their friends, just not an employer, but a friend, and you see what happens to their family. It's… It's quite a shock."
NBC News/Facebook
Then Scardina repeated the same sentiment as many owners of restaurants, construction companies, landscaping companies, and hospitality industry employers that voted for Trump back in November.
Scardina said he bought Trump's claim Homeland Security and ICE were going to deport criminals, but he now thinks ICE is just "trying to meet quotas."
He said:
"What happened here? This situation is just totally, just blatantly, not at all what they said it was."
"It's not just happening to me. I mean, it's happening across the board to several contractors. I know they're all being hit by this hard. I know of one landscaper that lost nine or 10 of his whole crew he had and he's just totally out of business all of a sudden, just like that."
You can see the news report here:
Regilucia Smith, the men's attorney, told NBC6:
"They are legally here. They have an authorization to stay."
Smith said all but one of the workers had all of their paperwork in order and had pending asylum cases.
"Valid work permit, not even close to be expired… and again, no criminal record, not here, not in Nicaragua."
While people were outraged over more extrajudicial activity by HHS Secretary Kristi Noem's department and its agents, they were less than sympathetic for Vincent Scardina and anyone who enabled the Trump administration.
Company employee Virgil Scardina—whose possible familial relationship to Vincent is undisclosed in the news reports—was angered by the injustice.
Virgil Scardina told NBC6:
"It's mind-blowing. It's just not right. It just isn't right."
"It was pretty obvious from the beginning that they were pulled over simply because they were six Latino men in a work truck."
"It’s been a lot of tears. It's been an incredible amount of sadness, and we still just can't figure out why."
Mindful of the company's concerns, Virgil Scardina stated that wasn't the worst part of the situation.
"Our business is struggling. You know, make no mistake. This has the potential to cause us some significant problems. But I still get to go home and give my child a hug at night. These guys do not, and they don't deserve that."
"It's incredibly fearful, not just for people who are of Latino descent that might get targeted, but also for small business owners, also for the local community, and ultimately, I just have to ask myself, who wins in this scenario?"
A no win situation, indeed—unless the end goal of this Project 2025 initiative is making America White(r) again.
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Jesse Watters Blasted For Hypocrisy After Using Term He Was Previously Outraged By
Jun 16, 2025
Fox News personality Jesse Watters was called out for hypocrisy after he described the oustings of ABC News correspondent Terry Moran and Democratic National Committee (DNC) Vice Chair David Hogg as them having been "86'd"—just weeks after complaining about the term "86 47," which he sees as a clear call to assassinate President Donald Trump.
The term "86" means to eject, discard, or disprove of, and though it's said to have military origins, it's commonly used in restaurants when getting rid of unruly customers or when a patron has specific dietary restrictions. For example, saying "86 the mushrooms on the burger" means to prepare a burger sans mushrooms. Similarly, saying "86 the burger with mushrooms" means to not make the burger at all.
The term has garnered renewed attention since former FBI chief James Comey shared an image on social media of seashells on a beach arranged to resemble the numbers "86 47." Comey said he discovered the seashell arrangement during a walk on the beach and believed it to be a political statement. Critics, however, have argued the display was intended as a threat against Trump.
The term can also be used to refer to an ouster such as in the case of Moran, who was fired from ABC News after referring to Trump's senior adviser Stephen Miller as “a world-class hater" in a social media post. And it can also be used in reference to Hogg, who was pushed out of his DNC leadership role for vowing to primary members of the Democratic Party's old guard.
Of Moran's firing, Watters had this to say:
“ABC just 86’d Terry Moran for calling Stephen Miller a hateful bigot. This was probably the easiest thing ABC ever had to do.”
You can hear what he said in the video below.
- YouTubewww.youtube.com
And of Hogg, Watters said:
"So this guy got 86’d because he’s white, he’s a guy and allegedly he’s straight,” Watters said Wednesday. “I don’t want to impose that on him. The Democrats say they learned a lesson last election, but you look at this and it doesn’t look like they learned anything.”
You can hear what he said in the video below.
And yet Watters was furious last month when Comey made the news for his alleged threat against the president, saying:
“He obviously was trying to put a hit out on Trump, got caught, deleted it. And he’s got a book out—oh, what a coincidence! Any cop, any prosecutor knows the code for homicide.”
You can hear what he said in the video below.
Watters was promoting a conspiracy theory at the time. While police codes for homicide differ by jurisdiction, “86” is not recognized by any known law enforcement agency as a code for murder. The most widely recognized code for homicide is California's “187,” popularized through West Coast hip-hop and crime films set in Los Angeles.
Watters was called out for his hypocrisy.
Just another day at Fox News.
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Married Couples Explain Why They Decided To Sleep In Separate Bedrooms
Jun 16, 2025
Every couple is different, and what they will expect from their relationship and what they will need in order to feel fulfilled will differ, as well.
Some obvious examples would relate to wealth and sex drive, but there are other, less obvious examples, too, like sleep schedules and sleep hygiene.
Where one couple might see a red flag in not sleeping together, another will see it as necessary for the health of their relationship.
Redditor BeginningFox8632 asked:
"How many married couples here sleep in separate bedrooms and why?"
Opposite Sleep Schedules
"My parents have done this for the last 40 years or so, and have had separate bedrooms. If they try to sleep in the same room, neither of them gets any sleep."
"He goes to bed at 10, wakes up at 5:30 AM, and snores like crazy. She goes to bed at 11 and wakes up at 7:00 AM, sleeps like a starfish, flops around all night, and gets up at least twice to go to the bathroom."
"That said, they get along great and are still happily married."
- PoisonWaffle3
The Newborn Rotation
"We have a newborn and want one person to get a good night's sleep every other night."
- Rrmack
"We did the same. We also let the night shift parent take a solid nap the next day."
- littlesNponies
The Early Riser
"My husband and I sleep in different rooms about 75% of the time. Mainly, it’s logistical."
"My husband gets up at the crack of dawn and goes to bed pretty early. I am the opposite. So this way we don’t disturb each other. On weekends, we will usually sleep in the same bed cause our schedules are more matched."
"The other reason is because my husband snores like a freight train, and I can’t tolerate wearing earplugs every night."
"I’ve had friends who were weirded out/concerned about our arrangement, but there is really no need. Our relationship is strong, and our intimacy is unaffected. Actually, it’s better cause we aren’t disturbing each other, and we can both sleep!"
- Fine_Mobile_5450
Sleep Conditions
"She likes it quiet and warm. I like it loud enough to drown out my tinnitus and morgue cold."
"Best solution is different bedrooms, I’ve tried everything short of one of those sleep-eight mattresses."
- ExistencelsPain1
"I tell my wife this all the time. To be fair, she thinks I’m insane for sleeping with the window open in the winter. Pretty sure mid-40s is my ideal sleeping temperature."
- Dangerous-Math503
Physical Demands
"I snore. Loudly."
"She kicks.... and what I mean by 'kicking' is, sticking her feet out from under the blankets till they're freezing, and then raking her extremely cold toenails down the back of my leg. All in her sleep without waking up, or at least, not waking up until my freaked-out screech."
"Separate bedrooms saved our marriage. Seriously."
- slice_of_pi
Catching All The Z's And Sawing All The Logs
"The snoring. All the snoring."
- Salt_Honey8650
"My husband used to snore all the time and really loud. I’m a deep sleeper, so it would never wake me up."
"He recently was diagnosed with sleep apnea and got a CPAP."
"Now I wake up in the middle of the night due to silence, and in my sleepy stupor, I need to check to make sure he’s still alive because it’s so quiet, LOL."
- beaniver
Night Shift Guessing Games
"We do. My husband works rotating night shifts, so it makes it hard to adjust each time for both of us. He also stays up much later than me when he’s off work."
- Careless_Win_6365
Entirely Different Roofs
"My manager and her husband do, because he snores."
"I also knew a couple who lived in separate houses that were across the street from each other."
"Whatever it takes to make your relationship work is fine, unconventional or no."
- Celebrindae
"We’re two blocks from one another! Doesn’t make sense to shuffle kids around (mine and his) while they’re still in school when we already live a stone's throw away. We’ll more likely consolidate residences once the youngest kids are out of the house (8 years away…) unless something major changes before then."
- cloverandclutch
Independent Spaces
"We have slept in separate rooms since we had two separate rooms to go to, so close to 30 years now. Our son is 21, if that matters."
"Both of us like our own space and have our respective rooms set up very differently. We're both are restless sleepers. Both of us snore."
"Apparently, I hoard pillows (I currently have six on my bed) and will steal them from under his head while I am sound asleep. Likewise, I wrap myself in a cocoon and will take all blankets on the bed to do so, regardless of whether there's also someone else using those blankets next to me."
"He likes watching TV in bed, but I don't. He sleeps with his leg and arm over something (usually a pillow), but when I was there, his throwing his limbs over me and effectively holding me down while I was asleep completely freaked me out."
"I like it dark, cold, and quiet, he wants it warmer, isn't bothered by light, and needs noise to go to sleep, which will keep me awake. He will stay up all night when he can, I need to be asleep by 10:30 PM."
"If we wanted a good night's sleep, we couldn't share a room to *sleep* in. The two separate rooms have never prevented any other sort of bedroom activity."
- Yowie9644
The Difference Between Light And Heavy
"I'm a heavy sleeper and a loud snorer. I'm also a bartender and sometimes finish work 3:00 or 4:00 AM. She's a light sleeper and likes her bed like a straitjacket."
"Our relationship improved so much once the separate beds started. We take the occasional nap together."
- SpexRays
Too Much Body Heat
"I’m too light of a sleeper, and I hate other people’s body heat. My husband is a furnace."
- Neither-Fun-4363
"My husband is a furnace as well, but I’m anemic, so it works out VERY well for us. We’re same room sleepers, but I’m loving reading other perspectives on the topic!"
- SleepyPuppet715
Another Important Approach
"Same bed but different covers. She hogs them."
- zendragon888
"I think sharing a blanket is insanity! I love you, but that’s my d**n blanket and I want to roll up in it like a cinnamon roll."
- Mojo-man
A Comforting Thought
"I was married 30 years and had separate bedrooms because I'm a light sleeper and he tossed and turned and snored."
"I'm with my new partner after he passed away, and he's the same. We go to bed together to cuddle and watch TV until he falls asleep, and then I go to my bed."
- GoneshNumber6
A Game Changer To Their Marriage
"My wife and I do. We’ve been married for 24 years now. The first 19 were spent sleeping in the same room, but our sleep habits are just too different."
"She likes the ceiling fan on, open window (when weather permits), some light in the room, and minimal blankets. I like no moving air, complete quietness, complete darkness, and heavy blankets."
"I was constantly waking up from noises and started to sleep on the couch in the middle of the night. Finally, we decided to try sleeping in separate rooms, and it’s been bliss for both of us. On the weekends, I’ll 'sneak' into her bed early in the morning. We also sleep together when traveling or on vacation, since sleep isn’t as critical as work days."
"Overall, it’s been great for our marriage, and it hasn’t negatively affected our sex life in the least."
- CBus-Eagle
The Opposite Effect
"Normalize not sleeping together when it does not fit the couple. I love this. Would not settle for less."
"I think the relationship would be highly affected if someone never gets any sleep."
"People who don't agree just haven't experienced not sleeping or not having enough sleep due to external factors for weeks, months, years."
- leicea
While it might seem concerning and even counterintuitive for a couple to not sleep together every night, there's much more to sleeping together than intimacy and sharing space. If the two people need completely different things in order to adequately rest, it would stand to reason that sleeping together would hurt their relationship rather than help it.
It's best to let each couple decide what is best for them and simply respect it, full stop.
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