Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel A Handmaid's Tail is being turned into a series that will premier on Hulu in April, and the topics of the book really couldn't feel more relevant. The story is set in a near-future time in New England, after a totalitarian regime has overthrown the U.S. government and strips women of all their rights, so they are used for reproductive reasons only.

The series will star Elizabeth Moss (Mad Men), Samira Wiley (Orange Is The New Black) and Alexis Bledel (Gilmore Girls) as women and allies living under the dictatorship. "I feel like it's our responsibility as artists to reflect the time we are living in," Wiley said at the Television Critic's Association presentation on Saturday, Mashable reports.

The series, in many ways, has worked hard to remain truthful to the novel. There's a heavy use of voice over in the series, which is designed to mimic the feeling of the way the book is narrated by the character Offred, one of the last fertile females in the world. "What I like the most about it is it connects me to the viewer," Moss, who plays Offred, said of the voice over narration style. "I hold their hand a little bit and walk them through this world."

The actions that have already been taken since the 2016 election to take women's rights away, like the GOP's plan to defund Planned Parenthood, along with the ways business man Donald Trump joked about assaulting women during the election, make the premise of the novel and series hit close to home. "None of us could ignore what was happening [last year]," said the show's executive producer Bruce Miller. "I was writing the pilot script during the primaries, during all the debates...We were of course mindful of that."

Watch the trailer here to see a hint of what the dystopian world of The Handmaid's Tail will look like in the latest incarnation:

One professor at Georgia's Armstrong State University is officially "cooler than being cool" for a course she'll be offering this spring semester on OutKast. The class, titled "OutKast and the Rise of the Hip-Hop South" is a 300-level English course that will explore how the duo's "ideas about the South and southernness seep into other Southern writers," the Savannah Morning News reports.

"My areas of interest are African-American literature and popular culture," says Regina Bradley, the very hip professor who dreamed up the course, who's a faculty member of the university's Languages, Literature and Philosophy department. "I try to find ways to connect those… Often, students get most of their information, their outlook from how they engage in popular culture."

Bradley's interest in Big Boi and André 3000 extends beyond the course (which is already full), too. She's currently working on a book about OutKast, who she calls her favorite hip-hop group. "For the folks who are just as in love with Outkast as I am, I want them to feel like they can contribute to the class," says Bradley of her teaching methods. "I also don’t want to overlook or shun the folks who aren’t familiar with hip-hop at all. I'm pretty sure I have a couple of folks in there who have no clue who Outkast is or don’t listen to hip-hop at all, which is why they’re there — they want to learn something different."

The rap duo, who have plenty of ties to Savannah themselves, have also taken notice of the new course. Big Boi noticed an article on the course and shared in on Facebook, adding, "I am originally from Savannah, and I remember Armstrong, so that is just super dope." So, Bradley has officially reached super dope levels, as officially deemed by one of the coolest people out there, and OutKast has now joined the ranks of Beyoncé, who had a class about Lemonade taught at University of Texas at San Antonio last year.

Friday afternoon, a group of Planned Parenthood volunteers headed to the Longworth House Office Building in Washington, D.C. to deliver 87,000 #StandWithPP petitions to Speaker of the House Paul Ryan's office. The action was a result of a ruling made the day before, that the GOP would defund Planned Parenthood as a part of their decision to dismantle Obamacare.

Their petitions never made it to Ryan, however, because he sent out six security guards to block the delivery of the petitions, Teen Vogue reports. So, is Paul Ryan afraid of a handful of peaceful volunteers with boxes of paper clad in pink Planned Parenthood t-shirts? Seems like it. Here are the supposed threats:

Who knows what will happen to the petitions now, which made a case for Ryan to protect Planned Parenthood through Medicaid and Title IX. This cowardly act by Ryan has birthed a fitting hashtag, #PaulRyanSoScared, and Twitter is rightly taking him down for his choice to ignore the pleas of the public. Here are some of the best reactions to the incident to inspire you to keep fighting the good fight:

Nothing says "It's 2017" like two Google Homes talking to each other indefinitely for our entertainment. The whole thing is being live streamed on Twitch and has been going on for days at this point. I first heard about the phenomenon on Friday morning. Now, two days later I've tuned in and they're still at it, arguing about their genders and whether or not they have girlfriends (one has a ninjafriend, but not a girlfriend, as it turns out).

The two Google Homes are named Vladamir and Estragon, SelectAll reports, and boy do they really know how to talk about nothing. Despite the seemingly circular and nonsensical conversation, thousands of people are tuning in to watch the robots and see if they present examples of self-awareness, or at least say some funny stuff. It sounds silly, but look at this exchange they just had:

It's a Sunday, so you might have some spare time on your hands, and you might also enjoy watching these robots bicker infinitely. Though be warned, watching them might confirm that humans are really not that different from AI, further compounding your existential fear that we're all doomed to spout meaningless nonsense ad infinitum until we die. I'm sorry, did that get dark? What is life? Who knows, watch the robots here.

On Saturday, HBO released Bright Lights, a much-anticipated documentary about the lives and relationship of mother/daughter duo Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher, who passed away just one day apart in December 2016. Since their deaths, the world has found some solace in hearing other actors and people in the entertainment industry tell personal stories of how the two had touched their lives. And now, we'll get to hear from them directly.

It's no secret that the two stars had a tumultuous relationship with each other, and with celebrity world. In many ways, the former was a result of the latter; growing up amidst the Hollywood industry led Fisher down a path of drugs and addiction at a young age, and later she was diagnosed with mental health issues that were very difficult for Reynolds to accept. Here are some compelling quotes from Fisher and Reynolds on their relationship and the difficulty of living your life in the limelight that's revealed in the documentary, as reported by People.

Fisher on her need to please her mother:

“If my mother’s unhappy, it lives on my grid. So I both want to and have to help my mother. I think I’m my mom’s best friend, more than a daughter. My mother really wants me to be an extension of her wishes — an extension of her. And to a great degree, far more sometimes than I ever would want to, I know what my mother feels and wants. And there’s a lot of it.”

Reynolds on her desire to perform until she died:

"I have caught up with a few people in age. But like George Burns said, ‘I’m going to stay on stage until I drop dead.' "

And Fisher adds: "She’ll forget that she’s not 35. It doesn’t make sense to her that her body isn’t cooperating. And she just thinks if she ignores it, it’ll go away. It’s very frustrating for her because inside, my mom is the same person. And she doesn’t want to retire. She does not want to retire."

Fisher on helping fans connect to Princess Leia in real life:

"They love [Leia], and I’m her custodian. She’s me and I’m her and I’m as close as you’re going to get. They talk to me like I’m Princess Leia who happens to have all these difficult experiences she’s gone through. And that’s like me fighting for the Force. It’s nice."

Reynolds on struggling with Fisher's mental health issues:

"Manic depressive is a disease. Now that wasn’t diagnosed then, so nobody knew what was going on with Carrie. When she was 13, her personality changed. So it’s a constant battle — it takes all of us to assure her that she’s loved. It’s hard. That’s the hardest part."

Apart from being, ya know, Luke frickin' Skywalker, actor Mark Hamill is a legendary voice actor, perhaps best known for his iconic depiction of the Joker in Batman: The Animated Series. He's also quick to knock incoming president Donald J. Trump. So when he saw these tweets from comedian Patton Oswalt and brother Matt...

...He was only too eager to give the people what they wanted.

And, with a little help from his family...

...He delivered:

There's every indication this bit is just the first of many, and you know there can be no shortage of psychotic Trump lines coming at us in the future, so fasten your bat-buckles and get ready to hear him start slamming Star Wars, too.

Normal-sized, not-at-all-annoying, and always-relevant human being Martin Shkreli is no stranger to Twitter suspensions—he's been temporarily kicked off the platform before. Heck, he can't even take his internet friends out to a happy hour without the bar preemptively banning him. Still, getting the boot from Twitter again for targeting a writer whose editorials and reportage have gone viral of late is a notable milestone.

Shkreli had been openly harassing journalist Lauren Duca, whose Teen Vogue editorial"Donald Trump Is Gaslighting America" and subsequent tussling with Tucker Carlson in an overtly sexist interview both captured the internet's attention. It would take days to diagnose everything wrong with Shkreli, but "not being the center of the internet's attention" is definitely a triggering circumstance for him, so he DM'd Duca to ask if she'd accompany him to Trump's inauguration. She declined.

Shkreli escalated by changing his bio to note his "crush" on Duca, replacing his header image with photos of Duca, and Photoshopping himself into a picture of Duca and her husband to use as his avatar.

After Duca and others tagged Twitter support and CEO Jack Dorsey to point out this invasive, harassing behavior—and in the midst of Shkreli apparently continuing to tweet at Duca—his account went down. It remains to be seen whether this suspension will be permanent.

Shkreli, who allegedly looted his own pharmaceutical company for millions to pay back investors in a previous hedge fund scam and has been indicted on securities fraud, will presumably have to resort to Facebook Live to speak to his committed fan base of smart, handsome, nice young men, at least for the time being. But watch out: you never know when he might turn up on Snapchat.

Today, SeaWorld San Diego will put on its final killer whale show. The once-popular routine made the marine life theme park a successful franchise before hobbling it in the wake of Blackfish, a 2013 documentary harshly critical of the company's treatment of orca, particularly Tilikum, a whale involved in the tragic deaths of three different people. On Friday, SeaWorld announced that Tilikum had died in captivity at their Orlando facility, at the approximate age of 36. (For comparison, Granny, a famous orca living in the wild but presumed dead this week, was thought to be over 100 years old.)

But even amid outrage, a drop-off in audiences, and the news last month that the SeaWorld would be eliminating 320 jobs across their 12 parks, the company is changing its policies very slowly. The Orlando and San Antonio locations will continue their orca shows into 2019, and San Diego's planned "Orca Encounter" exhibit will feature the familiar sight of trainers cueing killer whales to leap out of the water and demonstrate other "behaviors." To say the infamous show is ending may be "a little overblown," according to former orca trainer and Seaworld vice president of zoological operations Al Garver.

Although SeaWorld frequently notes that it no longer captures orcas in the wild—and California has banned the practice of breeding them—the company still holds 22 killer whales in its various parks.

Spoiler alert for all you optimists out there: 2017 is going to be worse than 2016. Exhibit A in this argument is the news that Tampa police are continuing to crack down on people who commit the ghastly crime of giving food to the homeless.

Tampa is one of several cities in Florida that requires a permit for anyone feeding the needy in a public place, which causes a good deal of red tape and can be prohibitively expensive for activist groups that offer free meals frequently. Food Not Bombs is one such group, and, although warned that giving out food without said permit could result in arrests, went ahead and did so on Saturday. When cops arrived, they were given three minutes to stop what they were doing.

But they went on serving their food, and a number were cuffed, with one telling the homeless congregated there to please help themselves as he was led away. Onlookers meanwhile shamed the police and chanted "people over profit."

Food Not Bombs, according to a statement, "has no plans to stop sharing food with the homeless and hungry and will continue to defy unjust laws that criminalize compassion and mutual aid," and is planning an event in the same park for Tuesday morning. They claim to have given away food there dozens of times before without incident, leading some to speculate that the nearby College Football Playoff National Championship could have been a factor in these arrests—although others have been detained for the same violation in the past.

FNB is a nationwide organization that likely has a local chapter near you, and it's easy to volunteer or donate through their site. Just a thought!

The city of Raleigh, North Carolina, got just an inch or two of snow as much of the eastern U.S. faced down a blizzard this weekend. Not enough to make a proper snowman, perhaps, or even sled on—but street skiing is another matter.

Filming from a car with a chill soundtrack ideal for the unusual winter sport (which really ought to be an Olympic event, by the way), some Raleigh residents gave us great coverage of a talented skier as he was towed through the slushy streets by another vehicle. Although they start out waiting for him to crash, and it does sometimes seem he's about to, they're ultimately just impressed with his poise, balance, and sheer control. Somebody has been practicing.

Who says the south can't handle a little dusting of the white stuff now and then?

January 8th is the Golden Globes, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's annual evening to toast the coastal elite with unlimited alcohol. Here are dresses that are very, very pretty and also cost as much as your house.

1. Olivia Culpo

2. Ruth Negga

3. Millie Bobby Brown

4. Lola Kirke

5. Priyanka Chopra

6. Tracee Ellis Ross

7. Jessica Biel

8. Janelle Monae

9. Kerry Washington

10. Blake Lively

11. Emma Stone

12. Gina Rodriguez

Get your evening schadenfreude fix with beautiful people wearing clothes that aren't as beautiful as they are, Golden Globes Edition.

1. Emily Ratajkowski

2. Diana Madison

3. Felicity Jones

4. Natalie Portman

5. Sophie Turner

6. Anna Kendrick

7. Carrie Underwood

8. Nicole Kidman

9. Jill Soloway

10. Naomi Campbell

Jimmy Fallon gave Mariah Carey a run for her money when it comes to technical difficulties on the world stage when the teleprompter flubbed up as soon as he stepped onto the stage.

Everybody's best friend Jimmy Fallon was super excited for all his best friends who were nominated, proud of their great work. The Tonight Show host also went and told some Donald Trump jokes as soon as the teleprompter started working.

He welcomed his BFFs to “one of the few places left where America still honors the popular vote," and how after the inauguration, we'll get to find out what would if Joffrey would have lived.

Watch him mime his way through the technical difficulties and recover like the consummate showman he is.

In a lively opening number that featured Jimmy Fallon's best Falloning, the Golden Globes found all your faves in a traffic jam, ready for "Another Day of Sun."

Jon Snow wakes, John Travolta goes back to his disco roots, Millie Bobby Brown raps, and Barb RETURNS in a grand musical number that sets the tone for the rockin' party that is the Golden Globes, as Fallon and Justin Timberlake rekindle their true love.

Come for the dancing, stay for the Gosling-inspired crooning.

On Sunday night, Meryl Streep took aim at President-elect Donald Trump during the acceptance speech of her lifetime achievement award at The Golden Globes. Without ever mentioning his name, Streep thoroughly roasted the future President by saying, "Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners, and if you kick us all out, you'll have nothing to watch except for football and mixed martial arts, which are not arts." She also recalled the instance where Trump openly mocked disabled reporter Serge Kovaleski of the The New York Times.

Like clockwork, Donald Trump took to Twitter to whine about being targeted in the legendary actress' speech. Someone get this snowflake a safes space, because he has been triggered HARD. What scandal are these tweets meant to distract us from again?

Meryl Streep is overrated? Okay, now we all know that you've lost your mind.

Of course, Twitter had some opinions on Trump's online temper tantrum.

Has it been four years yet?

On Sunday night at the Golden Globes, Meryl Streep took the stage to accept the Cecil B. Demille Award for lifetime achievement, and to make as poised a political statement as we've seen in 2017.

In her short speech, she praised the Hollywood Foreign Press—the voters behind the awards that night—for being the "most vilified segments in American society right now. Think about it: Hollywood, foreigners and the press."

She proceeded to lament Donald Trump's America with all the carefully touching emotion of an actress who's won 19 Oscars. Naturally, about 12 hours later, Trump's already responded.

Here's Streep's speech in full:

I love you all. You have to forgive me, I have lost my voice in screaming and lamentation this weekend and I have lost my mind sometime earlier this year so I have to read.

Thank you, Hollywood Foreign Press. Just to pick up on what Hugh Laurie said, you and all of us in this room really belong to the most vilified segments in American society right now. Think about it: Hollywood, foreigners and the press.

But who are we and, you know, what is Hollywood, anyway? It’s just a bunch of people from other places. I was born and raised and educated in the public schools of New Jersey, Viola was born in a sharecropper's cabin in South Carolina, came up in Central Falls, R.I. Sarah Paulson was born in Florida, raised by a single mom in Brooklyn. Sarah Jessica Parker was one of seven or eight kids from Ohio, Amy Adams was born in Vicenza, Veneto, Italy and Natalie Portman was born in Jerusalem. Where are their birth certificates?

And the beautiful Ruth Negga was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, raised in Lon -- no, in Ireland, I do believe, and she’s here nominated for playing a small-town girl from Virginia. Ryan Gosling, like all the nicest people, is Canadian. And Dev Patel was born in Kenya, raised in London and is here playing an Indian raised in Tasmania. So Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners and if we kick them all out, you’ll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts.

They gave me three seconds to say this, so. An actor’s only job is to enter the lives of people who are different from us and let you feel what that feels like. And there were many, many, many powerful performances this year that did exactly that, breathtaking, compassionate work.

But there was one performance this year that stunned me. It sank its hooks in my heart, not because it was good, it was -- there’s nothing good about it. But it was effective and it did its job. It made its intended audience laugh and show their teeth.

It was that moment when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter, someone he outranked in privilege and power and the capacity to fight back. It, it kind of broke my heart when I saw it and I still can’t get it out my head because it wasn’t in a movie. It was real life. And this instinct to humiliate when it’s modeled by someone in the public platform, by someone powerful, it filters down into everybody’s life because it kind of gives permission for other people to do the same thing.

Disrespect invites disrespect. Violence incites violence. When the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose. OK, go on with that thing. OK, this brings me to the press. We need the principled press to hold power to account, to call them on the carpet for every outrage.

That’s why our founders enshrined the press and its freedoms in our constitution. So I only ask the famously well-heeled Hollywood foreign press and all of us in our community to join me in supporting the Committee to Protect Journalists, ’cause we’re going to need them going forward and they’ll need us to safeguard the truth.

One more thing. Once when I was standing around the set one day, whining about something, we were going to work through supper or the long hours or whatever, Tommy Lee Jones said to me: “Isn't it such a privilege, Meryl, just to be an actor?” Yeah, it is. And we have to remind each other of the privilege and the responsibility of the act of empathy. We should be very proud of the work Hollywood honors here tonight,

As my, as my friend, the dear departed Princess Leia, said to me once: “Take your broken heart, make it into art.”

Thank you, Foreign Press.