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Mitch McConnell makes Elizabeth Warren shut up, accidentally coins a viral rallying cry.

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On Tuesday night, Elizabeth Warren was silenced by the Senate for talking trash about her fellow senator, Jess Sessions of Alabama, whose confirmation vote for Attorney General will take place on Wednesday.

Except Elizabeth Warren wasn't saying, herself, anything about Jeff Sessions. She was reading a letter from Coretta Scott King. That's the activist and widow of Martin Luther King Jr. The woman who once campaigned against the same Jeff Sessions' nomination for a federal judgeship in 1986.

"Mr. Sessions has used the awesome power of his office to chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens," said Warren, quoting King.

Sit down and shut up, responded Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, essentially, as the Senate voted to enact an "arcane" rule forbidding any senator from saying something mean about another senator.

After the chamber voted 49-43 (along party lines) to keep Warren from talking, McConnell defended himself:

"Sen. Warren was giving a lengthy speech. She had appeared to violate the rule. She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted."

And with that, the resistance said thanks for the new slogan.

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People used the phrase to share photos of "persistent" women in history.

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They used it to hold up a middle finger.

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They used it for t-shirts (coming soon).

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Of course they used it for jokes.

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Look for this one on every poster at the next Women's March.


Lady Gaga responds to trolls who body-shamed her: 'I love my body.'

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Lady Gaga's performance at the Super Bowl was incredible, but a lot of trolls felt the need to talk about how they thought her stomach was "flabby." Now Lady Gaga is clapping back at these body shamers, but mostly with a message of love.

On Tuesday, the 30-year-old pop star posted an Instagram of her performance, with an inspiring message in the caption, all about ignoring the haters and just loving yourself.

Her caption reads,

I heard my body is a topic of conversation so I wanted to say, I'm proud of my body and you should be proud of yours too. No matter who you are or what you do. I could give you a million reasons why you don't need to cater to anyone or anything to succeed. Be you, and be relentlessly you. That's the stuff of champions. thank you so much everyone for supporting me. I love you guys. Xoxo, gaga

School sends dad a letter about his son's hilariously inappropriate sense of imagination.

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Careful what you say around kids, because even when you don't think they're listening, they're secretly taking notes for their new krazy komedy pilot.

An English dad named Paul Hunt shared the following letter from his son's school, and it's equal parts heartwarming (such wholesome fun) and knee-slappin' wacky comedy (well, mostly wholesome).

The letter reads:

Dear ___,

Although this is not a behaviour letter as such, I am writing to inform you of something that has come to our attention and that you may wish to discuss further with __.

___ and a few of his friends often make up characters, give them amusing names and then they have exciting adventures at playtimes. This in itself is an imaginative and creative pastime and causes no harm. However, it has come to our attention that one of the characters has the name 'Wildo the Dildo' and this has, I am sure you can understand, raised some concerns with us.

On further discussion, none of the children said they knew what it meant, but were aware that it was an inapporpriate word to be using. One of the children said they picked up the word on the playground, so we will be following this up further and dealing with it accordingly.

I hope you can appreciate the reason I am informing you of this matter and please do not hesitate to contact me if you wish to discuss it further.

You can almost see a school administrator, busy and harried with the thousands of things they have to do, writing "Wildo the Dildo" with a straight face, frowning and shaking their head because this. is. seriously. inappropriate.

Wildo the Dildo must be eliminated from the playground.

John Oliver tells Stephen Colbert he's 'slightly concerned' about his green card under Trump.

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Even John Oliver is uncertain about what Donald Trump's presidency will mean for America. Oliver was on The Late Showwith Stephen Colbert Tuesday night, and of course, they talked about the new administration. (They're two political comedians. What did you expect?)

They talked about the political chaos that has ensued since the inauguration, and Oliver joked that there hasn't been much of a change since Trump took office other than "the flames and the fact that America is in it."

Stephen Colbert also took a moment to ask John Oliver, who is a green card holder from the U.K., about Trump's recent executive orders regarding immigration.

John Oliver assured us that he doesn't think he'll get deported, but admitted that Trump's recent executive order blocking immigrants, refugees, and even green card holders from seven Muslim-majority nations made him a little uneasy.

"I have an American wife and an American son now, but who knows what's enough?" he said.

You can watch the full segment from The Late Show below.

Jim Parsons debunks Reddit's wildest 'Big Bang' conspiracy theories.

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America's favorite flock of nerds on The Big Bang Theoryhave been charming viewers for a decade, and fans have been obsessed with the show as much as the characters are obsessed with Star Trek.

Jim Parsons, Sheldon Cooper himself, addressed real fan theories of the Big Bang backstage at The Late Late Show with James Corden. The hypotheses range from Cyborg Bernadette to Bizarro Barney Stinson, which extends well to a parallel universe.

Math, science, history.... unraveling the mystery that all started with The Big Bang.

Reese Witherspoon and Ava Phillippe look more like twins than mother and daughter.

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We are starting to think that Reese Witherspoon's 17-year-old daughter Ava Phillippe is actually her clone. The two hit the red carpet for the premier of Witherspoon's new HBO show Big Little Lieson Tuesday, and both ladies donned long-sleeved dresses, wavy blonde hair, AND THE SAME EXACT FACE.

Back in October, Witherspoon jokingly told Ellen DeGeneres that she "doesn't see the resemblance" between herself and her doppelgänger daughter. Yeah, except Reese's face is pretty much copy and pasted onto her daughter.

congrats! #specialnight

A photo posted by Ava Phillippe (@avaphillippe) on

Well, if Reese Witherspoon had a nose ring.

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But wait, there are others that argue that Ava looks much more like her father, Ryan Phillippe. Hold on now.

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Okay, we can see it, but we are still #TeamReese all the way. We wouldn't be surprised if Reese Witherspoon and Ava Phillippe were mistaken for twin sisters. Or for each other's reflections.

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Well, no matter who Ava resembles, one thing is for certain: that girl was blessed with some good genes.

This cashier went above and beyond to calm down a little girl having a panic attack.

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In case you needed a heartwarming, "awwww"-worthy story today (and let's face it, we all do), here's a great one that happened just before closing time at a grocery store in Cannock, England.

A woman named Helen Martin was doing some evening grocery shopping at a Sainsbury's store with her daughter Cordelia (known as Cordie), who struggles with anxiety and panic attacks. The source of Cordie's fear is alarms going off in public places, a phobia that goes back to a fire alarm test at a Sainsbury's a few years ago that completely traumatized her.

So when the store lights dimmed to signal the store was about to close, Cordie understandably got freaked out. Really freaked out. Helen rushed to check out while trying to keep Cordie as calm as possible. And that's when a compassionate Sainsbury's cashier stepped up to save the day.

Helen described the touching moment in a Facebook post on the Sainsbury's page, saying:

"The lady working at the checkout could see something was wrong...I explained the problem and how the lights dimming had caused her to panic and she was just so lovely. She came around the checkout and asked my daughter to help her scan the shopping, coaxed her into her seat whilst we dried her tears and completely distracted her by letting her scan all the food. I cannot tell you how much this meant to me and my daughter."

Here's the full story:

Every since my daughter was little she has suffered with anxiety/panic attacks triggered by alarms/loud noises or in...

Posted by Helen Martin on Sunday, February 5, 2017


As Helen mentions, she was so frazzled and taken aback by the unexpected kindness she totally forgot to ask the grocery clerk's name. She found out the next day when she and Cordie went back to the Sainsbury's to bring their hero flowers. The clerk's name is Tina, and she "has become quite a celebrity at work."

Just wanted to update everyone who liked, shared, commented on my post from yesterday. Tonight Cordie and I went to say...

Posted by Helen Martin on Monday, February 6, 2017


As for Cordie? She's "enjoying her 15 minutes of fame."

Is this Nicki Minaj's way of telling us she's pregnant?

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Is Nicki Minaj pregnant, or is this some weird joke? The rapper posted a picture to her Instagram account of herself looking undeniably pregnant, but there's no information about whether or not it's real. Because you never know, with these celebrities—is she just pranking us all?

#ATBIMS. 😂 y'all so childish Omgskibbidybopbopghjhddfnjj - I was gonna wait to share the news but...

A photo posted by Nicki Minaj (@nickiminaj) on

The caption reads,

#ATBIMS y'all so childish Omgskibbidybopbopghjhddfnjj - I was gonna wait to share the news but...

What even is going on here? First Beyoncé announces her pregnancy via Instagram, and now Nicki Minaj? (Well, and Chelsea Peretti, too.)

Turns out this one is probably not real—according to In Touch, the picture was photoshopped by her fans.

But her Instagram comments were filled with confused fans.

Verdict: Not true. Yet.


Just wanted to remind you it's too late to break up with me before Valentine's Day.

Mom furious after breastfeeding daycare worker takes her baby's feeding into her own hands.

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Kaycee Oxendine of Carrboro, NC, is furious after a daycare worker breastfed her lactose intolerant three-month-old baby on Friday after Oxendine asked her not to. The whole incident was caught on camera, and now Oxendine wants the police to press charges against the woman.

The woman, who works at Carrboro Early School and has a two-month-old in the same class as Oxendine's baby thought she could fix the baby's constipation by breastfeeding him.

“She said that she had a son and did I want her to put my child to her breast and breastfeed? And I said ‘no, that’s nasty. We don’t do things like that,'” Oxendine told Fox 6 News.

Oxendine's son is lactose intolerant and not supposed to ingest any dairy products. But moments after Oxendine left the room, security footage shows the woman lifting her shirt and breastfeeding the baby. Then, Friday night, Oxendine had to bring her baby to the hospital after he started throwing up.

“That’s an innocent baby. My baby couldn’t say ‘no — don’t do that.’ He couldn’t defend hisself (sic),” Oxendine said. “Not only did you put your breast to my son, you also made my son sick. I would hate for any parent, any family to have to go through what me and my family have had to go through."

The woman has reportedly been fired from Carrboro Early School. She had been working in child care for more than a decade, according to the daycare director.

No charges have been filed against the woman, but the police are investigating it as a child abuse case.

Good luck not having an awkward Valentine's date with the person you're casually seeing.

Judy Garland was molested by 'Oz' Munchkins, according to new tell-all by her ex-husband.

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A new memoir by Judy Garland's late ex-husband, movie producer Sid Luft, includes a disturbing allegation: Garland was reportedly molested by the actors who played the Munchkins in 1939 classic The Wizard of Oz.

People reported an excerpt of the book, which will be published posthumously in March. "They would make Judy's life miserable on set by putting their hands under her dress... The men were 40- or more years-old," said Luft. Garland was 16 at the time.

"They thought they could get away with anything because they were so small."

As both Peopleand the Huffington Postpoint out, Judy Garland once gave an interview with Jack Paar (clip below), in which she described the actors as "little drunks... they got smashed every night...."

Besides that interview, which was lighthearted in tone—if cringeworthy and offensive by today's standards—Garland does not herself seem to have ever leveled any accusations of sexual violence against the actors.

In 2009, two of the actors who played Munchkins told The Independentthat the Hollywood legends about their group's behavior—of drunken and debaucherous antics—were untrue.

"There was no rowdiness or anything like that, and those stories are very upsetting," said Jerry Maren, who played one of the "Lollipop Guild" that sang upon Dorothy's arrival to Oz.

Luft and Garland were married in 1952, 13 years after Garland starred in The Wizard of Oz. Their divorce in 1965 included accusations against Luft by Garland of domestic violence and abuse.

Garland's comments about the Munchkins come at the 6:30 mark:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=516&v=d5qDVDIoA8w

President Trump whines about Nordstrom dropping Ivanka's brand. Twitter reacts accordingly.

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Donald Trump is using his platform as President of the United States to attack an American company for dropping his daughter's brand.

Nordstrom dropped Ivanka Trump's clothing, shoes, and jewelry citing low sales, because many woman don't want to see the word "Trump" even more than they have to or slide into an outfit they know the Donald thinks is sexy. Anti-Trump group Grab Your Wallet organizes boycotts of stores that canoodle with the Trump products, and lo and behold, it works!

There's a lot to unpack in this conflict-of-interest-y tweet, which is sketchy because it promotes his daughter's business, and Twitter is on it.

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Selena's husband finally watched the JLo biopic about her — and liveblogged his reactions.

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The 1997 movie "Selena," starring Jennifer Lopez as the late Queen of Tejano Music, is a classic. It's one of those movies that totally sucks you in whenever you come across it while channel surfing, and requires you settle in and watch the whole thing.

Which is exactly what happened to the musician Chris Perez on Monday night. This wouldn't be newsworthy except for the fact that Chris Perez was Selena's husband, and as he revealed in a Facebook post, he had NEVER SEEN THE MOVIE before he decided to watch it on a whim.

Guess what just started on the Lifetime tv channel...yup. Gonna grab a bottle of wine from the kitchen and sit through...

Posted by Chris Perez on Monday, February 6, 2017

The best part? Chris decided to post his reactions live to Facebook. After about half an hour it was clear that seeing Selena's story on screen was emotionally intense for him.

Ugh, don't know if I can do this. The TRUE test will be when my "character" comes out. :/

Posted by Chris Perez on Monday, February 6, 2017

Luckily Chris was able to keep watching and deliver inside info to fans about the real life events portrayed in the movie, including Selena's love for pizza, her reaction to him trashing a hotel room, and oh yeah, that endlessly quotable bumper scene...

Yup. She LOOOOOOOOVED pizza....this scene coulda been a lil more heavy. Here's where we first said " I love you" to each other. My head was spinning.

Posted by Chris Perez on Monday, February 6, 2017

Room trashing happened....Oh God. Not one of my prouder moments. But I paid THOUSANDS in damages. Lesson Learned. She...was...PISSED.

Posted by Chris Perez on Monday, February 6, 2017

I heard about the "bumper story." That happened before I was in the band. #Funny #AnythingForSelenas

Posted by Chris Perez on Monday, February 6, 2017

Chris turned the movie off before the end for obvious reasons (Selena was murdered by her friend and fan club president Yolanda Saldivar), but he took a moment to praise Jennifer Lopez's portrayal of his late wife.

I'll tell you what... Jen did a great f!@#king job. Super proud. Will not watch the ending of the movie. G'night everyone....one last time, LOL!

Posted by Chris Perez on Monday, February 6, 2017

Tom Hiddleston finally addresses the #Hiddleswift conspiracy theories (and that infamous tank top).

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Remember that innocent time in American history before everyone found out Taylor Swift was lying about her knowledge of the song "Famous" and the most scandalous topic of the day was "Tom Hiddleston and Taylor Swift are totally faking their relationship, right? I mean, come on, THAT TANK TOP."

The tank top in question, of course, was the "I heart T.S." one that Tom Hiddleston donned for a squad meetup/photo shoot at Taylor's beach house during their short-lived romance. After a couple weeks of staged-looking paparazzi photos, the shirt was the last straw for observers who thought the coupling was less than authentic.

After being annoyingly coy about the Taylor Swift topic in countless interviews, Tom Hiddleston finally opened up about the relationship — and the tank top — in a fantastic GQcover story.

Here's what he said about the tank top, specifically:

“The truth is, it was the Fourth of July and a public holiday and we were playing a game and I slipped and hurt my back. And I wanted to protect the graze from the sun and said, ’Does anyone have a T-shirt?’ And one of her friends said, ’I’ve got this.’ And we all laughed about it. It was a joke.”

Needless to say the joke bombed.

As for the relationship itself, Tom Hiddleston swears it was genuine.

"A relationship exists between two people. We will always know what it was. The narratives that are out there altogether have been extrapolated from pictures that were taken without consent or permission, with no context...Of course it was real."

So there you go.


President Trump tweeted about 'Easy D' and now Twitter is confused and a little aroused.

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For all the time he spends on Twitter, President Donald Trump has no idea how it works, and what words mean.

To habitual users of the internet, and millennial parlance, "D" is for dick. Therefore, the tweet reads as if POTUS is anxiously awaiting a sexual encounter with a penis.

By "easy d" he could mean "easy decision," but it isn't clear. Trump's administration is waiting on a ruling from an appeals court that could strike down his controversial, nightmarish Muslim ban. Perhaps the president shouldn't be tweeting complex things if he can't fit the word in.

Easy D also sounds like a relative of Eazy-E.

Twitter users took to "easy D" like thirsty Tinder users take to easy D.

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Chrissy Teigen has been trolling Trump on Twitter for the past six years.

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Clap back queen Chrissy Teigen was making fun of Donald Trump on Twitter before it was cool or a necessary survival tool to keep you from going completely insane. The model has been taking aim at the businessman turned reality star turned leader of the free world since 2011, and we have the receipts to prove it.

Besides a few tweets about the Comedy Central Roast of Donald Trump (which really is a doozy, and totally worth a re-watch), this is Teigen's first of many tweets publicly dragging Trump:

But after that, she was on a roll.

Back in 2011, she even tweeted about Trump's rumored presidential run.

If only 2011 Chrissy Teigen knew what 2017 Chrissy Teigen knows now.

Teigen even live tweeted watching the Miss USA pageant in 2012, when it was still under the ownership of Donald Trump.

He sure does, Chrissy.

Finally, back in 2012, Chrissy Teigen had enough and unfollowed Trump from Twitter. This was at the height of his birtherism and accusations that Barack Obama was not born in America.

Chrissy Teigen was also "grabbing Trump by the wallet" and protesting stores that supported the businessman long before it became a national movement that got retailers like Nordstrom, Belk and HSN to stop selling items by first daughter Ivanka Trump.

No really, her timeline was FULL of jokes and insults. This was before Teigen was a big star, so many of these tweets only have a few likes.

Not much has changed since 2011, except, oh yeah, this dude Teigen was tweeting about is now PRESIDENT. Today, Teigen's hilarious but poignant tweets on Trump often go viral. She did, after all, have years of practice writing them.

Would you eat at this 'Beauty and the Beast' themed pop-up cafe?

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Good news, Disney fans. If you've always been jealous watching that scene in Beauty and the Beastwhere Belle gets a huge feast all to herself, you can now experience that feast for yourself. You'll just have to go to London.

Town House, a restaurant in London's Kensington Hotel, is celebrating the March release of Disney's live-action Beauty and the Beast remake with a "Tale as Old as Time" pop-up menu that has dishes inspired by scenes from the movie. You can see the whole thing here:

Rumor has it the grey stuff is delicious.

Town House also has extremely adorable table settings inspired by Mrs. Potts and company:

So... I guess we're going to London.

Creepy woman photoshops herself into stranger’s photos for four years. This detail gave her away.

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We've all participated in a little light Facebook stalking to get through a cold winter's night. But a woman named Jill Sharp from Scotland took things too far. The 31-year-old has been accused of stalking a man named Graham McQuet for four years and pretending to be his girlfriend. She also Photoshopped herself into photos of him and his actual girlfriend, Marianne Stirling, and shared them on Facebook, telling all her friends she was engaged, the Daily Record reports.

These two have never met:

Sharp reportedly even retraced the steps of a trip the couple took to London, and posted photos of herself and McQuet at Westminster Abbey side-by-side to make it seem like they took the trip together:

These photos were actually taken a month apart.

This had been going on for four years when finally Sharp's friends grew suspicious of this "fiancé" they had never met. The dubious vacation photo above (notice the ground is darker in the photo on the right due to rain) was the final straw.

“She put up a picture claiming they were having a weekend away in London but the two images were completely different," one friend told the Daily Record. "It was obvious it had been taken on a different day. So we started looking at her other images and it was evident in some of them they had been photoshopped.”

The friends tracked down McQuet, who said he had no idea who Jill Sharp was and that he was engaged to someone else.

“It appears this woman followed them down to London, visited the same places, took photos, then photoshopped them," said a friend of the couple. "It's astonishing behavior."

Here's a photo of real-life couple, McQuet, 31, and Stirling, 33:

After finding out about their stalker, Stirling tweeted about the incident and said that police had been called (her Twitter account has since been deleted):

A friend of Stirling's said that police responded but told the couple that no action could be taken. So apparently Sharp's actions, though creepy AF, are not illegal. “The police have told them that no criminal activity has taken place, apparently she’s allowed to impersonate whoever she wants to impersonate," said the friend. "The police just weren’t interested.”

I hope this woman gets the help she needs, and finds a living, breathing boyfriend who will take Facebook photos with her IRL. As my grandma always says, there's a pot for every lid. Even the crazy lids.

Add T.J. Maxx and Marshall's to the list of stores that may be distancing themselves from Ivanka Trump.

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Amidst all the talk about Nordstrom dropping Ivanka Trump merchandise altogether comes news that T.J. Maxx and Marshall's are no longer pushing any of their Ivanka Trump-branded merchandise, according to the (not really failing) New York Times. A note they obtained from TJX, the parent company of both retailers, instructs employees to mix all the items from any current Ivanka Trump displays in with the “runs" (meaning the clothing on the racks) and to straight up throw any signs for Ivanka Trump merchandise into the trash.

A spokesperson for TJX, Doreen Thompson, told the Timesvia email,

The communication was intended to instruct stores to mix this line of merchandise into our racks, not to remove it from the sales floor. We offer a rapidly changing selection of merchandise for our customers, and brands are featured based on a number of factors.

But an employee for one of the companies said that in the several years she worked for them, she'd never before received instructions to throw away a brand's signs. Just saying, this doesn't bode well for the future of Ivanka Trump's business with TJX.

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