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4+ min ago (173+ words) While Tyra Banks has been known to experiment with her looks over the years, her most recent transformation makes her borderline unrecognizable! While this definitely won't be the last time Banks tries something bold with her hair, we always love to see what persona she transforms into next! In a previous interview with People, Banks talked about how she both embraces her gray hair and still rocks the wigs whenever she can. "I have on fake hair right now and my fake hair doesn't have gray hair in it, but my real hair does," she said. "Because today we celebrate women and we still have a long way to go, but we are getting there to where we feel good and not ashamed of the changes and the natural beauty that our body goes through." She added, I'm poppin'. I…...

8+ min ago (312+ words) One of the most frustrating things about Donald Trump's physical and mental decline is that it is fairly obvious to the American people who watch this president for any length of time, but much of the media and the Republican Party try to gaslight the country daily by normalizing what is happening in front of our eyes. What appears to be happening to Trump is not a big secret. It is also not anything to be ashamed of. This president is aging rapidly. If we are lucky enough to live long lives, it happens. The questions about Trump have nothing to do with his age itself. It is the refusal of this administration to release any information about the president's health, with which much of the mainstream media cooperates and doesn't push back, that lends the impression that everything is…...

19+ min ago (279+ words) Iran, Turkey agree to build key trade rail link Israeli forces detain 42 Palestinians across occupied West Bank Zarah Sultana prepares to address Your Party conference As MAGA turns on Zionism, Israel First right stokes Islamophobia How Yalla! Let's Talk became the Arab diaspora's leading podcast Iran and Turkey have agreed to begin constructing a new joint rail link to serve as a strategic gateway between Asia and Europe, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Sunday. It will cost roughly $1.6 billion and is expected to take three to four years to complete, Iranian authorities have said. Earlier this month, Iran's transport minister Farzaneh Sadegh said the rail line would transform the southern section of what was once the Silk Road into an "all-rail corridor ensuring the continuity of the network between China and Europe". It would also ensure "fast and cheap…...

32+ min ago (317+ words) It's been one of those centuries, hasn't it? We figure you could probably need a mood booster, because crom knows when we wrote this on Tuesday before the holiday, whatever it was, we needed one. So for this post, only nice things that help you recharge your mental batteries a bit. Here's one! Not even much schadenfreude, though we suppose sometimes "nice" is a relative thing, like when some of your visiting relatives finally headed home. Yes, we can see many of you nodding right now. Two of our favorite resources for correctives to (waves arms ) all this are, for mostly bite-sized morsels of nice, Bluesky's "Things Are Terrible But" feed, and the "Uplifting News" subreddit, both of which are exactly what their names suggest, without being sappy glurge, either. The Bluesky feed is mostly about little personal moments of…...

32+ min ago (438+ words) Malevolence may also be a factor. Outside his naked lust for power, profit, and retribution, Trump has shown little interest in governing. After DOGE trashed most federal services, the only departments left fully operational are Trump's well-funded instruments of power and control: ICE/DHS, FBI, DOJ, DOD, Federal Bureau of Prisons, and the US military. On Monday, Judge Cameron McGowan Currie threw out Trump's cases of political retribution against James Comey and Letitia James, after a parade of incompetence. That shift is enormously consequential. It was designed to block rogue actors from appointing one interim US attorney after another, running through a roster of unethical lawyers willing to break the law by pursuing cases based on politics rather than law. That is exactly what happened with Halligan. Judge Currie held that the initial 120-day appointment clock began in January with…...

33+ min ago (311+ words) Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya is the managing editor of Autostraddle and a lesbian writer of essays, fiction, and pop culture criticism living in Orlando. She is the former managing editor of TriQuarterly, and her short stories appear in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Joyland, Catapult, The Offing, The Rumpus, Cake Zine, and more. Some of her pop culture writing can be found at The AV Club, Vulture, The Cut, and others. When she is not writing, editing, or reading, she is probably playing tennis. You can follow her on Twitter or Instagram and learn more about her work on her website. I put out a call, and you answered! Last week, I asked for some quiz theme suggestions, and commenter Ky sent some great ones, including this! What's Your Fate in a Sapphic Christmas Movie? They even got extra credit by suggesting some…...

33+ min ago (299+ words) While it seemed as though Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi were going to stay UK residents forever, soaking up the culture and the quiet life, their pals are telling a different story. In fact, it seems the controversial pair may be setting their sights on going back to the US "sooner than later." Insiders claimed to The Mail on Sunday that DeGeneres and de Rossi may move back to California again, maybe even part-time, because they allegedly "miss their friends" and hate the British winters. "Ellen was adamant that she and Portia were going to stay in the UK while Trump was in the White House, but evidently she's changed her mind somewhat," the insider said. "She's been telling friends they are coming home soon because they miss them and can't take the winters over there, and Portia wants…...

33+ min ago (659+ words) Almost anyone who has flown knows how uncomfortably cramped airline seats are. Being squished next to a rude seatmate can make the rest of the flight even more unpleasant. A woman's flight was off to a turbulent start after she saw what her seatmate wrote about her in a text message, leaving her in tears." The video features Delta passenger Vanessa (@soberspouse) sitting in her seat, her face red and eyes bloodshot, presumably from sobbing. Then, she recaps in the text overlay what led to this. "We've taken off, and I can't stop crying," she shares. A glance at her seatmate's phone sent her into tears. "This man next to me sends one text, "ugh, HUGE woman sat next to me.' I saw bc I have eyes. Now I feel like a prisoner for the next 2 hours." Because the message…...

37+ min ago (250+ words) Conservative legal commentator Andy McCarthy torpedoed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's response to the blockbuster report which stated the secretary ordered the killing of everyone on board a suspected drug boat in the Caribbean in September. In a scathing National Review column published late Saturday, McCarthy " who also serves as a Fox News contributor " made clear that he believes the events, as laid out in the Washington Post report, are patently illegal. The Post reported that a second strike was ordered to take out two survivors who were clinging for life to the damaged ship. McCarthy said that giving the administration the benefit of the doubt wouldn't change his view of that reported second strike. "Even if you buy the untenable claim that they are combatants, it is a war crime to intentionally kill combatants who have been rendered unable to…...

42+ min ago (20+ words) A global roundup of some of last week's events. A global roundup of some of last week's events....