During last year’s NFL season, Taylor Swift and Brittany Mahomes were thick as thieves as the two were often spotted at Kansas City Chiefs games, sending angry conservative men into a frothing white rage because how dare football be interrupted for two seconds of women having fun? This is America. Well, those neanderthals just got tossed a bone as Brittany has all but declared that she’s aboard the Trump Train. In the past week, she’s already managed to triple down on her true MAGA colors. This presents a problem because Swift endorsed Biden during the 2020 election and will most likely do the same for Kamala Harris. Or at the very least, she’ll make it very clear that Trump sucks sh*t. Things are about to get real weird in the VIP suite. (Jezebel)
Lainey and her team are off for the next few days to rest up for TIFF, so enjoy this social media round-up full of Chrissy Teigen, Leonardo DiCaprio loving frogs, and a possibly single Sabrina Carpenter. (Lainey Gossip)
Marisa Tomei loved watching Tom Holland and Zendaya fall in love while making the Spider-Man movies. (Celebitchy)
The Army put out a statement slamming Trump for the Arlington Cemetery fiasco. Imagine how bad you have to screw up for the Army to be like, what the hell, dude? (Wonkette)
From Petr: Ice T got asked when Law and Order: SVU will go back to normal because it’s too woke now. He responded: “What the F is woke?” (Variety)
John Stamos claims he was kicked out of a Scientology recruiting session for goofing off with the E-meters, which is hilarious if true. (Daily Beast)
James Gandolfini is dead. Please leave him out of this. (IndieWire)
From Kayleigh: Here’s the first look at Creed’s Scott Stapp as Frank Sinatra in the new Ronald Reagan biopic. — Wait, what? (Stereogum)
For some more random, Lana Del Rey is dating an alligator tour guide. (Page Six)
Please Don’t Destroy made a very weird Dunkin ad, and no, I’m not just saying that because the old guy’s name is Mike. That didn’t hurt me. Go away. (LateNighter)
From Petr: Gen Z has officially canceled “laptop purchases.” (BuzzFeed)
Frogbandocto leaned into her academic roots to sing the praises of two novellas, Boulder by Eva Baltasar (translated by Julia Sanches) and Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan. “The books are sparse but forceful, and I may finally understand the hype for minimalism.” Do you have any short fiction recommendations? (Cannonball Read 16)