The Juneau Assembly has proposed updates to the city’s disorderly conduct laws, tightening rules around blocking sidewalks, public disturbances, and behavior in public spaces.
The focus of the new updates- making it easier for the Juneau Police Department to arrest individuals, particularly unhoused individuals for disruptive actions in public areas.
The ordinance adds language allowing police to intervene when people stand, walk, or camp in places like sidewalks, stairwells, parking lots, and garages.
“We had a long conversation about the community impacts of public camping, and that was probably the longest agenda item that we discussed.” Said Deputy Manager Robert Barr, “it would make it a bit easier for our police department officers to do some enforcement activity that they already do.”
Deputy City Manager Robert Barr said the changes bring city code in line with state law, removing steps that currently delay enforcement, which lie within officers arresting individuals for trespassing rather than disorderly conduct.
“Our first course of action whenever we’re engaged in that sort of activity with folks who are unhoused, is to try and connect to resources and seek voluntary compliance.” Said Barr, “but sometimes it’s not possible.”
Alaska already grapples with its growing unhoused population, Juneau currently operates under a “dispersed camping” policy for its homeless population, allowing camping on unimproved public land as long as it minimizes impact and doesn’t violate specific regulations like blocking public rights-of-way.
Juneau Police cleared the unhoused encampment on Teal street back in June, Barr said the assembly asked to bring back more information at a future meeting, likely the next Committee of the Whole, on creating a shelter safety zone in the Teal Street area, “just to investigate whether other tools that we could implement would protect our social service providers out there.” said Barr.
Juneau has had the highest average sale price for a single-family home in the state for the past two years and a report from the Department of Labor and Workforce Development, shows that housing costs are nearly half of most Alaska residents’ annual income.
These proposed updates come amid nationwide trends, with the Supreme court ruling that cities can ban people from sleeping and camping in public places last year.
Sandbag filling and distribution, photo generously provided by CBJ
The City and Borough of Juneau and Tlingit & Haida will hold sandbag distribution events on Saturday, July 19 and Saturday, July 26, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Dimond Park Field House parking lot in preparation for another glacial outburst flood.
With the summer heat rising and water levels climbing in Suicide Basin, emergency officials, city officials and the National Weather Service are closely monitoring the threat of another glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) in the Mendenhall River Valley. This threat follows a record flood event on August 6, 2024, which swept through neighborhoods, damaged property, and reshaped how Juneau prepares for these recurring flooding events.
Suicide Basin, located above the Mendenhall Glacier, has released floodwaters nearly every year since 2011. These events occur when meltwater trapped behind the glacier breaks through ice dams, sending torrents into Mendenhall Lake and River below.
As of Saturday, July 12, water levels in the basin are around 1,263 feet, about 108 feet below the spillway level. That’s slightly lower than this time last year, due to a colder spring and early summer.
At the current rate, or around 4 feet per day, the basin could reach full capacity by August 8.
Sand, bags, and shovels will be available for residents to fill on site. Households in the 18-foot flood risk zone may collect up to 75 sandbags total, including from earlier events.
For flood prep info, visit juneauflood.com or bit.ly/JuneauFloodReady, and sign up for alerts at bit.ly/CBJAlerts.
Artist Crystal Worl has completed restoration work on her mural honoring Tlingit civil rights leader Elizabeth Peratrovich in downtown Juneau.
The project was made possible thanks to equipment donated by Tyler Rental, which provided the use of a forklift from July 6 to 12.
The lift allowed Worl to safely access and restore the 60-by-25-foot mural that spans the south-facing wall of the Juneau Public Library and Marine Parking Garage.
The mural that Worl, who is Tlingit and Athabascan, began planning in 2018 was originally installed in September 2021, and is a tribute to Elizabeth Kaax̱gal.aat Peratrovich, a member of the Lukaax̱.ádi (Sockeye Salmon) clan. She is remembered for her advocacy in the fight for equality for Alaska Natives, and for her pivotal role in the passage of the Anti-Discrimination Act of 1945, the first civil rights legislation of its kind in the United States.
The restoration is part of an ongoing commitment to preserving public art that celebrates Alaska Native heritage and leaders. “We appreciate this generous support in helping to maintain a public artwork that honors the legacy of a great Alaska Native leader,” Sealaska Heritage Institute said in their Facebook post.
Located on Áak’w Kwáan territory, the mural is now fully restored.
Crystal Worl writes on her website about the mural, “Educating the public about the local Indigenous values, culture, and history is important for Alaskans and visitors alike. I hope that this mural will contribute to the movement to transform Juneau into the Northwest Coast arts capital of the world and will beautify and enhance the downtown Juneau area. With the world recovering from the COVID pandemic and embracing racial and social justice ideals, artists must also rise to the occasion to tell our history and our stories.”
While the typical voter may not think much about judicial elections, political operatives and political scientists, like me, know they have consequences.
I think it’s important that voters understand what a retention election is and why state judicial elections are growing in political importance in the U.S.
Retention elections
Federal judges are appointed by the U.S. president, confirmed by the U.S. Senate, and can serve for the rest of their lives. State judges, however, are put in place in a variety of ways.
The most powerful state courts are the so-called “courts of last resort.” These are essentially the supreme courts of each state. The method for selecting judges in these courts has varied over time and across the states. Currently, states use either gubernatorial appointment, legislative appointment, partisan elections, nonpartisan elections, or a merit process for selecting the judges of their highest courts.
Pennsylvania has partisan elections, meaning judges run for office attached to political parties, just like a candidate would run for governor or president. However, it is only in their first race for office that a judge runs in a competitive partisan election. After they assume the bench, they participate in retention elections every 10 years. These retention elections are considered nonpartisan, since party labels do not appear on the ballot.
Essentially, a retention election is an up or down vote. If more than 50% of voters cast a vote in opposition to a sitting judge, that judge will be out of the office at the end of their term. The governor, who is currently Democrat Josh Shapiro, then makes a temporary appointment to fill the seat with a special election held in the next odd year – in this case, 2027. But any appointments would need to be confirmed by the Republican-controlled state Senate, which may not confirm his picks.
Politicization of the state courts
Judges win retention elections over 90% of the time. So why should people bother to cast their vote?
Courts, including state courts, have become highly politicized over the past several decades. A marked increase in politicization occurred for the U.S. Supreme Court after the failed nomination of Robert Bork in the 1980s.
State supreme courts have always made big decisions, but the nationalization of American politics – where national partisan politics drive voter behavior in local elections – has elevated the controversy over state supreme court decisions on issues such as reproductive rights, trans rights, COVID-19 restrictions, environmental protection and more.
This issue became more acute when courts in battleground states were thrust to the center of adjudicating false claims of election fraud during the 2020 U.S. presidential election. And judges have faced increasing threats, particularly when opposing actions of the Trump administration, as President Donald Trump is prone to calling out specific judges in decisions that he does not like.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has received additional attention, in part due to the outsized role it has played in recent redistricting. In 2018, the court threw out the congressional districts drawn by the General Assembly in 2011 and invited a new plan from the governor and General Assembly. The two came to a political loggerhead, so the Supreme Court ended up using its own map as a replacement.
In 2022, the state Supreme Court once again took control of redistricting after Pennyslvania’s then-Gov. Tom Wolf vetoed the congressional district map approved by the General Assembly.
Former prosecutor Susan Crawford won the highly politicized race for Wisconsin Supreme Court justice in 2025. It was the most expensive state supreme court race in U.S. history. Scott Olson via Getty Images
That was one seat.
Pennsylvania has three up for grabs in November 2025, with the potential to swing the current Democratic majority.
And retention elections are politically simple for opponents. As one Republican political consultant told investigative news outlet Spotlight PA: “This is a political consultant’s dream, because your message is just one thing, and that’s ‘No.’”
This can give some advantage to Republicans in a state that Trump won in 2024 and in a low-turnout election. The question will be whether there is more energy motivating opponents to turn out against the Democratic majority or supporters seeking to maintain the status quo.
The 2025 retention elections could change the balance of power in the court. AP Photo/Aimee Dilger
The stakes for Pennsylvania in 2025
Much is at stake for Pennsylvanians in the fall. Republicans see this as their best opportunity to break the firm 5-2 Democratic majority on the court. This would pave the way for very different judicial decisions. Many of the court’s recent election-related rulings were made on narrow 4-3 votes that could swing differently if the composition of the court changes.
Republicans have had their power in Harrisburg diminished with Shapiro in the governor’s mansion and a one-seat Democratic majority in the state House of Representatives over the past two terms.
A Republican majority on the court would significantly change the balance of power in Harrisburg.
But it is important to focus not only on the top court. The state’s two appellate-level courts – one step below the state Supreme Court – also have two important races and two retention votes in November that will decide the judiciary’s relationship with the governor and General Assembly.
Daniel J. Mallinson does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
It was a surrender widely foreseen. For months, rumors abounded that Paramount would eventually settle the seemingly frivolous lawsuit brought by President Donald Trump concerning editorial decisions in the production of a CBS interview with Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris in 2024.
On July 2, 2025, those rumors proved true: The settlement between Paramount and Trump’s legal team resulted in CBS’s parent company agreeing to pay $16 million to the future Donald Trump Library – the $16 million included Trump’s legal fees – in exchange for ending the lawsuit. Despite the opinion of many media law scholars and practicing attorneys who considered the lawsuit meritless, Shari Redstone, the largest shareholder of Paramount, yielded to Trump.
Specifically, when the Trump administration assumed power in January 2025, the new Federal Communications Commission had no legal obligation to facilitate, without scrutiny, the transfer of the CBS network’s broadcast licenses for its owned-and-operated TV stations to new ownership.
The FCC, under newly installed Republican Chairman Brendan Carr, was fully aware of the issues in the legal conflict between Trump and CBS at the time Paramount needed FCC approval for the license transfers. Without a settlement, the Paramount-Skydance deal remained in jeopardy.
Until it wasn’t.
At that point, Paramount joined Disney in implicitly apologizing for journalism produced by their TV news divisions.
Earlier in 2025, Disney had settled a different Trump lawsuit with ABC News in exchange for a $15 million donation to the future Trump Library. That lawsuit involved a dispute over the wording of the actions for which Trump was found liable in a civil lawsuit brought by E. Jean Carroll.
GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump said the CBS interview with Democratic nominee Kamala Harris was ‘fraudulent interference with an election.’
It’s not certain what the ABC and CBS settlements portend, but many are predicting they will produce a “chilling effect” within the network news divisions. Such an outcome would arise from fear of new litigation, and it would install a form of internal self-censorship that would influence network journalists when deciding whether the pursuit of investigative stories involving the Trump administration would be worth the risk.
Trump has apparently succeeded where earlier presidents failed.
Presidential pressure
From Jimmy Carter trying to get CBS anchor Walter Cronkite to stop ending his evening newscasts with the number of days American hostages were being held in Iran to Richard Nixon’s administration threatening the broadcast licenses of The Washington Post’s TV stations to weaken Watergate reporting, previous presidents sought to apply editorial pressure on broadcast journalists.
But in the cases of Carter and Nixon, it didn’t work. The broadcast networks’ focus on both Watergate and the Iran hostage crisis remained unrelenting.
Nor were Nixon and Carter the first presidents seeking to influence, and possibly control, network news.
President Lyndon Johnson, who owned local TV and radio stations in Austin, Texas, regularly complained to his old friend, CBS President Frank Stanton, about what he perceived as biased TV coverage. Johnson was so furious with the CBS and NBC reporting from Vietnam, he once argued that their newscasts seemed “controlled by the Vietcong.”
Yet none of these earlier presidents won millions from the corporations that aired ethical news reporting in the public interest.
Before Trump, these conflicts mostly occurred backstage and informally, allowing the broadcasters to sidestep the damage to their credibility should any surrender to White House administrations be made public. In a “Reporter’s Notebook” on the CBS Evening News the night of the Trump settlement, anchor John Dickerson summarized the new dilemma succinctly: “Can you hold power to account when you’ve paid it millions? Can an audience trust you when it thinks you’ve traded away that trust?”
“The audience will decide that,” Dickerson continued, concluding: “Our job is to show up to honor what we witness on behalf of the people we witness it for.”
During the Iran hostage crisis, CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite ended every broadcast with the number of days the hostages had been held captive.
Soon, Skydance Media will assume control over the Paramount properties, and the new CBS will be on the airwaves.
When the licenses for KCBS in Los Angeles, WCBS in New York and the other CBS-owned-and-operated stations are transferred, we’ll learn the long-term legacy of corporate capitulation. But for now, it remains too early to judge tomorrow’s newscasts.
As a scholar of broadcast journalism and a former broadcast journalist, I recommend evaluating programs like “60 Minutes” and the “CBS Evening News” on the record they will compile over the next three years – and the record they compiled over the past 50. The same goes for “ABC World News Tonight” and other ABC News programs.
A major complicating factor for the Paramount-Skydance deal was the fact that “60 Minutes” has, over the past six months, broken major scoops embarrassing to the Trump administration, which led to additional scrutiny by its corporate ownership. Judged by its reporting in the first half of 2025, “60 Minutes” has upheld its record of critical and independent reporting in the public interest.
If audience members want to see ethical, independent and professional broadcast journalism that holds power to account, then it’s the audience’s responsibility to tune it in. The only way to learn the consequences of these settlements is by watching future programming rather than dismissing it beforehand.
The journalists working at ABC News and CBS News understand the legacy of their organizations, and they are also aware of how their owners have cast suspicion on the news divisions’ professionalism and credibility. As Dickerson asserted, they plan to “show up” regardless of the stain, and I’d bet they’re more motivated to redeem their reputations than we expect.
I don’t think reporters, editors and producers plan to let Donald Trump become their editor-in-chief over the next three years. But we’ll only know by watching.
Michael Socolow’s father, Sanford Socolow, worked for CBS News from 1956 to 1988.
Brad Pitt has almost run out of children who still have ties to him.
One after the other, his and Angelina Jolie’s kids reach adulthood and publicly sever ties with him in some form.
However, twins Knox and Vivienne are both still minors.
Now, with the two having just turned 17, Pitt is reportedly hoping to somehow make nice in a last-ditch attempt to be a dad.
Brad Pitt attends the “F1: The Movie” European Premiere at Cineworld Leicester Square on June 23, 2025. (Photo Credit: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images for Warner Bros. Pictures)
Are Knox and Vivienne Jolie Brad Pitt’s last chance to be a dad?
According to a recent report by The Daily Mail, an inside source describes Brad Pitt as downright “desperate” to repair the damaged bond with Knox and Vivienne Jolie.
He wants “one final shot to get together,” the report details, as he allegedly hopes to “make amends.”
However, the insider acknowledged that Pitt “knows the chance … is remote to say the least.”
Actress Angelina Jolie and her son Knox Jolie-Pitt arrive for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 15th Annual Governors Awards at the Ray Dolby Ballroom in Los Angeles on November 17, 2024. (Photo Credit: VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images)
Knox and Vivienne turned 17 on Saturday, July 12.
Though they are still minors and would not have such an easy time filing for a name change as sister Shiloh did the moment that she reached adulthood, their feelings are not a mystery.
Pitt reportedly felt “devastated” and “got the message loud and clear” when Vivienne listed herself as Vivienne Jolie, not Jolie-Pitt, on a 2024 Playbill.
However, with no similar public signal from Knox, the 61-year-old actor reportedly feels a “glimmer of hope.”
Maddox Jolie, Vivienne Jolie, Angelina Jolie, Zahara Jolie, Shiloh Jolie, and Knox Jolie arrive at the Premiere of Marvel Studios’ Eternals on October 18, 2021. (Photo Credit: Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Disney)
Apparently he ‘doesn’t want to give up’
Despite his alleged actions in the past and his legal war against their mother, the report claims that Brad Pitt still considers all of the children “very important to his life” and wants them “all back in the fold.”
A second inside source reported:
“He will always believe and always hope there is a chance to be back with all of them, and he doesn’t want to think otherwise.”
The glowing assessment of Pitt added: “He doesn’t want to give up, he’s not that kind of guy, he’s not that kind of father.” Generally, actions speak louder than words.
Vivienne Jolie and Angelina Jolie attend the The 77th Annual Tony Awards at David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center on June 16, 2024. (Photo Credit: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions)
“He is a proud father, and he would be happy to have them see that eventually,” this same second insider went on.
According to the source, he expects his kids to“make the move.”
The insider explained that this is “because he has tried over and over again to get back in their good graces.”
Shiloh Jolie, Zahara Jolie, Angelina Jolie, Vivienne Jolie, Maddox Jolie, and Knox Jolie attend the “Eternals” UK Premiere at the BFI IMAX Waterloo on October 27, 2021. (Photo Credit: Tim P. Whitby/Getty Images)
Only Knox and Vivienne can decide whether they want contact with Brad Pitt
According to reports, Brad Pitt does still see Knox and Vivienne Jolie from time to time. Being minors, they may have little choice in the matter.
The actor is far from alone in his alleged desire to rekindle a relationship with his children.
It seems that, every few weeks, a new brainrotten thinkpiece comes out begging people to reestablish contact with toxic relatives for one reason or another.
One has to assume that the authors are toxic relatives themselves.
Brad Pitt looks on from the grandstand during the F1 Grand Prix of Mexico at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez on October 27, 2024. (Photo Credit: Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images)
Pitt, whose brand is so toxic that others receive deserved backlash for interacting with him, would obviously like good relations with his children. But that ship has likely sailed for most of them — or, possibly, all of them.
Each of the Jolie kids gets to make the choice as to whether to have any contact with Pitt.
But they don’t get to redo their childhoods, and Pitt does not get to redo it, either.
The scene was a welcome sight after Kate pulled out of two events in recent weeks, sparking concerns about her health.
For Kensington Palace PR reps, hearing the crowd call out, “We love you, Kate!” was surely a pleasant change of pace from all the scandals and speculation that have characterized royal press coverage in recent years.
So the Princess of Wales and her team are probably less than thrilled with the fact that Monday marked a return to salacious headlines and wild rumors.
Prince William, Prince of Wales Catherine, Princess of Wales, Patron of The AELTC, Prince George of Wales and Princess Charlotte of Wales cross the player’s walkway bridge on day fourteen of The Championships Wimbledon 2025 at All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on July 13, 2025 in London, England. (Photo by Julian Finney/Getty Images)
The sudden departure of Natasha Archer raises questions
Last week, after 15 years of faithful service, Kate’s assistant and “unofficial stylist” Natasha Archer abruptly vacated her position.
Initial press coverage indicated that Archer had left on amicable terms, with People magazine describing her as “an invaluable member of the private household” who “has made the decision to leave her palace role to set up her own private consultancy.”
The outlet added that “the Prince and Princess of Wales’ household has wished Natasha the very best for the exciting opportunities ahead.”
The Duchess of Cambridge’s PA and Stylist Natasha Archer carries items of luggage as she arrives at Tezpur Airport on April 12, 2016 in Assam, India. (Photo by Dominic Lipinski – Pool/Getty Images)
It all sounds plausible enough. But in the days after Archer stepped down, many royal watchers began questioning the official version of events.
Natasha’s Instagram account was private throughout her tenure with Kate, and when she made it public, her new followers made a shocking discovery:
According to GB News, Natasha followed several of Meghan’s “close friends” including her makeup artist Daniel Martin, Abigail Spencer, “the Duchess’s former close friend” Jessica Mulroney, her Pilates instructor Heather Dorak, and a former Archewell employee named Mandana Dayani.
On its own, the fact that Archer followed so many of Meghan’s close friends and business partners might not be such a big deal.
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, attends the 2025 TIME100 Summit at Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 23, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Craig Barritt/Getty Images for TIME)
But after word got out that Natasha had taken such an interest in Meghan’s world, the former stylist reportedly began unfollowing those accounts, thus triggering even more speculation.
Is there reason to be suspicious?
By most accounts, Natasha was on her way to being named the primary stylist to the queen consort once William took the throne.
So the news that she’d decided to set out on her own after dedicating most of her adult life to Kate was greeted with a modicum of suspicion.
And reports that Natasha followed all of those Meghan-adjacent accounts raised even more red flags — but it’s highly unlikely that she was booted out of Kensington Palace for her social media activity.
Of course, we’ll probably never find out for sure what happened there, so you can expect the rumor mill to continue churning.
Caitlyn Jenner attended Brody Jenner’s wedding at a painful time.
Presumably, she was delighted to see her son marry longtime fiancee Tia Blanco.
However, the wedding came just over a week after the shocking death of her longtime friend, Sophia Hutchins.
Cait has seen a lot of loss in recent years. But she still made it to her son’s wedding.
Sophia Hutchins and Caitlyn Jenner attend the Face Forward’s 10th Annual “La Dolce Vita” Themed Gala at the Beverly Wilshire Four Seasons Hotel on September 22, 2018. (Photo Credit: Greg Doherty/Getty Images)
Caitlyn Jenner attended Brody Jenner’s wedding, despite a recent loss
On Saturday, July 12, Brody Jenner married Tia Blanco, his fiancee of over two years, at a ceremony in Malibu.
Unlike his 2018 wedding (which was not legally binding) to Kaitlynn Carter, it sounds like things weren’t so tense between Brody and Cait.
Linda Thompson, Brody’s mother, confirmed her ex’s attendance at the wedding — because Caitlyn appeared in the background of one of Linda’s videos over the weekend.
In 1981, Caitlyn Jenner — decades before her transition — married Linda Thompson.
Though they would go on to divorce in 1986, they would first have both Brody and Brandon Jenner.
Brody and Tia got together in 2022.
In 2023, they became engaged shortly before welcoming their child, Honey, who turns 2 this month.
Sophia Hutchins and Caitlyn Jenner attend the alice + olivia by Stacey Bendet x FriendsWithYou Collection LA launch party at the Hollywood Athletic Club on November 07, 2019. (Photo Credit: David Livingston/Getty Images)
Cait is grieving the death of her friend
Just 10 days before Brody Jenner and Tia Blanco’s joyous nuptials, Caitlyn Jenner’s longtime gal pal, Sophia Hutchins, passed away.
Sophia was only 29 years old.
On July 2, she was driving a 2013 Polaris four-wheeler (an ATV) near Cait’s home.
What might have been a minor traffic collision led to her plummeting to her death.
Brody Jenner attends Nights of the Jack friends and family nights at King Gilette Ranch on October 07, 2022. (Photo Credit: Andrew Toth/Getty Images for Nights Of The Jack)
According The Daily Mail, investigators determined that Sophia rear-ended a Mazda sedan on the road in Malibu.
She may have been attempting to drive around the car but, due to her alleged speed, merely clipped the car — and ended up driving off of the road and down a 350 foot ravine drop.
The vehicular collision on the road does not sound like it was that serious — as neither of the women in the Mazda reported any injuries.
However, Sophia’s fall proved fatal.
Caitlyn Jenner and Sophie Hutchins attend Elton John AIDS Foundation’s 30th Annual Academy Awards Viewing Party on March 27, 2022. (Photo Credit: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Elton John AIDS Foundation)
Their friendship raised questions, but that never seemed to matter
For years, Caitlyn Jenner and Sophia Hutchins remained steadfast friends. Persistent rumors suggested that the friends were romantically involved despite a substantial age gap and other factors, but no actual evidence arose of this.
Some cynically speculated that Cait and Sophia’s friendship worked because Sophia was the “only” trans woman who would tolerate Caitlyn’s politics and out outspoken attacks on the broader transgender community. That’s not quite true — because no community is a monolith.
In reality, reports say that Cait and Sophia shared a sense of humor in addition to extremely unusual politics.
Now, Caitlyn is in mourning, even as Brody Jenner and his wife celebrate. Life is complex.
The news didn’t come totally out of left field — eagle-eyed fans had already noticed that neither Cash nor Jessica had acknowledged their anniversary a few weeks prior.
But after 17 years and three kids together, Alba and Warren seemed to be one of Hollywood’s most stable couples.
Now, five months after she pulled the plug on her marriage, Jess seems to have moved on with a younger man.
Jessica Alba and Cash Warren attend the 2024 Baby2Baby Gala at Pacific Design Center on November 09, 2024 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Monica Schipper/Getty Images)
Jessica Alba enjoys Cancun vacation with Danny Ramirez
Earlier today, multiple outlets reported that Jessica had jetted off to Cancun with a “mystery man.”
Now, TMZ has identified the mystery man as Danny Ramirez, a 32-year-old actor best known for his work in films like Captain America: Brave New World and Top Gun: Maverick.
Danny has also appeared on several popular TV shows, including The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and The Last of Us.
Danny Ramirez attends the Global Premiere Red Carpet in support of “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” at Leicester Square on May 15, 2025, in London, England. (Photo by John Phillips/Getty Images for Paramount Pictures)
After spending several sun-soaked days in Cancun, the pair reportedly boarded an American Airlines jet and arrived back in Los Angeles last night.
What’s the deal with Jessica and Danny?
Obviously, it would be far too soon to declare that these two are a couple.
But the fact that they vacationed together — just the two of them — is certainly raising some eyebrows.
Sources tell TMZ that the split between Jessica and Cash has been “extremely amicable” with little to no drama. Both parties have agreed to share joint custody of their kids.
Jessica Alba attends the Red Sea Film Foundation’s “Women In Cinema” Gala at Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc on May 15, 2025 in Cap d’Antibes, France. (Photo by Arnold Jerocki/Getty Images for Red Sea Film Foundation)
The outlet also reports that Cash was spotted at the LA Coffee Bean on Saturday.
He was with his three children and appeared to be in good spirits.
Jessica probably isn’t in the habit of leaving the country without informing the father of her three children.
So it’s safe to assume that Cash knew about the trip and was fine with it.
Perhaps with their seemingly perfect marriage at an end, Jess and Cash will now pull off that rarest of Hollywood feats — a divorce that remains civil beginning to end.
Jo Frost is here to talk about having bee diagnosed with a life-threatening health condition.
The former Supernanny lead — who starred on the ABC series from 2005 to 2011, as well as a brief revival in 2020 — recently shared a social media post in which she delved into her experience with anaphylaxis… a life-threatening reaction to allergens that affects the entire body.
Before we go any further, we want to send our best wishes to Frost and all of her loved ones.
Jo Frost of “Supernanny” speaks during the Lifetime segment of the 2020 Winter TCA Tour at The Langham Huntington, Pasadena on January 18, 2020 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by David Livingston/Getty Images)
“I have survived more anaphylactic shocks than I’m prepared to go into detail about right now,” Frost shared in a July 12 Instagram message.
“I have anaphylaxis, a life-threatening medical condition to certain foods that will compromise my body so horrifically to the point of hospitalization.”
For those wondering:
Anaphylaxis is when you have a severe allergic reaction. Most commonly, it happens after you eat certain foods or get stung by an insect. Going into anaphylactic shock can be life-threatening, according to The Cleveland Clinic.
Jo Frost visits the SiriusXM Studios on January 8, 2020 in New York City. (Photo by Cindy Ord/Getty Images)
In her post, Frost went on as follows:
“Absolute millions of my community around the world, children and adults, live cautiously and anxiously navigating this journey with not nearly enough compassion, education and empathy from those who do not. Today, everyone will know someone or someone who knows of one with anaphylaxis.”
The star is hoping her reveal can help others in a similar situation.
“Today, everyone will know someone or someone who knows of one with anaphylaxis. If you ignore the severity of this medical condition, it’s as bad as shoving a loaded gun in my face,” she continued, insisting that she’s “unapologetic” for her medical condition, as she should be of course.
“I did not ask for it, and it does not define who I am and the impact that I make in the world daily. But it does impact how I live my life daily, like the precautions I take, the energy I have to use to discern with hypervigilance whether you do know what you’re talking about when you’re in a restaurant or just winging it because you can’t be asked to go to the back of the kitchen and truly ask the chef.
“It means your ‘it may contain’ labels are a consistent truth that you dodge accountability legally and put your greed before my safety.”
Dan Peirson, Jo Frost, Dane Ostler, Jax Ostler, Kaydin Ostler and Nicole Ostler of “Supernanny” speak during the Lifetime segment of the 2020 Winter TCA Tour at The Langham Huntington, Pasadena on January 18, 2020 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by David Livingston/Getty Images)
Frost was also critical of those who are insensitive to various conditions.
“By the way, I speak on behalf of those who also have celiac disease, too, because we are all not faddy eaters. I’m not looking to be treated special, I’m looking to be treated with the same dignity and attentiveness as you just showed others,” Frost said in the footage.
The small screen personality added that she doesn’t want “mumbling insults” or “passive-aggressive” remarks from people who might not understand her illness.
Frost is best known for having anchor in Supernanny from 2005 to 2011. She was also the star of the British version for many years, garnering a reputation for her no-nonsense approach and heartfelt empathy for struggling families.
She wrapped her social media message with a call for her followers to educate themselves on the condition, adding:
“There are many doing great work about anaphylaxis, get curious and learn more because really, as we mentioned before, we all know someone.”
