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Save the date!
Reports on Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding plans have always come with a warning: that they could change at any moment.
Now, the event of the year has sent out official notice to guests, locking in the date and location.
The date is no surprise. The location, on the other hand, is not what people expected.
This summer, in …
Page Six reports that Taylor and Travis’ save-the-dates for their wedding have gone out.
The apparent wedding date is no big surprise.
Friday, July 3.
We’ve been hearing about a summer wedding for months.
However, the venue is — as numerous outlets, including THG, suggested might happen — not where people were expecting.
According to Page Six‘s inside source, the save-the-dates reveal that the wedding will be in New York City.
This is a huge shift from numerous past reports, which claimed that the wedding would take place in Rhode Island.
However, for months, reports have suggested that Taylor might shift the venue — especially as the list of invites grew.
In a moment, we’ll delve into why the Big Apple makes so much sense for Taylor.
But first, we’ll acknowledge that some on social media have speculated that Taylor shifted the venue on purpose — or deliberately leaked a fake location — due to media coverage. We cannot verify that, however.
The date and location make a lot of sense
There are specific “wedding seasons” in the world.
These can be practical — times when guests are more likely to be able to take time off from work, or scenic — times when flowers are in bloom or leaves are changing their colors.
However, it makes sense for Taylor and Travis to marry in early July for a practical reason: his job.
We have all learned so much about the world of football since this relationship began. One of those fun facts is that Travis will have football camps to attend starting in late July, leading up to something called the “preseason” in early August.
Also, it can’t hurt that Taylor is a big fan of the Fourth of July.
As for New York, Taylor very famously moved to New York back in 2014, when she first broke out of her more genre-locked stardom and became a mainstream music behemoth.
Her Tribeca penthouse — which Taylor has expanded repeatedly over the years — is nothing short of palatial.
(It is allegedly the location where Karlie Kloss, as a guest, held an event without telling Taylor, resulting in a rift and a specific line from “Look What You Made Me Do.”)
Taylor also penned “Welcome To New York” and served as the city’s Welcome Ambassador for a time.
New York makes a very sensible venue for a wedding, especially if she has many guests. There will be no shortage of hotels.
Could this be a false flag?
We cannot rule out that Taylor could have sent fake save-the-dates to potential guests.
The cards could each have had a different phony detail — to identify the leaker when the detail went public.
But New York just makes a lot of sense. And sending out a second wave of “real” save-the-dates sounds like a whole hassle.
(Not to mention that leakers wouldn’t have to be guests. Many put save-the-dates on fridges, where anyone could see them.)
We’ll wait on Taylor and Travis for confirmation of the wedding plans. Until then, though, we’re sure that they’ll keep busy preparing for their big day.
Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce: SURPRISE Wedding Date, Venue Revealed! was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.
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Donald Trump’s unfiltered comments regarding sex and women’s appearance have left people asking if they’re a symptom. Could something serious be going on?
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For much of his political career, dishonesty has been without cost for Donald Trump. He entered into national politics with the birther lie, claiming that Barack Obama was not born in the U.S., and that did not prevent Trump from winning the 2016 GOP nomination.
His persistent false statements about crowd sizes, electoral outcomes and the birthplace of his father barely garner press coverage today.
What’s more, the admission that Trump lies seems to have had little impact. On the campaign trail during the 2024 presidential race, vice-presidential candidate JD Vance acknowledged that Trump’s story that Haitian immigrants were eating pets in Ohio had been “created.” That confession had no discernible effect on Trump’s popularity. In fact, some measures indicate that Trump’s supporters admire his untruthfulness.
More recently, however, things have changed. Data now indicates mounting regret and disappointment among his base.
The administration’s failure to sustain convincing messaging about the Iran war, the Epstein files, the tariffs and inflation have left some supporters feeling duped and abandoned by Trump.
The president’s recent approval numbers are registering this shift.
This might suggest that fact-checking efforts are paying off. But, as a philosopher who studies the cognitive and emotional aspects of citizenship, I think this is incorrect. There is a better explanation for why, at this point, Trump’s followers are reacting negatively to his assertions.
When falsehoods aren’t lies
Although fact-checking can be successful in establishing the facts among people who have not already made up their minds, it is generally ineffective among true believers. Once someone has formed an opinion, debunking their belief can backfire, driving them to commit even more strongly to their mistake.
To explain the emerging shift among Trump’s base requires looking elsewhere. Specifically, I think it requires abandoning the idea that Trump’s more outlandishly false statements are lies at all.
I realize that this may sound odd.
To explain, let’s begin by noting that it is surprisingly difficult to give an adequate definition of lying. Intuitive characterizations – “A lie is something that isn’t true” – fall short.
For example, lying isn’t merely uttering a falsehood. Honest mistakes and statements made from lapses of memory are not lies. You could say instead that lying is deliberately asserting what one knows to be false.
But that won’t work, either.
President Bill Clinton lied when he claimed that “there is not a sexual relationship,” which, at the moment he said it, was true.
At the very least, the definition of lying must include speaking with the aim of causing one’s audience to adopt a falsehood. But that would make stage actors liars.
We should say instead that lying is a matter of speaking with the intent to deceive. Though difficulties remain, that’s a workable definition.
Betrayal by contempt
Given the ease with which many of Trump’s false statements are debunked, I think it’s unlikely that he aims to deceive anyone. No one really believes that Trump has stopped eight wars, defeated inflation, brought gasoline prices below US$2, cut a deal with the CEO of Sharpie or has 100% approval for his military incursion in Iran – all things he has said.
As he is not attempting to deceive, Trump isn’t lying when he makes such claims. Rather, he is doing something else entirely, something arguably more pernicious.
From my perspective as a political philosopher, these and other similar claims indicate he is speaking falsely as a way of demeaning or taunting his detractors. By resolutely asserting unbelievable falsehoods, Trump is expressing contempt. He is deriding the enterprise of journalism, in effect forcing reporters to write stories about his incredible statements, thereby indirectly controlling the news cycle.
It seems to me that his purpose is not to convince anyone, but rather to declare to the press, and perhaps also to his opposition, “You cannot stop me.” For a political movement rooted in the idea that U.S. politics is a swamp in need of draining, Trump’s defiant style has been successful.
But here’s the catch. It appears that Trump’s supporters are now beginning to feel that they, too, are on the receiving end of his contempt.
His recent claims that grocery prices are falling, his tariffs are working, the economy is roaring and the operation in Iran is a “little excursion” that has already been successful are not only obvious falsehoods.
In asserting them, Trump belittles those who must bear the effects of a struggling economy and an ill-conceived war. From this perspective, the shift among his base is not due to their realization that Trump lies. It’s that he has betrayed them.
Robert B. Talisse 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.
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We have sad news to report from the world of music today.
Afrika Bambaataa — the hip hop legend best known for his pioneering track “Planet Rock” — has passed away.
He was just 67 years old.
News of his passing comes courtesy of a social media post from Mick Benzo, a fellow musician and member of the Universal Zulu Nation, the music collective founded by Bambaataa
“Two days ago, I spoke with Afrika Bambaataa and found him in high spirits,” Benzo wrote on Instagram.
“Today, however, I began receiving calls about his passing. Concerned, I reached out to him but received no response. My worries deepened, and I was heartbroken to learn it was true—he had peacefully fallen asleep and did not wake up,” he continued, adding:
“It is with profound sorrow that we announce the passing of Afrika Bambaataa, a pioneering architect and global ambassador of Hip Hop culture.
“Revered as the Godfather of Hip Hop, Bambaataa was instrumental in organizing, shaping, and elevating the culture from its earliest days in the Bronx into a worldwide movement rooted in the principles of Peace, Unity, Love, and Having Fun.
“Through his vision, leadership, and unwavering commitment, he helped transform Hip Hop into a powerful force for expression, community building, and social change.”
Bambaataa’s influence as a hip hop pioneer is undeniable.
However, in his later years, his musical contributions were overshadowed by scandal .
In 2016, Bambaataa was accused of molesting a teen.
Several other allegations followed, and though he denied them all, Bambaataa was eventually expelled from the Universal Zulu Nation.
According to a report from Rolling Stone, Bambaataa lost a child sexual abuse civil case last year after he failed to appear in court.
His cause of death is unknown at this time. We will have further updates on this developing story as new information becomes available.
Our thoughts go out to Afrika Bambaataa’s loved ones during this difficult time.
Afrika Bambaataa Cause of Death: Disgraced Hip Hop Legend Was 67 was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.
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Snow falls on the Alaska State Capitol on Monday, March 16, 2026, in Juneau, Alaska. (James Brooks photo/Alaska Beacon)
The chief of staff for a member of the Alaska House of Representatives was arrested early Sunday morning in Juneau and accused of driving under the influence of alcohol.
Kathryn “Katy” Giorgio, 45, is an aide to Rep. Genevieve Mina, D-Anchorage, and pleaded not guilty to a class A misdemeanor in an initial hearing on Monday.
Her arrest came less than a week after Forrest Wolfe, a Republican and aide to Gov. Mike Dunleavy, was also arrested for driving under the influence. It was Wolfe’s second DUI arrest and Giorgio’s first.
Giorgio was released without bail. Ordinarily, DUI release conditions require that accused Alaskans stay out of bars and other places where alcohol is served.
In Giorgio’s case, Judge Kirsten Swanson and the municipal prosecutor agreed to one exception: Giorgio will be allowed to play trombone this week in the Red Dog Saloon as part of an Alaska Folk Fest concert.
Mina declined comment when reached by phone Thursday evening but confirmed that Giorgio remains a member of her staff and that the matter is an internal personnel issue.
Giorgio declined on Thursday to speak at length about the incident but said “it was a bad decision.”
“I was not driving erratically. I was a block away from my house, and it was just an unfortunate situation, and I’m working through the system to do what I have to do,” she said.
In an affidavit submitted to prosecutors, Juneau Police Department Officer Joshua Shrader said he pulled over Giorgio about 2:30 a.m. Sunday morning after observing her car speeding and “driving down the center of the road” in Juneau’s Mendenhall Valley neighborhood.
“While Giorgio was searching for her registration,” he wrote, “I noted an open can of alcohol in the center console cup holder. Inside the center console glove box, Giorgio picked up another can of alcohol and attempted to conceal it in a napkin.”
Shrader said both Giorgio and the car smelled of alcohol, and her breath alcohol level measured at 0.126, more than the legal limit of 0.08.
A status hearing on Giorgio’s case has been preliminarily scheduled for April 24. A hearing in Wolfe’s case is scheduled for May 18. According to online court records, both have hired defense attorney August Petropulos.
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