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Is Blake Lively really acknowledging that her plantation wedding was a terrible idea here? I honestly can't tell, which is part of the problem. (Lainey Gossip)

Stephanie Pratt is somehow still a thing -- Why? -- and is rightfully getting dragged for tweeting "shoot the looters" despite being a known shoplifter. White people, ladies and gentlemen! (Dlisted)

And now for a brief moment of justice in the world, Myka Stauffer, the asshole YouTuber who rehomed her adopted autistic son is losing sponsorships left and right as she goddamn should. (Today)

Josh Lucas' ex-wife took him back, and his way of saying "thanks" was to allegedly cheat on her during a pandemic. Classy. (Celebitchy)

Is Antifa part of Obamagate? Just trying to keep up.

— Dan Rather (@DanRather) June 1, 2020

Gugu Mbatha-Raw deserved more love for The Morning Show. (Go Fug Yourself)

I don't know about you, but I legitimately can't wait to hear how many people would bone Werewolf Ryan Gosling. Should be lit. (Atom Insider)

Jackie Aina calls out brands who love capitalizing on black culture, but are being eerily quite right now. (The Root)

Trump is in the worst position of any incumbent president since the advent of polling, and I love everything about those words. (LGM)

My son goes on to YouTube to look for skateboard videos and you guys are instantly recommending him Ben Shapiro and Tucker Carlson. You can fuck right off. https://t.co/QIGSi44qvD

— MZS (@mattzollerseitz) May 31, 2020

Kathryn VonArendonk on the problem with the long-standing TV trope of always making cops the main characters. (Vulture)

So you know how I just mentioned that some brands need to be more vocal about Black Lives Matter? NextDoor definitely isn't one of them. In fact, they should probably just sit in the corner and think about being nice. (Jezebel)

Facebook staffers are staging walkouts over Zuckerberg doing jackshit about Trump very blatantly inciting violence. (Variety)

Cannonball Read believes #blacklivesmatter and that people are more important than property. If you want to know more how to be anti-racist but don't want to burden your Black friends with the emotional labor, Cannonballers have some books for you that may be a good place to start. Consider Ijeoma Oluo and Ibram X. Kendi's books on addressing racism,  Ta-Nehisi Coates and Angie Thomas' novels about being Black in America, or Robin DiAngelo and Elizabeth Gillespie McRae's books on whiteness. Have you read any of these? Do you have others to suggest? (Cannonball Read 12)

I kinda love that even @dog_rates is just taking people down. pic.twitter.com/AxchwiDmkt

— Brian Tallerico (@Brian_Tallerico) June 1, 2020

Bringing together 20 short films from 20 different directors, The Uncertain Kingdom is intended as a 360 degree view of what it means to be British in 2020. But while this anthology will occasionally stop you in your tracks, more often than not it leaves you feeling that the picture is incomplete.

The tone is overwhelmingly dark. In ‘Ernie’, a lonely school cleaner (Paul Kaye) longs for human connection while living dangerously close to the poverty line. The cinematography is raw and Kaye’s silent rage perfectly channels how so many working class Brits feel like they’ve been ignored in the age of austerity. Other stories touch on still darker themes, such as homelessness (‘Pavement’), immigrant workers who feel invisible (‘The Life Tree’), and an Asian woman who must sell her soul (and heritage) in order to become a Conservative MP (‘British People’).

The sombre message at the heart of the majority of these shorts is far too heavy – you find yourself longing for a glimmer of light. Sure, post-Brexit Britain, with its lying leader and alarming rise in hate crimes, is far from a happy place to be. But in largely failing to capture the sense of perseverance and ironic humour that underpins British culture, The Uncertain Kingdom doesn’t feel entirely representative. Equally, by ignoring the views of those who voted Leave, we don’t get the whole story.

It’s no coincidence that the best moments here are the lighter ones. David Proud’s ‘Verisimilitude’ is easily the high point, with its tale of an unemployed disabled actress Bella (Ruth Madeley) acting opposite a douchebag method actor (Laurie Davidson) perfectly highlighting how people from marginalised communities are often expected to be spectators in art (especially that which concerns their own life experiences).

The Uncertain Kingdom also contains several documentaries, which primarily focus on themes such as race. But aside from ‘Motherland’, which follows a group of migrants who are suddenly deported from Britain, none are as deep or as profound as their makers appear to think. ‘Sauna’ and ‘Strong is Better Than Angry’ are particularly hollow. It’s all hopelessness and no hope.

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After hiding in the White House bunker for much of the weekend and raging at Governors to track and trace protestors and imprison them for a decade, the President gave a speech earlier tonight declaring a sort of quasi-martial law. He stated that he would mobilize "all available federal resources, civilian and military" to stop protests across the country, targeting "professional anarchists, looters, criminals, antifa and others."

TRUMP: "I am mobilizing all available federal resources, civilian and military, to stop the rioting and looting, to end the destruction and arson. And to protect the rights of law-abiding Americans, including your Second Amendment rights." pic.twitter.com/CDu3eFZYp9

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 1, 2020

What the hell does protecting the Second Amendment have to do with any of this? He's just uttering buzz words now, isn't he? Quick! Someone ask him if he knows what the Second Amendment is because it sounds like he advocating the use of arms to protect the right to bear arms. It's head-spinny. Oh wait. Nevermind:

This reference to the 2nd Amendment is a head scratcher only if you don't know that 2nd Amendment was in fact created to ensure Southern slaveowners the right to maintain & arm slave patrols to put down insurrections amongst the enslaved. Now he's invoking agnst their descendants https://t.co/9anFgRjQCm

— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) June 1, 2020

Anyway, after declaring quasi martial law, the President pranced over to historic St. John's Church for a photo op, but not before the military cleared the area with tear gas. This is insane.

The area outside the White House looks like a warzone right now pic.twitter.com/MgoUnrPh6l

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 1, 2020

He did all of that, so that he could do ... this.

this is one of the all time best clips of trump. he had NO plan https://t.co/SsXxsakrPB

— libby watson (@libbycwatson) June 1, 2020

Clery at St. Johns were also unhappy because the President used their church and the Bible as a prop.

Bishop of Episcopal Diocese of Washington: "I don't want President Trump speaking for St. John's. Everything he has said and done is to enflame violence."

She called out Trump for using the church and Bible as a "prop."

Clergy were at the church all day supporting protesters. pic.twitter.com/rGclEq28rh

— Chris Lu (@ChrisLu44) June 2, 2020

As protests continue for a seventh night, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has rejected the offer to implement martial law. "Thank you but no thank you," he said, accusing Trump of "calling out the American military for a photo opportunity."

Meanwhile, moments ago, Tucker Carlson delivered a 32-minute monologue that took aim at, among others, Jared Kushner and ... Trump. I honestly don't even know what to make of this.

BREAKING: Fox News' Tucker Carlson just completely destroyed Donald Trump. Seriously! #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/2P4vb0iOfD

— Ms. Krassenstein (@HKrassenstein) June 2, 2020