Taylor Swift & Charli XCX Still Aren't Fighting, Despite Best Efforts

Hi all! I’m helping cover P-Love while Mike is on vacation this week. Here’s hoping I don’t whiff too badly and can be at least described as “moderately entertaining.”

Various armchair experts are claiming Charli XCX threw shade at Taylor Swift during the VMAs, but nope! It was just a trick of editing. Maybe it’s stealth marketing for Taylor’s The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore? I can’t imagine why else we’re revisiting this nothing bit of gossip. (E! News)

Dave Grohl and Jordyn Bloom might have reunited after that cheating scandal two years ago. (Page Six)

Did Instagram block Florence Pugh’s posts about the Cornell travesty? (Just Jared)

CNN has made some interesting partnership choices. First Kalshi, now this. This is why, if I had a time machine, one thing I would like to do is hush up the first person to suggest the news should be a for-profit venture.(The Wrap)

From James: Florida man travels all the way to Massachusetts to pull a Florida Man and drive into the sea. (WWLP)

From Steven: Now here’s a dose of positive attitude in the face of body horror: “I’ve been shitting out my intestines since I was five years old” (Reddit)

“Jim Caviezel stars in a fawning Bolsonaro propaganda film” is the kind of news that might have existed only as a 30 Rock joke in an alternate, better reality. Alas! (A.V. Club)

Because nothing means anything anymore, the president apparently offered to sell items from the American military arsenal to Xi Jinping. Hi, meteor? ETA? (Wonkette)

Oof, I had no idea Beck’s Sea Change marked his deepened devotion to Scientology. (Vulture)

KM Nelson on the wonderful video game Sable and how it discusses existential terrors like extinction. (Unwinnable)

From Hannah: Sweary palate cleanse! (Threads)

MegsDarcy wants you to know that the thriller Entrapment by Jeff Stephens (Pajiban Jay Beezy) has everything a thriller should have, and her favorite part was watching a woman realize she doesn’t have to stay trapped. “I am ALWAYS here for a woman having a slow-burn ‘actually… screw this’ moment.” What do you love to see in a thriller? (Cannonball Read 18)

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