Attorney General Pam Bondi is joining efforts to go after perceived Trump critics, from local prosecutors to agents who worked to prosecute the insurrection. MSNBC’s Ari Melber reports. (The Beat’s YouTube playlist: https://msnbc.com/ari Ari: / arimelber Beat merch: www.msnbc.com/Beat5)
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley and members of the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, in an extraordinary use of the powers of the presidency in his final hours to guard against potential “revenge” by the incoming Trump administration. […]
A New York woman who claims Diplo shared sexually explicit videos of her without her consent must use her real name instead of a Jane Doe pseudonym if she wants to proceed with the “revenge porn” lawsuit she filed against the famous DJ last June. In a ruling this week, U.S. District Court Judge Mónica […]
In a comic run that was published in the mid and late 2010s, writer Matthew Rosenberg and artist Stefano Landini took the character of Frank Castle, aka The Punisher, away from his crime roots and put him deep into the Marvel Universe on a mission of revenge. Revenge is still on the Rosenberg and Landini’s […]
Unfortunately, Ali Soufan was right. One year ago, shortly after the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel and the start of Israel’s military response, Soufan told me that the events had “ushered in a new era of chaos to the region.” The fallout has seen the displacement of millions of Gazans, the killing of Hamas […]
Warning: Contains spoilers. Horror, romance, and thrillers all get their due in the cultural canon, but the best revenge movies truly represent a genre unto themselves. Perhaps it’s their utter relatability that makes them so singularly appealing, tapping into the primal human desire for payback—and the often extreme lengths a person will go to to […]
Lee Jung-Jae returns as Player 456 in the second season of Squid Game. The 2021 Korean series Squid Game was a massive hit for Netflix, racking up 1.65 billion viewing hours in its first four weeks and snagging 14 Emmy nominations. Fans have been longing for a second season ever since, and we’re finally getting […]
Something you may have picked up on in the last eight years or so is that Donald Trump is obsessed with revenge against the people, places, and things he believes have wronged him. During his first run for office, for example, he spent ample amounts of time musing about imprisoning Hillary Clinton, and in his […]
Why did the study target X? The University of Michigan research team worried that their experiment posting AI-generated NCII on X may cross ethical lines. They chose to conduct the study on X because they deduced it was “a platform where there would be no volunteer moderators and little impact on paid moderators, if any” […]
Following the summer release of her fifth studio album, 9 Sad SymphoniesKate Nash is bringing her performance across North America for the first time since 2018. On Friday, the singer and songwriter announced that Shamir, Revenge Wife, Joh Chase, and Skating Polly will be joining her on the road. “When there’s tension in the world, there’s tension […]
