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White House Fully Complying w/ Court Order To Provide Partial SNAP Benefits After Trump Claims Otherwise
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White House Fully Complying w/ Court Order To Provide Partial SNAP Benefits After Trump Claims Otherwise

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White House Fully Complying w/ Court Order To Provide Partial SNAP Benefits After Trump
Claims Otherwise

Looks like partial #SNAP benefits will go out this month after all. The #WhiteHouse has confirmed it is “fully complying” with a federal court order to distribute benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) despite earlier statements from #PresidentTrump suggesting otherwise. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters today (Nov. 4) that the administration was following the court order and working to get partial SNAP payments distributed “as quickly as we can.”

The clarification comes after Trump claimed this morning on Truth Social that SNAP benefits “will be given only when the Radical Left Democrats open up government.” Leavitt said Trump simply meant that he “didn’t want to have to keep tapping into an emergency fund and depleting it in the case of a catastrophe in this country.”

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Fun Fully LEGO Version of Jon M. Chu's 'Wicked: For Good' Featurette
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Fun Fully LEGO Version of Jon M. Chu’s ‘Wicked: For Good’ Featurette

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Fun Fully LEGO Version of Jon M. Chu’s ‘Wicked: For Good’ Featurette

by Alex Billington
October 23, 2025
Source: YouTube

“We have more action, more flying, more reveals, more drama.” More Witches & Wizards! Universal has revealed a fun LEGO recreation of the recent featurette for Jon M. Chu’s Wicked: For Good, opening in theaters everywhere in November. This behind-the-scenes look complements the first trailer a few months back. For Good is the second chapter of this immersive, cultural celebration. “It’s really about them trying to get back together in some way, even if the fates don’t allow that.” As an angry mob rises up against the Wicked Witch, Glinda and Elphaba will need to come together one final time. With their strong friendship now the fulcrum of their futures, they will need to truly see each other, with honesty and empathy, if they are to change themselves, and all of Oz, for good. Cynthia Erivo stars as Elphaba Thropp, a young woman with green skin who becomes the Wicked Witch. Ariana Grande co-stars as Glinda, with Michelle Yeoh, Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater, Marissa Bode, Bowen Yang, Bronwyn James, Keala Settle, plus Jeff Goldblum as the iconic Wizard of Oz. With Sharon D. Clarke as the voice of Elphaba’s childhood nanny, Dulcibear. This is a shot-for-shot remake of the featurette from August, including all the behind-the-scenes, on set footage with Chu being redone in LEGO, too. Which is the most amusing part about it. Enjoy.

Here’s the fun LEGO version of the featurette for Jon M. Chu’s sequel Wicked: For Good, from YouTube:

You can also rewatch the first trailer for Jon M. Chu’s Wicked: For Good sequel right here for more footage.

Wicked: For Good Featurette

Wicked: For Good Featurette

“You’re the only friend I ever had…” The final chapter of the untold story of the witches of Oz begins with Elphaba and Glinda estranged and living with the consequences of their choices. Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo), now demonized as The Wicked Witch of the West, lives in exile, hidden in the Ozian forest while continuing her fight for the freedom of Oz’s silenced Animals and desperately trying to expose the truth she knows about The Wizard (Jeff Goldblum). Glinda, meanwhile, has become the glamorous symbol of Goodness for all of Oz, living at the palace in Emerald City and reveling in the perks of fame and popularity. However, under the instruction of Madame Morrible (Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh), Glinda is then deployed to serve as an effervescent comfort to all of Oz, reassuring the masses that all is well under the rule of The Wizard.

Wicked: For Good, also known as Wicked: Part Two, is also directed by talented American filmmaker Jon M. Chu, director of the movies Step Up 2: The Streets, The LXD, Step Up 3D, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Jem and the Holograms, Now You See Me 2, Crazy Rich Asians, In the Heights, and the first Wicked movie. The screenplay is written by Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox. It’s adapted from Holzman & Stephen Schwartz’s stage musical Wicked, which is based on the 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire, inspired by The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Produced by Marc Platt and David Stone (of the Broadway musical). Universal Pictures will debut Chu’s sequel Wicked: For Good in theaters everywhere starting November 21st, 2025 just before Thanksgiving this fall. Excited to watch this finale?

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Miraki Jewels: A Jewelry Line With Fully Customizable Designs
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Miraki Jewels: A Jewelry Line With Fully Customizable Designs

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Brand Bio is Fashionista’s guide to the best independent fashion and beauty brands — a resource for retailers, job seekers, B2B companies and consumers alike. If you’d like your brand to be featured, fill out this form. Miraki JewelsHeadquarters: New York, NYE-commerce: mirakijewels.comSocial …

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Deezer reveal that 28 per cent of music uploaded to platform is fully AI-generated
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Deezer reveal that 28 per cent of music uploaded to platform is fully AI-generated

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Deezer has revealed that 28% of music uploaded to the streaming platform is fully AI-generated.

This revelation comes as the platform installed an AI-detection tool at the beginning of the year, and in June committed to labelling any song that uses AI with a tag. In a new report, Deezer shares the new figures for tracks that use Artificial Intelligence.

The French music streaming service said 30,000 tracks created, at least partially, with AI are added to the platform every day, and that 70% of the plays of these songs have been detected and identified as fraudulent.

The new 30,000 figure is an increase since February, when Deezer said around 10,000 AI-generated tracks are submitted to the platform daily.

In January, Deezer reported that roughly 10% of all content delivered to the platform was AI-generated. This figure increased to 18% in April and has now reached a new high of 28%.

The streaming service aims to flag content that is AI-generated for user transparency, assuring that it is removed from algorithmic recommendations. Deezer also wants to continue developing the capabilities of its AI-detection technology to include deep fake voices.

“Following a massive increase during the year, AI music now makes up a significant part of the daily track delivery to music streaming, and we want to lead the way in minimising any negative impact for artists and fans alike,” said Alexis Lanternier, Deezer’s CEO.

“Our approach is simple: we remove fully AI-generated content from algorithmic recommendations, and we don’t include it in editorial playlists. This way, we ensure the impact on the royalty pool remains minimal while providing a transparent user experience. And most importantly, we continue to fight fraudulent activity, which is the main driver behind uploading fully AI-generated content.”

Back in July, a report by 404 Media found that AI-generated songs are reportedly being uploaded to dead musicians’ profiles on Spotify.

This was uncovered when they noticed Blaze Foley – a country musician best known for his track ‘Clay Pigeons’ – had released a new single called ‘Together’ last week.

The track, which “vaguely sounds like a new, slow country song”, reportedly sounded very different from Foley’s original work, who was murdered in 1989. Additionally, the single artwork appeared to be an AI-generated image of a man singing into a microphone – who shares very little resemblance to the real Foley.

Craig McDonald, who is in charge of distributing Foley’s music and managing his Spotify page via his label Lost Art Records, said the song appeared on the artist’s profile without permission. “I can clearly tell you that this song is not Blaze, not anywhere near Blaze’s style, at all,” he told the publication. “It’s kind of an AI schlock bot, if you will.”

This is not the first time AI music has been allowed on Spotify’s platform. The seemingly AI-generated band The Velvet Sundown were reported to have over 400,000 monthly Spotify listeners – despite existing for less than a month.

Speculation continued to emerge after Redditors noticed their Instagram account look eerily AI-generated.

In other AI-related news, SZA has slammed AI users “codependent on a machine”: “Please Google how much energy and pollution it takes to run AI”. Elsewhere, Meta has created flirty AI chatbots using the characteristics and likeness of celebrities, including Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez, Scarlett Johansson and Anne Hathaway – without their consent.

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The Tragically Hip: Fully Completely Album Review
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The Tragically Hip: Fully Completely Album Review

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Maybe Downie was just drawing a parallel between the inexperienced Henry Hudson, who piloted the ill-fated flight that went down with Barilko, and the neophyte pilots of the Allied Air Forces. But it’s difficult to ignore the imperfections in this image of elite military pilots, these dashing and supposedly unquestionable heroes. Some of them were just kids. Some of them weren’t heroes at all—at least not yet. They were working it in. And if that image of Canadian history could be complicated so quickly, as a chaser to a story about a vanished hockey player, everything was questionable.

Elsewhere the lyrics were more directly adversarial. “Wheat Kings” was torn straight from the headlines, an acoustic track about David Milgaard, a 17-year-old wrongly convicted of a brutal rape and murder in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Milgaard served 23 years in prison before being released earlier that summer of 1992, and eventually fully exonerated. The song begins in a watercolor image of rural Canada, Downie singing of “sundown in the Paris of the Prairies,” but the veil is quickly pulled back to reveal the nightmare in Milgaard’s mind, “where the walls are lined all yellow, grey and sinister/Hung with pictures of our parents’ prime ministers.” Five of them had served in the time it took Milgaard to be convicted, suffer behind bars, and find freedom.

Most urgent of all was “Looking for a Place to Happen,” which told the bloody and bitter story of European annexation of Native land from two perspectives. First, Downie gave voice to French explorer Jacques Cartier, who callously wanted “To find a place, an ancient race/The kind you’d like to gamble with,” before shifting the focus to an indigenous person fleeing for their life: “I’ll paint a scene, from memory/So I’d know who murdered me.” The Hip were not telling the story of a harmonious country. Everywhere on Fully Completely, there seemed to be injustice and death, a beautiful-seeming facade melting away to reveal something grotesque and disturbing.

Fully Completely exploded upon release in Canada, selling 200,000 copies in its five weeks. In the States, it performed so poorly that MCA pulled their marketing budget for it just a fortnight after its release. “Two weeks before the record comes out, all the record company is saying is, ‘It’s gonna be big boys, look out!’ Then the week after, no one returns our calls,” Sinclair said. “That’s the way it is.”

By July 1993, the band’s own optimism had curdled. In an interview with the Calgary Herald, drummer Gord Sinclair put it down to an attitude south of the border. “I think Americans have this weird thing about Canada,” he said. “They look north and figure it’s just the 52nd state. Being from Canada really does not have much of an impact for them. They just sort of assume that you’re a second-class American or American with a funny accent or French.”

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Kerry Katona 'didn't fully grieve' after George Kay's death
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Kerry Katona ‘didn’t fully grieve’ after George Kay’s death

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Kerry Katona “didn’t fully grieve” after the death of her ex-husband George Kay.

Kerry Katona has opened up about the death of her ex-husband George Kay

The Atomic Kitten star was left devastated when her former partner – the father of her 11-year-old daughter DJ – died in 2019 after suffering a drug overdose at a hotel but she didn’t have time to process her emotions because she had to continue working to support her five children.

In her column for OK! magazine, Kerry heaped praised on fellow pop star Cheryl for fronting a new beauty campaign almost a year after the death of her ex Liam Payne, the father of her eight-year-old son Bear. Kerry wrote: “Cheryl has returned to work for the first time since Liam Payne’s death with a new Nivea campaign – and I’m glad to see her back.

“It can be tough knowing what to do after losing someone, I’ve been in the position of losing your child’s father and it’s awful.”

Kerry went on to add of her own experience: “I kept working through that time because I had four other children and no support, so I had no choice.

“But I do think that meant I didn’t fully grieve or deal with it as I should have, so it was the right decision for Cheryl to take a step back.”

Kerry previously admitted she felt a lot of “anger” after George’s death because his struggle with drugs left their daughter without a dad.

She told The Sun newspaper: “George is my baby’s daddy and she’s never, ever going to see him again and I’ve got so much anger towards him for that. I’m so angry.

“You become very, very selfish when you have an addiction. You don’t think about other people, and sometimes even your flesh and blood isn’t enough, and that’s really selfish.

“He’s going to be missing out on so many wonderful things, because that kid is one amazing kid …

“Then in the other respect … I’m not happy, I’m not glad, but I never want her to witness the things I had to witness with him … I don’t want DJ to go through that, I don’t want DJ to have to witness it, that’s why I know I will never touch another drug again in my life.”




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