Lauren Tousignant

4 days ago | jezebel.com | Lauren Tousignant

Sunday’s mission involved said pilots dropping 30,000-pound bombs on two underground plants, and sailors launching cruise missiles from a submarine toward another site. (No word yet on the gender breakdown of the sailors.) The mission, named Operation Midnight Hammer, delivered 420,000 pounds of explosives, and while it was meant to destroy Iran’s nuclear program, no one really seems to know how successful or unsuccessful it was.

4 days ago | jezebel.com | Lauren Tousignant

His suit against Heard wasn’t the first time he sued because someone called him out for being a(n alleged) domestic abuser. In 2020, Depp sued The Sun, a British tabloid, for defamation after it called him a “wife beater.” Crucially, Depp lost that case because the judge found that the “great majority of alleged assaults of Ms. Heard by Mr. Depp have been proved.” Depp fans hate to talk about that. (That’s right, Depp fans! I’m calling you delusional!) “I was pre-#MeToo,” he declared to the Times.

1 week ago | jezebel.com | Lauren Tousignant

On Wednesday, Judge Lewis Liman ruled that Baldoni can obtain any text messages between Swift and Lively, as long as they relate to the production of It Ends With Us. Lively’s lawyers previously argued against this, stating that Baldoni’s team was only requesting them as part of a PR strategy to keep Swift in the story, and that Swift has nothing to do with anything.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Lauren Tousignant

It seemed like Taylor Swift was maybe, ahem, out of the woods, when it came to her involvement in the nightmare, never-ending It Ends With Us lawsuits. In May, Justin Baldoni‘s lawyers withdrew their subpoena against Swift, and Blake Lively‘s lawyers recently filed a protective order to block Baldoni’s team from getting text messages between the two (former???) friends. But a judge just said that the texts are fair game.

1 week ago | jezebel.com | Lauren Tousignant

Adriana Smith, who was declared brain dead in February when she was nine weeks pregnant and kept on life support due to Georgia’s six-week abortion ban, had her baby delivered via emergency cesarean section on Friday. The state now plans to take her off life support this week. Smith’s heartbreaking story made international headlines, sparked national outrage, and inspired one particularly horrendous column from The Atlantic.