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[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

A prerequisite for becoming president should be passing a 6th grade math test.

[Rihanna @rihanna]

Bitches ain't gettin money, but they got an opinion!

[Gabriel @gabriel_horwitz]

Turns out the story of the year was just...made up. and it gets worse.

- John Doe is Chirayu Rana, 35, now a principal at Bregal Sagemount. he left JPMorgan and went straight to private equity.

- The whole "threaten his bonus" premise collapsed. Hajdini reported to a completely different managing director than Rana. she had no say over his compensation.

- JPMorgan pulled phone records, reviewed emails, interviewed the full team. found nothing. Rana even refused to participate in his own investigation.

- A colleague described Rana as "socially awkward" but someone who "met the requirements" to stay at the bank.

- Before any lawsuit, he tried to negotiate a payout in the "millions" to leave the bank quietly. they didn't bite.

- He filed court filing, then his lawyers retracted it for "corrections" and deleted it. But the Daily Mail already ran the whole thing and the rest twitter did its thing.

so he tried to get paid, didn't, then filed a now-retracted complaint against someone who couldn't touch his bonus. wild.

feel terrible for her and her family.

[pop_insider 🤍🖤 @PInsider_]

Tonight: Nate and cassie messy wedding
Wednesday: devil wears Prada 2
Next Monday: met gala
Oh this week is for the girls and gays

[fes @haydovez]

you can’t be poly and 80 years old @KlayThompson

[nermo @nermoeg]

Girls’ Super Bowl in 10 days #metgala

[S @even_steven8tht]

Hi, so as someone who filed taxes, I don’t believe this.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

A 13-year-old Canadian kid uploaded R&B covers to YouTube in 2008 from his bedroom. A talent manager named Scooter Braun stumbled on the videos and signed him.

For the next 15 years, Braun controlled everything. Tours, branding, business deals, public image. The kid became the biggest pop star on the planet, sold 150 million records, racked up 32 billion Spotify streams, and had three Diamond-certified singles before turning 25.

Then in 2022, he got hit with Ramsay Hunt syndrome. Partial facial paralysis. Cancelled the world tour. Disappeared from public life entirely.

Here's where it gets interesting.

In January 2023, he sold his entire 290-song catalog to Hipgnosis for $200 million. Every song he'd ever released. "Baby." "Sorry." "Love Yourself." All of it. Gone. At 28 years old, he cashed out his past.

Then he dropped Scooter Braun. After 15 years. No manager. No agent. For the first time in his career, nobody was making decisions for him.

Fast forward to this weekend. Coachella calls. He picks up the phone himself. Rolling Stone confirmed he negotiated his own headlining deal directly with Goldenvoice. No agent commission. No manager cut. $10 million for two weekends, and he kept all of it.

Then he walked onto the biggest stage in music, sat down behind a MacBook, and pulled up YouTube.

He played "Baby" from 2010. He played his bedroom covers from 2008. He harmonized with his 13-year-old self in front of 100,000 people. Katy Perry joked about whether he had YouTube Premium.

Half the internet called it lazy. The other half called it genius.

They're both wrong. It was a receipt.

He sold his catalog for $200 million. He fired the man who discovered him. He negotiated his own deal. And then he went back to the exact platform where it all started and said: I built this from a laptop. I'm headlining Coachella from a laptop. And for the first time in my life, every dollar is mine.

The kid from YouTube just closed the loop.

[Hernandy D. Morales @hernandy_s]

The damn book makes it very clear that this is the worst fucking sin you can commit

[beeble @notbeeble]

>pointless war in the middle east
>economy is in shambles
>tiger woods is in the news on some bullshit

Welcome back late 2000s

[@kp_official1 on IG @kp_official_1]

Putting things into perspective like this should be enough to make people revolt

[tyris ✰ @TYRISPRINT]

WAIT LATTO TOREEEEE

[Geist @TysonCreme]

early afternoon slot for one, evening slot for the other with lunch in between. don’t worry, we will be there.

[A Shot @ashotmagazine]

For the first time ever in Oscars history, horror films won 8 Academy Awards in a single night.

• Sinners — 4 wins
• Frankenstein — 3 wins
• Weapons — 1 win

[zoë rose bryant @zoerosebryant]

you couldn’t go wrong with anyone in this line-up but god this really is one of the coolest wins in oscar history imo 😭

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

SINNERS stats:

• 4 Oscars
• 3 BAFTAs
• 2 Grammys
• 2 Actor Awards
• 2 Golden Globes
• A on CinemaScore
• $370M+ worldwide
• 4 Critics Choice Awards
• 97% on Rotten Tomatoes
• One of the best reviewed wide-release films of the decade

[Film Updates @FilmUpdates]

Ryan Coogler becomes the second Black filmmaker to ever win Best Original Screenplay at the #Oscars

He joins Jordan Peele, who was the first.

[Pop Base @PopBase]

‘Weapons’ has won all of its Oscar nominations. #Oscars

[Film Updates @FilmUpdates]

Michael B. Jordan is officially an #Oscar winning actor.

[Joe Russo @joerussotweets]

Running around my living room like this because HORROR JUST WON AN OSCAR.