Holden Desalles
Holden Desalles is a pen name for Brandon Gorrell.
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World Cup Fans Are Still Refusing to Tip at US Bars, Telling Servers to Make Their Bosses Pay Them a Real Wage Instead
A World Cup group ran up a $300 tab in New York and left a $4 tip. The bartender’s word for it: “really, really disgusting.” A $300 bar tab in New York ended with a $4 tip, left by a group of international fans who watched Argentina play and then walked out. Bartender Jessica Ordeñana…
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George Clooney Is Worth $500 Million, and He Just Went House-Hunting at a Hidden Capri Villa That Comedy Legend Toto Once Called Home
The villa can only be reached on foot, tucked so deep into the hillside it reads more like a bunker than a getaway. The estate George and Amal Clooney went to see sits in one of the most private corners of the Capri coastline, with 360-degree views of the sea, Vesuvius, and Ischia and no…
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Emmanuel Acho Argues Caitlin Clark Already Did Her Job for the WNBA and the League Doesn’t Need Her Anymore
Acho says Clark got the WNBA chartered planes, a new CBA, and max contracts worth up to $1.4 million a year. Now that the eyes are on the league, his take is that “if Caitlin disappeared from the WNBA, she wouldn’t be missed.” “Caitlin got the necessary eyes there, but now that the eyes are…
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Spacex Got the Worst Possible Environmental Grade Right Before Its IPO, Putting It in the Same Tier MSCI Gave Putin’s Russia After It Invaded Ukraine
Elon Musk’s response to SpaceX getting the lowest possible ESG rating: “Unfortunately, electric rockets are impossible.” The grade came down one day before SpaceX’s IPO, courtesy of MSCI, the global index provider whose Environmental, Social, and Governance scores big investors use to size up risk. SpaceX bottomed out the environmental category, according to the Financial…
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Humans May One Day Be Able to Regrow Lost Fingers, Limbs, or Other Body Parts Thanks to a Serum That Helped Mice Regrow Part of an Amputated Fing
Mice regrew part of an amputated finger after researchers applied two proteins in sequence, rebuilding bone, cartilage, a working joint, and tendon attachments where there should have been a scar. The Texas A&M-led team published the work in Nature Communications. They amputated the middle bone of a neonatal mouse’s digit, a cut that normally heals…
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Trump’s Food Stamp Overhaul Has Cut at Least 776,000 Children Off Benefits, and Nearly Half of Everyone Dropped in 12 States Is a Kid
According to reporting from ProPublica, Arizona has lost 205,223 children from food assistance since July 2025, a 55% drop that’s the steepest in the country. Louisiana came next with a 22% decline among kids. Across the 12 states that break down SNAP participation by age, 1,670,011 people have stopped receiving benefits. Of those, 776,134 were…
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The Foiled White House Drone Plot Points to “Accelerationists,” Extremists Who Want to Push the Country Toward Collapse, an Expert Says
The accused 19-year-old ringleader, Tycen Proper of Knox County, Ohio, was turned in by his own mother, who called local police on June 10 after spotting his firearms purchases and online activity. Federal agents had already infiltrated the group’s encrypted Signal chats. The FBI says five men, with a wider online network of roughly 23,…
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The Sky Marked Trump’s 80th Birthday with a Once-In-80-Years Omen: Lightning Over the Monument, a Rainbow at Sunset, and a UFC Cage on the White House Lawn
Trump turned 80 on June 14, 2026, the same day a UFC card went up on the South Lawn and a lightning storm rolled through the DMV. It was the first professional sporting event ever staged at the White House. The day started hot and humid, with highs around 94°F and a Severe Thunderstorm Watch…
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AI Billionaires Are Getting Scared. Workers Are Tearing Down Data Centers and Ripping Surveillance Cameras Off Poles, and Suddenly Bezos and Musk Want to Help the Working Class
For years the pitch was that AI would automate the world and workers should get ready. The tune is changing now that crowds are shutting down data centers, cities are tearing out AI surveillance cameras, and the backlash is showing up in the numbers. In Q1 2026 alone, local opposition blocked or delayed more than…
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Nick Reiner Is Charged with Stabbing His Parents to Death. Now He Wants $1.5 Million from Their Trust to Pay for His Defense
The $1.5 million Nick Reiner wants comes from a personal trust his parents created for him back in 1993, when he was a child. His petition, filed June 8 in Los Angeles Superior Court, argues he was entitled to half of it at 30 and the rest at 35, and that the trustee has no…
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Mark-Paul Gosselaar Showed Up to a Toronto Upfront at 52 in a Crop Top and Tiny Shorts, and the Internet Is Convinced His Six-Pack Is a Silicone Suit
Gosselaar, 52, took the stage at the 2026 Bell Media Upfront in Toronto wearing the costume from his new Crave comedy Bulges: a white crop top and short shorts that put a shredded midsection on full display. A video posted by creator Becca Rhodes racked up more than a million views and a thousand-plus comments,…
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23 States Are Suing to Block a Trump Executive Order That Would Bar the USPS from Sending Mail-In Ballots to Voters Not on a State-Submitted List
The order at the center of the case is titled “Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections.” President Trump signed it on March 31, 2026. It directs the Postmaster General to begin rulemaking to set uniform federal standards for how mail-in and absentee ballots move through the U.S. Postal Service.
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Trump Is Repainting the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and It’s Going to Look like a Luxury Hotel Pool
“It’s not supposed to look like you’re going to dive in and swim; it is intended to reflect the great geometry of the classical temple that is the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument.” — Judy Scott Feldman The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was designed in 1922 by Henry Bacon, the same architect who designed…
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Trump’s AI Alien Post Looks Like a Meme, but Here’s the Disclosure Timeline Behind It
Trump posted the AI-generated image on Truth Social on May 17, 2026, showing himself walking a grey alien in restraints alongside security personnel on what appears to be a military base. The image spread across X within hours, racking up tens of thousands of views and the predictable wave of memes, GIFs, and “peak 2026”…
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UAP Scientist Claims Aliens Were Pulled from Crash Sites and Trump Was Briefed for a February Speech
Puthoff is 89, a Stanford-trained quantum physicist who advised the Pentagon’s UAP program (AAWSAP) and served as chief science adviser to Robert Bigelow at Bigelow Aerospace. On Steven Bartlett’s Diary of a CEO this week, he appeared alongside filmmaker Dan Farah and said: “People who have been involved in recoveries have said there are at…
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5 Tourists Found Dead after Risky Scuba Dive in Maldives. The Youngest Was 20.
The five tourists died Thursday morning during a planned cave dive in Vaavu Atoll, about 64 kilometers south of Malé in the Maldives. Four of them were tied to the University of Genoa’s marine biology department: Monica Montefalcone, 55, an associate professor of ecology and marine biology. Giorgia Sommacal, 20, Monica’s daughter and a student…
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Angelina Jolie Lists Her Estate for Sale as She Prepares to Leave the United States After Her Twins Turn Eighteen
Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi moved to the Cotswolds in the UK after the 2024 election. Rosie O’Donnell moved to Ireland in early 2025. And now Angelina Jolie is leaving the United States, at least to many reports, and she 100% has her mansion up for sale. Her/mansion estate sits at 2000 DeMille Drive…
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Donald Trump Just Declassified Over 100 High-Security Classified Documents About UFOs and Aliens
The directive came from Trump on February 19, ordering the Secretary of War and federal agencies to identify and release files on “alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena, unidentified flying objects, and any and all other information connected to these highly complex, but extremely interesting and important, matters.” Now the documents are public. The…