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House Democrats on Wednesday moved to hold former Attorney General Pam Bondi in contempt of Congress after she refused to show up for a deposition about her role in the botched release of the Epstein files. “Pam Bondi has illegally defied our committee, skipped her deposition, and has refused to cooperate. We have introduced a contempt resolution, to hold her accountable,” California Rep.

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Remember “the most transparent administration in history”? That’s what Donald Trump promised at the beginning of his second term, and it’s been going about as well as the rest of his promises. The ongoing Epstein files debacle is the most glaring example, but contempt for the public’s right to know reaches far deeper in this administration.

Every day, the government creates reams of data, information, emails, and reports that belong to and are paid for by the public. That’s why the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and other public records laws require the government—with some exceptions—to let anyone see these documents whenever we ask.

Before Trump took power again last year, he and many in the MAGA movement were big fans of this principle. Trump filed FOIA requests with the IRS to stymie its audit of him and the National Archives when he got into trouble for retaining classified information. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. FOIA’d information about vaccines and his Secret Service detail and sued the government for not responding quickly enough.

But now, Trump and Kennedy are singing a different tune. Across the government, offices responsible for public information have been gutted by DOGE and subsequent waves of layoffs. How badly gutted? No one knows exactly…because employees who would answer questions like that have been laid off. But we do know that, for example, at Kennedy’s Department of Health and Human Services, multiple public information offices have been closed virtually overnight.

During his confirmation hearings, Kennedy promised “radical transparency”: HHS would share so much information, people wouldn’t need to wait for responses to FOIAs anymore. Sure enough, there’s a “Radical Transparency” page on the HHS website, but it has information on only five topics, all administration pet causes such as alleged conflicts of interest among vaccine advisers, “wasteful spending,” and “ending anti-semitism on college campuses.” Have a FOIA request for HHS? You now need to file it with the central government platform FOIA.gov, which, according to the latest report, had a backlog of more than 267,000 requests. By law, the government must respond to a FOIA request within 20 business days; at HHS right now, the average turnaround time is 490 days. For faster service, seal your request in a bottle and toss it into the ocean.

What we’re seeing is not the occasional delay or foot-dragging; it’s what the law calls a “pattern and practice.”

Some examples from our own reporting: More than a year and a half ago, Julia Métraux, who covers disability issues at Mother Jones, filed a request seeking information about a school in Massachusetts that uses electric shocks on children with disabilities. Last May, Madison Pauly, who covers LGBTQ issues, requested documents used to create a widely criticized report on gender dysphoria. The same month, Julia Lurie, who covers child welfare, sought information about “wellness farms” (which RFK Jr. has said can be used to “reparent” those taking antidepressants) and the psychedelic drug ibogaine, which the secretary wants to use to treat trauma-related disorders. Number of documents we’ve received so far: zero.

We’re not alone. Hundreds of organizations and individuals have requests pending with HHS, on everything from Medicare fraud investigations to the origins of Covid. What we’re seeing is not the occasional delay or foot-dragging; it’s what the law calls a “pattern and practice.” HHS seems to have essentially stopped responding to FOIA requests altogether.

So in November, Mother Jones and our parent organization, the Center for Investigative Reporting, filed a lawsuit against HHS, asking it to provide the records the public is due. “FOIA guarantees the public and the press access to information about what our government is actually doing—information that’s crucial for democracy to work,” says Peter Bibring, a civil rights attorney who prepared the lawsuit along with other lawyers, including CIR’s general counsel, Victoria Baranetsky, and our legal fellow, Brooke Henderson. “The government can’t use cost-cutting and efficiency as excuses to violate the law and keep the public in the dark.”

Kennedy has upended the way our government approaches vaccines, drug trials, water fluoridation, and much more. He’s turned the department’s autism programs into anti-vax propaganda. He has authority over who loses and who keeps Medicaid coverage. He has targeted abortion medication. The public deserves to know how those decisions came to be, and the records that can show us—emails, text messages, drafts of reports, and much more—are public by law. We look forward to seeing RFK Jr. in court.

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Marvin T. Milk a.k.a Mother’s Milk b.k.a. MM, played by the fantastic Laz Alonso, is one of the most grounded and well-crafted characters on The Boys. He isn’t the fearful Hughie nor the often callous and unpredictable Butcher. He’s not a supe but instead a highly skilled medic, loving father, clever fixer, and a man whose past haunts him. And, in the midst of many hijinks, he’s the serious yet caring guy who’s often unintentionally funny as hell. But, there’s one more claim to fame for MM: T-shirt God. It’s a small detail that many may not notice; however, it says a lot about his personality and style.Prime Video

Alonso himself spilled the details about his threads, affirming that the shirt choices are intentional. “I work with our onset costume coordinator, the head of the costume department, and every episode, we pick a shirt that kind of thematically encompasses what MM is going through and where we are in the story,” he tells Nerdist. “We have always done groups and artists and this season, we also started doing songs. For example, we did Childish Gambino’s ‘This is America.'”

And that’s just one of many incredible choices. In honor of his style, here’s an ode to a bunch of the awesome shirts that Mother’s Milk wears on The Boys. 

Jump To: Season 1 Shirts // Season 2 Shirts // Season 3 Shirts // Season 4 Shirts // Season 5 ShirtsThe Best T-Shirts That Marvin “MM” Milk Wears in The Boys Season 1Episode 7 – De La SoulPrime Video

When we first meet Marvin Milk, we don’t know much about him. In fact, he’s the last member of the OG Boys crew who begrudgingly returns. Soon, we uncover more about his life in almost perfect tandem with the intro of his incredible shirts, majority of which lean into Black culture. This one’s an ode to the eclectic hip-hop trio responsible for songs like “Me Myself and I.” It’s a nice nod to a group that was highly influential when MM was likely coming of age. 

Episode 8 – The Big XPrime Video

Mother’s Milk wears a black T-shirt with a big X scrawled across the front. It’s presumably a sign for “don’t cross me,” which, well, says a lot about him. (Sometimes, an X is used to represent the Bronx; however, MM is a Harlem native so that’s probably not it.) He doesn’t have the powers (or twisted mind) of supes like Homelander but he’s still a force when pissed off. And, he looks really, really good in black. Or anything, to be honest. Moving on…

The Best T-Shirts That Marvin “MM” Milk Wears in The Boys Season 2Episode 1 – Wu-Tang ClanPrime Video

Wu-Tang ain’t nuthing ta f*** with and neither is Marvin. Once again, this logo shirt speaks volumes. I’m pretty sure that Laz Alonso himself likes Wu-Tang (because why wouldn’t he?!) but it is a known fact that MM is a Wu fan. And if you don’t know about Wu-Tang, you better ask somebody. 

Episode 2 – Boogie Down Productions Prime Video

Boogie Down Productions was a hip-hop collective in the ‘80s featuring the legendary KRS-One, DJ Scott La Rock, and D-Nice, the DJ who infamously made the beginning of covid more tolerable with his “Club Quarantine” live DJ sets. Strong political and social commentary anchored their storytelling about the harsh realities of the South Bronx. It’s very dope to see him show such a pivotal and frankly underrated group so much love. 

Episode 3 – Public Enemy Prime Video

Once again, MM doesn’t miss, this time paying homage to Public Enemy. Long before Flava Flav became a reality show icon, he was a part of this collective alongside Chuck D. There isn’t a person over the age of 30 who doesn’t know “Fight the Power,” which is essentially what MM does as a Boys member. A true king of the people. Too bad it gets whale guts all over it. 

Episode 4 – NY Giants LovePrime Video

MM is a NY native, so it’s not surprising to see this Giants shirt. This one has those nice pops of color that we all recognize from the NFL team’s uniform colors. More blues and reds, please. 

Episode 4 – Power to the People Prime Video

MM rarely gives us a double dose of T-shirts in one episode. He is a busy guy, after all. But we get a wardrobe change into a Black Panther shirt. No, not the comic character but the organization. His shirt is particularly about the program ran in the late 1960s-early 1970s to feed Black youth breakfast before school. And, I must admit, the material looks soft and cozy against his muscles.

Episode 5 – Run-DMC Prime Video

The odes to NY hip hop abound with the infamous Run-DMC shirt that MM rocks with his signature leather jacket. MM’s taste in music and T-shirts is truly unmatched. 

Episode 6 and 8 – Black Fist Hoodie Prime Video

A shirt looks great but a hoodie. Wow. Perfection on MM. This hoodie is actually a part of Mississippi rapper and humanitarian David Banner’s “Black Fist” clothing collection. Love to see him in a hoodie so nice that he wore it twice.  

Episode 7 – Camouflage Yankees Prime Video

The New York Yankees get some love in this episode with a camouflaged logo shirt. Marvin is a former Marine (and yes, they do wear camo sometimes) so it’s a small homage to his past.

Episode 7 – Phife ForeverPrime Video

MM pays homage to Phife, a member of A Tribe Called Quest. The rapper died in 2016 and Forever is the name of his final album, which was mostly completed at his time of death. 

The Best T-Shirts That Marvin “MM” Milk Wears in The Boys Season 3Episode 3 – N.W.A. Prime Video

Our precious guy links up with the Boys and gets back on his T-shirt bullsh*t in the best way. He rocks an N.W.A. shirt as the crew reunites. We even hear the group’s single “Express Yourself” playing as MM does his usual meticulous cleaning. And he brings back the jacket AND shades. Very hot content. 

Episode 4 – Ruff Ryders Prime Video

RIP to DMX. MM’s Rough Ryders shirt is for the label and rap collective that included X, Eve, Swizz Beats, The Lox, and more. The “R” is instantly recognizable to ‘90s hip-hop fans, appearing on shirts as well as pendants for chains. 

Episode 5 – Stop the ViolencePrime Video

What a phrase to wear when you’re always in the midst of it. We’ve seen MM wear a Boogie Down Productions shirt and “Stop the Violence” is one of their song titles. Interestingly, this coincides with the division among the Boys when Butcher and Hughie start taking sh*t too far. 

Episode 6 – This Is America Prime Video

MM is tired of taking the high road and having to keep a level head as a Black man. (I’m not a man but whew, I get it.) This lines up well with his “This Is America” shirt, which shares a title with Donald Glover’s song about the injustices that Black people face. I don’t think MM will ever wear this shirt again, cause, well, Herogasm. 

Episode 6 – The TNT Smile Time HourPrime Video

This is one shirt that’s actually just specific to this universe and something that MM would never wear. It’s a shirt from the supe twins’ former show but you gotta wear what you can wear when your shirt gets… messed up. I must say, that color looks impeccable on his skin. 

Episode 7 – Dark Man XPrime Video

Like the Ruff Ryders logo, DMX’s is also iconic. And MM continues his deep love of Black shirts, rocking one with a red logo on it. Love to see it. Alonso tells us more about why he wanted MM to wear this shirt in episode seven. “We did a shoutout to DMX and the Ruff Ryders this season,” he says. “The DMX one is in the episode where I knock out Todd. That [moment] was declarative. And we wanted to have that shirt during a moment when MM exhibits a moment of gaining back his family and control.”

Episode 8 – Snoop Dogg Prime Video

The West Coast gets a little love with this Snoop Dogg shirt. Perfect 10, no notes. 

Episode 8 – 2Pac Prime Video

He ends the season and this episode with a shirt that makes total sense considering his Snoop shirt. 2Pac is heavily associated with Cali thanks to his Death Row days; however, he’s an East Coast native who spent his high school years in the DMV, Baltimore to be specific. It turns out that Laz Alonso is himself a native of the area, hailing from DC. 

The Best T-Shirts That Marvin “MM” Milk Wears in The Boys Season 4Episode 1 – GangStarrPrime Video

MM starts The Boys season four off right with a Gang Starr shirt in the show’s opening scene. This Boston, MA hip-hop duo found success primarily in the ’90s and early 2000s. DJ Premier continues to work in the music industry to this day. Unfortunately, Guru passed away after a bout with cancer in 2010. Leave it to MM to always honor legends.

Episode 1 – EPMD Prime Video

The crew is back at Boys headquarters and a perpetually stressed MM is trying to log into his damn CIA account. In this scene, he’s wearing an EPMD T-shirt, which obviously honors the influential hip-hop group featuring Erick Sermon and Parrish Smith. They came to rise in 1987 and gave us hits like “Strictly Business” and “You Gots To Chill.”

It’s the perfect shirt for MM, who is trying to handle being the leader of the Boys and always standing on business.

Episode 1 – The LOX – “Money, Power & Respect”Prime Video

At first, it is hard to make out what this shirt is while MM, Frenchie, and Kimiko are tracking Todd. But, during the Starlighter/Homelander supporter showdown, we can clearly see the shirt honors The LOX, a rap trio comprised of Styles P, Jadakiss, and Sheek Louch, who were popular in the late ’90s as a group prior to each person finding their own success.

Episode 2 – Eric B & Rakim Prime Video

Eric B & Rakim are a classic rap duo, much like MM and Butcher are a great pair. Well, they used to be. MM is wearing this shirt when Butcher tells everyone about his diagnosis and he subsequently kicks him out of the Boys. Then, he beats Butcher up with this shirt on. Good lord. Eric B & Rakim rocked the mic during the golden age of hip-hop in the late ’80s with classics like “Paid in Full” and “I Know You Got Soul.”

Episode 2 – OutKastPrime Video

OutKast is everlasting and also a great addition to MM’s T-shirt lineup on The Boys. The Southern rap legends Andre 3000 and Big Boy are two of the most influential and successful musicians of all-time. MM slides this great shirt in at the end when he chats with Butcher and decides he’s truly done with his s**t.

Episode 3 – MF DOOMPrime Video

MF Doom is what’s on MM’s chest when he is at the headquarters and suggesting that he will get A-Train to work with them. It’s a simple black hoodie (it is near Christmas and cold, apparently) with white lettering that honors the late, great British rapper who died in 2020.

Episode 4 – Big Pun Jasper Savage/Prime Video

As MM decides to bring Butcher back into the fold, he’s wearing a Big Pun shirt. The Bronx rapper rose to fame in the mid-’90s with hits like “Still Not a Player.” Sadly, he died in the midst of a growing career in 2000. It’s lovely to see MM continue to honor rappers who are no longer with us. It is the only shirt he wears throughout the episode.

Episode 5 – Big Pun (Again!)

At the beginning of the episode, MM keeps his long-sleeved Big Pun T-Shirt for this episode. This makes makes sense considering time isn’t passing very quickly. But he soon goes for a quick change that’s closely related with a fun hoodie.

Episode 5 – Fat Joe Prime Video

MM honors Big Pun’s partner-in-music Fat Joe with an all-black hoodie. His hoodie gets quite dirty, thanks to some Compound V-fueled chickens at Victoria’s hellacious farm.

Episode 6 – The Notorious B.I.G.Prime Video

Outside of his professional attire, we only see MM in one hip-hop shirt this episode. It is an obvious reference to the Notorious B.I.G., a ‘90s rapper who became an eternal legend after his shooting death in 1997. The East vs. West Coast battle between his crew and 2Pac’s is a sad era of rap history that ended with both of the promising rapper’s untimely demises. 

Episode 7 – Black SheepPrime Video

MM sticks to one shirt and his ongoing penchant for wearing black with this shirt. Black Sheep is a late ’80s-early ’90s hip-hop duo who found success with “The Choice Is Yours.” (Most people recognize the song’s “you can get with this or you can get with that” lyrics with “uhh come on” ad-libs.)

Episode 8 – Dead PrezPrime Video

This is a pitch perfect shirt to wear for this season finale, considering the plot against President Robert Singer. Dead Prez is a hip-hop duo that has been around since the mid-1990s whose music encourages social justice through force and Black pride. They eschew media influence and are pioneers of the “conscious rap” subgenre.

The Best T-Shirts That Marvin “MM” Milk Wears in The Boys Season 5Episode 3 and 4 – Salt-N-Pepa Jasper Savage/Prime Video

MM starts off this final season wearing anything but hip-hop shirts for unfortunate reasons. The season opener finds him in a freedom camp where he’s forced to wear a sweatshirt with Homelander’s smug mug on it. And, after escaping, he ends up wearing a pretty cool Britney Spears shirt. But, episode three takes the Boys to a new homebase, and MM finds a Salt-N-Pepa shirt. The rap collective consisting of Salt, Pepa, and DJ Spinderella dominated the ’80s and ’90s with songs like “Push It” and “Whatta Man.”

We also see him wearing this in episode 4 when everyone completely loses their s**t at Fort Harmony.

Episode 5 – Naughty By Nature

In episode five, the Boys are back at their homebase, which gives MM the opportunity to change into his Naughty By Nature shirt. It’s kind of shocking that he hadn’t worn a shirt from this collective yet. Like Salt-N-Pepa, this trio consists of two lyricists, Treach and Vin Rock, and a DJ, Kay Gee. Most people know them for their 1991 smash “O.P.P.”

I’m thankful for every dope ass T-shirt he wears and how they fit. Give that costume person and Laz Alonso a raise!

Originally published July 8, 2022.

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Every Spider-Man movie is a huge deal, but Sony and Marvel’s latest Peter Parker partnership is an especially important big-screen installment for the friendly neighborhood superhero. No one on Earth-616 knows who Peter is after Spider-Man: No Way Home. What will that mean for the beloved webbed slinger in Spider-Man: Brand New Day? The first three pages from Spider-Man: Brand New Day‘s script show that overwhelming loneliness won’t just cause him emotional harm. It’s also going to take a physical toll on him. And that could mean we really are getting Man-Spider. Here’s the biggest reveal we found in Spider-Man: Brand New Day‘s newly released script.

Entertainment Weekly shared the first three pages from the script for Spider-Man: Brand New Day. The pages also include insightful annotations and notes from director Destin Daniel Cretton, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Director of Photography Brett Pawlak, and other department heads. There’s some very fun stuff in here, including news that the film will feature a new “Marvel Studios” title card sequence. This new opening will show all of the memories Peter no longer shares with his loved ones, disappearing him from them. The Spider-Man: Brand New Day script also reveals a big opening action sequence and how Spider-Man is adapting to no longer having access to Stark Tech. (It helps being a young genius with engineering and coding skills.) But the biggest focus is on Peter’s growing loneliness… and we feel like that’s gearing up to reveal something very important.

Annotated script pages from Spider-Man Brand New Day have been released

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From following Ned and MJ on social media, to staring at momentos that remind him of the both, to re-reading the letter he didn’t send MJ nine months prior at the end of No Way Home, Holland’s Peter is a sad, lonely guy. He’s also clearly about to go through something. The most intriguing revelation from the Spider-Man: Brand New Day script pages comes almost immediately on page one. Here’s what the script says about what happens while he’s loading a web shooter (italics are as written in the screenplay):

Suddenly, he gets a small, sharp headache (our first inkling that living completely in the shadows is taking its toll on Peter — something is changing, and maybe not for the better…) Peter shakes it off, hoping it’s nothing.

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The film’s trailers have hinted at Peter evolving, possibly even mutating. As we covered, they’ve also teased the possibility that the film could introduce Man-Spider. That would definitely qualify as Peter “changing,” a word important enough that the Spider-Man: Brand New Day script italicized it on page one.

We no longer have an “inkling” about how important this change will be. Whatever is going to happen to Peter physically is clearly going to play a huge, huge role in the film. It’s a major enough plot point that it’s arguably the first idea the Spider-Man: Brand New Day script develops. It’s going to be a big deal in a movie that is already a big deal.

We can’t wait to see the Spider-Man: Brand New Day script come to life. The Spidey movie releases on July 31, 2026.

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The Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down Louisiana’s second majority Black congressional district in a decision that could open the door for Republican-led states to eliminate Black and Latino electoral districts that tend to favor Democrats and affect the balance of power in Congress. The court’s conservative majority found that the district, represented by Democrat Cleo Fields…

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In the DC Comics universe, Lex Luthor is the world’s smartest man. Well, it might actually be Batman or Mister Terrific. But Lex Luthor is definitely somewhere in the top three when it comes to the world’s smartest people. But if he’s so brilliant that he’s amassed billions of dollars and become one of the world’s most powerful men, why can’t he figure out that Superman is really mild-mannered reporter Clark Kent? Well, DC Studios head and Man of Tomorrow director James Gunn tackled this question head-on recently on Threads. Here’s what he had to say:DC Studios

Lex doesn’t know who he is but I don’t know how he would. A) Lex thinks Superman is a disconnected alien who wants to take over the world, so I’m not sure why he’d assume he has a “secret identity.” B) Hypno Glasses are real. Clark looks like another person. C) Being a genius in some ways (in Lex’s case, genetics, electrochemistry, nanotechnology, nuclear & quantum physics, to name a few) doesn’t mean you are a genius in all fields. Like many scientists (& artists!) he can miss basic things.

All of this gels with the comics. No one suspects David Corenswet’s Clark is Superman, because no one knows Clark has a secret identity. Unlike Batman (or any other masked character), Superman shows his face to the world. So that means the average citizen of Metropolis has no idea that he’s anyone other than Kal-El of Krypton, sent to Earth to protect it. Most people think being Superman is enough of a full-time job in all likelihood. Also, as Gunn pointed out, the hypno-glasses actually work. As long as Clark is wearing them, people see anyone but Clark Kent. For all we know, to everyone else, Clark looks more like Justin Bieber.

In the comics, back in John Byrne’s ’80s Superman run, Luthor once had a computer program tell him that Superman was actually Clark Kent. But the CEO of LexCorp simply refused to believe it. He couldn’t conceive that someone as powerful as Superman would ever “lower” himself to live his life as an ordinary person. It went completely against how he would be if he had the powers of a god. We can imagine that the DCU version of Luthor has much the same mentality when it comes to his Superman. We can already picture Nicholas Hoult’s Lex having the biggest tantrum ever if and when he ever finds out.

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Apple lost its bid to pause court-ordered App Store payment changes, keeping external purchase links in place as its case with Epic heads toward the Supreme Court.

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• A hit and run happened at 2420 Highway 1 in Watsonville / Pajaro. A vehicle hit a white truck and a boat trailer, making the trailer turn sideways. The owners of the truck and trailer were possibly fishing and not at the scene. No injuries were reported. The incident was reported today.
   
• A lane on westbound SR-152 at Clifford Drive/Ohlone Parkway in Watsonville and Pajaro is closed for asphalt paving. The closure is expected to last until July 3, ending at 5:59 a.m.
   

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When Earth AI started hitting months-long delays in its search for critical minerals, it decided to take matters into its own hands.

The Boys season five’s fifth episode ended as many of the show’s episodes do: with total bloody chaos. Soldier Boy and Homelander go to visit Mr. Marathon, a former Seven member who has info about V-One and Bombsight, and things go nuts from there. Wild comedian cameos, commentary about Homelander ruining America, a Supernatural actor reunion, and a lot of blood and flesh everywhere all culminate in one truly diabolical sequence. During our interview with Misha Collins, he revealed that there was a lot of improv while filming that particular The Boys scene.

“A lot of the portion of that scene, which was with the cast of celebrities, was a lot of improvisation that went into our filming,” said Collins, who played the gaseous supe Malchemical. “As is quite customary, we shot what was scripted. We managed to get that portion filmed as scripted. And then I think we probably spent twice as long filming additional footage that was improvised. There was more extensive riffing and improvising than we ever did on Supernatural, and we did it sitting around that table.”

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While he was not totally sure how much came to the screen because he hadn’t seen the episode at the time of our chat, he felt admittedly a bit intimidated by it all. But, it was an overall blast for him, thankfully. “It went on for a very long time and it was a lot of fun,” Collins affirmed. “And I was like, ‘Oh my God, I’m sitting around at this table doing improv with Saturday Night Live guys. I’m out of my depth.’ But it was actually a lot of fun and I quite enjoyed that. So for me, that was the most memorable aspect.”

We were so happy to see Misha in The Boys and to have a scene reuniting him with Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles. And, when you add in all the one-liners and great jokes, its a sequence that will go down in infamy.

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It’s been two years since The Acolyte premiered on Disney+ and was just as quickly canceled. The Star Wars series, set in the time of the High Republic, was divisive to say the least. Many fans loved the show’s “forbidden romance” energy between a former Jedi (Amandla Stenberg) and a Sith Lord (Manny Jacinto), while a vocal portion of the fanbase hated it before they ever saw a frame. The show got decent ratings to start, but fell off hard after that, and Lucasfilm quickly announced there wouldn’t be a season two. Despite fan outcry and petitions, Disney+ did not budge on The Acolyte’s cancellation. But now, it seems The Acolyte has had a resurgence in viewership, enough to make the Disney+ top ten series two years later. And, of course, The Acolyte fans are rallying for season two at the news.Lucasfilm

According to FlixPatrol (via Comic Book Resources), for the week ending April 22, The Acolyte returned to the Disney+ top ten series in the number nine position. Now, there’s one key factor here as to why. Currently, Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord is the top show on Disney+, and at the end of each episode, as the credits run, Disney+ suggests The Acolyte as a show you might enjoy to watch next. Clearly, some people are finally sampling the Star Wars series because of Maul’s popularity. But whatever the “why” is, they’re clearly watching enough for The Acolyte to climb into the Disney+ top 10 again.

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Does this mean we’re finally getting a second season of The Acolyte? Well, probably not. The show was very expensive, and the days of Disney+ giving movie budgets to streaming shows may be behind us. But even if we don’t get a direct continuation, there could be something that finishes the story of Osha and Qimir. There are still so many unanswered questions. What does Darth Plagueis have to do with everything? Will Qimir truly form the Knights of Ren? Fans want to know. Certainly, Maul has shown that animation is just as good a format for such a story as anything live-action. And it’s far more cost-effective. Why not deliver The Acolyte season two in the form of a Star Wars animated show?

If you’re still holding out hope for another season of The Acolyte in any form, it certainly can’t hurt to post #renewtheacolyte on social media.

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Toy Story has been around to witness the passing of several generations of toys. The franchise’s latest endeavor thrusts Woody and company into the tech age. Woody, Buzz, and the gang are on high alert when a new threat makes its way to playtime: electronics. If that’s not enough to have you quaking in your boots, there’s another detail from the trailer that fans just can’t stop talking about. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it. I’m talking about Woody’s bald spot. Evidently, being around for 30 years is starting to wear on the friendly cowboy. Tom Hanks hilariously sums up why Woody is going bald in Toy Story 5. Pixar

I don’t know what’s scarier: aging or iPad kids. When the official trailer for Toy Story 5 dropped earlier this year, people couldn’t help but notice the shiny patch on Woody’s head. I mean, how can you not? The trailer makes it pretty obvious. Tom Hanks, who famously voices the lovable toy, explains Woody’s sudden baldness.

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TOY STORY 5 Footage Shows Jessie Literally Fighting Lilypad

“He has been played with to excess,” he said in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. “You put a rubber hat on top of a rubber head again and again and again and again, something’s gonna chafe. So, yeah, he does have… let’s say a worn area on the back of his head.”

Hanks isn’t wrong. Realistically, when a toy has been around for as long as Woody has, it’s bound to show some wear and tear. It’s a double entendre. The joke pokes fun at aging and going bald, but it’s also an accurate representation of what happens to toys over time. Another wholesome thing to think about is that the people who grew up with Toy Story have also aged since the first movie. Some of them might even be rocking the same hair that Woody is.

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Toy Story 5 introduces kids’ obsession with technology. When a new toy named Lilypad rolls into town, Jessie is afraid she’s losing Bonnie to the addictive device. The toys must stand together to take down the tech toy and win back Bonnie. Toy Story 5 hits theaters this summer.

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