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Jack White has found a unique way to respond to country star Charley Crockett after the musician ripped White for his support of Twin Temple after Crockett dropped them from two shows reportedly over their use of Satanic imagery in their shows.

Crockett had shut down his socials for a period when the controversy initially arose, but returned to Instagram long enough to address his thoughts on the media coverage and how things played out before deleting the post not long after putting it up.

In his comments he accused the media and bystander artists of "dog whistling" about religious and creative freedom before singling out Jack White for his support of Twin Temple and inviting them to open a show for him after the incident took place

https://loudwire.com/jack-white-responds-charley-crockett-calls-him-out-twin-temple-controversy

“Yesterday I learned that Hayden passed away. Most people love and know Hayden from the show "Heroes" but I got to know Hayden as a real hero for risking her own life to save the lives of tens of thousands of small cetaceans.

In 2007 Hayden accomplished something activists had been trying to do for decades, and it's largely because of her bravery that dolphin slaughter in Taiji, Japan was put on the map.”

“That's what Hayden did. She stood in harm's way in a fishing town in Japan, at real risk to her own career and safety, because she understood that her fame was the one thing that could make people look. And they did. Her bravery did what activists had spent decades trying to do. It put Taiji on the map. It became part of a documentary that won an Oscar. It became a shift for an entire country.

Dolphin and porpoise killings dropped by tens of thousands a year, and Japanese schoolchildren stopped being fed dolphin meat laced with mercury.

That's the Hayden I got to know. An incredibly brave individual that changed the course of history. Rest in peace Hayden.”

The Pixel Project has indefinitely suspended Kim Nam-joon (RM) and removed him from their list of "16 Male Role Models Helping to Stop Violence Against Women."

https://www.thepixelproject.net/2026/08/19/statement-from-the-pixel-project-regarding-kim-nam-joon-rms-photo-with-chris-brown/

STORY BY
SOPHIE WANG
PHOTOGRAPHS BY CASPER KOFI;
STYLING BY YASHUA SIMMONS

“At the core of Liu’s comeback was an amplified sense of autonomy, which is rare for a sport that still abides by strict dress codes and a litany of both written and unwritten rules. Her signature striped hair—or, rather, the decision to dye it as she pleases—was as important to her as competing. Her ability to select her own music for her programs, to have input on her costumes, and to control her training schedule were nonnegotiables.
“I really value my creative freedom. A lot of why I skate is to get to express myself, so without that, it’s like, ‘Why would I skate?’” Liu says.”

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/heated-rivalry-author-rachel-reid-donates-300k-to-avrl-9.7310023