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Image: Starz Orlando Jones gave one of the breakout performances in American Gods as Mr. Nancy, an African trickster god who sharply reflected and reacted to America’s history of slavery and racism. In the second season, his role on the show increased, as Jones took on production and writing tasks alongside his stunning performance. But now, according to Jones himself, he’s been fired from the show ahead of its third season. Advertisement In a blistering video announcement on Twitter, Jones stated this morning that he was fired from the show on September 10, 2018 (later corrected to 2019). In his forty-five second statement, he calls out the film’s new showrunner, Charles Eglee, for firing him for reasons more closely related to racial and political anxieties than anything about his performance. ....
Doctor Who’s Alex Kingston and Valarie Pettiford). There’s even some Game of Thrones essence thanks to the casting of Owen Teale who played Jon Snow’s Night’s Watch nemesis Ser Alliser Thorne as villainous witch Peter Knox. By the end of season one, Diana and Matthew have pissed off enough influential creatures that the plot must dip into the fantasy Filofax and call up Outlander, sending the couple back in time (conveniently, “timewalking” is one of Diana’s newfound abilities). In the past, they hope Diana will be able to learn to control her magic without her enemies some are angry about the witch-vampire thing, some have personal vendettas, ....
Here Are All the Trump Sycophants Who Got Banned From Social Media After the Capitol Riot Last week, Donald Trump riled up a mob of his supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol while members of Congress were voting to certify the results of the 2020 elections a de facto act of sedition that failed to bring about his fantasized coup and resulted in five deaths. Advertisement As a reward for his efforts, social media sites which theoretically could have punished the president or his wild mob at pretty much any time in the past few years if not for cowardice perhaps when he called for Muslims to be banned from the country, or lied to the public about the novel coronavirus, or spread lies about voter fraud, or any other number of rule violations have finally gotten irritated enough to do something about it. Trump is now permanently suspended from Twitter, his Facebook account is locked down, and he’s been banned from Snapchat, TikTok, and Pinterest. ....
Photo: SAUL LOEB (Getty Images) The wall that no one wanted has become a metaphor for Trump’s time in office: an unfinished, expensive waste of time and energy that will be forgotten as soon as he leaves office. Advertisement On Tuesday, the president of people who shop at Big Lots will travel to Alamo, Texas, to gaze at his failure one last time, while the rest of America is still dealing with the fallout of a failed insurrection that he caused. The border wall, much like the president’s four years in office, was a huge disaster. It cost American taxpayers billions of dollars, was never finished, and while it was supposed to prevent migrants from coming into the U.S., it turned out to be easily scalable. ....