Azealia Banks has a problematic history of trollish and MAGA behavior, but one thing Banks will always do well is write everything down. She’s one of the best writers and social/culture critics out there, and I’ve come to enjoy it when she chimes in on pop culture stories of the day. I loved what she had to say about the Julia Fox-Kanye West situation (Julia did not) and Banks loves it when celebrities try to beef with her (who can forget the Lana del Rey back-and-forth). Well, apparently Banks has had a soft spot for Taylor Swift for some time, and Azealia Banks is worried about her girl. She’s worried that Taylor is letting a “full incel” like Matt Healy “climb the rich white coochie mountain.” OH MY GOD.

What’s your favorite part? “Taylor, this guy is gonna give you scabies” or when Banks ships Taylor with James Mercer from The Shins? I agree with Banks that Healy is a “downgrade” for Taylor, but in that downgrade, perhaps we’re seeing Taylor’s true self.

Azealia also read Healy’s New Yorker profile, where he shrugged off concerns of his racism and bigotry by claiming his haters were too online and a bit “mental.” Azealia had a read for Healy on Ice Spice too:

Oh she’s MADD pic.twitter.com/7D5M6Up8y1

— Leo (@Swiftsbeatles) May 30, 2023

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Elizabeth Holmes reported for prison yesterday to begin serving an 11 year, 3 month sentence after being convicted on 4 counts of defrauding investors in January 2022. It’s been twenty years since Holmes founded Theranos, the biotech company that promised (and failed) to deliver a myriad of conclusive lab results from a prick of blood, and Holmes’ attempts at appeals, blame shifting, pregnancies and Mexican wedding attendance have led her to a minimum security prison camp 90 minutes away from where she grew up in Houston, Texas:

Elizabeth Holmes reported to prison on Tuesday, capping off a stunning downfall for the disgraced founder of failed blood testing startup Theranos.

Holmes was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison last November, after she was convicted months earlier on multiple charges of defrauding investors while running the now-defunct startup.

Her request to remain free on bail while she fights to overturn her conviction was denied by an appellate court earlier this month. Judge Edward Davila, who presided over her trial, ordered Holmes to turn herself in to the Bureau of Prisons by May 30 to begin serving her sentence.

Holmes arrived Tuesday at Federal Prison Camp Bryan in southern Texas, a minimum security prison camp that is approximately 100 miles from Houston, where she grew up before moving to California to attend Stanford.

“We can confirm Elizabeth Holmes has arrived at the Federal Prison Camp (FPC) Bryan in Bryan, Texas, and is in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons,” a spokesperson for the Bureau of Prisons said in a statement provided to CNN.

[From CNN]

For anyone into often overlooked details, as I am, the NY Times had some interesting reporting on life at FPC Bryan. Holmes will be required to work at the cafeteria or manufacturing facility, where pay begins at $1.15 an hour. (Will this be the first honest wage she earns?) She can put those funds to purchasing a crochet needle ($1.30), yarn ($3.55), a radio ($31.75) or MP3 player ($88.40). With her sentence, she has a shot at buying them all. But before she even gets to work, she may have to take an assessment that will test her abilities in “business, clerical, numerical, logic, mechanical and ‘social.’” PLEASE someone leak the results of her test!! Unfortunately FPC Bryan has had a leak in the past, in the form of 3 inmates who escaped in 2017. One of them is still at large. So before Holmes somehow cons her way out of there, I do hope, as Celebitchy once said, that someone can help her out with her hair.

One last item I’ll leave you with: Holmes had her second baby earlier this year, a girl she and partner Billy Evans named Invicta. As in Latin for ‘invincible’ or ‘undefeated.’ That’s all.

It’s incredibly sad that Elizabeth Holmes’ children are going to be without their mother in their most formative years because she made the self-serving decision to specifically get pregnant multiple times ahead of her trial in hopes it would keep her from going to prison. pic.twitter.com/9M8wM6ItNB

— chris evans (@notcapnamerica) May 30, 2023

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Last week, we heard that King Charles would be taking a vacation at his home in Transylvania at the beginning of June. The focus was on how Camilla will not travel with him (she’s staying at her country home in England) and how Charles loves the simple, rural pleasures of the quaint countryside he calls his home away from home. I thought the timing was weird because during QEII’s reign, June was usually a packed royal schedule of garden parties, horse races (Ascot in particular), polo matches, Trooping the Colour and usually some time wining and dining visiting foreign dignitaries. So why is Charles hobbling off to his Transylvania during such a traditionally busy time for the Windsors? Well, it looks like Charles is going out of his way to avoid his ginger son.

The King will miss the Duke of Sussex’s visit to London next week as he plans to go hiking on his own in Transylvania, The Telegraph understands. Prince Harry is returning to the High Court in early June as he takes Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) to court over allegations of phone hacking.

However the King’s solo trip to Romania, planned for five days over next week, will coincide with his son’s rare appearance in the UK, meaning the pair are unlikely to see one another.

It comes after the Duke’s flying visit to England for his father’s Coronation earlier this month, where he was in such a rush to get home to California that he was still wearing his medals and morning suit when he arrived for his return flight at Heathrow Airport. It is understood that the Duke spent the night in Windsor at Frogmore Cottage but did not see his brother the Prince of Wales nor speak with his father or stepmother.

It is now understood that the King’s upcoming trip to Romania will fall next week, during which he will recuperate after his Coronation, and will see him stay in his home in rural Transylvania. The Queen will not be accompanying him on the trip, preferring instead to remain in her Wiltshire home.

Meanwhile, Prince Harry is expected to give evidence in person at the MGN trial in London early next week, which will pitch him directly against former Mirror editor Piers Morgan, who has become one of the Sussexes’ most vocal critics. Evidence in his claim is expected to take three days, including opening statements, his time in the witness box, when he will be cross-examined, and MGN’s witnesses.

[From The Telegraph]

While I’m sure there’s still time for this, I’m glad that thus far, the British papers haven’t done twenty million pieces about where Harry could possibly be staying during his stay in England. I expect that information will be guarded tightly, and I also wonder if King Charles knows where his son will be staying? I could make an argument either way. But still, it’s funny that Charles made a point of scheduling his vacation for when he KNEW Harry would be in town. Back in March, when Harry popped up in London for a court hearing, I got the distinct feeling that Charles had no idea that Harry had flown in, nor did anyone else in the family know. That’s why Charles was in such a rush to say he was “too busy” (doing nothing) to meet with Harry. Harry should keep visiting, because it’s hilarious to watch Charles make up all of these excuses for why he can’t see his younger son.

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Katie Holmes covers the latest issue of Glamour. She’s promoting Rare Objects, a film in which she stars and directed. It’s adapted from a 2016 Kathleen Tessaro novel. She’s wanted to direct for a while, and you can tell that she’s very proud of her efforts and being able to put this project together. She spends a good chunk of this interview talking about her fashion and why she wears weird stuff (because she wants to) and what it’s like to rewatch Dawson’s Creek. Some highlights:

On Dawson’s Creek: “I was just 18 when we started, and I really appreciated the writing because I felt like, as a teenager, I had so many different feelings, trying to go from being a girl to a woman. And I felt like [creator Kevin Williamson] had this way of putting words to those feelings. So for me, playing that role, I was like, “Oh, that’s what that means. Oh, I get that.” I loved doing it. It was a really fun, profound experience.

She’s rewatched the Creek & whether she thinks the show holds up: “In some ways, yes. Some ways, no. We had our big episode where Jack comes out and I’m so glad we had that episode, and I’m so sad that that is what was happening for people. And I’m so glad that it’s not happening, hopefully, to that extent in today’s world. But I think it [was also] just this combination of Wilmington, North Carolina—so beautiful. There was that sense of innocence. Kevin wrote the simplicity of teen emotions really well.

On social media: “In my life now, I don’t go on social media that much. I don’t scroll that much because I don’t want all that information. And maybe because I did come up where there was a time and place for things, even with our show—it started airing on Tuesday nights and you had to wait a week. So you got to think about that one episode. The work was limited to that. We also were protected. We were in North Carolina, we were working 14 hours a day, and we were really contained and not really distracted by the outside world, which was to our benefit and to the benefit of the show, so we could do what we had to do.

She didn’t want to play the sexy young thing: “I didn’t want to be the sexy young thing. I am not sexy. I used to have a friend of mine come to all my photo shoots to make sure that they didn’t try to make me that way.

Whether there was a role she wanted but didn’t get: “The [2002] movie 40 Days and 40 Nights. Originally, there was a read-through, and it was going to be me and Ashton Kutcher and [American Pie star and Holmes’s The Wanderers costar] Eddie Kaye Thomas. And I didn’t know this, Eddie just told me, but he had gotten into a fender bender on the way to the table read and the reading just didn’t go well. There were executives and all that, and you could just feel it. I remember leaving going, Oh, my God, what just happened? It wasn’t meant to be. They ended up making it with another cast.

Why people are fascinated with her fashion: “I really don’t know. I enjoy [fashion]. I mean, I enjoy the craftsmanship. I enjoy putting things together. And I work with [stylist] Brie Welch, and she’s very detail oriented, and that inspires me. I think it is very creative. I love vintage shopping. I love the art of design.

Seeing her daughter embrace ‘90s style: “I think the ’90s style is exactly back. Makes me feel old. We lived through that already! My mom says she should have saved things. I should have saved things.

[From Glamour]

I’m actually glad we didn’t try to save things from the 1990s because what we wore then wouldn’t have held up physically for the most part. I mean, vintage everything was in style, your clothes were supposed to be cheap and threadbare, hopefully ripped. You never wore new jeans. The ideal outfit involved combat boots, ripped jeans and cheap flannel. But yeah, it’s funny to watch the youths try to reinvent that. The one thing I’ll say is that jeans were so much better in the ‘90s. I’ve never really thought about it this way, but I guess Katie Holmes is sort of a ‘90s fashion icon, in that she’s trying to navigate all of the weird fashion trends with her ‘90s eye even today. As for all the talk about Dawson’s Creek – I agree that the show captured something special about teen life in that era, but I also agree that parts of the show really don’t hold up.

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Several weeks ago, Robert DeNiro announced that he and his girlfriend Tiffany Chen welcomed a baby recently. DeNiro is 79 years old, and this newborn baby girl (named Gia Virginia) is his seventh kid. Well, DeNiro has significant company in the Old Dad Club. His friend Al Pacino is expecting a child with his 29-year-old girlfriend. Pacino is 82 years old. What is up with these two, my god.

Robert De Niro’s got nothing on Al Pacino … the 82-year-old actor’s girlfriend is a month away from giving birth … multiple sources tell TMZ.

Noor Alfallah is 8 months pregnant, our sources say. The 29-year-old has been linked to Pacino since April 2022.

Al has 3 children from 2 different women … 2 with Beverly D’Angelo and 1 with Jan Tarrant.

Alfallah has had previous relationships with Mick Jagger and billionaire Nicolas Berggruen.

Pacino would be 100, God willing, when the child turns 18. Al beats 79-year-old De Niro, who just had a baby with Tiffany Chen.

[From TMZ]

Pacino’s rep confirmed the news after TMZ’s initial reporting, so it’s really happening. We’ve known about Pacino and Noor for a while – we talked about them in April 2022, when they went to dinner with Jason Momoa and everyone was joking about Pacino’s Shrek phone case. True story: Noor would have been seven years old when Shrek originally came out in theaters. She wasn’t even born yet when Scent of a Woman – Pacino’s Oscar-winning role – came out. I’m also fascinated by the life Noor has lived thus far – a jet-set lifestyle which sees her thrown into the paths of wealthy septuagenarians and octogenarians, men she sees as her romantic peers. I mean, she dated Mick Jagger when she was like 25 years old. And now she’s having a baby with Al Pacino. Whew.

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Last week The Hollywood Reporter released the video for their male actors’ roundtable, a conversation with 6 actors (Jeff Bridges, Kieran Culkin, Damson Idris, Michael Imperioli, Pedro Pascal, Evan Peters) THR believes to be leading candidates for Emmy nominations in the drama category this year. As Kaiser covered, the runaway hit of the video was Kieran and Pedro playing off each other. The camaraderie started right off the bat when moderator Lacey Rose asked the men to describe their fan encounters. Kieran opened with fans being too comfortable with touching him (in one instance he was pushing his kid in a stroller and snapped at the too-tactile fan “No touchy!”). And then Pedro upped the ante:

Pedro Pascal… sat down with fellow actors Jeff Bridges, Kieran Culkin, Damson Idris, Michael Imperioli and Evan Peters for a roundtable discussion with The Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday to discuss drama acting.

The group’s conversation turned to fan encounters they’ve had with their viewers, to which Pascal seemed to top.

Pascal recalled that after “Game of Thrones” fans saw his character Oberyn Martell’s brutal death in Season 4, fans began to recreate the scene in which Martell’s eyes were gouged out during a fight to the death with Gregor “The Mountain” Clegane (Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson).

“People were super into taking selfies with their thumbs in my eyes,” Pascal shared. “And at first, I was so earnest and happy about the success of the character in the show, I’d let them.”

That all came to a halt, he said, explaining, “And then I remember getting a bit of an eye infection.”

“Succession” star Culkin responded, “Wow, that’s a lot of trust.”

Pascal went on to other popular roles, including HBO hit “The Last of Us” and Disney+ show “The Manalorian.”

[From USA Today]

So let’s get business out of the way first: people should keep their hands to themselves. If they simply must, they should at least ask the actor first. They should also assume, under any and all circumstances, that if they are permitted to touch, that does not include the eyes. Kapish? Look, I get that this particular homage was specific to the character, but come on.

But of course what really matters is how adorable Pedro is. He has the relaxed energy of someone who’s worked towards this career for a long time and is clearly enjoying the moment. And his playful energy is just infectious. By contrast, I’ve loved Evan Peters in everything I’ve seen him in, but when the moderator asked what fans say to him on the street, all he had was “can I take a picture.” You can do better than that, Evan.

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Ice Spice & Taylor Swift performed “Karma” together in New Jersey. [LaineyGossip]
Blue Ivy Carter has joined her mom on stage at Beyonce’s concerts. [Just Jared]
Trying to predict the end of Ted Lasso. [Pajiba]
Look at the good service dog with his diploma! [Dlisted]
Orlando Bloom bares his chi-chis at the beach. [OMG Blog]
Did we talk about Scarlett Johansson’s striped Prada? I can’t remember. [Go Fug Yourself]
The fashion at Cannes this year was so… boring?? [Jezebel]
Okay, Fan Bingbing did look amazing in Cannes. [RCFA]
Hailey Bieber supports Big Dairy. [Egotastic]
Were the 1990s the “saddest decade” in film? [Buzzfeed]
The ladies of This Is Us reunited. [Seriously OMG]
Tina Turner was prepared for Mick Jagger’s Live Aid stunt. [Towleroad]

Taylor Swift X Ice Spice

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— Ebro In The Morning (@EBROINTHEAM) May 30, 2023

Taylor Swift and Ice Spice perform “Karma” together on the Eras Tour in N.J. pic.twitter.com/xzysvfiGWj

— Variety (@Variety) May 27, 2023

Once again, the knives are seemingly out for our fair Katie Keen, the Princess of Wales. Is all of this solely about Kate’s thunder-stealing at the Chelsea Flower Show, or is this a larger shift to openly criticize Kate for some other purpose? I do not know. But it’s interesting. So, the basic gist is that Kate is sort of a patron of Action for Children, and the chief of AfC is a convicted murderer. Kate had no idea when she met this guy in Glasgow in May 2022. William was there too, but the Daily Mirror didn’t put his name in the headline, nor did they use photos of William in the same frame as this dude.

Paul Carberry stabbed a father-to-be on a train five times and wounded another passenger. Colleagues knew of his past when he became the £154,500-a-year chief of Action for Children in March. But charity patron Kate and her husband Prince William had no idea of his crimes when they met him at a primary school a year ago.

Carberry, 60, was photographed smiling with the couple – then the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. They then joined others in a discussion about teaching children emotions.

Carberry was a teen himself when he carried out his fatal attack, age 16. But it did not stop him becoming boss of AfC, which aims to “protect and support children and young people”. Nor has it prevented him securing a role on the Serious and Organised Crime Taskforce in his native Scotland – with a brief to curb youth gangs.

Today, when we confronted Carberry about his past, he told us: “That’s something I’ve regretted every day of my life. A family did not have their loved one because of me.”

Carberry stabbed John Murray, 21, on a train carrying Scottish football fans to London for a match against England in 1979. Court reports said Carberry, who had been drinking beer and vodka, was in the Govan Team gang – named after a tough district of his native Glasgow. The court was told violence began after a member of Carberry’s mob molested a woman on board. Carberry was reportedly brandishing a flick knife as he chased Murray and two pals through the crowded train. He first stabbed Michael McBain, 22, who was asleep on a carriage floor. Then he repeatedly plunged the knife into Mr Murray when a locked door stopped him escaping, reports said.

Carberry served time at a youth jail and in adult prison before being freed in 1985. He got a job as a social worker and rose high in the profession. He joined AfC and was its Scottish boss when he met Kate and William – patrons of a string of charities – at St John’s primary in Inverclyde last May. He said afterwards: “The Duchess is a great supporter of our charity. I was honoured to discuss our work with the Duke and Duchess.”

AfC said the Palace was informed about Carberry’s murder conviction when he became CEO this year. None of the charity’s literature refers to his crime. And there is no sign Carberry ever mentioned it during public appearances or articles.

[From The Daily Mirror]

So, it’s insane that he effectively only served a sentence of about six years, even if he was only 16 years old when he ran around, stabbing multiple people on a train. It’s also bonkers that… like, no one ever brought it up again? Hello, background checks? Just a cursory background check by the charity OR the palace? I get why a charity might not have the resources to do a deep dive on all of their employees, but what I don’t get is why the palace didn’t catch Carberry’s criminal record before Kate and William did the photo-op with him and his charity last year? That’s what this is – it’s not specifically a criticism of Kate for shaking hands with a murderer, it’s that palace staff are half-assing these events and no one is doing their due diligence. No one thought it would look bad to have Kate posing with this guy, just like no one thought to run background on various other shady people Kate has posed with recently.

I remember this event in Glasgow last year, people were saying that Kate seemed like she was medicated. She was so extra at this event.

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If you’re a card-carrying member of the Snake Fam and you want to know more about Taylor Swift’s new boyfriend, this New Yorker piece is probably where you should start. I’m not saying I like Matt Healy now or that I no longer find him deeply unproblematic, but I do understand a little bit better how he got to this place. The New Yorker’s Jia Tolentino had been following him and interviewing him for months before the Taylor Swift stuff started happening, when he was already in “his current persona: a post-woke rock star, switching unpredictably between tenderness and trollishness.” It’s a portrait of a self-conscious douche who tried to do “the right thing” for a while, then grew tired of that persona and so he developed a new one. Or maybe this was always who he was: a guy who does Nazi salutes and says racist sh-t in interviews. Some highlights from this New Yorker piece:

Taylor Swift’s appearance at The 1975’s show in January. “It was really based of Taylor to do the show,” he said, seeming a bit awed that it had happened. Healy had skipped his make-out routine during the previous night’s show. “I’m not kissing anybody in front of Taylor Swift, have some respect,” he’d said

On Harry Styles: In the British press, Healy is sometimes positioned as Styles’s Wario, his evil twin. Their bands became popular around the same time; both men are straight-leaning but, like Mick Jagger and David Bowie before them, enjoy revelling in sexual ambiguity. Healy said the band had asked Styles to come. “He gave us a hard no,” he added, laughing. “He’s afraid that he would have to say something.” Healy found it annoying that, at a certain level of fame, celebrities can cultivate liberal auras while avoiding the risk of taking real political stands.

Music & love in his 30s: “All of the things that used to define my work, or the nihilistic part of one’s twenties—postmodernism, addiction, individualism—they’re all cool and sexy and appropriate at the time, but, for me now, are those the things I yearn for?” In his personal life, he had found himself wishing for consistency and reliability, “the things we get from a partner that we don’t get from the rest of the world.”

His politics: Healy often laments that “we used to expect our artists to be cigarette-smoking bohemian outsiders, and now we expect them to be liberal academics.” He has also said that, although he doesn’t count his political views as particularly educated or authoritative, he knows that they stem from impulses toward empathy and freedom that are important.

The debacle of his interview on ‘The Adam Friedland Show’: I asked him about the podcast. He’d been doing so much promo, he told me, that he wanted to do something that felt more like simply talking with his friends. But, of course, he had done this all in public, on mike. Had he baited his fans on purpose? “A little bit,” he said. “But it doesn’t actually matter. Nobody is sitting there at night slumped at their computer, and their boyfriend comes over and goes, ‘What’s wrong, darling?’ and they go, ‘It’s just this thing with Matty Healy.’ That doesn’t happen…If it does, you’re either deluded or you are, sorry, a liar. You’re either lying that you are hurt, or you’re a bit mental for being hurt. It’s just people going, ‘Oh, there’s a bad thing over there, let me get as close to it as possible so you can see how good I am.’ And I kind of want them to do that, because they’re demonstrating something so base level.”

His thing with Taylor: Neither of their representatives would comment on the record, but I kept getting texts from people who knew them, and who insisted: this time, it’s real.

[From The New Yorker]

His answer to how people are *still* responding to his racism, bigotry and problematic words and behavior is basically “the only people who care are too online.” Not even that, he doesn’t believe that it should be or actually IS important that Taylor Swift (arguably one of the most famous women in the world, a woman who encourages a parasocial relationship with her fans) is dating someone like him, someone with a long list of problematic behavior. The snake fam will cry that Taylor is not responsible for Healy’s sh-t and I agree, she’s not responsible. She wasn’t the one calling Ice Spice “Inuit Spice,” complete with a fake “accent.” No, Taylor was the one trying to clean up her boyfriend’s mess by bringing Ice Spice on stage as a prop. Anyway…

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Since March, the Heritage Foundation – an American right-wing think-tank- has been openly trying to “deport” Prince Harry. The Heritage Foundation is where a lot of British right-wingers work too – there’s a direct line, these days, between the American and British neofascist ideologies, and British right-wingers clearly believe that they’re influential in American politics and culture. That’s why Heritage Foundation people are working on this special project on behalf of the British newspapers. Heritage is suing the Biden administration to get their hands on Prince Harry’s visa application. Harry wrote about doing drugs, and Heritage is trying to claim that Harry’s drug use affects his visa. It does not. And as such, Immigration has shrugged off Heritage’s FOIA requests and now they’re shrugging off Heritage’s dumbf–k lawsuit.

The Joe Biden administration has been accused of “stonewalling” a legal bid to uncover details of Prince Harry’s US visa application using Freedom of Information laws. A request to have the application fast-tracked on the grounds of exceptional public interest has been turned down, which has been described as an “outrageous” decision by the Washington-based think-tank pursuing the case.

The right-wing Heritage Foundation has now asked a judge to overturn the decision by the Department of Homeland Security and two of its agencies, with a hearing expected next month. The Heritage Foundation demanded the immediate release of the Duke of Sussex’s visa records in March after he admitted to drug-taking in his memoir, Spare.

Under US Freedom of Information laws, applications can be fast-tracked if there is “widespread and exceptional media interest in which there exist possible questions about the government’s integrity which affect public confidence”. The Heritage Foundation argued that the Prince Harry case had cleared that bar, but the fast-track application has been turned down on the grounds that British-based publishers including The Telegraph, which had demanded answers over the visa application, were not sufficiently mainstream in the US to count.

Nile Gardiner, director of the Margaret Thatcher Centre for Freedom at the Heritage Foundation, said: “The Biden administration is clearly stonewalling here and they are trying to avoid releasing any documents. They are trying to do so by undermining the credibility of the British Press, which is outrageous, and by concentrating their fire on the British Press even though we have submitted articles in the US press about the same subject.”

The Heritage Foundation has submitted Freedom of Information requests for the Duke’s visa application records to the Department of Homeland Security, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services and US Customs and Border Protection.

In its written opposition to the fast-track request, the Department of Homeland Security described The Telegraph and other British publications as “niche” and also said it was not persuaded that there were exceptional circumstances that made an urgent response necessary.

[From The Telegraph]

“The Department of Homeland Security described The Telegraph and other British publications as ‘niche’” – OH MY GOD. The Telegraph and other British outlets have spent a lot of time and resources putting together this whole “case” for why Prince Harry needs to be deported and then Homeland Security just laughed at them and called them niche. I mean, is IS niche. Homeland Security and Immigration are huge departments dealing with millions of different issues every day. What the Heritage Foundation is doing – in concert with these niche publications – is waste everyone’s time, money and effort. DHS was never going to give a f–k that a rich, white, Christian man did drugs and that he included that fact on his visa!

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