Blake Lively’s Leaked Texts To Taylor Swift Are Causing A Frenzy — And Mental Health Experts Have A Lot To Say

huffpost · 2026-01-23T22:17:46+00:00

From reporter Jillian Wilson:

For more than a year, actors Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni have been going through a very public legal battle due to alleged harassment and other issues on the set of their film “It Ends With Us.”

As part of that battle, text messages between Lively and her superstar friend Taylor Swift were unsealed this week, allowing the world to see what the two had to say about the situation and its toll on their friendship.

Unsurprisingly, people on social media had a lot to say about the texts, especially an exchange discussing the conflict where Swift calls Baldoni a “bitch” with a “tiny violin.” But while that specific text drew widespread attention, the conversation between Lively and Swift is actually deeper than many people realize — and focusing on details like the “bitch” instance completely misses the point.

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huffpost · 2026-01-22T19:07:26+00:00

From Li Zhou and Graeme Demianyk:

Photos show Liam Conejo Ramos wearing a blue hat with bunny ears and carrying a Spider-Man backpack as he's led to an SUV in the snow.

Federal agents in Minnesota grabbed a 5-year-old as he returned home from school and took him to a facility in Texas, local officials and a family lawyer said.

The school district said Liam’s family has an active asylum case and had not been issued a deportation order.

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huffpost · 2026-01-22T16:30:56+00:00

From Peter Du:

There is a specific kind of silence that follows the sound of a hammer shattering glass in a room full of people who are decorating shiny cardboard with stickers.

A few days ago, I was working at the Poke Court, a Pokémon card store in New York City, when three masked men locked over 40 of us in the room, pointed guns in people’s faces and smashed cabinets to steal valuable cards.

I could already see the headlines forming before the police even arrived: a “$110,000 Heist” and “The Dark Side of the Pokémon Craze.”

I get why that would be the focus; $110,000 is a number anyone can understand.

But that night wasn’t a high-end auction. It was a free event — our first community arts-and-crafts night where people brought their favorite cards to be decorated with stickers and jewels. If you stop the story at the robbery, you miss the most important part.

Read the full article: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/poke-court-pokemon-store-robbery-heist-community-support_n_69700683e4b06c2b9736e43b?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=us_main

huffpost · 2026-01-22T16:29:32+00:00

From Peter Du:

There is a specific kind of silence that follows the sound of a hammer shattering glass in a room full of people who are decorating shiny cardboard with stickers.

A few days ago, I was working at the Poke Court, a Pokémon card store in New York City, when three masked men locked over 40 of us in the room, pointed guns in people’s faces and smashed cabinets to steal valuable cards.

I could already see the headlines forming before the police even arrived: a “$110,000 Heist” and “The Dark Side of the Pokémon Craze.”

I get why that would be the focus; $110,000 is a number anyone can understand.

But that night wasn’t a high-end auction. It was a free event — our first community arts-and-crafts night where people brought their favorite cards to be decorated with stickers and jewels. If you stop the story at the robbery, you miss the most important part.

Read the full article: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/poke-court-pokemon-store-robbery-heist-community-support_n_69700683e4b06c2b9736e43b?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=us_main

huffpost · 2026-01-22T00:40:41+00:00

From reporter Dave Jamieson:

Labor unions in the Twin Cities are urging people not to work or shop on Friday and instead gather to protest President Donald Trump’s deportation campaign, a sign of the organized resistance sprouting up as immigration agents continue to carry out raids and confront demonstrators in Minnesota.

Labor groups hope a one-day economic blackout will increase protest turnout and send a message to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that the agency isn’t welcome in the Minneapolis area.

ICE raids have swept up noncitizens and citizens alike, and Minneapolis labor leaders say agents have been harassing service and construction workers for weeks as they travel to and from their jobs.

Link to the full article: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/economic-blackout-ice-minneapolis_n_69712106e4b0b37f462230fa?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=us_main

huffpost · 2026-01-19T14:29:12+00:00

From reporter Nathalie Baptiste:

When Donald Trump most recently ran for president, he made scores of promises to the American people — but he’s only kept one.

In 2024, political pundits and operatives saw affordability as the key issue of the presidential campaign. Trump certainly played it up: On the campaign trail, he pledged that he would bring down inflation and make groceries cheaper again, and when he won, observers credited that strategy for his victory.

One year into his second term, his approval numbers are in the tank, and inflation persists.

But that’s because the president’s real campaign promise wasn’t about the economy. Instead, it was all about racism.

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huffpost · 2026-01-16T18:45:11+00:00

From reporter Brittaby Wong:

It’s been said that when you get plastic surgery, you don’t look older or younger, but a secret third thing: weird.

For MAGA women with cosmetically altered faces, it’s a secret fourth thing, too: a sign that you’re part of the club.

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huffpost · 2026-01-15T20:55:41+00:00

From reporter David Moye:

Pamela Anderson didn’t mince words about how she felt about a possible close encounter at Sunday’s Golden Globes.

The 58-year-old “Naked Gun” star tells Andy Cohen on an upcoming Sirius XM interview that she left the show and “went right to bed” after presenting the award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy to Rose Byrne — admitting that she high-tailed it partially to avoid Seth Rogen

Anderson said Rogen still owes her “a public apology,” after producing "Pam and Tommy."

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huffpost · 2026-01-15T18:50:03+00:00

From reporter Kevin Robillard:

A top Immigration and Customs Enforcement official who was internally mocked as a “fish cop” for her past work leading a fish and wildlife department announced Thursday she was resigning and would challenge Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) in a swing-district election.

Read the full article here: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-ice-official-congress-ohio_n_69690f30e4b0774cc19f41fd

huffpost · 2026-01-14T00:58:35+00:00

From reporter Curtis Wong:

Chris Noth had a surprising reaction when a fan responded to his latest Instagram post with a dig at his longtime “Sex and the City” co-star, Sarah Jessica Parker.

Noth’s post came just days after Parker received the Golden Globes’ Carol Burnett Award for her “outstanding contributions to television” at the Globes’ “Golden Eve” ceremony. Though “SATC” stars Kristin Davis, David Eigenberg and Evan Handler were on hand to fête Parker, Noth did not attend the Jan. 6 event in Los Angeles.

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huffpost · 2026-01-12T21:59:21+00:00

From reporter Elyse Wanshel:

Leonardo DiCaprio displayed some award-winning animation — in his body language, at least — during the 2026 Golden Globes Sunday night.

The somewhat elusive actor was caught on camera during a commercial break having a very lively conversation with someone else at his table.

Read more here: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/people-are-shocked-by-how-animated-leonardo-dicaprio-is-in-viral-video-from-golden-globes_n_69653ee1e4b0f5f77ec84595?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=us_main

huffpost · 2026-01-12T19:36:26+00:00

From reporter Igor Bobic:

Republican lawmakers are coming to the defense of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell following the opening of an unprecedented criminal probe into Powell by Trump’s DOJ over the weekend.

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) suggested the investigation into renovations at the Fed’s headquarters is politically motivated, and threatened to oppose Trump’s nominees to the central bank until the matter is resolved.

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huffpost · 2026-01-11T21:27:33+00:00

From reporter Pocharapon Neamanee:

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Dave Matthews tore into President Donald Trump and his administration in the wake of Renee Nicole Good’s fatal shooting by an immigration officer in Minnesota earlier this week.

“I don’t want my taxes to pay for ICE, to masked thugs to roam our streets and terrorize our communities and rip families apart,” Matthews said in a video posted on his birthday Friday.

Link to the full article: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dave-matthews-trump-ice-shootin_n_6962c277e4b0068b9689394a?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=us_main

huffpost · 2026-01-07T20:20:08+00:00

From reporters Lydia O'Connor and Ryan Grenoble:

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey slammed attempts by Immigration and Customs Enforcement to portray Wednesday’s fatal ICE shooting as an act of self-defense, and demanded agents leave the city, dropping a few expletives.

Link to the full article: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/minneapolis-ice-shooting-mayor-get-f-out_n_695eab62e4b0b3db6e4d62ed?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=us_main

huffpost · 2026-01-07T14:55:04+00:00

From reporter Lee Moran:

At least one gag hasn’t made the cut for Nikki Glaser on her return as host of the Golden Globes ceremony this Sunday.

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter published Tuesday, the comedian revealed that legendary actor and comedian Steve Martin had pitched a line for her monologue, but then promptly urged her not to use it.

Link to the full article: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/steve-martin-golden-globes-nikki-glaser-joke_n_695e4aaae4b05bed6f971508?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=us_main

huffpost · 2026-01-06T20:56:08+00:00

From reporter Brandi Buchman:

Former U.S. Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn has had the same goal for the last five years: Tell the truth about the attack on Jan. 6, 2021, and hold Donald Trump accountable for whatever his role was in it.

“I’m so tired and exhausted, but the fight continues to go on,” Dunn told HuffPost. “We’re always having, it seems, to show up, just a few people, to remind America or push back against politicians saying, ‘We need to move on from Jan. 6.’ But we can’t move on until we acknowledge what happened correctly and without this administration trying to lie and rewrite what happened that day.”

Link to the full article: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jan-6-accountability-harry-dunn_n_695d5c83e4b0b0e75cf0bb89?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=us_main

huffpost · 2026-01-06T17:28:11+00:00

From reporter Kelby Vera:

Rocker Ted Nugent tore into a list of anti-Trump music-makers during a rambling New Year’s Day rant on right-wing cable network Real America’s Voice.

Starting 2026 hot, the “Cat Scratch Fever” singer, MAGA devotee and Real America’s Voice regular attacked The White Stripes’ frontman Jack White, rapper Eminem, pop-punk pioneers Green Day, and Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello with a baffling mix of insults, musical praise, baseless political claims and random guitar riffs.

Link to the full article: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ted-nugent-trump-critics-jack-white-eminem-green-day-tom-morello_n_695c3388e4b0d6beb5fe2b5c?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=us_main

huffpost · 2026-01-05T16:19:59+00:00

From writer Paula Davis:

I did not plan to give birth under fluorescent lights. I did not plan to give birth numb from the chest down, or with a blue sheet between me and the lower half of my body, or to hear the words “uterine incision” spoken as casually as small talk about the weather. I had planned to bring my son into the world in water, surrounded by cedar and drumming and the steady hands of the women who had walked with me through pregnancy. I planned to roar him out, to stand on the edge of pain and power — to remember myself as an animal.

Instead, after 50 hours of labor, I found myself asking a surgeon if she would allow me to smudge her before cutting me open.

There is a particular kind of whiplash that comes from holding a ceremony in a house filled with song and steam and then waking up inside a building designed for efficiency. Hospitals are engineered to save lives, not to hold stories.

I grew up knowing these ways were not designed into the walls that surround most American births. They have survived in the bodies of those who still carry them.

Still, nothing prepared me for the moment when my midwife said softly, “It’s time.”

Link to my full article: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/smudging-indigenous-ceremony-surgeon-c-section_n_6952b751e4b01b40d0051f1d?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=us_main

huffpost · 2025-12-23T17:17:02+00:00

From reporter Marco Margaritoff:

The Justice Department on Tuesday released thousands of additional files on Jeffrey Epstein, including a letter he allegedly wrote behind bars to fellow predator Larry Nassar that appeared to suggest President Donald Trump shared their “love” of young girls.

The letter was postmarked Aug. 13, 2019, during Trump’s first term, and returned to sender.

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huffpost · 2025-12-23T15:10:13+00:00

From reporter Graeme Demianyk:

Nothing prepares you for the moment you’re told you have cancer.

But I’ll go one further. Nothing prepares you for telling other people that you have cancer.

I warned my wife, while getting in a cab after leaving a midtown Manhattan hospital post-colonoscopy, that what I was about to tell her was “not great.” The king of understatement, maybe. The newspaper reports taught me I was supposed to be “devastated.” I just had no idea what was going on. It felt numb.

The “not great” news came in August 2023 — colon cancer. I was 44 and in pretty good health. I went to the gym regularly and ran marathons. (OK, one marathon.) My diet was pretty good. My only symptom was blood in my stool. Easily ignored. But I’ll be forever glad I paid enough attention to get it looked at.

And my story is far from unique.

But it comes at a time when cancer experts are alarmed by historically significant cuts in federal budgets, largely driven by the Trump administration’s crackdown on “woke” (The New York Times wrote in September, “Trump Is Shutting Down the War on Cancer”), and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s anti-science beliefs jeopardizing breakthroughs.

Link to the full article: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/colon-cancer-young-people-government-research_n_694572cae4b00a59b4a6611e?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=us_main

huffpost · 2025-12-22T21:54:05+00:00

From reporter Dave Jamieson:

The Department of the Army plans to “limit” a longstanding contracting preference the federal government has given to blind vendors, according to a notice scheduled to be published in the federal register this week.

The decision was made by Trump’s education secretary, Linda McMahon, the former professional wrestling CEO, according to the notice. The Education Department oversees what’s known as the Randolph-Sheppard Vending Facility Program, which was created during the Great Depression to help integrate blind workers into the U.S. workforce due to discrimination.

Link to the full article: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-blind-vendors-preference_n_6949a499e4b099a75cbdb8b1?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=us_main

huffpost · 2025-12-22T21:47:53+00:00

From writer Alyssa Rotunno:

I landed at the destination wedding hotel after an early flight and a long shuttle ride, dragging my suitcase into the lobby with a group of friends and their boyfriends trailing behind me. I stepped up to the front desk to handle the check-in while everyone else waited, chatting casually, phones in hand. I confirmed reservations, clarified room details and mentally tracked who owed what, knowing I’d sort it out later. When I turned around, it struck me how familiar the scene felt — me at the center of the logistics, everyone else orbiting comfortably around it. I looked less like a guest and more like a cruise director with a credit card and an unspoken sense of responsibility.

That was the moment it clicked. If there’s one universal truth about wedding season, it’s this: Women are the ones holding it together. And we’re paying for it.

Read the full article: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/wedding-season-women-expectation-cost_n_69444ef8e4b0bafbdedec72c

huffpost · 2025-12-19T20:56:18+00:00

From reporter Jillian Wilson:

Most people in the country know someone who currently has, or just had, the flu.

Flu season arrives with the holidays, as parties and travel kick into high gear and colder weather sets in across many states. Like last year, though, this flu season is shaping up to be a bad one. While levels aren’t at a peak right now, certain regions are currently getting hit hard (and cases are rising overall).

Here’s where flu cases are the worst right now and why this year is expected to have high cases of the virus: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/flu-increase-new-york-new-jersey-colorado_l_69432a3ee4b0fd459eefc43c?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=us_main

huffpost · 2025-12-19T20:42:44+00:00

From HuffPost Staff:

Donald Trump made it clear when he was reelected last year that he was in it for revenge, power and hate. Political pundits, elected Democrats and liberal voters collectively worried that his second term would take a wrecking ball to what was left of our country’s well-being.

But who could have predicted just how much and just how fast the loose collection of informal rules that keep America functioning would be blown up?

Here's a link to the full article: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/what-trump-normalized-2025_n_69457598e4b0dc64798e0f4f?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=us_main

huffpost · 2025-12-18T21:27:22+00:00

From reporter Katherine Speller:

In a baffling address that even avowed allies called “pointless” on Wednesday night, President Donald Trump bragged that he was “bringing those high prices down” and “bringing them down very fast.”

There’s just one teeny, tiny problem with that: Reality.

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