Quavo and Saweetie went public with their relationship in 2018
Quavo from the Migos has made it no secret how much he loves his girlfriend Saweetie and now he’s revealing exactly what he said to get his beloved’s attention after sliding into her DMs.
Wednesday, the rapper– born Keyate Marshall–posted a screenshot of that fateful first encounter on his Twitter account, followed by a picture of him and Saweetie having drinks together after being together for over two years now.
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – JUNE 23: (L-R) Saweetie and Quavo seen in the audience at the 2019 BET Awards at Microsoft Theater on June 23, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images)
In the direct message dated March 15, 2018, Quavo sent his future boo a snowflake emoji, which is an obvious reference to Saweetie’s “Icy Girl” single. Saweetie, whose government name is Diamanté Quiava Valentin Harper, played along by responding in kind with a steaming bowl of food emoji, which is speculated to be in reference to Migos’ “Stir Fry” single, which was out at the time.
Quavo followed up with, “U so icy Ima glacier boy,” and she responded, “Was hannin then.”
Although the exchange wasn’t exactly Shakespearean, clearly the interest was mutual because in September of 2018 the couple went public and has been seemingly going strong ever since. Unfortunately, while Quavo is clearly blissfully in love, his bandmate Offset hasn’t been as lucky in love lately.
Cheating rumors have dogged the couple throughout their relationship. They started dating possibly in 2016. Most didn’t know the two had even married until Cardi told the world while she was pregnant in 2018.
The estranged couple is due in court on Nov. 4. The two rap stars share a daughter, Kulture, who turned 2 in July and Cardi is asking for custody and child support.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she is concerned about the president’s ‘altered state’ after receiving drug treatment for COVID-19.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced that she is introducing legislation on Friday that will establish a “Commission on Presidential Capacity” related to the 25th Amendment, according to NBC News.
The 25th Amendment says, “In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President,” per govinfo.gov.
It adds, “Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.”
The speaker said she is concerned about Trump’s mental capacity after he has been taking steroids to combat the coronavirus. On Thursday, Trump tweeted about Pelosi in reference to her comments on the 25th Amendment: “Crazy Nancy is the one who should be under observation. They don’t call her Crazy for nothing!”
U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks to reporters at her weekly press conference at the Capitol on August 22, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Gabriella Demczuk/Getty Images)
Per a news release, the legislation is being created “to help ensure effective and uninterrupted leadership in the highest office in the Executive Branch of government.”
During her weekly press conference at the Capitol on Thursday, Pelosi told reporters to come to the Hill on Friday because “We’re going to be talking about the 25th Amendment.”
During an interview on Bloomberg after the conference, she said, “The president is, shall we say, in an altered state right now, I don’t know how to answer for that behavior.
“There are those who say when you are on steroids or have COVID-19, there may be some impairment of judgment.”
Pelosi and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) will hold a news conference at the Capitol Friday to discuss the amendment.
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Fox News put distance against Harlan Z. Hill who doubled down on his personal attack against Harris after the VP debate.
Sen. Kamala Harris debated Vice President Mike Pence last night and while many lauded her performance, a conservative commentator disparaged her as an “insufferable lying b-tch.”
Harris and Pence exchanged barbs in a 90-minute debate at the University of Utah on Wednesday in Salt Lake City, Utah. The California senator condemned the Trump White House as “the greatest failure of any presidential administration” for their handling of the coronavirus. Outside of a fly that stole the show by landing on Pence’s hair, Harris’ skilled presentation won her praise and a CNN flash poll declared her the winner.
Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) and U.S. Vice President Mike Pence participate in the vice presidential debate at the University of Utah on October 7, 2020 in Salt Lake City, Utah. This is the only scheduled debate between the two before the general election on November 3. (Photo by Morry Gash-Pool/Getty Images)
Democratic nominee Joe Bidensaluted his running mate with a mashup of her more memorable moments during the debate. Former President Barack Obama also showed her some love.
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He followed up the dig by invoking former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who was the 2016 Democratic nominee.
“I didn’t think it was possible for someone to be less likable than @HillaryClinton, but here we are…”
He continued the vulgar attack hours later.
“Good morning! Kamala Harris still sucks and comes off as a bitch,” he wrote.
Hill’s page became an echo chamber of taunts directed at Harris as he retweeted other commentators who disrespected her. However, his attack against the first Black and Asian woman on the top of a presidential ticket struck a chord with the K-Hive, especially her niece Meena Harris.
Meena called him out for being “a sad little man,” over the disrespect toward her aunt.
“Didn’t I murder you once?” Tiffany Cross, author, and commentator mentioned, uploading a video of her in a heated exchange with Hill. “I’m not done talking,” Cross reminded him in the clip as he interrupted her.
Bishop Talbert Swan tweeted that he’d “expect nothing less from a vile, racist. pile of horse manure like you than to disrespect a Black woman who won’t ‘stay in her place. Right on cue klansman.”
I’d expect nothing less from a vile, racist. pile of horse manure like you than to disrespect a Black woman who won’t ‘stay in her place.’
President Donald Trump also took a swipe at Harris over the debate and labeled her as a “monster” on Thursday.
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Harris condemned ‘the greatest failure of any presidential administration,’ while Pence defended the Trump administration’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence defended the Trump administration’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic that has killed more than 210,000 Americans Wednesday night, while his Democratic challenger, Kamala Harris, condemned “the greatest failure of any presidential administration” during a largely civil debate dominated by the coronavirus.
With the virus sweeping through the highest levels of government and Trump just days out of the hospital, Pence acknowledged that “our nation’s gone through a very challenging time this year.”
But he added, “I want the American people to know, from the very first day, President Trump has put the health of America first.” He promised millions of doses of a yet-to-be-announced treatment before the end of the year.
Harris assailed Trump’s consistent downplaying of the pandemic’s threat, insisting she would not take a vaccine if the Republican president endorsed it without the backing of medical professionals.
“Frankly this administration has forfeited their right to reelection based on this,” she charged.
Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) participates in the vice presidential debate against U.S. Vice President Mike Pence at the University of Utah on October 7, 2020 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The vice presidential candidates only meet once to debate before the general election on November 3. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Less than four weeks before Election Day, Republicans hoped the debate might give the Trump-Pence ticket a final opportunity to help reset a contest that could be slipping away. His poll numbers sagging, the president, with Pence at his side, is struggling to stabilize the nation in the midst of multiple crises as more than a dozen senior officials across the White House, the Pentagon and inside his campaign have been infected by the virus he claimed would disappear.
There were heated exchanges at times, but overall the debate was a far more respectful affair than the opening presidential debate eight days earlier when Trump was the aggressor, butting in and almost yelling. Pence interrupted at times, too, but nothing like Trump had.
The prime-time meeting in Salt Lake City elevated two candidates with presidential aspirations of their own who may be asked to step into the presidency even before the end of the next term. Health questions loom over President Donald Trump, 74, who is recovering from the coronavirus, and 77-year-old Joe Biden, who would be the oldest U.S. president ever.
Republicans desperately want to cast the race as a choice between two candidates fighting to move the country in vastly different directions. Biden and Harris, they say, would pursue a far-left agenda bordering on socialism; the Democrats say Trump’s administration will stoke racial and other divides, torpedo health care for people who aren’t wealthy and otherwise undercut national strength.
But so long as the coronavirus is ravaging the White House and killing several hundred Americans each day, the election will almost certainly be a referendum on the Trump administration’s inability to control the pandemic, which Republicans have sought to downplay or ignore altogether for several months.
Pence’s message Wednesday night was undercut by the mere fact that the candidates and moderator were separated by plexiglass shields, seated more than 12 feet apart and facing a crowd of masked audience members who faced expulsion if they removed their face coverings. The candidates on stage revealed test results earlier in the day proving they were not infected.
Before Harris said a word, she made history by becoming the first Black woman to stand on a vice presidential debate stage. The night offered her a prime opportunity to energize would-be voters who have shown only modest excitement about Biden, a lifelong politician with a mixed record on race and criminal justice, particularly in his early years in the Senate.
Democratic presidential candidates former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) speak after the Democratic Presidential Debate. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Harris, 55, is the daughter of a Jamaican father and an Indian mother. She is also a former prosecutor whose pointed questioning of Trump’s appointees and court nominees helped make her a Democratic star.
Pence is a 61-year-old former Indiana governor and ex-radio host, an evangelical Christian known for his folksy charm and unwavering loyalty to Trump. And while he is Trump’s biggest public defender, the vice president does not share the president’s brash tone or undisciplined style.
The candidates also clashed on taxes — or specifically, Trump’s refusal to release his tax returns four years after repeatedly promising to do so. The New York Times reported last month that the president pays very little personal income tax but owes hundreds of millions of dollars in debt.
“It’d be really good to know who the president owes money to,” Harris said.
“The one thing we know about Joe, he puts it all out there. He is honest, he is forthright,” she added. “Donald Trump, on the other hand, has been about covering up everything.”
Pence defended Trump as a job creator who has paid more than his fair share of taxes and shifted toward Biden: “On Day One, Joe Biden’s going to raise your taxes.”
While the debate covered a range of topics, the virus was at the forefront.
Trump released a video just three hours before the debate calling his diagnosis “a blessing in disguise” because it shed light on an experimental antibody combination that he credited for his improved condition — though neither he nor his doctors have a way of knowing whether the drug had that effect.
Pence serves as chair of the president’s coronavirus task force, which has failed to implement a comprehensive national strategy even as Trump himself recovers from the disease and the national death toll surges past 210,000 with no end in sight.
The candidates appeared on stage exactly 12.25 feet (3.7 meters) apart and separated by plexiglass barriers. Both candidates released updated coronavirus test results ahead of the debate proving they were negative as of Tuesday.
Critics suggested that Pence should not be at the debate at all.
The vice president attended an event last week at the White House with Trump and others who have since tested positive, but Pence’s staff and doctors insist he does not need to quarantine under Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines.
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According to the Las Vegas Sun, 27-year-old Sydney Deal refused the suggestion from police officers to break his car window, citing repair costs. He claimed his daughter, Sayah Deal, was okay because the air conditioner was running. The report says Deal declined assistance from a tow-truck company and a locksmith before calling his brother instead. Police said the child was locked in a high-heat environment for approximately an hour and was dead when they finally broke the glass to pull her out.
Deal allegedly accidentally locked the toddler in the running car after leaving his girlfriend’s residence following an argument. He claims after putting his daughter in the backseat, starting the ignition, and turning on the air conditioner, he re-entered the apartment and continued the argument for approximately 15 minutes before asking for his phone and requesting she call her insurance company to unlock his vehicle.
By the time police officers became involved, the Sun reports, Sayah had sat inside the car for almost 45 minutes.
After the tragic death, Deal was arrested on child abuse charges. Police spokesman Larry Hadfield said officers waited to break the window because Deal insisted on avoiding damage to his new vehicle and they claimed they could see the child breathing, according to Las Vegas Review-Journal.
“The dad said that the AC was on and the kid was playing, and when the officers arrived, they saw that she was breathing,” Hadfield said. “But when the officers got concerned for the child’s well-being, they broke the window.”
Shellie Ratliff, a neighbor who witnessed the ordeal tells the news outlet both Deal and police attempted to unlock the car for about two hours before the window was broken and claims they even asked her for a hanger. She said she was unaware a child was in the car until she saw them remove the body.
“I don’t understand why police didn’t bust that window open first,” Ratliff said to the Review-Journal. “You can always get another car, but you can’t get another life.”
Other neighbors tell the Review-Journal they believe the death was a tragic accident, and say they viewed deal as a caring father.
“I can genuinely say that since that baby was small, he’s loved on her. I’ve never seen a bad time when he had that little girl in his possession,” Darius Jones said to the outlet. Deal is being held at the Clark County Detention Center on $20K bail. He is expected to appear in court Thursday.
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Nicholas Beauchene is accused of dumping 1,875 pieces of first class mail in two dumpsters.
A New Jersey postal carrier has been charged by the Department of Justice for discarding hundreds of pieces of first class mail in dumpsters, including ballots for the November 3rd election.
According to a DOJ statement, Nicholas Beauchene, 26, is accused of dumping 1,875 pieces of mail in two dumpsters on two different days, during two different mail routes in North Arlington and West Orange. The mail was recovered between Oct. 2 and Oct. 5, The Hill reports. A local resident had been tossing his own trash when he discovered dozens of ballots in the dumpster in North Arlington (98 ballots to be exact), and he immediately called police.
“At first it looked like junk mail circulars and things like that, and then I flipped over a piece and I saw something that said address correction and all that kind of thing,” Howard Dinger said, adding that he flipped through “a few more pages I saw the ballots on it, and at that point I knew it was serious,” he toldCBS New York.
“To have that all go in the trash like that was, in my mind, really ridiculous. The ballots are the ballots. The election is the election. It is what it is. But these people have legal notices and checks and God knows what they’re expecting,” Dinger said.
The dumpster in West Orange reportedly had hundreds of first class mail items and one general election ballot. All of the mail from both dumpsters was eventually delivered.
Beauchene, who has worked for the Postal Service since July, has been charged with one count of delay of mail and one of obstruction of mail. He faces up to five years and six months in prison if found guilty, and a $255,000 fine.
Federal prosecutors have stated that his actions were politically motivated.
Beauchene’s arrest comes amid President Donald Trump’s ongoing allegations that mail-in voting will lead to widespread voter fraud, despite there being no evidence to support the claim, theGRIO previously reported,
Senior intelligence officials said in August that there is no evidence supporting Trump’s warnings that November’s election will be marred by foreign interference or massive fraud due to the likelihood of increased absentee voting.
“We have no information or intelligence that any nation or state actor is engaging in any kind of activity to undermine any part of the mail-in vote or ballots,” an unnamed senior official told assembled media.
The president has routinely said that mail-in voting will be subject to widespread fraud. However, top U.S. officials, state employees and other voting experts have continuously refuted the claim.
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Kamala Harris said last month that Tupac Shakur was her favorite ‘living’ rapper in a viral gaffe
The Trump campaign wants all eyes on Tupac Shakur during tonight’s vice-presidential debate as they’ve reserved a ticket for the late rapper in a taunt directed at Sen. Kamala Harris.
Harris and Vice President Mike Pence will be debating in their first and only exchange, but the barbs are already being thrown. Pence’s would-be replacement is being mocked for her assertion last month at NAACP’s virtual convention about her musical tastes.
Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA.), delivers remarks during a campaign event on August 27, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Michael A. McCoy/Getty Images)
Harris named Tupac but Rye reminded the California senator that he died. Tupac was shot and killed at the age of 25 in 1996 in Las Vegas but conspiracy theorists have insisted the rap star is alive and in hiding.
“Not alive. I know, I keep doing that!” Harris laughed.
Tries to think of another living rapper. “There’s some I would not mention right now because they should stay in their lane.” pic.twitter.com/MZJ5FZC4qP
Harris attempted to recover from her gaffe but never got around to naming another rapper.
“There’s some I would not mention right now because they should stay in their lane,” she said.
Despite the slim chance of Tupac actually showing up to the debate being held in Salt Lake City, the Trump campaign has decided to have some fun at Harris’ expense.
“We have left a ticket for Tupac Shakur,” Trump’s senior campaign adviser Jason Miller reportedly told reporters.
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Though it’s widely believed that Harris says she smoked marijuana while listening to Tupac and Snoop, her quote was actually taken out of context in an interview with The Breakfast Club. While it was pointed out that Harris would have graduated before either of those rap stars became nationally known, in fact, she was talking separately about smoking and music when misquoted, according to Reuters.
Dr. Rick Bright says if we don’t figure out the coronavirus now we could have a challenging winter.
Dr. Rick Bright has officially quit his position at the National Institutes of Health.
Not only has the immunologist quit, he says it’s because the Trump administration didn’t listen to the scientific evidence available to stop the spread of the coronavirus, per The Guardian. He also says his plan to develop a testing infrastructure for the country was ignored.
The doctor used to lead a team at the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, a department of the U.S. Health and Human Services. The agency, responsible for helping fight public health conditions such as bioterrorism attacks and pandemics, is currently working on a coronavirus vaccine.
Bright was transferred this spring and believes it’s retaliation for refusing to sign on to the decision to give New Yorkers hydroxychloroquine, the malaria drug Trump claimed as a COVID-19 remedy. He also claims senior NIH executives ignored his suggestion to provide healthcare workers with N95 respirator masks around the time the pandemic started.
Dr. Richard Bright, former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, testifies during a House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health hearing to discuss protecting scientific integrity in response to the coronavirus outbreak on Thursday, May 14, 2020. in Washington, DC. Warning that COVID-19 could make ‘2020 will be the darkest winter in modern history,’ Rick Bright, former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority has filed a federal whistleblower complaint alleging he was fired for opposing the use of a drug promoted by President Donald Trump as a potential coronavirus treatment. (Photo by Greg Nash-Pool/Getty Images)
He went public with the complaint he filed in May about his COVID-19 warnings being ignored.
“I was pressured to let politics and cronyism drive decisions over the opinions of the best scientists we have in government,” Bright said on a call per CNN, after filing the complaint.
When he testified before Congress in May, Bright said the US could undergo the darkest winter of modern history if it did not formulate a strategy to combat the virus.
Dr. Bright’s attorneys Debra Katz and LisaBanks said in a statement, “Dr. Bright was forced to leave his position at NIH because he can no longer sit idly by and work for an administration that ignores scientific expertise, overrules public health guidance, and disrespects career scientists, resulting in the sickness and death of hundreds of thousands of Americans.”
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