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Michigan Rep. Debbie Dingell breaks down the high-stakes primaries in her state and what they could mean for the future of the Democratic party.
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Deidra “DJ Spinderella” Roper is one of the best in the world (and the best ever, honestly) at what she does. While she’s been known to rock crowds at festivals and arenas, her recent collaboration with Planet Fitness and Apple Music brought those skills into a different setting, with a campaign celebrating the sounds of the 1990s, a time that many consider as “The Golden Age of Hip-Hop.”
The initiative included a workout playlist curated for Apple Music listeners, special in-gym events and a live DJ set from Spinderella at Planet Fitness’ Crenshaw location in Los Angeles. As someone who’s quite familiar with the company, accepting the invitation felt natural.
“I’ve been a longtime member of Planet Fitness,” she said. “So of course, when they reached out and they mentioned that they were taking it back to the ’90s, I’m like, ’That’s my world. That is definitely my world.’ So it’s only right. I’ve spent my career creating the space moments for people to have fun and dance, and the ’90s is my thing. So it was an excellent partnership.”
For Spinderella, music has always been a driver for different emotions. “It changes people’s mood,” she said, noting that sound serves as a natural companion for exercise. “You can encourage people, you can make people happy, and you can make people sad—I’m navigating the ship, so I have the opportunity to turn the vibe around or turn it up or turn it down. Music is super important.”
The iconic DJ’s own playlists change depending on where she is mentally. Some days call for classic hip-hop or Motown. Other days she leans into newer records, including house music or songs from The Womack Sisters. Rather than sticking to one formula, she lets the music meet the day. Outside of the Planet Fitness campaign, Spinderella recently returned from Tampa, where she DJed the Sigma Gamma Rho Boule. An honorary member of the sorority, she described the event as one of the most meaningful performances of her career.
“It was really special,” Spinderella said of her sorority’s national convention. “It’s a sisterhood and our motto is ’greater service.’ So me being an honorary member of Sigma Gamma Rho and them asking me to do the Boule, it was magical. It was my first Boule—I’ve done a lot of their regional events here and there, but the Boule is something special. Bringing the sisters together, celebrating, and creating memories for the sisterhood; I look forward to doing that as much as I can.”
In being in the music industry for some four decades, Spinderella has established herself as one of the most influential figures in hip-hop. Last year, she became the first female DJ inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Salt-N-Pepa, adding another milestone to a career that helped introduce generations of women to DJ culture.
“I feel blessed, number one—God chose me,” she says. “It’s nothing that I’ve done. I feel like I’ve been chosen. When you’re in a position that I’m in, and also being the first DJ inducted to the NAACP Hall of Fame, I’m like, ’What?’ But I stay true to who I am. I’m a woman, and I love music.”
While fully aware of her list of accomplishments, the Brooklyn-born musician remains careful not to frame DJing as a competition between men and women. Her admiration for fellow DJs comes from their craft, not their gender. “One of my favorite DJs is Jazzy Jeff,” she says. “It’s not because he’s a man or a woman, it’s because of his art. It’s because of what his vibe is and how I connect with it.” Still, she appreciates how much the landscape has changed since she began performing.
“When I started, I really didn’t have any females that I could say I saw doing it,” she recalls. “Not that there weren’t women doing it, it’s just that we weren’t seen. So I’m grateful that I was a part of that wave that opened that door for people to visually see that a woman can do this.”
Looking back on hip-hop’s early years, Spinderella says there was never a blueprint for where the genre would eventually go. She knew she was part of something important, but not something that would grow into a worldwide force.
“I knew it would be something because I was in the center,” she says. “I had no idea the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was in the picture. And then when the day came, that opportunity presented itself. Also, when I realized just how much hip-hop had evolved, I was like, Oh my God, the sky is the limit.”
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A group of Senate Democrats is pressing the Trump administration for answers about its policies surrounding American AI models following controversial decisions on AI regulations. Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Mark Warner (D-Va.), Christopher Coons (D-Del.) and Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) on Monday wrote a letter requesting Trump administration officials to explain “the Administration’s current…
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To hear Donald Trump tell it, addressing crime in Washington, D.C., is a riddle he’s solved. In fact, the president spent several minutes at an unrelated White House event Monday afternoon boasting that the combination of deportations and National Guard deployments has led to a “renaissance” in the nation’s capital.
Trump on Washington DC: “This was the crime capital, frankly, of the world. It was the most unsafe capital of any country anywhere in the world.”
“We have very little crime now,” he claimed. “This was the crime capital, frankly, of the world. It was the most unsafe capital of any country in the world. Now it’s one of the safest, and it’s one of the safest places in the United States.”
Trump went on and on about the crime-free paradise he’s created and the many calls he’s received from unnamed people thanking him for the magical results. “Everyone’s safe now,” the president said. “Nobody’s getting mugged, shot.”
After describing a city filled with residents who suddenly want to walk to work and struggle to get restaurant reservations because so many people are out and about, the Republican concluded, “It was a graffiti-filled, crime-filled mess. We turned it into Shangri-La.”
It was an interesting choice of metaphors, since Shangri-La is a place that only exists in fiction.
The president has spent nearly a full year patting himself on the back, claiming credit for having eliminated crime in Washington, D.C. Unfortunately, facts keep getting in the way.
Indeed, shortly after Trump claimed that “nobody” in the nation’s capital is the victim of violent crime anymore, The New York Times reported, “In reality, four homicides were reported in the last week, and 16 in the last month, according to police statistics, up from the same periods last year.”
Those statistics come just two months after NPR reported on the latest analysis of crime data from the Niskanen Center, a nonpartisan think tank, which found that Trump’s policy “has reduced petty property crimes, but has had little to no effect on violent crime, despite the high cost to taxpayers.”
According to the data, there was a 24% drop in “opportunistic” crimes, such as property crimes and vehicle break-ins, but the presence of the guard has had no meaningful effect on violent crime.
“What the Guard brought was a massive, sudden shock from the visible presence of uniformed military personnel on the streets of Washington almost overnight,” researchers wrote, calling the deployment of the Guard a “blunt and expensive instrument.”
There is a degree of irony to the circumstances: When it comes to the Reflecting Pool, Trump keeps pointing to crimes that didn’t happen, but when it comes to the city overall, Trump keeps pretending not to notice crimes that did happen.
As for the price tag, The Washington Post reported that the Pentagon’s deployment of National Guard troops to Washington “is set to cost an additional $1.4 billion” through the end of Trump’s second term. The cost led Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts to respond, “While American families are getting flattened by skyrocketing costs, Donald Trump is spending $1.4 billion to keep troops on the streets in Washington for years on end. The National Guard are not pawns, and taxpayer dollars are not a piggy bank for Trump’s political stunts.”
That said, it’s a safe bet that the White House, indifferent to the results of this real-world experiment, will support the $1.4 billion investment.
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From supermarkets to night-time tours, experts share how to make the most of Italy during this latest heatwave.
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