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Watch Notorious Whistleblower Chelsea Manning DJ at a Brooklyn Rave

We did not Chelsea this coming. A former United States Army soldier, Chelsea Manning was famously convicted in 2013 for a myriad of offenses, including violations of the Espionage Act, after leaking nearly 750,000 classified military and diplomatic documents to WikiLeaks. She served seven years in prison, from 2010 to 2017, after her sentence was commuted by former President Barack Obama. After her release from prison in 2017, Manning, a former DJ, made her living through various speaking engagements. And after teasing a return to music earlier this summer, it appears she has dusted off her turntables and updated her Rekordbox library. Manning recently performed at a rave in Brooklyn, throwing down a DJ set at Elsewhere after a hiatus of over 15 years. Scroll to Continue Rec...

Elon Musk Shares Transphobic Meme Following Report of Grimes Dating Chelsea Manning

Following reports that Elon Musk’s ex-partner Grimes has been dating Chelsea Manning, the billionaire expressed his feelings like many another emotionally-stunted bigot: by posting a transphobic meme on Twitter. Musk shared an image from the Sad Pablo Escobar meme template. It shows the character of Escobar (played by Wagner Moura in the Netflix series Narcos) sitting on a bench and looking forlorn. The ungrammatical text reads: “Netflix waiting for the war to end to make a movie about a black ukraine guy falls in love with a transgender russian soldier.” We’re not going to share it in this article, but you can find it here. Musk didn’t directly reference Manning, who is a trans woman. But this is not the first time he’s made derogatory jokes about the trans community, and during the ...

Grimes is Dating Chelsea Manning: Report

Grimes has reportedly began dating Chelsea Manning, the activist and whistleblower who famously leaked hundreds of thousands of classified military documents to WikiLeaks. Page Six reports that Grimes and Manning are currently living together in Austin. The news comes on the heels of Grimes’ revelation that she recently welcomed a second child with former partner Elon Musk. Although Grimes referred to Musk as “my boyfriend” in her recent Vanity Fair cover story, she also acknowledged that their relationship was “fluid” and that they lived in separate houses. However, since sitting down with Vanity Fair, Grimes and Musk have split. Related Video “Me and E have broken up *again* since the writing of this article haha, but he’s my best friend and the love of my life, and my life and art are f...