Hasta La Gadget!

Netflix is dropping a thrilling new documentary, “Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press,” that explores the tumult journalists experience and the fight to preserve First Amendment rights in the modern media landscape. 

At the core of the film is the court case that came about after Terry “Hulk Hogan” Bollea’s sex tape surfaced online in 2012 on Gawker.com. The landmark case — facilitated financially by billionaire PayPal founder Peter Thiel — subsequently led to the death of Gawker and has left digital media, specifically, even more vulnerable than it was before. 

We live in a time when wealthy individuals can abuse public freedoms because they can use their fortune as leverage. The president, a billionaire who paid for much of his campaign with personal funds, frequently refers to major media organizations as “fake news” and “alternative facts.” He’s repeatedly disregarded the sanctity of the press, saying he wants “open up the libel laws” and calling journalists “witch hunters.” So, it’s a crucial moment for journalists to work harder to tell the stories they need to tell and refuse to stay silent.

The documentary explores other situations where wealthy individuals have used their money to aggressively take on the media ― specifically the sale of the Las Vegas Journal-Review. All in all, the doc looks terrifying. 

“Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press” is slated to hit Netflix on June 23.

— This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.

When a woman suffers a miscarriage or infant loss, she usually has access to support groups, products and other resources to help her cope with the grief. But the same can’t always be said for her partner. 

Mom and “Birth Hour” podcast host Bryn Huntpalmer wants to change that.

In honor of Father’s Day, she created a T-shirt to acknowledge a dad’s loss and celebrate the piece of joy many parents find in the aftermath ― a rainbow baby.

A rainbow baby is a child born after a miscarriage, stillbirth, neonatal death or infant loss. Huntpalmer’s shirt features a rainbow and the words “rainbow dad.”

“As the host of a birth stories podcast, I hear stories of loss regularly, but I also know that in the mainstream world of all things baby, pregnancy and infant loss aren’t as widely discussed,” Huntpalmer told HuffPost.

“One question I always ask my guests is, ‘What types of resources were most helpful to you during your journey?’” she explained. “They always tell me about how helpful the pregnancy loss community was to them, whether it was a Facebook group, a local support group or a hashtag on Instagram; they want to feel like they aren’t alone. And while there are so many ways for moms to find support, dads are often left out.”

Huntpalmer has two kids, ages 3 and 5, and recently suffered a miscarriage. She said she first got to know the pregnancy and infant loss community when her best friend lost her baby at 34 weeks pregnant. 

“I found that it was always the moms that were finding ways to share their child with the world, whether through wearing a necklace with the baby’s footprints or wearing a “rainbow mama” shirt, but there’s not a lot out their for men,” she said.

Huntpalmer thought having a ‘rainbow dad’ shirt could serve as a small way to bring more men into the pregnancy loss community. She enlisted a group of moms and dads to help design a shirt that fathers would want to wear.

“Funnily enough, my husband actually gets a little jealous that I have so many mom-and-me matching tees with our kids while there’s nothing like that for dads, so I designed a “rainbow kid” shirt too,” she told HuffPost.

The shirt is available on Amazon and comes in five different colors. Huntpalmer is asking people to use the hashtag #rainbowdad to post photos of dads wearing the shirt and share their stories.

“The response has been so heartfelt and enthusiastic that it has really confirmed the need for something like this for dads,” she said. “The dads that I have spoken to really love the idea of a way to recognize their role in the family after the loss of their child. The moms are thrilled to be able to include their partners in the celebration that comes with having a rainbow baby.”

One father told Huntpalmer that his wife had lots of items to recognize her loss, but he couldn’t find anything suited to him. “He decided to get a tattoo of his baby’s name, which he loves, but he also knows that tattoos aren’t for everyone,” she explained. “So it’s so great to have something like a shirt that’s more accessible.”

Huntpalmer said a couple of dads have wondered if wearing a rainbow shirt would make people think they were repping LGBTQ pride, rather than the rainbow parent experience. “But they said that they didn’t care if it did and that if anything, it will be a fun conversation starter,” she added. 

Ultimately, starting conversations is the main goal of the shirt. 

“When you’ve lost a baby, it is always on your mind, and this mistaken idea that it hurts to have it brought up is what has contributed to the stigma around infant loss and miscarriage,” Huntpalmer said.

“All of the dads that I know that have suffered a loss are eager to talk about their baby, and being able to wear a shirt that brings that conversation to the forefront is just one more way to do that,” she added. “The grief that parents go through after a loss is a hard thing to put into words and often people assume that once you have your rainbow baby, you are ‘all better.’ While rainbow babies do bring an overwhelming amount of joy, the child that died is such an important part of the journey as well.”

— This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.

Judd Apatow discussed parenting teenage children on Wednesday’s episode of “Conan,” joking about the ways that the parent-child relationship changes as children get older. 

“You know the love you feel from your daughter right now?” the writer, director and producer asked host Conan O’Brien. “Soon that’ll be gone.”

Apatow went on to explain that his daughters not only don’t find him funny, but they don’t like anyone else who finds him funny, routinely mocking fans who approach him on the street. 

And whenever he attempts to use his name to get dinner reservations, Apatow explains, his younger daughter refers to him as a “Hollywood dick.” 

Apatow is the father to 14-year-old Iris and 19-year-old Maude with his wife, actress Leslie Mann. All three family members have acted in his films “This is 40” and “Knocked Up.”

Apatow frequently mines the topic of parenthood in his work. Most recently he played a role in coming up with the idea that the series finale of “Girls” would explore the themes of breastfeeding and new motherhood. Judd Apatow is executive producer on the show and his daughter Maude has guest-starred. 

— This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.

Finally, a house that meets your cat’s exacting standards.

A 2,500-square-foot home in the Arizona desert is sending cat lovers into a catnip-style frenzy. Nearly every indoor surface is covered in cat images or paraphernalia, thanks to a previous owner who spent a decade plastering photos and memorabilia to the walls, listing agent Elizabeth Keller told HuffPost. 

The home has two bedrooms and one bathroom, plus at least 12 cat condos, according to Arizona Central. It’s an “extremely fun home,” per its listing with Century 21. 

“If you love cats this is the home for you! If not, bring your sandblaster!” the listing reads. Notable features include “cat walkways” and a “Medieval cat castle with different levels (stone).” 

The property’s previous owner spent about 10 years around the house while her spouse was sick, Keller said, which left her plenty of time to purr-fect its decor: There are cat posters, cat carpets, framed cat photos, cat postcards and cat images cut from newspapers affixed to the walls. Numerous completed cat puzzles are glued to the ceiling. 

“The house was giant craft project, basically,” Keller said. “Every square inch of the walls has cats on it. The pictures don’t do it justice. You can’t even put it into words when you see it.”

Keller and co-agent Sara Reidhead are asking $240,000 for the spot, which looks like a typical log-sided home from the outside. 

The home’s former owner had three cats, and the most remarkable thing of all is that the property does not smell inside, Keller said. 

There’s been much interest in the home since its listing went viral this week, especially from local cat rescue shelters who are looking to take it over, she added.

What a meow-velous idea. 

— This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.

Rep. Chris Collins (R-N.Y.) expressed “regret” for suggesting that Democratic rhetoric about President Donald Trump had inspired a gunman to target Republican lawmakers at a congressional baseball practice on Wednesday morning.

James Hodgkinson, the suspect who allegedly opened fire at the baseball field in Alexandria, Virginia, was a supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) with a record of violent behavior.

Reacting to the shooting shortly after it occurred on Wednesday morning in an interview on Buffalo, New York’s WBEN radio, Collins identified the “finger-pointing, just the tone and the angst, and the anger directed at Donald Trump, his supporters” as a contributing factor in the rampage.

“I can only hope that the Democrats do tone down the rhetoric,” Collins added.

Later in the day, however, Collins released a statement calling on all sides, rather than just Democrats, to use more careful language.

“It’s time for all of us, including myself, to tone down our rhetoric and recognize that we are all of one country and all proud Americans,” he said.

On Thursday, Collins went further, admitting it had been a mistake to pin the blame on Democrats in the first place.

“I do regret certainly what I said at 8:05 in the morning. I’ve been careful to clarify it moving forward,” Collins said on MSNBC.

Collins also suggested that he views lawful gun ownership as part of the solution to preventing future violent incidents, because people with the guns could ward off attackers. 

“I do believe that a law-abiding citizen that is armed, that’s out in public, will keep himself, his staff and, in some cases, the public safe. I’m a strong believer in the NRA,” Collins said. “I do have a carry permit. And I have become certainly lax. We sometimes take our security for granted.”

Democrats have universally condemned the violent attack on the congressional baseball practice. 

Sanders, an independent who caucuses with Senate Democrats, took to the floor of the Senate to express his revulsion that the shooter, Hodgkinson, was a supporter of his who had volunteered on his presidential campaign.

“I am sickened by this despicable act, and let me be as clear as I can be: Violence of any kind is unacceptable in our society and I condemn this action in the strongest possible terms,” the Vermont senator said.

The annual congressional baseball game is slated to continue as planned at 7:05 pm on Thursday.

— This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.