A new article in the L.A. Times (July 9, 2025) explores the accomplishments of the new Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman over the first six months of taking office. According to prosecutors and law enforcement officials, the new district attorney has delivered “a return to normalcy” after the contentious term of progressive luminary George Gascón. One of his accomplishments over his predecessor explored in the article has been to close the Marilyn Manson investigation and not bring any charges against him. The L.A. Times however does not present it as an accomplishment, but as a political pitfall along with another high profile case he is involved in, the Menendez Brothers. According to the L.A. Times: "In January, Hochman announced he would not bring rape charges against rock star Marilyn Manson — roughly four months after he held a campaign event alongside some of Manson’s accusers to attack Gascón’s handling of the case. 'You don’t parade people out. … I found t...
Evan Rachel Wood Coming Into 2019 As we entered 2019, Evan Rachel Wood continued her activist role as a self-proclaimed warrior fighting on behalf of all women, and she made sure all women knew this when she gave a stirring speech at the third annual Women's March on January 18th, where she said among other things: "When you are knocked down, you get back up. Keep getting back up. Now, women are really good at that. We’ve had a lot of practice. But we are tired. I’m tired. As a mother, as a rape survivor, as a domestic violence survivor, I am tired." Almost a few weeks later, Evan revealed in a Nylon essay she wrote that she had once committed herself to a mental hospital, specifically when she was 22 years old after a suicide attempt. A few days after publication, on February 2nd, the Daily Mail published an awkward article of Evan emerging from LAX in her first public appearance since writing that essay. Chronologically, her stay in the mental hospital coincides wi...