A bunk room fit for queens.

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Deals to keep you cozy, full, and clean from Madewell, Sur La Table, Wayfair and more.

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A classic quarantine move.

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“Let’s all buy stamps and save the Post Office.”

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There have been hundreds of confirmed coronavirus cases and dozens of deaths at nursing homes in Michigan, the Detroit Free Press has found.

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Despite the philanthropic purpose and uplifting mood of his Team Love Dance-A-Thon Fundraiser Sunday, Diddy drew heat from the easily-offended denizens of social media when an excerpt of Diddy cutting off Lizzo‘s twerking session migrated from the livestream the wider social media ecosystem. At the time, Diddy said it was because the livestream was on Easter Sunday and he wanted to keep it “family-friendly.” Today, he explained exactly what he meant by that, hoping to appease the hundreds of accounts accusing him of fat-phobia.

Many on Twitter felt that Diddy exercised a double standard in requesting Lizzo put a pause on her dance session, pointing out that model Draya Michele was allowed to twerk it out to her heart’s content. However, it seems those folks overlooked some important context in projecting on Puff’s reasoning: The difference in the ladies’ respective song choices. As it turns out, Diddy objected more to the lyrics from Moneybagg Yo and Blac Youngsta’s “123,” which Lizzo used to as her own background music.

As he explained in a video at the end of the stream, “There’s one thing that I wanna make clear. My queen, my sister, Lizzo, when I stopped the music, it’s because it had a lot of curses in there. Not because she was twerking. She’s one of the best twerkers in the world, okay? So let’s keep that clear. It wasn’t about twerking. You’re allowed to twerk on Easter. There was a lot of cursing on the record and I don’t need child services knocking on my door right now, you understand?”

Specifically, the portion of the song Lizzo threw her backside to contains the lyrics: “She a bad b*tch, eat the p*ssy like a spinach / She’ll suck d*ck on the way to the dentist.” Meanwhile, Draya’s dance to Juvenile’s “Back That Azz Up” did contain the uncensored version, in which Juvenile rhymes “You a fine motherf*cker,” which has some Twitter users skeptical about Diddy’s explanation (although if you count the asterisks above, it’s pretty clear that one requires way more censorship than the other).

In any case, it’s a prime example of how things can be taken out of context on the internet — or at least, interpreted in many different ways. Fortunately, there were many other moments that seemed positive to take away from the Dance-A-Thon, such as Drake telling Diddy about the new music he’s making while on lockdown.

The two big stories that came out of WWE over the weekend don’t go together very well. One was that an on-air employee tested positive for COVID-19, and the other is that they’re resuming live broadcasts of Raw, NXT, and Smackdown. That’s three shows a week that much of their talent will have to either travel back and forth to, or isolate themselves locally, away from their families. Neither solution is great, and at a time when only essential businesses are supposed to be going to work, WWE’s justification for going live again is a bit questionable, to say the least.

Naturally, the statement they made to ESPN made it all about the fans:

We believe it is now more important than ever to provide people with a diversion from these hard times. We are producing content on a closed set with only essential personnel in attendance following appropriate guidelines while taking additional precautions to ensure the health and wellness of our performers and staff. As a brand that has been woven into the fabric of society, WWE and its Superstars bring families together and deliver a sense of hope, determination and perseverance.

But meanwhile, Dave Meltzer at WON is saying that the real issue is that WWE’s contracts with USA and Fox limit how many pre-taped shows they’re supposed to air per year, apparently to just 3, which are usually used for Christmas and the UK tour. Apparently the fear is that if they don’t go live, even during this pandemic, the networks will have justification to renegotiate other parts of the contracts.

So yes, if you were confused, it sounds like WWE’s decision to put its talent at risk by running three live weekly TV shows a week during a global pandemic is all about money. I don’t think this will surprise anyone.

WWE keeps stressing how many precautions they’re taking at these shows, but personally I can’t even bring myself to call that doing the bare minimum for their workers’ safety. In this crisis, as most of us know well, the bare minimum, unless you’re selling food or providing healthcare, should be keeping your workers home.

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As bizarre as it was, WrestleMania week officially came to an end last Friday with the post-Mania episode of Smackdown ushering in the Braun Strowman era. Strowman was a last-minute substitution in the Universal Championship match against Goldberg, taking the place of Roman Reigns, who bowed out of the WrestleMania 36 card due to health concerns. This worked out well for the Monster Among Men, who left the WWE Performance Center as the new Universal Champion. But according to Goldberg, that match was almost wiped from history. Appearing on the CarCast podcast last week, the WWE Hall Of Famer had this to say:

“Obviously I had a change of opponents at the very last minute. Roman Reigns, everybody knows he has leukemia. He’s in remission, but obviously his immune system’s down. I don’t know why [the match] was even considered in the beginning except for the fact that we’d invested time and WWE invested money in the angle and in the match. Literally until the 23rd hour, it was still a possibility he and I were gonna wrestle. Plans kinda changed at the very last minute. I did the match with Braun, and then it was possible I could wrestle Roman again before the 5th. That obviously fell through. […] My obligations were complete for the year. My second match was already wrestled. So I come back here on Friday and don’t go to the gym for five days, then I get a phone call in the middle of the week that it’s still a possibility. It was still a possibility on [Roman’s] end that he could go through with the match. […] I think what happened was somebody was sick and Roman heard about it. They just had the flu. But just the fact that somebody was sick in those circumstances, at the end of the day he just couldn’t do it. More power to him to continually want to get it done, whether that’s realistic or unrealistic for a person in his shoes are concerned, but you’ve got to love the guy because up to the 11th hour, he was still willing to do it.”

As for Goldberg’s actual WrestleMania match with Braun Strowman, he wasn’t the only person who was disappointed in the lack of an explanation, but he was able to be zen about the whole thing:

“I’d never wrestled Braun before. We had no story. There was no lead-up to it whatsoever. [But] it was a reality check. Everybody knows Roman’s situation. This isn’t a fabricated story; it’s reality. Reality was literally playing out right in front of everybody’s eyes, Braun and I’s included. He had no clue he was going to be doing that match, nor did I. But in this business, you gotta learn to roll with the punches, you gotta satiate everybody and you gotta look at the big picture. You gotta take everything into consideration at the same time. You can’t risk injury or whatever it is. We just had to do our jobs, no matter how unprepared we were for it.”

The former two-time Universal Champion went on to discuss the complicated feelings surrounding performing during a pandemic. commenting:

“You feel as though you have a responsibility to the public, because you do. We’re one of the very few entities that are going on right now. At the same time, you feel as though you’re being irresponsible. So it’s a fine line. But it’s a business. Vince McMahon’s a businessman. He was there. He’s not going to ask anybody to do what he wouldn’t do. So he at least showed up and people could see that and understand that he was willing to put himself in a situation that was obviously good enough for an older person like himself to be there.”

Granted, we can’t all be Genetic Jackhammers like Mr. McMahon. So can we please just let wrestlers stay home?