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Kim Kardashian’s Makeup Line: She’ll Make HOW Much in Minutes?!

Kim Kardashian is launching her own makeup line, Kim Kardashian West Beauty. Even though, as people have already pointed out,  Kim’s business could compete with Kylie Cosmetics . But now that we’ve seen how much money Kim is projected to make   … we totally get it. Women’s Wear Daily projects that Kim Kardashian’s first product will rake in $14.4 million within minutes . Just about anybody would sell out their sibling’s business for that kind of cash, right? We’re kidding. Ish. So, Kim’s new line drops its first product, a cream for contouring and highlighting that comes in four shades, on June 21st, That’s the Summer Solstice, so we hope that the conspiracy folks who think that every Halftime Show is an Illuminati ritual have fun with that. Kim Kardashian West Beauty is expected to sell all 300,000 of these kits in under 5 minutes. Since each of them cost $48 and math exists … you get $14.4 million. Well, Kim and other profit participants get that much. They’re not pulling these numbers out of nowhere, either. Apparently, when Kylie Cosmetics released KKW by Kylie, it was basically just a test run for Kim’s own line. Which had to be weird for both of them, right? 300,000 of these lip kits sold out in minutes, and were $45 each … generating over $13 million. Based on that test run — literally imagine making that much on a test run , holy crap — they expect for Kim’s own products to sell at least as well for her own brand. And remember that some people only go to Kylie Cosmetics because they adore Kylie. There’s no telling how quickly Kim might sell out to her own fans. Given that level of cooperation, it sounds like they might not be competing after all. Kim, at least, would have us think so, because that’s what she told WWD . “I am older than Kylie. We definitely have a different audience.” That’s true. Kylie’s audience is, for the most part, people young enough that using Snapchat doesn’t make them feel like the cold hands of time are clutching at them and dragging them ever-closer to the grave. They must think that it’s worth it to see Kylie pose in a sheer lacy bra that does nothing to hide her nip-nops. Kim’s fans tend to be a little older — old enough that they can relate in some way to a woman who’s now a married mother of two. “We do have a lot of similar things — but we aren’t doing the same products so we won’t run into that overlap.” Kim Kardashian Beauty is supposed to just be concentrating on contouring and stuff instead of lip kits, but who knows how that might change? Money changes people. Even when they’re already rich. But Kim seems to thinkt hat it won’t be an issue. “We’re really cautious of that. We work together to make sure that we don’t overlap like that.” Keep your friends close and your sister closer, eh, Kylie? We know that Kylie’s willing to go all-out to promote her products. Usually that just means, you know, sexy pics with a caption here and there. Kim’s has more experience at being a businesswoman — remember her video game? — and her brand is a little different. But however she keeps people interested in her products over time, we’re sure that it’ll be hard to miss. Maybe she and Kylie can both be makeup moguls. We just hope that, with hundreds of thousands of women doing their makeup like Kim, Rob doesn’t bang any more Kim Kardashian lookalikes . Because ick . View Slideshow: 14 Times We Thought Kylie Jenner was Actually Kim Kardashian

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Kim Kardashian: Having Third Baby, With or Without Kanye West?!

As we’ve seen on the past couple of seasons of Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Kim Kardashian wants to have a third child. She wants it very, very badly. She seems to be going back and forth between finding a surrogate and trying to get pregnant again herself because, as she’s said, “I want my kids to have siblings.” The issue, however, is that she had several complications with both of her previous pregnancies, and her doctors have told her that a third pregnancy wouldn’t be entirely safe. When she was pregnant with North, she developed a condition called placenta accreta, which is where the placenta attaches itself to the uterine wall. It’s not a great condition to have. It causes a higher risk of excessive bleeding during delivery, which can be life-threatening, and for Kim, it means her uterus was damaged. After having North, doctors did a few surgeries to fix everything up, and a hole was created in her uterus, which made it extremely hard for her to get pregnant again. She managed it in 2015, when she conceived precious little Saint , but her doctors have warned her that she’s likely to have the condition again. And if she does, there’s a chance she could require an emergency hysterectomy in addition to the higher risk of blood loss. Still, Kim wants to be pregnant again, and it seems like it’s because she’s hesitant to trust a surrogate with carrying her child. But according to a new report from Life & Style, she may not have a choice. After all, it’s a little hard to get pregnant when you face all these complications, and when your husband doesn’t want another kid. Yep, as surprising as it may be, sources say that Kanye West doesn’t think it’s a great idea to have another baby with Kim. Could it be because he’s just a few months out from his total mental breakdown? Or that he and Kim have been rumored to be on the brink of divorce for a while now? Or possibly that he thinks two kids is ideal, and a risky pregnancy or a surrogacy just isn’t worth it? The source doesn’t go into the specifics on why Kanye isn’t ready to be a father of three, but the point is that he’s not, and that’s totally fair. What isn’t so fair is that Kim may be considering methods of having a third baby without Kanye’s consent. “She wants to choose someone outside of the state of California, where there are all kinds of surrogacy laws,” the source explains. “She’s ready to go.” …. So Kim is trying to find a state with lax laws surrounding surrogacy — perhaps one in which someone can find a surrogate and go through the process without express consent from a spouse? What could possibly go wrong? View Slideshow: Kim Kardashian: 20 Weird Facts About the Sex Tape Star

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Editorial: Bill Maher And People Like Him Don’t Deserve Teachable Moments

(Photo by Mike Coppola/VF17/Getty Images for VF) Last week perpetual white guy, raging anti-semite and not-so-closeted racist Bill Maher casually referred to himself as a “house ni**a” on his “Real Time” show and was summarily raked through the coals for it. And of course, “raked through the coals” is a relative term because white men rarely face any real consequences for insulting other groups of people. So really, he was just slapped on the wrist by people on Twitter and met with a sternly worded letter by HBO. Other than that, he’s just fine. Maher tried to rectify the situation by inviting 75 percent of the black people he knows that he didn’t meet through Karrine Steffans onto his show. The results only made things worse. First Maher spoke to bestie Michael Eric Dyson about his upbringing by using the tried and true racist white guy trope: race wasn’t an issue where I grew up. Let’s get this straight. If you grew up in America, whether it’s Tupelo, Mississippi, Los Angeles, California or Newark, New Jersey, race was absolutely an issue where you grew up and it damn sure came up in conversation. If you feel differently, that’s because you’re privileged (see: white) enough to not have had to deal with it. Later in the show, Symone Sanders and Ice Cube came on the show to further check Maher on his use of the word. Of course, as usual, Cube and Sanders are on point. Oh yeah, Ice Cube gave @billmaher the talk he needed to hear pic.twitter.com/i7jYbCtm5P — Tommy Christopher (@tommyxtopher) June 10, 2017 However they both leaned on a phrase that bothered me: this is a teachable moment. The phrase has been used ad nauseam as of late when white people say or do something blatantly racist, homophobic or antisemitic. “Teachable moment” implies that the culprit of said insensitivity did so unintentionally and they need to be educated about their wrongdoings. And it’s generally the subjugated people who have to do the educating. F*** that noise. Bill Maher is beyond teachable moments. He’s been espousing the idea that white people should be able to use the N-word since at least 2001 when he not only repeated the word a dozen times, he silenced Anne-Marie Johnson , a black woman, who tried to offer him a “teachable moment” and even questioned her blackness. That was Maher’s chance to be taught. And he ignored it, instead he lived with a mentality that he should be able to say the N-word and never relented, finally convincing himself he could say it again on TV in 2017, as well as perpetuating hateful comments about Islam and blackness. That’s why Bill Maher doesn’t get any teachable moments. He had his chance. He ignored it. F*** him. In a general sense, it’s time to bury the idea of teachable moments for good. Take the N-word for example. Anyone in the age of Google, Twitter and working WIFI should know by now why black people can use the word and white people can’t. It takes two seconds to find out the answer. That’s why it’s absurd for someone to feel informed enough to spout ignorance without taking time to get educated. I can do a quick Google and find a serviceable amount of information on a topic to speak on it without reciting hate speech or mimicking violent language. Therefore I don’t need any damn teachable moments. Anyone who does otherwise is being willfully ignorant and activating their privilege to say what they want without caring about who it impacts. Teachable moments and the desire to turn racism into easily-solved Family Matters segments is how people like Bill Maher get a pass for their racism. It’s how Tory Lanez feels like spending $35,000 at a store that treated him with racism is some sort of gotcha lesson. And it’s how Katy Perry thinking that suddenly admitting to her racism gives her a pass to go on with her life. Teachable moments are simply hall passes for white folks to sit in front of black people hat-in-hand and get forgiven for racism without having to face any real consequences for their actions. You know what’s a real teachable moment for Bill Maher? Strip him of his show and make him work his way back onto television. Then he can learn that his words have meaning and that he can’t live a life full of unending second chances. Because there’s no such thing as a teachable moment without real life consequences for the rest of us. Bill Maher and his peers don’t deserve teachable moments. Because he’s been taught. Repeatedly. It’s his own fault for not listening.

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MTV News Social Justice Forecast For June 9–17

There will be a hate-crime forum in Seattle, Washington; a training on confronting Islamophobia in Boston, Massachusetts; an exploration of how virtual reality can help undocumented immigrants in San Francisco, California; and we’re looking ahead to the #40acres40cities protests on Juneteenth

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Shots Fired: Kevin Durant’s Mom More Or Less Calls Stephen A. Smith A Sellout [Video]

Wanda Durant was on ESPN’s First take and went in on Stephen A. Smith. IMAGE VIA WENN

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Derek Fisher Arrested On Suspicion Of DUI, Crashes Car With Gloria Govan Inside

Jesus take the wheel… Derek Fisher Arrested On Suspicion Of DUI Derek Fisher was recently arrested after he not only crashed his car on a California freeway but flipped it. According to The Los Angeles Daily News , on Saturday Fisher veered into the paved right shoulder of a roadway before hitting a raised concrete curb and a guardrail. That caused the vehicle to flip onto its back and block two lanes on California’s northbound 101 Freeway. Authorities have confirmed that his girlfriend Gloria Govan was in the vehicle, a 2015 Cadillac, with him. Both of them were uninjured in the crash. He was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol without incident. SMH, don’t drink and drive folks. Just call an uber. Splash News

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Whoa! Watch 10-Yr-Old Boy Fall Off Water Slide! [Video]

A 10-yr-old boy was filmed falling off of a new waterslide at a Dublin, California water park. Turns out, the boy is OK and it looked worse than it actually was. IMAGE VIA GETTY

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Whoa! Watch 10-Yr-Old Boy Fall Off Water Slide! [Video]

A 10-yr-old boy was filmed falling off of a new waterslide at a Dublin, California water park. Turns out, the boy is OK and it looked worse than it actually was. IMAGE VIA GETTY

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Victims Of Manchester Explosion Were Young Girls, Parents, Huge Ariana Grande Fans

The victims of the deadly attack on a U.K. Ariana Grande concert have been identified as young girls, parents, and fans of the singer

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MTV News Social Justice Forecast May 25–June 3

An environmental justice summit in Oakland, California, will use hip-hop to bring people to the cause; Pewaukee, Wisconsin, will have a volunteer training to help stop human trafficking; Wear Orange Day is calling on people everywhere to stand against gun violence; and we’re looking ahead to a pop-up market supporting women, queer folks, and people of color in Richmond, Virginia

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