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Boston councilwoman sounds off after Tom Homan's CPAC promise to 'bring hell': 'We don't scare easy'

23 February 2025 at 19:02

A member of the Boston City Council called out Border Czar Tom Homan in a post on social media, calling his promises to enforce President Donald Trump's border policy "laughable."

Councilwoman Sharon Durkan posted her response on X after Homan said he would "bring hell" to Beantown after Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox recently doubled down on the city’s sanctuary policies.

"You said you doubled down on not helping the law enforcement officers of ICE. I'm coming to Boston, and I'm bringing hell with me," Homan said at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Saturday. "I looked at the numbers this morning... I stopped counting at nine. Nine child rapists that were in jail in Massachusetts, but rather than honoring an ICE detainer, you released them back into the street."

"You're not a police commissioner," Homan continued. "Take that badge off your chest. Put it in the desk drawer. Because you became a politician. You forgot what it’s like to be a cop."

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Durkan responded by mocking Homan for briefly serving as a police officer in the village of West Carthage, New York, in the 1980s. He became a Border Patrol agent soon after, and has since worked for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the Obama administration, as well as the first Trump administration.

"Laughable that someone who spent their career policing a town smaller than a Fenway Park crowd thinks they can lecture Boston on public safety," Durkan's post read.

"Commissioner Michael Cox serves with distinction and earns trust with integrity," the city official continued. "Tom Homan should know, we don’t scare easy."

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In a recent interview, Cox said that Boston "doesn't enforce detainers" that are filed by ICE, per Massachusetts law.

"We just don’t do that," Cox said on a segment of WCVB’s "On the Record" show. "We don’t enforce civil detainers regarding federal immigration law. It's defined here in the state, and that’s just how it works."

The Boston office of ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) has overseen the arrest of several criminal migrants in recent weeks, including MS-13 gang members. 

Earlier this month, ERO Boston officers apprehended an illegal alien from Guatemala who was charged with multiple counts of child rape.

Fox News Digital reached out to Durkan for comment, but did not immediately hear back.

Fox News Digital's Peter Pinedo and Greg Wehner contributed to this report.

'Baby Reindeer' Star Richard Gadd Reveals What He Does With His Awards 

23 February 2025 at 12:42
'Baby Reindeer' Star Richard Gadd Only Kept a Few of His Awards: 'I Tend to Give Most of Them Out'
Richard Gadd Kayla Oaddams/WireImage

Richard Gadd became an awards show darling thanks to the success of his debut Netflix miniseries Baby Reindeer — but he doesn’t proudly display most of his hard-earned trophies.

“I tend to give most of them out to people if you can believe that,” Gadd, 35, told Variety while attending the 2025 Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday, February 22. “I never want to reveal where they are in case people break into the house because some of them are obviously very valuable now, but [mom has] got a few, I’ll put it that way.”

He added, “I think I’ve got about two awards in my house. I think I’ve got one of the three Emmys and I think I’ve got an Olivier.”

Gadd’s Baby Reindeer, based on his alleged personal experience with abuse, has earned him accolades at the Emmy Awards, Critics Choice Awards, Golden Globe Awards and more award show ceremonies. On Saturday, he took home the Independent Spirit trophy for Best Lead in a New Scripted Series.

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Whenever Gadd hands off a new trophy to another recipient, he makes sure to convey his gratitude for all the support.

“[I say], ‘Thanks for everything you’ve done for me. I’m here and I’m alive because of you. Here’s an award to say thanks,’” Gadd added to Variety. “I’ve had some tough times in my life. A lot of good people have got me through them and I wouldn’t be accepting these awards if it weren’t for them.”

'Baby Reindeer' Star Richard Gadd Only Kept a Few of His Awards: 'I Tend to Give Most of Them Out'
Richard Gadd Kevin Winter/Getty Images

The Scottish performer is hoping to add to his collection at the 2025 Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday, February 23, where he’s up for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series.

“Weirdly, I’m listening to a band called Rap Bag at the moment,” Gadd told the outlet of his pre-SAG preparation. “They’re quite obscure, but they’ve got this amazing song I cannot stop listening to. They’ve got this amazing sort of ethereal, slightly shrill — not shrill, that sounds bad — but it’s haunting.”

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Gadd is up for a SAG Award against Javier Bardem (Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story), Colin Farrell (The Penguin), Kevin Kline (Disclaimer) and Andrew Scott (Ripley).

Gadd’s Baby Reindeer costar Jessica Gunning, who played Martha in the Netflix limited series, is nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series on Sunday. Her category is rounded out by Kathy Bates (The Great Lillian Hall), Cate Blanchett (Disclaimer), Jodie Foster (True Detective: Night Country), Lily Gladstone (Under the Bridge) and Cristin Milioti (The Penguin).

Julia Schlaepfer Details Obstacles a Pregnant Alex Will Face in ‘1923’

23 February 2025 at 12:31
Julia Schlaepfer Talks the Challenges a Pregnant Alex Dutton Will Face En Route to Montana in 1923
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Alex Dutton has quite the journey ahead of her in 1923. Not only does she have to cross an ocean in the hopes of reuniting with husband Spencer Dutton in Montana, but the season 2 premiere revealed she’ll be embarking on the journey while pregnant.

In an exclusive interview, Julia Schlaepfer, 29, dished on what kind of challenges the mother-to-be will face en route to Bozeman, where she and Brandon Sklenar’s Spencer were headed before he was taken away for throwing her ex-fiancé Arthur (Rafe Soule) overboard in the season 1 finale. “It’s certainly going to make her journey a lot more difficult,” the actress told Us. “There’s so much more at stake for her being pregnant and knowing that there is a child on the way.”

“If you’re just taking care of yourself [while] moving through the world, you can make choices for yourself that feel right, but now she has a child to take care of,” she explained. “It’s going to be tricky, especially being a pregnant woman in the 1920s alone. That adds a level of intensity to the situation.”

Though the fan-favorite character is known for being brave and fearless, Alex “has to be a lot more careful with how she’s treated and how she takes care of herself along the way,” Schlaepfer continued. “It becomes her ultimate priority to make sure that this child stays alive and that they can all be reunited as a family.”

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It remains to be seen what kind of roadblocks Alex will encounter in the rest of the season, but Schlaepfer believes the former Countess of Sussex will face a reality check during her travels. “She’s lived a very privileged life,” the Politician alum said. “I don’t think that she quite [understands] the dangers that exist in different parts of the world, so there’s a lot of learning.”

Playing the “feisty woman” has been “a dream role” for Schlaepfer. “Alex pounces on everything that she wants and she’s very strong,” she told Us. “She’s been very sheltered, but she is determined, and we see a lot more of that in season 2 as well.”

In real life, Alex has motivated Schlaepfer — who jokes she would also “would run away to Africa with a man that I fell in love with after a day” — to follow her own dreams: The actress moved to Montana after falling in love with the state following Taylor Sheridan’s legendary cowboy camp.

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“I was feeling so inspired by Alex and how she just follows her happiness wherever it leads her,” she explained, noting she was “so happy” working in Big Sky Country. “I [thought], ‘Why wouldn’t I follow that happiness and take a leap?’”

Now, “I live on a ranch in Montana,” she added. “I’m so happy and I never want to leave.”

Season 2 of 1923 airs Sundays on Paramount+.

Lenny Kravitz Loves the ‘Camp’ of Netflix’s ‘Emily in Paris’ — Just Like Us

23 February 2025 at 12:27
Lenny Kravitz Loves the Camp of Netflixs Emily in Paris Just Like Us
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Lenny Kravitz has seen all of Netflix’s Emily in Paris — and he loves it.

“I’ve seen the whole thing,” Kravitz, 60, told The Sunday Times in an interview published on Saturday, February 22. “I love a bit of camp every now and again. I know the creator [Darren Star], who I met after I’d watched it. We were at a dinner in LA at a friend’s house. She said, ‘He does Emily in Paris.’ I was like ‘You do?’”

For those who may be surprised that Kravtiz has the time to watch a popular Netflix series, he told The Sunday Times, “Oh, sometimes you’ve got to watch some telly, man. Sometimes you’ve got to watch a bit of telly.” Emily in Paris, which premiered in October 2020, has since been renewed for a fifth season on Netflix.

Like the show’s main character Emily (Lily Collins), Kravitz also lives in Paris, but unlike Emily, Kravitz has been single for almost a decade — and likes it that way.

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“I’m good on my own. There’s nothing like a relationship with… You know,” he told the outlet. “But right now, I’m good where I am.” (Kravitz shares daughter Zoe Kravitz with ex Lisa Bonet, to whom he was married from 1987 to 1993.)

Lenny Kravitz Loves the Camp of Netflixs Emily in Paris Just Like Us
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Kravitz has previously discussed his decision to remain celibate until he finds the right partner. In a 2008 interview with Maxim, Kravitz said, “[It’s] just a promise I made until I get married. Where I’m at in life, the women have got to come with something else, not just the body, but the mind and spirit. It usually trips them out, but that’s the way it’s going to be. I’m looking at the big picture.”

In May of last year, Kravitz spoke again about his choice to be celibate, telling The Guardian at the time, “Yes. It’s a spiritual thing.”

The following month, the Grammy winner said in an interview with InStyle that he was ready to meet the right person and was looking forward to one day getting married again.

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“I love love. I love relationships, I love that whole dynamic, and it’s been something that’s been challenging for me,” he told the outlet in June 2024, adding that marriage is “something I really fantasize about [and] long for in reality.”

“It’s not just a fantasy, it’s something that I long for, but you cannot, everything takes the time that it takes, and I’ve had lots of lessons to learn,” he continued. “You truly must be ready with anything in life that you long for. When you’re ready, it will come.”

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