Empire just dropped the first look at Greta Gerwig’s Netflix Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew. Meryl Streep voices Aslan — the first woman to do it. The lion is a Bowie-styled mash of mismatched eyes, a red stripe, and mixed skins. C.S. Lewis wrote a male Christ-figure. Critics are calling it a gender-swap. Kangmin Lee frames it as Rainbow Aslan: sacred story turned costume.
A UT Austin football crowd shot is being used as proof the campus was handed to foreigners. Enrollment data says most students are Texans; appearance is not a visa. Kangmin Lee ties the panic to the real pipeline — F-1 to OPT to H-1B — plus Indian-heavy clusters in DFW and Texas schools, and the “Rainbow Asian” voices he says police the debate.
Dr. Chloe Carmichael on why natives feel schools, jobs, and stories slipping at the same time — and why calling that “hate” ends the argument.
GhostBed CEO Marc Werner on American-made sleep for people who still have to wake up and fight.