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Every year, we hear horror stories about animals being left in hot cars. But be aware before you break the window if you see a dog in a car on a hot day. Only 15 states have laws that allow civilians to rescue animals with impunity, even if it means breaking the window.
This means that in most states, your most legal option is to call the police.
Every year, we hear horror stories about animals being left in hot cars. But be aware before you break the window if you see a dog in a car on a hot day. Only 15 states have laws that allow civilians to rescue animals with impunity, even if it means breaking the window.
This means that in most states, your most legal option is to call the police.
The final season of Andor tied things in very closely to the events of Rogue One. However, one pivotal character from that film, and one of the most iconic Star Wars characters of all time, was absent. Not only absent, but not even mentioned. We’re talking about Princess Leia Organa, who was active in the Rebellion during the events of Andor’s final episodes. Her father, Senator Bail Organa of Alderaan (Benjamin Bratt), was a key figure in the final season. It turns out, a Leia cameo nearly happened. But Andor showrunner Tony Gilroy ultimately decided not to shoot it.
In an interview with ScreenRant, Gilroy said his initial idea was to make the Leia cameo happen during the episode “What a Festive Evening.” Bail Organa runs into Mon Mothma at the Investiture party, and Leia would have been with her father. During this time, about three years before A New Hope, Mon Mothma would have encouraged Leia to pursue a political career. Which of course, we know she does. By the time we meet Leia in A New Hope, she’s the junior senator from Alderaan. Here’s what Gilroy had to say about the proposed cameo:
There were some nutrients for a scene between her and Mothma that if she was going there at 16 and Mothma had gone to the Senate when she was 16. There was some basic cool things for a scene, but it never got past that, and it never went to the casting stage, or it never got more real than that. I remember talking to Kathy [Kennedy] about it and talking to Pablo [Hidalgo] about it, but it never got traction, and then it became a distraction.
Of course, Leia’s inclusion as a teenage senator would have required another recasting for the character. The actress who played her in Obi-Wan Kenobi, Vivien Lyra Blair, was still only 11 at the time of filming for Andor season two. Casting someone closer to Carrie Fisher’s age in A New Hope for just a cameo scene would have been distracting. Still, given Leia’s importance to the saga, and to Bail Organa himself, a mention might have been nice. But maybe that’s all something that needs to play out in a potential Princess Leia prequel series. Because you just know Lucasfilm is going to make that at some point.
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A woman says she is getting back at Target by walking in and quickly leaving.
In a viral TikTok, Twig (@heyitstwig25) writes in an on-screen caption, “Walking in and then immediately out of Target to mess up their customer entrance metrics,” as she films herself doing exactly that.
A hot take on TikTok has transformed into expressions of solidarity between Black people and redheaded white people, commonly referred to as gingers, on social media. From the outside, the solidarity appears somewhat bizarre; the unity is borne of a shared experience of oppression due to physical features neither group controls.
According to Newsweek, after a creator on TikTok asserted that “Everyone who is ginger, who has red hair; those are Black people. All gingers are Black people. If they have red hair, they are Black,” the idea quickly swept across social media, in a manner similar to the discourse that all genders are Black women.
This “Gingers Are Black” trend on TikTok
— Chief Vezpic.twitter.com/CJXONsdbcl
(@ChiefVez) May 12, 2025
Shamar Dickens, a 33-year-old Black creator from Atlanta, told Newsweek that he has connected with many redheads who have shared their stories of ostracization or mistreatment with him, which caused him to think deeper about how other white people treat gingers and how white people, more broadly, treat Black people.
“There were so many of them with very much similar stories about their childhood and upbringing, which is what shaped my view on this. Gingers are definitely the Black people of the white community, especially after hearing of their history and their hardships,” Dickens said.
He continued, “As a Black person myself, and how I feel about this, I’m looking at this from a different angle! There’s so much negativity in the world and even more division in the world also. I’m loving this because it’s producing so much positivity and love.”
According to Dr. Ty Redden, assistant professor of urban planning at the University of Toronto, the trend touches on the historical treatment of the Irish (who are often redheads) when they first emigrated to America and had to earn their whiteness, because they weren’t seen as white people initially, there was solidarity with Black people who were dealing with oppression.
“The trend is referencing the historic marginalization of ‘gingers,’ a phenotype highly associated with the Irish. The treatment of the Irish, particularly at the hands of the British, is well documented, and their discrimination continued well into American colonization. This historically created solidarity between the African-American and Irish populations,” Rodden told the outlet.
Redden also cautioned that the trend on TikTok has already backfired, in part because some of the gingers have accepted what it means to be white in America.
“Instead of referencing the ways in which gingers have been treated, e.g., being deemed either unattractive (aimed at men) or fetishized (in the case of women), some videos have devolved into co-opting Black cultural expressions in order for the creators to demonstrate their ‘Blackness,’” Redden said.
“It was a Black creator who highlighted the ways that gingers are mistreated and it’s unfortunate to have that turn into an opportunity to disrespect African American traditions,” Redden noted.
Melanie Preston, a licensed mental health therapist at Matter of Focus Counseling, echoed Redden’s criticism and said it is somewhat naïve to flatten the distinct historical experiences of two people groups for likes and shares or other digital currency.
“Comparing being a redhead to being Black might feel edgy or even affirming to some, but it’s a false equivalence. Redheads may face teasing—Black people have faced generations of systemic, legalized oppression. Borrowing Black pain to validate other struggles doesn’t build solidarity—it erases context. It’s one thing to build solidarity; it’s another to borrow struggle for clout,” Preston said.
Connor, a 27-year-old redhead content creator who often creates satirical videos, told the outlet that he understands the seriousness of the parallels between Black folks and redheads despite the overall “unserious nature” of the trend.
“Growing up, I was defined by my hair, bullied for it, stereotyped for it,” Connor told Newsweek. “That ‘othering’ is something I now know is a shared experience.”
He also acknowledged that white gingers are still white, which means they have certain advantages that Black people will never receive in the United States.
“At the end of the day, a white ginger is white, which carries with it all the privileges, perspectives, and experiences common with being white. We will never truly be able to compare our experiences with the average Black person, but we can empathize, support, love, and stand in solidarity because of that overlap. This is a moment where two groups of ‘othered’ people can come together and embrace each other with compassion, camaraderie, and a healthy dose of unseriousness that leaves all of us feeling closer and appreciated without becoming caricatures or trying to imitate one another,” Connor told Newsweek.