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“She said, ‘It’s hard to know what to say,’” Maher said on his Friday night HBO show, the New York Post reported. “Which I wouldn’t say. Then don’t say anything — because you don’t know things. So you didn’t go to school, I don’t think. And you don’t know facts.”
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The 24-year-old singer Eilish was homeschooled by her parents.
“What’s the practical next step if you say there is no such thing as illegal people on stolen land?” Maher asked. “Do we just go back to living in teepees?”
Grammys get political
Eilish was one of a few stars who used the Grammy Awards show as a platform to criticize U.S. President Donald Trump and Immigration, Customs and Enforcement (ICE).
“I feel really hopeful in this room, and I feel like we need to keep fighting and speaking up and protesting. Our voices really do matter, and the people matter,” she said. “And f— ICE, that’s all I’m gonna say, sorry,” she added.
Eilish’s house on historic native land
The Tongva tribe, the Indigenous inhabitants of the Los Angeles Basin known as the “First Angelenos,” had a message of their own for Eilish — whose multimillion-dollar mansion sits on their “ancestral land.”
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The tribe revealed that the Birds of a Feather singer should “explicitly” reference them when speaking about “stolen land.”
“Eilish has not contacted our tribe directly regarding her property. We do value the instance when public figures provide visibility to the true history of this country,” a Tongva spokesperson told the Daily Mail.
Maher: Angelenos not going anywhere
Maher compared Eilish’s remarks to the hateful antisemitic chant “From the river to the sea,” which is often heard at anti-Israel “Free Palestine” protests.
“The people of Los Angeles will not move, and neither will all Israelis from Gaza,” Maher said.
Avengers actor Mark Ruffalo. Getty Images Getty ImagesHulk vs. Mr. Wonderful
Hulk actor Mark Ruffalo stuck up for Eilish, taking on Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary after the Canadian investor told Eilish to “shut your mouth and just entertain,” following her comments at the Grammys.
“Kevin O’Leary why don’t you STFU,” the Avengers star told O’Leary on Threads late Thursday night. You will go on any show and talk s–t about any number of things and smugly expect us to listen to you, but you will dig into a real artist that dwarfs anything you dream of doing for actually saying something that resonates with 100’s of millions of people the world over.
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“It’s astounding the fantasy double standard Kevin O’Leary lives in. You played yourself well in Marty Supreme,” Ruffalo said of O’Leary, who appeared in the Oscar-nominated film with Timothée Chalamet.
– with files from Denette Wilford
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