The Gist:

• California Senator Dianne Feinstein has passed away at age 90.
• Her cause of death has yet to be released.
• Despite a career that was marred by health complications at the end, she was a trailblazer for women.

On Sept. 29, 2023, it was announced that Dianne Feinstein passed away at age 90. At the time of her death, the California democrat was the oldest sitting senator and had been in office since 1992. The months leading up to her death were plagued with questions about her health as many called for her resignation. Here’s what we know about Senator Feinstein’s cause of death.

The New York Times reported that Senator Dianne Feinstein “died on Thursday night, according to a family member.” As of the time of this writing, a cause of death has yet to be revealed and her staff was in the process of being apprised of the situation. Her health was a topic of great discussion on Capitol Hill since early 2023.

According to NBC News, Senator Feinstein had not “voted in the Senate since Feb. 16, 2023,” and in early March, she contracted shingles. At that point, she issued a vague statement regarding her status. “I intend to return as soon as possible once my medical team advises that it’s safe for me to travel,” she said.

Feinstein went on to say, “I understand that my absence could delay the important work of the Judiciary Committee, so I’ve asked Leader Schumer to ask the Senate to allow another Democratic senator to temporarily serve until I’m able to resume my committee work.” Politico also reported that during the two months she was away from the Capitol, Feinstein was briefly in the hospital.

During a hearing on Nov. 17, 2020, Senator Feinstein asked then Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey a question about curbing the spread of misinformation on the social media platform. She then repeated herself, verbatim, despite already getting an answer. This gaffe raised some questions about Feinstein’s mental fitness.

Although many felt that she should have retired long before her health declined, Feinstein’s contribution to the state of California and democracy in general were significant.

During the 30-plus years of Senator Feinstein’s time as a California Senator, she certainly made the most of it. In 1994, she helped pass the Assault Weapons Ban, after which the “number of deaths from mass shootings fell, and the increase in the annual number of incidents slowed down,” per the Ohio Capital Journal.

She made some incredible strides in protecting our environment with the California Desert Protection Act (1994), passing legislation aimed at Protecting Catastrophic Wildfires (2003), and authorized legislation that “require the Environmental Protection Agency to issue a rule mandating all major sources of greenhouse gases to report their emissions every year,” per her website. As recently as 2019, she was still fighting to protect the planet.

Her concern didn’t stop there. In 2022 Senator Feinstein “authored the Senate version of the Respect for Marriage Act (Public Law 117-228), a bill to repeal the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act, enshrine marriage equality in federal law and provide additional legal protections for marriage equality,” per her website. After it passed, President Biden signed it into law on Dec. 13.

Unfortunately Senator Feinstein’s last few months were some of the most difficult of her career. After sitting on the allegations against then–Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, she actually hugged Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham while arguing about appointee Amy Coney Barrett. This led to her stepping down as chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The good she did far outweighed the missteps made during her final years in the senate. John Burton, a former California Democratic Party chair, told Politico that she “got s–t done by working with people on both sides of the aisle and refusing to get caught up in unnecessary nonsense. To those lining up to run for her seat, I hope you honor the fact that this powerful lady blazed the trail for you.”

The Gist:

• Izzy and Stacy get engaged in Season 5 of Love Is Blind.
• When Stacy visits Izzy’s apartment, she has some serious concerns about the way he lives.
• Izzy has a drawer full of items from other women he has slept with over the years, called his “lost and found.”

Spoiler warning: This article contains spoilers for Season 5 of Love Is Blind.

Some of Love Is Blind‘s contestants might think the worst is over when they leave the pods, meet their respective fiancés face-to-face, and begin the next part of their journeys. But that’s where the drama really gets started and Izzy and Stacy prove that in Season 5. Especially when Izzy shows Stacy his apartment for the first time and introduces her to his “lost and found.”

It’s a drawer full of things that past hook-ups left behind in his home. Izzy does little to hide this part of his apartment. In fact, he is open about it to a fault and Stacy is not happy about the idea of her husband-to-be having such a crass way of describing and organizing other women’s belongings. Can you really blame her?

Izzy explains that he keeps earrings and other small items that women have left in his apartment in a drawer in the bathroom. It doesn’t look like the drawer is spilling over with items, but still. The fact that he has a lost and found for that sort of thing and calls it that is a major red flag for Stacy. She says as much and it’s clear that this is part of Izzy’s life that gives her the ick.

It’s safe to say that the part of Izzy’s life that involves bringing women home for one night stands is over. However, Stacy just can’t fathom why he wouldn’t throw out these lost and found items before he left home to film in the Love Is Blind pods. It’s a fair question.

The fact that Stacy is majorly turned off by Izzy’s lost and found on Love Is Blind just adds to the handful of reasons why some fans don’t see this pair working out long-term. One viewer tweeted that both Stacy and Izzy are “emotionally unavailable.” Another wrote that they don’t think Stacy is even ready to get engaged, let alone married.

The Gist:

• Milton’s career as an engineer on Love Is Blind is really important to him.
• He and his fianceé Lydia, who is a geologist, geeked out in the pods over their similar fields.
• Milton graduated from college already making a six-figure salary, but recently decided to go back to school.

Spoiler alert: This article contains spoilers for Season 5 of Love Is Blind.

When contestants on Love Is Blind start talking in the pods, it’s likely that one of the first questions that comes up is “What do you do for a living?” While it’s not often that contestants will bond over their jobs, Milton and Lydia from Season 5 really seemed to hit it off when it came to talking about their respective fields. While Lydia confirmed she is a geologist, what does Milton do for work? Here’s what we know.

Milton entered Love Is Blind at the age of 24. While he may have acted his age at times, he is actually very serious about his education and career.

Milton graduated from Quest Early College High School in 2016 and earned an associate’s degree in mathematics from Lone Star College the same year, per LinkedIn.

He then attended the University of Houston from 2016 to 2019, where he majored in petroleum and geotechnology. Milton then went on to get a master’s degree from the University of Texas at El Paso in 2020. In 2023, Milton also started pursuing an MBA at Rice University, which he expects to complete in 2025.