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Britney Spears seemingly called for the redistribution of wealth and a general strike on Monday, "regramming" a post and adding three emoji roses, a symbol commonly used by the Democratic Socialists of America.
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Here's the latest cover of our magazine, highlighting America's predator problem.
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Andrew Yang was too good for the presidential race, says
@matthewwalther
. His failure is America's loss.
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"America is circling the political toilet in part because Obama had the chance to fix many longstanding problems and did not rise to the occasion, a fact the former president is still stubbornly unwilling or unable to see," writes
@ryanlcooper
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Mike Pence just crammed 3 inaccuracies about 9/11 into 1 tweet.
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"We live in a culture that sees female pain as normal and male pleasure as a right," says
@Millicentsomer
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Tulsi Gabbard's lawyers demand retraction and apology from Hillary Clinton over Russia remarks.
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"We live in a culture that sees female pain as normal and male pleasure as a right," says
@Millicentsomer
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"If we brand Kavanaugh guilty and drum him from the public square without evidence, then we will have created incentives that value character assassination above actual character."
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"Trump may have tried to affect the steely suaveness of the hyper-competent crime boss, but he failed because, in fact, he's a blundering thug," writes
@LDBogart
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"If there's a dirtbag or scumbag in America who isn't on Team Trump, it'd be hard to find him."
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Officially, China has tallied more than 82,000 cases and 3,300 deaths, whereas the U.S. already has more than 189,000 cases and 4,000 deaths.
But the U.S. intelligence community has reportedly concluded that China has under-reported their totals.
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"Elephant" will be hitting Disney+ just a few days after Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's step back as senior members of the royal family is made official on March 31.
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A new generation of left-wing podcasters are dethroning right-wing talk radio, says
@davidmfaris
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With "Folklore," Taylor Swift sets a high bar for all pandemic art going forward.
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"We have a strong grassroots movement who believe that we have got to stay in the race" to fight for his platform's principles, Sanders said.
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America has a heroin epidemic. The solution is simple: Legalize heroin.
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"What we've never seen before is a president say, 'I'm going to try to actively kneecap the Postal Service to encourage voting, and I will be explicit about the reason I'm doing it.' That's sort of unheard of, right?" Obama said.
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Trump repeated his false claim that mail-in voting is wracked with fraud, but then said "absentee ballots are fine because you have to go through a precise process to get your voting privilege." Absentee and mail-in ballots are the same thing.
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"Don't make the claim he interrupted her repeatedly because he didn't interrupt her repeatedly," Santorum interrupted.
Borger didn't miss the irony. "Mr. Santorum," she said. "I'm speaking."
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"The Electoral College was a dumb idea when it was first proposed. Today, it's the Constitution's most egregious affront to elementary fairness. In a just and properly functioning political system, it would be eliminated without delay or regret."
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"A pop artist released from the need to make a popular album."
@SamanthaRollins
on 'ANTI':
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26 percent of Democrats think Obama has endorsed Bloomberg. He hasn't.
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"The world might be a much better place if powerful people experienced severe social ostracization in the nation's capital when they committed or enabled terrible crimes," argues
@ryanlcooper
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"Police officers shielded protesters from harm. Protesters rushed victims to the hospital. There is no race war."
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Comey explains that the FBI is aware of ties between Jeff Sessions, Russia that he can't disclose:
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"President Trump released his proposed budget outline for 2018 on Thursday. It is, in a word, evil."
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"He'll go down in history as a man who enabled the criminal abuses of Donald Trump so that the wealthiest people in the world could have even more money. It's a fitting legacy," says
@ryanlcooper
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President Trump's national security adviser Robert O'Brien referred to Kim as "Chairman Un," which is not how he's supposed to be acknowledged:
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The beauty of ritualized apologizing: Why everyone should celebrate Yom Kippur.
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"Moderate Republicans are like woolly mammoths: They don't exist, but they used to," says
@ScottAGalupo
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Andrew Yang's campaign mysteriously claims he's about to make presidential debate history.
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.
@JessicaJones
isn't Marvel's best show,
@scottmeslow
says. It's Marvel's best anything:
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"[Andrew] Yang's UBI might be just the thing we need in terms of an economic response to the coronavirus," writes
@jeffspross
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The right might finally be realizing there's nothing conservative about free markets, says
@matthewwalther
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Hachette Book Group employees are standing up in support of Ronan and Dylan Farrow, reportedly walking out of the company's U.S. offices on Thursday in protest of the forthcoming Woody Allen memoir.
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Andrew Yang is spending $1 million on a surprisingly conventional TV ad.
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Williamson praised Yang for "taking us back to a more innocent time, making us remember to chuckle ... for that chuckle has more power to take us over the line in 2020 than does all the anger in the world."
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"Where Clinton mainly valued the appearance of being a policy wonk, Warren is a genuine obsessive — and more importantly, values policy in terms of being able to improve the lives of the broad population, not just demonstrate her own competence."
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Trump's campaign has been heavily promoting an election night party at the Trump International Hotel, but the president will reportedly no longer be attending the event.
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Africa's extraordinary wildlife, in gorgeous black and white photos by
@laurentbaheux
:
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"What are we willing to do to combat pure evil?" Late-night comedians grapple with mass murder in Las Vegas. Watch:
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If you are ever offered a role in a movie alongside Robert Pattinson, run, says
@Jee_vuh
. He's going to steal the show.
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How 2020 Democrat Andrew Yang went from a meme to a millennial favorite:
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In remarks on the Senate floor, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer slammed Republicans who voted against the commission, arguing this "has made it official" that Trump's "big lie has now fully enveloped the Republican Party."
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In her new movie, Sarah Silverman captures the futility and doubt of modern motherhood:
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Andrew Cuomo quietly slipped legal immunity for executives into a budget bill and disbanded his own corruption investigation panel when they were closing in on him.
When it comes to corruption, he's practically Trumpian, writes
@ryanlcooper
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NBC called out by Time's Up following new Ronan Farrow revelations.
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Bernie Sanders is headlining a women's march, and people are mad.
@briebriejoy
explains why they shouldn't be:
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"The NRA's ability to swing elections in its favor is largely a myth."
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In the halls of power, it should be as painless as possible to sound the alarm.
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"No one scares President Trump as much as people who used to work for him," says
@WindsorMann
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The
#EmpireSeason2
premiere might be the show's greatest hit yet.
@travismandrews
recaps:
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After its sophomore stumble, 'True Detective' could learn from the real best show on TV:
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At this exact minute, 30 years ago, the Challenger lifted off. A minute later, it exploded:
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Klondike to stop selling Choco Tacos after nearly 40 years
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"[Biden] refused to back down and completed the withdrawal on schedule," writes
@ryanlcooper
. "It's the strongest act of political courage I have seen in my life."
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"We should all hope that democracy is preserved and nobody else is hurt or killed over politics," writes
@ryanlcooper
. "But we know where the overwhelming majority of political violence is coming from today: Donald Trump and his extremist supporters."
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"The enormous reality is that the president is an incompetent dolt and all his ideas are stupid beyond belief."
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" ... while Ted Cruz and I might not necessarily agree on the why, he's right: it's time for Hollywood to decide the worth of its art," writes
@Jee_vuh
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Carly Fiorina, a 2016 Republican presidential candidate and Ted Cruz's 2016 running mate, described Biden as "a person of humility and empathy and character," and said "I think we need humility and empathy everywhere in public life right now."
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The Federalist is a leading disseminator of pro-Trump conspiracies and up-is-down, funhouse-mirror distortions of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, says
@DamonLinker
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Greta Thunberg shot Trump a devastatingly intense glare when he walked into the UN.
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President Andrew Yang would first tell Vladimir Putin "I'm sorry I beat your guy."
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.
@DamonLinker
takes on the ludicrous sycophancy of Trump's media toadies — starting with The Federalist:
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"What [Andrew] Yang has managed to do better than any of his opponents so far is project a spirit of optimism that, I suspect, resonates very powerfully in a city with as many challenges as New York has," writes Noah Millman.
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Your to-be-read pile is about to get a whole lot bigger. Here are 25 books to read in the second half of the year:
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The whole trip to Pluto cost less than 1 NFL stadium:
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"Having a president deeply indebted to unknown lenders is a clear national security threat. [...] If Trump can't afford to lose power, can America afford having him in power for another four years?"
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"If Manchin, a longtime drug warrior, wants to tackle drugs, he should work on drug policy instead of starving poor people," contends
@ryanlcooper
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Andrew Cuomo quietly slipped legal immunity for executives into a budget bill and disbanded his own corruption investigation panel when they were closing in on him.
When it comes to corruption, he's practically Trumpian, writes
@ryanlcooper
.
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"Moderate Democratic candidates should explain why it is worth preserving our current ridiculous hodgepodge of welfare systems," writes
@ryanlcooper
. "Funneling every social program through individuals and the marketplace is more expensive, not less."
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"Americans really don't like President Trump, who desperately wants to be liked by Americans," writes
@WindsorMann
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"Trump likes to warn that 'the world is laughing at us.' It turns out, he's right."
@joelmmathis
on Trump's cringeworthy press conference:
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Fox's very underrated Sleepy Hollow is quietly raising the bar for television.
http://t.co/yg5lc8y5mg
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How a decades-old Finnish comic can help humanity today:
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