Poet Amanda Gorman reflected on 2021 and looked ahead to next year in a new poem — and accompanying performance — shared on Instagram. “New Day’s Lyric” begins with a call for unity as Gorman acknowledges both the difficulty and hardship that marked 2021. But of those challenges, she notes …
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On June 29, 2014, at 8:02 p.m. ET, a user named NooYawkCity made the first of what would come to be many posts to a popular martial-arts forum on reddit.com. It was titled “58 year old white belt”: I’ve been training about a year, and only recently gotten solidly hooked. …
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On Monday, Nov. 29, lawyers will begin opening arguments for the much-anticipated trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, the 59-year-old former girlfriend and alleged procurer for Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced billionaire who died by suicide in prison in 2019 after being arrested on multiple sex-trafficking charges. Maxwell is charged with six counts …
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Hunter Thompson has been the bane and the blessing of my life. He didn’t give a shit whether I slaved all night or worried all day. But he appreciated the drawings when they were there. He would certainly tell me if he thought a drawing sucked. Usually, that meant his …
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Last year, Phoebe Bridgers said the ultra-popular true crime podcast My Favorite Murder was an influence for her latest album, Punisher. “My Favorite Murder feels like you’re listening to two friends talk about something they’re morbidly fascinated with,” she told Pitchfork.Bridgers described being drawn to the podcast’s emphasis on social …
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I’m pretty much your standard Brooklyn millennial lefty mom. I buy my son dolls. I serve him outrageously overpriced plant-based chicken fingers. I don’t allow him to watch Paw Patrol,though that has less to do with how the show glorifies the cop industrial complex and more to do with the …
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Millionaire skyscraper scion Robert Durst has been charged with the decades-old murder of his first wife, Kathie Durst, a medical student who went missing in New York in 1982, officials confirmed Friday. “The Westchester County District Attorney’s Office can confirm that a complaint charging Robert Durst with the murder of …
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A Facebook whistleblower said that during her time at the company she “became increasingly alarmed by the choices the company makes prioritizing their own profits over public safety, putting people’s lives at risk.” Frances Haugen, a former product manager who worked on protecting the platform from election interference starting in …
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Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has lost two lawsuits brought by family members of two victims killed in the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, HuffPost reported. The court issued a judgment against the Infowars host because he did not produce discovery records, causing him to lose the suits by default. …
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Because we live in an alternate timeline, today Lindsay Lohan tweeted an image of herself as an anthropomorphic dog, or her “fursona,” to promote an auction for the Canine Cartel, an online community that offers NFTs (non-fungible tokens) of special dog avatars. “It’s official, I’m a Friend of The Cartel!!,” …
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