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So far, the court has heard testimony from David Pecker, the former CEO of American Media Inc. and ex-publisher of the National Enquirer, who has provided damaging information about Trump’s activities and even how many of Trump’s associates were involved. Trump has been hesitant to attack Pecker, leading
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The former president’s coif was the same as it appears in any windless venue. The Queens-raised Trump and the Bronx-raised Pecker appear to use the same lacquer on their hair, which marks them both as natives of New York’s outer boroughs rather than blue bloods from Manhattan. David
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The next civil war has not already begun. America is a violent country, armed to the teeth and blistering with hatred, but it’s also old, lazy, stupid, fat, medicated, and cowardly. 2020 marked a recent high point in American political violence, but all that violence was politically meaningless and
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To test out the astropad screen protector specially suited for hand writing, I wrote a review using the screen protector and pencil. Rock Paper Pencil review – Spectre Collie
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Several years ago in the Guardian, Oliver Burkeman wrote a piece called This column will change your life: Helsinki Bus Station Theory. It’s about how difficult it can be as a creative person to find your way to making work that feels like it’s uniquely yours. Helsinki Bus
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House Republicans can’t take up issues like protecting voting rights or pass budgets on time. But it’s good to know they’re concerned with freedom for refrigerators. All told, House Republicans intended to take up such important measures this week as the “Hands Off Our Home Appliances Act,
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If country music is about being from the South, she playfully rejoins, why isn’t Houston’s gritty “chopped and screwed” style sufficiently country? If country music is about murder ballads that romanticize the darkest, most transgressive human desires, why isn’t it romantic when a Black woman is the
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Just by being Black, a woman, popular and impervious to country music’s gatekeepers, Beyoncé has made a political album. Puzzling over who is country enough to sing love songs to wheat fields and big trucks only seems prosaic. Big Country — the Nashville-controlled, pop-folk music that commodifies rural American fantasies
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A relatively new release from Netflix is Spaceman, with Adam Sandler. Definitely not a comedy, but an interesting mix of futuristic space film with slow action, soft voices, and calm music. No laser sword fights or high speed spaceship battles, just a person’s inner struggle with loneliness as they
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These strategies of outright reaction bind many rural and impoverished urban communities and play directly into the hands of major industries in the agricultural and extractive energy sectors by disavowing a regulatory culture and measures designed to protect labor and the environment. This is neoliberalism with a vengeance, one that
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“He crushed as border guard in Stripes. Couldn’t be more fun to have him heckle me on the golf course. The nicest guy you could know. Genius of a comedian. And a true sweetheart. Perfect combo. Much love to his kids and thanks to Joe for all the greatness
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The even better pairing is with Beyoncé’s cover of “Blackbird” from her new album Cowboy Carter. Even after a few paragraphs of White Middle-Aged Guy Tries To Explain Nina Simone and The Little Rock Nine, I’m not going to stumble my way through an explanation of the significance