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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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Andrew Yang was too good for the presidential race, says @matthewwalther. His failure is America's loss. theweek.com/articles/895350/…
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It's time for the #YangGang to take Los Angeles.
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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. theweek.com/articles/950908/…
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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: bit.ly/2DxLtEl
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Tulsi Gabbard's lawyers demand retraction and apology from Hillary Clinton over Russia remarks.
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Rare types of cancer are showing up in higher numbers since the Covid-19 pandemic. And doctors believe that the virus itself may be to blame for causing full-body inflammation — although it's not officially confirmed. Read more. trib.al/kynvpa5
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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." bit.ly/2piZ3Wu
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"We live in a culture that sees female pain as normal and male pleasure as a right," says @Millicentsomer: bit.ly/2DzMQSO
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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. theweek.com/articles/955997/…
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"What I can tell you is the biggest loser tonight is Donald Trump," ABC's @jonkarl said. trib.al/90fbnxH
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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." bit.ly/26ODoFd
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The world's first trillionaire would be cause to celebrate. From @JimPethokoukis:theweek.com/articles/914563?…
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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: bit.ly/2h3ncMy
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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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"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. theweek.com/speedreads/93132…
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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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"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." bit.ly/2OCv07i
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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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"A pop artist released from the need to make a popular album." @SamanthaRollins on 'ANTI': bit.ly/1nCLBub
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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: bit.ly/2MoERMn
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"Police officers shielded protesters from harm. Protesters rushed victims to the hospital. There is no race war." bit.ly/29AlgaO
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Comey explains that the FBI is aware of ties between Jeff Sessions, Russia that he can't disclose: bit.ly/2sHo7qJ
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"President Trump released his proposed budget outline for 2018 on Thursday. It is, in a word, evil." bit.ly/2nM6WRN
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Julian Assange hijacked the American media, says @Millicentsomer. Here's how: bit.ly/2fTG4Mf
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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: bit.ly/2ECxyN9
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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: theweek.com/speedreads/88668…
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The beauty of ritualized apologizing: Why everyone should celebrate Yom Kippur. bit.ly/1sRe1kK
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"Moderate Republicans are like woolly mammoths: They don't exist, but they used to," says @ScottAGalupo: bit.ly/2rlIpFN
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Andrew Yang's campaign mysteriously claims he's about to make presidential debate history. theweek.com/speedreads/86429…
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.@JessicaJones isn't Marvel's best show, @scottmeslow says. It's Marvel's best anything: bit.ly/1S8Z1qE
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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: bit.ly/2FiatTM
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Andrew Yang is spending $1 million on a surprisingly conventional TV ad.
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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. theweek.com/speedreads/90033…
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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." bit.ly/2DeLj6R
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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. theweek.com/speedreads/94685…
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Africa's extraordinary wildlife, in gorgeous black and white photos by @laurentbaheux: bit.ly/1K7zhFe
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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. theweek.com/articles/937844/…
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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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"Rather than putting young people under a microscope, it's letting the kids do the looking," says @NoelMu about @grownish. "And that's made for the most promising debut on TV so far this year." bit.ly/2I8aLKW
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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."theweek.com/news/1000969/sen…
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Flint water victims can't sue the government. That's another crime, says @shikhadalmia: bit.ly/1nCECkW
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Betrayal is Trump's forte, says @WindsorMann. Republicans shouldn't forget that. theweek.com/articles/870342?…
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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.theweek.com/articles/966553/…
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In her new movie, Sarah Silverman captures the futility and doubt of modern motherhood: bit.ly/1RZ1dBc
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Was Trump right to kill an Iranian general? Be very wary, says @joelmmathis.
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Bernie Sanders is headlining a women's march, and people are mad. @briebriejoy explains why they shouldn't be: bit.ly/2hJcuel
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'Outlander' is the real TV novel, says @NoelMu in his latest review. It manages to pack a lot of story into a small space, and the combination of vigor and ambition in the Starz series has helped it become more impressive each year. bit.ly/2yNNkol
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NBC called out by Time's Up following new Ronan Farrow revelations.
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In the halls of power, it should be as painless as possible to sound the alarm. theweek.com/articles/869175/…
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She's challenging challenging House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer: theweek.com/articles/884559/…
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"No one scares President Trump as much as people who used to work for him," says @WindsorMann: bit.ly/2uzJlMK
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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: bit.ly/1Tf4UHE
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At this exact minute, 30 years ago, the Challenger lifted off. A minute later, it exploded: bit.ly/1PDBxgB
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Klondike to stop selling Choco Tacos after nearly 40 years
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Dakota Johnson has turned breathing into an art form. She's literally the queen of sighs, says @Jee_vuh. bit.ly/2AsBNf3
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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."theweek.com/feature/opinion/…
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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.theweek.com/articles/911646/…
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"The enormous reality is that the president is an incompetent dolt and all his ideas are stupid beyond belief." bit.ly/2rZ8YSM
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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." theweek.com/articles/934929?…
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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." theweek.com/speedreads/92202…
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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: bit.ly/2IwjQOD
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Dave Chappelle's controversial Netflix special wins a Grammy
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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." theweek.com/speedreads/87989…
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.@DamonLinker takes on the ludicrous sycophancy of Trump's media toadies — starting with The Federalist: bit.ly/2IwjQOD
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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. theweek.com/articles/976840/…
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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: bit.ly/2z9NNAY
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"By acting with her breath, Dakota Johnson doesn't just fill a role. She embodies her characters, turning even their most basic life-giving act into a tool of her illusion," writes @Jee_vuh: bit.ly/2AsBNf3
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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: theweek.com/joe-manchin/1008…
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"Americans really don't like President Trump, who desperately wants to be liked by Americans," writes @WindsorMann. theweek.com/articles/921970/…
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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.theweek.com/articles/966553/…
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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: bit.ly/2pFtpWZ
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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."theweek.com/articles/898183/…
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How a decades-old Finnish comic can help humanity today: theweek.com/articles/870087/…
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Fox's very underrated Sleepy Hollow is quietly raising the bar for television. bit.ly/18jbZum
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