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If you spent your weekend trying to escape our hellish reality by hiding under a comforter, screaming into a pillow, or seeing how many Girl Scout cookies you can fit into your mouth at once, brace yourself: Ivanka Trump loves her new oceanfront Miami life.

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When Ed Westwick joined TikTok on Monday to reprise his role of Chuck Bass from Gossip Girl, his fans went bonkers.

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A 67-year-old man with a “history of conflict” opened fire at a health clinic in Buffalo, Minnesota, Tuesday morning, leaving one person dead and four others injured, authorities said.

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Good Morning Britain host Piers Morgan furiously clashed with Sarah Palin on Tuesday morning after the former Republican vice-presidential nominee repeatedly refused to accept that President Joe Biden won last year’s election fair and square, calling the former Alaska governor “totally bonkers” at one point.

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President Joe Biden’s nomination of Neera Tanden to lead the Office of Management and Budget was considered an affront to progressives who were initially relieved by other top personnel choices.

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In her 2020 novella The Office of Historical Corrections, writer Danielle Evans pinpoints “the daily trauma of the historical record, the sometimes brutality and sometimes banality of antiblackness.” The framing of the past—riddled with omissions and injustices—requires endless reckoning, and even then, it will never faithfully reflect reality.

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By Jeff Stein

I don’t know about you, but I’ve had it up to my keister with “wake-up calls” and “lessons learned.” We keep talking about our intelligence failures like they’re feckless college students. One day their screw-ups are gonna get us killed. (Oh wait, that’s happened already.)

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Five former NY1 anchors and reporters may have settled their age and gender discrimination lawsuit against the New York City-focused cable outlet late last year. But on Monday, the women filed a new complaint—this time with the city’s human rights commission—alleging further retaliation.

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The older I get, the colder I get. Whereas I used to be the teenager who could walk to and from school in the snow wearing a hoodie with holes in it, I’m now the adult who needs to sleep with socks on. In fact, my body temperature plummets right before I fall asleep — but even though I’ve written countless articles about how to make your bed more comfortable, I’m really bad when it comes to seasonal bedding. Luckily, this past Christmas,... Читать дальше...

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To read Elizabeth Kolbert before bed is a mistake. Her Pulitzer Prize winning work, The Sixth Extinction, will make you rethink what it means to be a human, and consider your place and impact on the world. The New Yorker Staff Writer’s latest book, Under a White Sky, is just as compelling, if not more so. I had the pleasure of talking with her recently about her new book, which traces a plethora of mistakes we as a society have made ... Читать дальше...

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Growing up in Philadelphia, chef Joey Campanaro often could be found in the kitchen of his grandmother’s house next door.

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LONG BEACH, California—Vivian Hurtado and Mica Randall tried to stay out of it.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene hates face masks, but she sure has quite the collection. There was the much-parodied “CENSORED” one she wore while dissenting against impeachment—quite a claim, since the speech was broadcast on nearly every major news network.

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For most of my life, conservatives have advocated law and order and peace through strength. People who commit evil acts should be punished, we said, to deter that kind of behavior in the future. Allowing bad actors to go unpunished, the assumption went, creates a “moral hazard”—just as weakness invites additional provocation. So, why do today’s conservatives think a president who incited a mob to kill a cop and injured others should skate?

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For years, Facebook has been a cesspool of conspiracy theorists, political ragemonsters, and quacks pushing cures for decaying Boomers. But as dangerous as these creeps were, they were mostly contained to the social network.

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Oscar and nine friends rang in 2021 in a rural Airbnb north of Madrid with house music, drugs, and booze, flouting a number of local ordinances aimed at stopping the spread of COVID-19. A week later, nearly all of them, Oscar included, came down with the virus. “We infected our roommates, our coworkers—it got so bad that we were keeping a Google Doc of who was spreading it and who was getting it,” he told me over the phone. “We were panicked.”

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A couple of months back, Bunny Colby tried logging in to Bumble, the women-centric dating app, when she noticed something strange. “This screen popped up that said, essentially, You are banned, and this is why,” she says.

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Bobby Moynihan still has incredibly “vivid” memories of walking out onto the stage at Studio 8H in Rockefeller Center for his first episode as a cast member on Saturday Night Live. It was September 13th, 2008 and Tina Fey was making her debut as Sarah Palin opposite Amy Poehler’s Hillary Clinton in the cold open sketch.

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Yes, it’s amazing how much calmer life is now that we don’t have to listen to Donald Trump all the time. And it’s simultaneously amazing that Republicans continue to stick to the crazy at such a head-spinning rate that we can’t keep up.

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Fox News host Tucker Carlson claimed on Monday night that MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace is “now suggesting drone strikes against American citizens who have the wrong politics,” further wondering if she thinks Trump supporters “deserve Hellfire missiles raining down on their homes.”

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On the eve of Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial, Seth Meyers dug into the various ways Republicans are attempting to defend his calls for violent insurrection—even as the former president himself refuses to denounce the “big lie” that drove his supporters to violence in the first place.

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This week, the U.S. Senate will do something it has never done before in its 230-year history: hear a second impeachment trial for one president, charged with incitement of an insurrection that threatened the lives of the trial’s own jurors, and broke through to the very chamber where the trial will unfold.

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A transgender woman in upstate New York is suing the local police and sheriff’s office for allegedly mocking her gender identity, using excessive force, and sexually assaulting her during a strip search at the Jefferson County jail.

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The “dark web,” an encrypted section of the Internet, is full of purported hitmen offering to kill for the right price.