“I think politics is purposefully made to feel overwhelming,” Megan Rapinoe says from her hotel room in the “WNBA bubble.” The co-captain of the U.S. women’s soccer team had just finished a week of strict quarantine in the middle of Florida and joined her girlfriend, WNBA star Sue Bird, in …
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On Tuesday night, Twitter announced that it would be removing 7,000 QAnon accounts on the grounds that they had “engaged in violations of our multi-account policy, coordinating abuse around individual victims, or are attempting to evade a previous suspension.” The platform also announced that it would be preventing URLs associated …
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A Michigan judge declined to release a teenager who was placed in juvenile detention after not doing her homework, saying the girl is “blooming there, but there is more work to be done,” The Detroit Free Press reports. The 15-year-old, who is black and being identified by her middle name, …
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Filmmaker and rapper Boots Riley and activist Angela Davis delivered speeches at a Juneteenth march in Oakland, California. Related: Photos of the Juneteenth March in Oakland “We’re at a momentous point in history right now. We’ve been taught to look up to the Civil Rights Movement, for instance… The March …
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Three men with military backgrounds have been arrested and charged with conspiracy to instigate violence at the Las Vegas protests against the death of George Floyd. According to authorities, Andrew Lynam Jr., 23, Stephen Parshall, 35, and William Loomis, 40, all met at an anti-lockdown protest in April and self-identified …
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A Spanish porn star was arrested and charged with manslaughter late last week in connection with a mysterious death following a drug ritual involving toad venom. Nacho Vidal, 46, was one of three people arrested in connection with the July 2019 death of Jose Luis Abad, a Spanish fashion photographer. …
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If you were converting oxygen into carbon dioxide in 2011 (that is to say, if you were alive), then there is no limit to the number of times you probably saw Rebecca Black‘s “Friday.” One of the biggest YouTube hits of all time, Black’s paean to the glories of the …
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In the media industry, where most employees toil in relative obscurity for low wages, Ronan Farrow is something of an anomaly: an investigative journalist who also happens to be a household name. Over the past few years, he’s broken countless stories holding men in power accountable, with the most notable …
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Last week, about two and a half months into lockdown, Miranda (not her real name), a 39-year-old mom from Brooklyn, got a text from one of her friends, expressing her frustration with being alone in the house with a small child during lockdown. “She said, ‘I feel like the curve …
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Lance Armstrong prepares to tell his truth in the new trailer for Marina Zenovich’s upcoming documentary, LANCE, which will air in two parts, May 24th and May 31st, at 9 p.m. ET on ESPN (watch with a free trial to ESPN+). The film is centered around an extensive set of …
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