Lewis Black Blames Donald Trump For The Many Celebrity Deaths Of 2016

“You want to know why so many celebrities died in 2016?” Black asked on Wednesday’s broadcast of “The Daily Show.” “It was to get out of playing the goddamn inauguration.”


Black still plans to attend the event, however, “because I want to be there when Trump touches the Bible, and his hand...

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L'idea di Trump: sfrattare la stampa dalla Casa Bianca

Donald Trump starebbe pensando di ‘sfrattare’ la stampa dalla Casa Bianca. E stando alle parole di Reince Priebus, nominato chief of the staff, i briefing quotidiani del portavoce potrebbero svolgersi fuori dalla residenza presidenziale. I corrispondenti della Casa Bianca...

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The Price of Press Bias

RICHARD B. LEVINE/NewscomHow seriously should one take President Trump’s complaints about the press? About $37.06 a year seriously, to be precise.
Trump tweeted earlier this week: “With all of its phony unnamed sources & highly slanted & even fraudulent reporting, #Fake...

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Coming Thursday: "Stossel on Reason," New Video Collaboration with the Legend!

I’m excited to announce that tomorrow we will debut “Stossel on Reason,” a collaboration with the libertarian news legend John Stossel. Stossel will be providing weekly documentary segments, video op-eds, and interviews and more for our website, Facebook page, and YouTube...

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Vampires and Spies Dominate Frothy Fun Television Choices

‘Midnight, Texas,’ NBCDeclassified: Untold Stories of American Spies. CNN. Saturday, July 22, 9 p.m.




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Midnight, Texas. NBC. Monday, July 24, 10 p.m.
It’s the time of the television year, safely past the...

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'Humans of Freedom Fest': Portraits from the Largest Annual Gathering of Libertarians

Editor’s note: FreedomFest, held every July in Las Vegas, is the largest annual gathering of libertarians in the country. Today is the first day of the four-day long conference, which is being headlined in its 10th year by William Shatner, John Stossel, Greg Gutfeld, and others. Taking...

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McCain and the Trump-Russia Dossier: What Did He Know, and When?

KEVIN DIETSCH/UPI/NewscomDid John McCain and a controversial D.C. lobbying group conspire to get the infamous “pee dossier” into the hands of the press?
A lawsuit making its way through court in the UK hopes to determine just what role the senator and his associates had in making...

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Millennials Stare Down Looming Midlife in Friends from College

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Nothing jingles at the box office like that first intimation of generational mortality. From the wistful yuppies in The Big Chill...

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Game of Thrones: Libertarian Edition

Because I am a true libertarian I am naturally opposed to the use of pop cluture (true “libertarian culture,” let’s say a sweaty, stuttering reading of The Use of Knowledge in Society would be a more prudent device) to sell libertarianism’s message, but this parody...

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Impeach Eisenhower! - Hit & Run : Reason.com

Impeachment talk has been in the air this week, with rallies in dozens of cities calling for Donald Trump to be ousted from office. Impeachment talk has been in the air for nearly a quarter-century now—you have to go back to George H.W. Bush for a president who didn’t inspire a big...

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Do Americans Have a Right to Know If Their Government Is Incompetent?

Polaris/NewscomA new report put together by the staff of the Senate’s Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs warns of an “avalanche” of leaks from President Donald Trump’s administration. The report contends these leaks are threats to our...

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Salvation Will Have You Hoping for the World’s End

‘Salvation,’ CBSSalvation. CBS. Wednesday, July 12, 9 p.m.




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In one of the first scenes of Salvation, an astrophysicist whose giant hydrocephalic brain is second only to that of Neil deGrasse Tyson is trying to...

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Snowfall Presents Cracked View of Drug History

‘Snowfall,’ FXSnowfall. FX. Wedneday, July 5, 10 p.m.




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John Singleton was once the buzz king of Hollywood. At 24, he was the youngest nominee ever for a best directing Oscar for Boyz n the Hood, which he wrote...

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Fox Hosts for Legalizing Heroin

FoxLike a lot of 78-year-old white men, my father was watching Fox News Monday, and decided to click the next channel over to catch the rapid-fire libertarian stylings of our friend Kennedy. There, in a segment interviewing Wall Street Journal U.S. News Editor Glenn Hall about a recent story...

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Gawker Documentary Fails to Make Case for Publishing Sex Tape

Scott Keeler/ZUMA Press/NewscomNobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press. Available now on Netflix.




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I’m afraid that merely to disclose the subject of the Netflix documentary Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press is...

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Shakespeare and the Assassins - Hit & Run : Reason.com

Grassy Knoll PressLast weekend’s Big Fake Outrage involved a Shakespeare-in-the-Park production of Julius Caesar that features a Caesar based on Donald Trump. Caesar, as every schoolboy knows, is murdered in Act 3, so the show was denounced as “assassination porn” (note:...

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The Mist Gets Lost in a Baffling Cloud

‘The Mist,’ SpikeThe Mist. Spike. Thursday, June 22, 10 p.m.




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Stephen King’s novella The Mist, published back in 1980 before he was too important to suffer editors, was a marvel of taut, muscular prose. A...

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The British Left vs. the Deep State

Channel 4A phrase keeps cropping up in certain corners of the English press: A Very British Coup. That’s the name of Chris Mullin’s novel about a near-future U.K.—and by “near-future” I mean the early ’90s, because the book was published in 1982—where a...

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Summer Means Time for Television to Go Bonkers

‘Blood Drive,’ SyFyClaws. TNT. Sunday, June 11, 9 p.m.




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Blood Drive. SyFy. Wednesday, June 14, 10 p.m.
Summertime has arrived, and popcorn television is on us like a pack of rabid weasels. Like Santa and the...

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Deconstructing Wonder Woman - Hit & Run : Reason.com

Ms.If you want to watch a Wonder Woman movie today but can’t make it to a theater to see the new film, I’ve got you covered. Below you’ll find Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman, a piece of feminist video art from the ’70s.
Let me clarify that: When Dara Birnbaum...

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EpiPen Not Overpriced, Despite New York Times Complaint

“Outcry Over EpiPen Prices Hasn’t Made Them Lower,” is the misleading headline over Charles Duhigg’s “Adventures in Capitalism” column in The New York Times business section. Duhigg writes, “I was surprised when my pharmacist informed me, months...

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I’m Dying Up Here Wants Viewers to Take the Saying Literally

‘I’m Dying Up Here,’ ShowtimeI’m Dying Up Here. Showtime. Sunday, June 4, 10 p.m.




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Somebody—Harry Shearer? Al Franken? Memory and Google both fail me—describing one of the grisly bloodbaths among the...

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Police Investigate a Cult Killing; It Turns Out to Be a Rock Video

Nine Inch Nails“It all began one peaceful Michigan morning,” narrator Rafael Abramovitz explains, “when a farmer named Robert Reed woke up to check on his corn field. Farmer Reed looked up towards the sun that morning and saw something strange floating across the sky. It...

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How Deregulation Gave Us FM Radio, HBO, and the iPhone

“We’ve gone to a modern [broadcast] system that has a lot of places where stuff can happen without permission,” says Thomas W. Hazlett, who’s the FCC’s former chief economist, a professor at Clemson University, and author of the new book The Political Spectrum:...

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Twin Peaks and the Moment TV Changed

ReasonWhen Twin Peaks came back to television this week, the critics agreed on one thing: It was a hell of a lot weirder than the show’s first incarnation. That’s an impressive accomplishment, given how strange the original series seemed at the time. In May of 1990, just a month...

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ABC’s Baffling Sequel to Romeo and Juliet Fails to Live Up to Bard’s Name

‘Still Star-Crossed,’ ABCStill Star-Crossed. ABC. Wednesday, May 31, 10 p.m.




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I cannot say Still Star-Crossed, ABC’s aptly named sequel to Romeo and Juliet, was a complete waste of my time. It briefly...

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3 Ways We're Reliving the Watergate Culture War

PixabayWhether or not we’re reliving the Watergate investigation, we sure do seem intent on reenacting the Watergate culture war. That isn’t just true of Donald Trump’s critics, who are understandably eager to compare the 37th and 45th presidents. It’s true of Trump...

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Trump's Saudi Trip Wasn't a Break From Tradition

Balkis Press/Sipa USA/NewscomWant to see the disconnect between America’s actual foreign policy and the way many media professionals imagine it? Check out Anne Applebaum’s Washington Post column calling Donald Trump’s stop in Saudi Arabia a “bizarre and un-American...

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HBO Ignores Madoff's Victims in Favor of Family Drama

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Sorry, guys. Showtime has decided not to offer advance screenings of its reboot of the milestone of television weirdness, Twin Peaks,...

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For Trump, the Beginning of the End Has Begun

This is, from everything I have been able to gather this week, the beginning of the end of Donald Trump.
The New Yorker and Slate, longtime impartial observers of our 45th president, declared the man who “could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t...

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The New York Times' Tax Coverage Goes Off the Rails

Chan Long Hei / Pacific Press/NewscomBinyamin Appelbaum is one of the more fair-minded and accurate reporters at The New York Times. For an example of his best work, one might look back to his reporting from Hazleton, Pa., in October of 2016. So it was particularly dismaying to read...

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The Base Rhetoric of Mainstream Taxation Talk

RICHARD B. LEVINE/NewscomLenin reportedly said, “The best way to destroy the capitalist system [is] to debauch the currency.” If by “capitalist system”* we mean only what Adam Smith called “the obvious and simple system of natural liberty,” we could...

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Left Rebrands Environmental Regulations As Environmental Protections: New at Reason

Sahua/Dreamstime“Trump signs order at the EPA to dismantle environmental protections,” declares a March 28 headline in The Washington Post. An April 27 article in the Post described an “effort to remove environmental protections.” Two days later, another Post article...

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Maybe Donald Trump Isn't Actually a Master Media Manipulator

Wow ToysIf there’s one trope of the Trump years that we can definitively retire now, it’s the idea that the president is constantly winning some 13-dimensional chess game devoted to distracting us from unflattering stories. Where a more adept politician would be trying to change...

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Free to Adapt - Hit & Run : Reason.com

PenguinOne of my favorite books about architecture is Stewart Brand’s How Buildings Learn, a text that treats buildings as dynamic, evolving systems. It is shot through with disdain for architects who treat a structure as a “statement” without much thought for the practical...

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Documentary on Prison Boom Fails to Provide Facts or Context

‘The Prison in Twelve Landscapes’Independent Lens: The Prison in Twelve Landscapes. PBS. Monday, May 8, 10 p.m.




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Watching The Prison in Twelve Landscapes, I was reminded of an old movie joke. Q. How many...

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Brickbat: Fascinating

In Winnipeg, Nick Troller has had a personalized license plate on his vehicle that reads “ASIMIL8” for the past two years. Around it he has a frame that says “We Are the Borg” and “Resistance is Futile.” But now, Manitoba Public Insurance has demanded he...

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Plan to Roll Back Internet Regulations a Boon for Business and Innovation

David Becker / ZUMA Press / Splash News/NewscomLibertarians, rejoice—a U.S. regulator took the bold step of deciding that his office simply doesn’t have the jurisdiction to control major parts of the internet. Last Wednesday, the free market-friendly Federal Communications Commission...

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Australian Police Admit Illegally Snooping on Journalist

Dave Bredeson / Dreamstime.comToday we have a reminder from Australia that when government collects massive amounts of private information abuse ultimately follows. The Australian Federal Police (AFP) admitted today that an officer illegally accessed a journalist’s call records...

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Neil Gaiman’s American Gods Makes for a Raucous Television Adaptation

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When Shadow Moon, a newly released prison inmate flying home for a funeral, expresses his admiration for a con artist he’s just spotted...

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ESPN Will Get Better, or Fail Trying

glemak/flickrESPN, which has lost millions of subscribers in recent years, announced it would be laying off 100 employees, mostly on-air talent, as The Hollywood Reporter reports—they are not the first big layoffs at the sports network, but represent ESPN’s continuing efforts to...

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Bill O'Reilly: The Kennedy Conspiracy Years

As we await the next stage of Bill O’Reilly‘s career—RT host? FCC commissioner? down-on-his-luck high-school basketball coach?—let’s set the Wayback Machine for 1979 and check out one of the fallen Fox star’s earlier incarnations. Before he was the Joe Pyne of cable...

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The Handmaid’s Tale Lands an Excellent Adaptation

‘The Handmaid’s Tale,’ HuluGreat News. NBC. Tuesday, April 25, 9 p.m.




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The Handmaid’s Tale. Hulu. Available Wednesday, April 26.
When The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood’s account of a...

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Trump, the Media, and the First 100 Days: Matt Welch on Kennedy

Some big news in cable TV’s 8 o’clock time slot…. The terrific and successful Fox Business News program Kennedy tonight will weigh Vice President Mike Pence’s claim today that President Donald Trump is “off to a great start” against a new Media Research Center...

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Drupal Developer Larry Garfield Ostracized Over Involvement in Sci-Fi Based Kink Community

covers of Gor books by John NormanHere’s another good example of the limits of liberal “tolerance”: in the name of equality and diversity, tech leaders have turned against a long-respected member of their community over his private and consensual sex practices. Sure, the...

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CIA Head Pompeo Would Like to Decide What Counts as a Real Media Outlet

Riccardo Savi/TNS/NewscomMike Pompeo, the former Republican congressman who is now President Donald Trump’s director of the CIA, wants to protect America from fascism and authoritarian regimes by cracking down on media outlets that publish information he doesn’t want them...

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Documentaries Put Spotlight on War Propaganda

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American Experience: The Great War. PBS. Monday, April 10, 9 p.m.
Growing up, I was completely absorbed by a CBS documentary series called The...

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Victim in United Flight Debacle Gets Smear Treatment

Gordon Tipeme / Dreamstime.comYou would think that an elderly doctor (69 years old!) being filmed getting dragged by police off a United airplane in order to make room for the airline employees would be immune to the “He’s no angel” defense of government violence.
You would...

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Lousy News: Red Eye, One of Cable TV’s Best Shows, Gets Canceled

On Monday afternoon, without any real prior warning, the on-air talent and behind-the-scenes weirdos of Red Eye, the past decade’s most oddly compelling cable news program, were told by Fox management that their show would be euthanized this Friday. Thus ends not just the most...

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Guerrilla Lobs Bombs at Romanticized History of ‘70s Violence

‘Guerrilla,’ ShowtimeGuerrilla. Showtime. Sunday, April 16, 9 p.m.




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Before we get to everything else about Showtime’s Guerrilla—how it’s intelligent, insightful, resonant, well-acted and all...

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Denmark Proves We Don't Need the FCC

Marco Assini/FlickrAmericans often look to Scandinavian countries for examples of successful policy and governance. It’s easy to see why: These countries boast some of the best quality-of-life rankings in the world. Denmark in particular is praised for its stellar telecommunications...

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The Neighborhood of Make-Believe Prepares for War

WQEDFor a week in 1983, life took a dark turn in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Over the course of five episodes of Mister Rogers, a mixture of miscommunication and anxiety convinced King Friday that another neighborhood nearby was stockpiling weapons. The king then ordered a major arms...

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Baylor’s Corrupt Athletics Program Takes Center Court in Disgraced

‘Disgraced,’ ShowtimeDisgraced. Showtime. Friday, March 31, 9 p.m.




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Last month, Baylor women’s basketball coach Kim Mulkey, having just won her 500th game, felt secure enough to let everybody know how she...

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dal limbo radiotv alla media company. Ecco la nuova concessione | Carlo Rognoni

Finalmente dopo anni di tergiversazioni, rinvii, discussioni a vuoto, inutili coinvolgimenti di protagonisti del mondo radiotv, il consiglio dei ministri dà il via alla nuova concessione/convenzione. Insomma là dove il governo Renzi e il sottosegretario Giacomelli hanno fallito e...

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Perché in Italia si parla così poco di ambiente? | Nicola Pech

A fine dicembre 2016, Pentapolis Onlus, associazione di giornalisti che promuove l’ambiente, la responsabilità sociale e lo sviluppo sostenibile, ha presentato il rapporto 2016 su “L’informazione ambientale in Italia“.
Il quadro che ne esce è abbastanza...

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Simon & Schuster Cancels Milo Yiannopoulos' Book Deal Following Pedophilia Controversy

A representative from Simon & Schuster announced over Twitter that the publishing house is canceling the publication of Milo Yiannopoulos’ upcoming book Dangerous, following controversy over a surfaced video in which Yiannopoulos appears to defend pedophilia. 


Yiannopoulos confirmed...

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Here's A Fact-Check On Milo Yiannopoulos' Incendiary Claims About Trans People

As a rule, The Huffington Post’s Queer Voices won’t publicize the white nationalists’ favorite troll Milo Yiannopoulos. The last thing we want to do is give this attention-seeker oxygen for his racist, transphobic, misogynist dumpster fire. 


But there are moments when I think it’s...

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Nixon Pays Trump A Visit In Latest New Yorker Cartoon

The New Yorker’s latest cartoon depicts the ghost of former President Richard Nixon paying President Donald Trump a late-night visit in a nod to recent speculation by pundits and some Democrats that the administration’s contact with Russian officials could be the start of a new...

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U.K. Considers War on Leaks by Criminalizing Even Receiving Secret Gov’t Info

Pantelis Saitas/EPA/NewscomAs the United Kingdom puts into place a law increasing the government’s secret access to private citizen digital data, a commission is also making recommendations that could increase criminal penalties for exposing information the government wants to keep to...

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Donald Trump Sends A Valentine's Day Message To The One He Loves Most

When you’re the leader of a nation, sometimes you say or do things you later regret. Look no further than Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin’s relationship. The two have an interesting bond. First they are in a relationship, then they’re not in a relationship ― it’s complicated.


But this...

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Trump Adviser Stephen Miller Disastrously Tries To Defend Trump

Stephen Miller, President Donald Trump’s senior policy adviser, made the rounds on Sunday’s political talk shows to defend the administration’s stance on several major issues. It did not go well.


On ABC’s “This Week,” he vigorously defended ― but provided no evidence to support ― Trump’s...

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Marijuana Sasquatch Crashes Meteorologist's Live Report

A pot shop owner in Springfield, Massachusetts, is getting a big hit of viral buzz after dressing up as a marijuana Sasquatch and crashing a live TV weather report.


Dave Mech runs Potco, a gardening supply store catering to cannabis cultivators. One of his promotional tools is a costumed...

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MAD Magazine Unleashes One Of The Most Accurate Trump Parodies To Date

There’s a reason MAD Magazine has been around since the 1950s: the humor publication always finds a unique angle to address the craziness happening in the world. 


MAD’s latest issue hits newsstands on Feb. 21 (Feb.10 in digital form) to continue that tradition of satirical excellence, and...

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Hey GMA! Produce Your Personalities

My sister happened to mention the other day that she and her two daughters have stopped watching Good Morning America. “All they do is giggle – it’s so annoying!” she says.


I haven’t watched GMA much since I executive produced Robin Roberts on GMA Sunday...

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A Bunch Of European TV Shows Are Mocking Donald Trump With Spoof Tourism Ads

Satirical TV shows across Europe are trying to woo U.S. President Donald Trump. In a way.


They’re using hilarious spoof tourism ads to persuade him to put their nations “second” (because he has already pledged to put “America First”).


Dutch TV show “Zondag Met Lubach” kicked off the...

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Reddit Bans Prominent Alt-Right Community Amidst Doxxing Rumors

The so-called alt-right has lost one of its prominent online gathering spaces after Reddit banned a subreddit dedicated to the group, which is characterized by white nationalist, anti-Semitic and misogynist viewpoints.


The “/r/altright” community was well known on Reddit and around the...

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'Moonlight,' 'Star Trek Beyond' Receive GLAAD Media Award Nods

Just two mainstream movies – “Moonlight” and “Star Trek Beyond” – earned nominations on Tuesday for the annual GLAAD awards recognizing the fair portrayal of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community in film, television, music and journalism.


Activist group GLAAD...

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Trump Continues Assault On Media, Calls New York Times 'Fake News'

President Donald Trump continued his “war” on the media Saturday by attacking The New York Times and The Washington Post in a series of typo-ridden tweets.


Trump, who has repeatedly lashed out at the Times in the past, accused the newspaper of being “fake news” and “dishonest.”



The...

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Jimmy Kimmel Gives Donald Trump's 'Menacing' ABC Interview A Super Villainous Twist

President Donald Trump is apparently channeling his Lex Luthor side.


Jimmy Kimmel thought Trump sounded “like a super villain” during the interview with ABC News anchor David Muir on Wednesday. So much so that Kimmel felt compelled to match the president’s words with a video from...

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Andrea Camaiora: Sono innocente, la lezione eretica di Matano

Ci voleva RaiTre per affrontare culturalmente quello che è diventato ormai un vero tabù: gli errori giudiziari e le traversie delle persone che vengono toccate anche solo marginalmente da quella colossale macchina “tritapersone” che è il sistema giudiziario italiano.
“Sono i...

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Marco Follini: Le giurie popolari di Grillo e la post-verità di Trump sono due facce della stessa medaglia

Questo surreale dibattito sulla post-verità (e sui suoi affollati dintorni) sta svelando come poche altre cose il punto estremo di crisi a cui la nostra vita pubblica è approdata.
Infatti, da un lato si vorrebbe che la politica corrispondesse a una obiettività che non le si addice. Presa da q...

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Dan Rather Has Become A Viral Voice Of Reason In The Trump Era

Not content to dominate the airwaves for decades, veteran TV newsman Dan Rather is now conquering Facebook with his earnest but dire commentary on the impending presidency of Donald Trump.


In a Facebook post shared more than 13,000 times as of early Wednesday evening, Rather laid into...

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Facebook Bans Author Who Branded Name-Calling Trump Backers A 'Nasty Fascistic Lot'

Facebook temporarily banned bestselling author and journalist Kevin Sessums after he described Donald Trump supporters as a “nasty fascistic lot” in a post.


Sessums said the comment was in reaction to a tweet by ABC political analyst Matthew Dowd, who said that he had been called by “lovely ‘c...

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