Month: February 2020

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Weinstein verdict

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On February 24, 2020
This seems like the kind of compromise verdict that’s common in this sort of situation: Harvey Weinstein, the once-powerful Hollywood mogul, was found guilty of rape in the third degree Monday but acquitted on the two most serious criminal charges, capping a landmark trial of the #MeToo era. The jury in New York convicted Weinstein, 67, […]
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Little America

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On February 24, 2020
Little America is an Apple TV+ anthology series released last month. Based on the column of the same name in Epic Magazine, it dramatizes the true stories of immigrants in the United States in eight half-hour episodes. Stories range in time period from the 70s and 80s to the late teens, and focus on characters […]

Panic in New York

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On February 23, 2020

The only survivor of the Intellectual Dark Web gang: I would bet a LOT of real money that this is not going to happen. I’m very far from the world’s biggest Bernie Sanders fan, but the fre

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The Apotheosis of Nixonism

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On February 23, 2020
We really are living through Nixon redux. Except with an idiot playing the part of Nixon and a totally plaint congress. The Trump White House and its allies, over the past 18 months, assembled detailed lists of disloyal government officials to oust — and trusted pro-Trump people to replace them — according to more than […]
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Can’t Buy Me Love

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On February 23, 2020
Mike Bloomberg can buy himself campaign workers, but he can’t buy them actually wanting to work for him. The Bloomberg 2020 operation is hiring more than 500 people at a rate of $2,500 a month to text friends and post on social media in support of the former New York mayor and billionaire media mogul. […]
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