David Koch, the billionaire conservative activist who helped shape modern American politics, has died. He was 79. “It is with a heavy heart that I announce the passing of my brother David,” David’s brother Charles Koch wrote in a statement Friday morning. “Anyone who worked with David surely experienced his …
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Vince Staples gets into an unexpected fight in a strange barbershop in the video for his new song “So What?” which doubles as the first episode of his new web series, The Vince Staples Show. The two-minute bruiser boasts a beat that mixes heavy percussion and bass with a spindly …
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Conspiracy theories follow a basic formula: They’re what happens when the absence of information meets the absence of verifiability meets the absence of oversight. While the first two are effective in helping plant the seeds of doubt, it’s the lack of a reliable, factual guiding force that really helps conspiracy …
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Sylvester Stallone readies himself for revenge with knives, machine guns and landmines in the new trailer for Rambo: Last Blood, the actor’s first Rambo movie in 11 years. Most of the action seems to take place on Rambo’s farm-like compound, where he’s protecting his niece. “All she’s got is me,” …
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The president’s flirtation with universal background checks and other popular gun control measures has been predictably brief. (We’ve been predicting the president was running another bait-and-switch on the American public for since basically the moment the latest racket started.) In the wake of the massacres in Dayton and El Paso, …
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For years, the possibility of legalizing recreational adult-use marijuana in Florida was little more than an afterthought — but recently, momentum’s picked up. In 2016, Florida voters approved an initiative that legalized medical cannabis, only for state lawmakers to subsequently ban smokeable forms until earlier this year. Now, legal recreational …
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An eye-popping new poll shows Elizabeth Warren vaulting to an 11 point lead in Iowa — hitting 28 percent support, while Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders have dropped back, tied for second at 17 percent. https://thisforall.net/7im/status/1162101188784902144 But something seems off about the Iowa survey, which comes from a pollster called …
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At a breakfast meeting of the Westside Conservative Club in Urbandale, Iowa on Wednesday, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) paused to muse upon the sheer magnitude of violence visited upon women and children throughout the course of human history. “What if we went back through all the family trees and just …
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Cardi B recently interviewed Democratic presidential candidate and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and the rapper has unveiled a new clip from their discussion. The pair addressed jobs, minimum wage and unions. “A couple of weeks ago I asked my followers if you all had the chance to ask a Democratic …
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The 1980s may be long past, but our love for Eighties aerobics dance moves will never die. On The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon challenged actress and model Kate Upton to an “’80s Aerobics Dance Challenge” set to actual workout videos from the era. In the clip, Fallon and Upton dress …
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