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Watch the trailer for "Wonder Woman 1984"

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It's not the The New Adventures of Wonder Woman that I grew up with but it does have that Stranger Things/mallwave appeal, and a New Order song. It also has Steve Trevor who most certainly died in the first film but no matter. “Snowbrawl” is...

Puppeteer Caroll Spinney (Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch), RIP

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Legendary puppeteer Carroll Spinney, who brought Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch to life on Sesame Street, died today. He was 85. Here's the New York Times obituary. And from the Sesame Workshop: Caroll was an artistic genius whose ...

A gin company already made a sequel to that dystopian Peloton ad

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Looks like "Grace from Boston" has fallen on some hard times. It's not clear if she's pounding back that smooth Aviation gin during her year-long exercise binge, or after she realizes that her husband's seeming-generosity is actually some terrifying voyeurism. But at least she has some friend...

As the end nears for Yahoo Groups, Verizon pulls out all the stops to keep archivists from preserving them

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We only have a few days left until Verizon kills off Yahoo Groups, and the volunteer archivists who've been battling with the company to preserve its legacy have just been dealt a crushing blow. From the Yahoo Groups Crusade Headquarters: "The Archive ...

Church nativity scene puts the holy family in cages, because that's how America deals with asylum-seekers like Christ

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Jesus and his fam were refugees, so it's only fitting that the folks at Claremont United Methodist Church decided to put its nativity figures in cages behind razorwire. As Rev Karen Clark Ristine said, Jesus, Mary and Joseph were "the most well-known...

RIP René Auberjonois

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American actor and singer René Auberjonois, who played early roles in in M*A*S*H and 1979's King Kong and later starred as Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's irascible and gelatinous security chief Odo, is dead at 79. Before his entry into Hollywood, Auberjonois worked in theater, earn...

Daily Harvest is healthy eating for the on-the-go lifestyle

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Who are these people that have time for a job, social life, and actual healthy meals? With a nutrition segment on seemingly every talk show and entire networks devoted to food, it can sometimes seem like we've never left our mother's house and her constant admonitions to "eat your veg...

Newsletter detailing the world of white collar crime

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Matt Levine's consistently excellent newsletter for Bloomberg is called Money Stuff, and is typically focused on white collar crime and crime-adjacent behavior. Monday's edition looks at the New York Times' article on on the possible existence of Epstein-related incriminating videos, an...

Antipolygraph.org publishes secret guidelines for the federal "Test for Espionage and Sabotage," a psuedoscientific feature of government life

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George Maschke from Antipolygraph.org (previously) writes, "Thousands of individuals are annually compelled to undergo a pseudoscientific polygraph screening ritual called the 'Test for Espionage and Sabotage.' The administration guide for this procedure, which is marked '...

After sweeping election victories, Hong Kong protesters stage massive demonstrations marking their 6-month anniversary

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Today, 800,000 Hong Kongers marched through the city in a demonstration commemorating their six months of protests. Thanks to landslide victories for pro-Democracy candidates in last month's election, today's march had an official police permit -- the first such permit issued ...

One upside of the Bernie Blackout: Sanders is not facing a frontrunner's backlash

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[embedded content] The Bernie Blackout is a well-documented phenomenon: the press cover Bernie (far) less than other frontrunners, and when they do, they're (far) more negative than they are with other frontrunners. The Intercept's DC Burea...

One of the poorest, most desperate regions in Appalachia is experiencing an economic miracle thanks to fiber run by a New Deal-era co-op

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Kentucky's Peoples Rural Telephone Cooperative came out of a local electrification co-op set up during the New Deal, and in 1949 it was expanded into a telephone co-op with more federal infrastructure money. Today, the PRTC has used Obama FCC funding to expand into public broadban...

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