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There’s a story from last week I can’t get out of my head: A Palestinian family takes a taxi to their daughter’s home in Gaza City, five minutes away, on the last day of Ramadan, because they thought they’d be safer from the ongoing Israeli airstrikes. They’re unpacking the car …

UPDATE (5/7): The Podcast Academy has tapped Cameron Esposito to host their inaugural ceremony, held on May 16th. Rainn Wilson, Hank Azaria, Este Haim, Kenan Thompson, Darren Criss, Neil Strauss, Whitney Cummings, Ashley Flowers, DeRay Mckesson, and others will present awards. ** The Podcast Academy has announced the nominees for …

Millennials have it rough. We’re underemployed. We’re overworked. We constantly have to live with the specter of betrayal from our generational heroes: JK Rowling’s conversion to TERFdom, for instance, or the realization that Barack Obama was not nearly as cool as we thought. We can’t replicate Jules’s eye makeup from …

On Tuesday, the gaming chat platform Discord quietly updated its guidelines to restrict adult content, issuing a ban on users accessing NSFW servers (essentially, chatrooms with multiple channels) on iOS devices. The update went on to state that entire servers, as opposed to individual channels, are required to be designated …

Amanda Gorman, the first National Youth Poet Laureate who spoke at President Joe Biden’s inauguration, will recite an original piece ahead of Super Bowl LV, February 7th, The Associated Press reports. Gorman’s poem will be dedicated to the three “honorary captains” the NFL has selected to honor before the big …

Amy Cooper, the white woman who went viral last spring for calling 911 on a black birdwatcher after he asked her to leash her dog in New York City’s Central Park, made a second, previously unreported phone call to 911 about the birdwatcher, according to prosecutors. In May, Cooper became …

Since May 2020, youth organizers across the country have been mobilizing against police brutality and working for systemic change in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder. Some of them had organized for social justice before, but many of them took to the streets for the first time and without an …

UPDATE: Clare Bronfman was sentenced to six years and nine months in prison Wednesday after previously pleading guilty for her role in the cult-like NXIVM, New York Times reports. In 2019, Bronfman – who spent at least $116 million of her Seagram fortune to bankroll NXIVM – pleaded guilty in …

Since 2006, New York Comic Con has given fans on the East Coast a place to gather, geek out and show off their favorite superhero outfits. This year, though, fans will have to approximate that experience online. The event, which was slated to be held October 8th to 11th at …

Twitter has permanently suspended white supremacist and former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke for violating its rules regarding hateful conduct, a spokesperson confirmed to Rolling Stone. “The account you referenced has been permanently suspended for repeated violations of the Twitter Rules on hateful conduct,” the spokesperson said.“This enforcement …