In the latest socially distanced episode of our Useful Idiotspodcast, hostsMatt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by Stella Moris, a lawyer and the life partner of Julian Assange. Matt and Katie discuss a recent Twitter thread by Dr. Sarah T. Roberts of UCLA, in which she laments the fall …
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UPDATE 5/3/2021:The Costume Institute has announced that Timothée Chalamet, Billie Eilish, Naomi Osaka, and Amanda Gorman will serve as the 2021 Met Gala’s co-chairs, while Tom Ford, Adam Mosseri, and Anna Wintour will serve as honorary chairs. *** The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced that its Costume Institute Benefit, …
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Elle King and Miranda Lambert have teamed up for the exhilarating new duet “Drunk (And I Don’t Wanna Go Home),” which marks the former tourmates’ second recorded collaboration after the CMA-winning cover of “Fooled Around and Fell in Love.” King wrote the uptempo “Drunk” with Martin Johnson (who also produced …
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WASHINGTON — In the days leading up to Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial earlier this month, Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), the lead impeachment manager, heard the same question a lot: Could he convince enough Democratic and Republican senators convict the former president? Doing so required a two-thirds vote in the …
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The pandemic has driven home a lesson that’s been true for a long time about Republican politicians: They don’t actually care about the welfare of their constituents so long as they’re able to trick enough people into people into believing the other side is responsible for everything that’s wrong. Nearly …
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Morgan Wallen‘s Dangerous: The Double Album spent its fifth consecutive week at Number One on the Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart. Wallen has prevailed the last two weeks even after a video of him using a racial slur emerged on TMZ, causing radio stations to pull his music out …
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Georgia prosecutors pursuing a criminal investigation against former president Donald Trump for trying to influence the 2020 election are eyeing a call Sen. Lindsey Graham made to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger as part of that probe, the Washington Post reported Friday. The call took place 10 days after …
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Fox Business abruptly canceled its highest-rated show, Lou Dobbs Tonight, just one day after voting software company Smartmatic filed a $2.7 billion lawsuit against Fox News that named Dobbs and other Fox hosts, claiming they were part of a “disinformation campaign” against the company. Los Angeles Times writer Stephen Battaglio …
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Both Margo Price and Swamp Dogg have been covering John Prine‘s songs for years. So it was a natural fit when the duo teamed up for a virtually-recorded duet of “Sam Stone,” Prine’s signature 1970 tale of a Vietnam veteran who gets addicted to heroin. Swamp Dogg, whose real name …
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President-elect Joe Biden plans to “immediately” introduce a sweeping immigration reform bill during his first days in office. The new legislation, currently being drafted by congressional Democrats and immigrant rights advocates, will include a pathway to citizenship for an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants. Top Latino and immigrant advocacy groups …
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