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Jon Stewart warns against ‘bulls–t system’ ruling Dem party, calls for Chuck Schumer to step down after midterm sweep
Lefty comedian John Stewart took a shot at establishment Democrats after the party regained both chambers of Congress in Tuesday’s historic midterm sweep – arguing it’s time to tear down the “bullsh-t system” ruled by the old guard. “The Daily Show” host applauded Democrats’ resounding “blue tsunami” that saw the party flip seats across the…
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Taylor Swift slammed as ‘fakest’ New York Knicks fan by team player Tyler Kolek: ‘I’m going to get hate’
Baby, now they’ve got bad blood. New York Knicks player Tyler Kolek savagely name-dropped “performative” Taylor Swift as the team’s “fakest celeb fan” during an NBA 2K TikTok livestream Thursday. The athlete, 25, noted that he hasn’t “seen her at any other games” besides Game 4 of the NBA Finals in June, when she was pictured…
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Investors in Trump’s Crypto Coin Are Now Screwed Beyond Belief
If you’re one of the nearly one million of investors who bought into Donald Trump’s pet crypto coin, the best time to sell was January of 2025, before the whales cashed out and sent prices tumbling. The second best time was yesterday. Trump’s memecoin has suffered a massive fall-off in the wake of the US…
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‘Being Heumann’ is about the euphoria of activism even if its uplift feels well-behaved
To bend a famous paradoxical question, can an immovable object also be an unstoppable force? Why, yes, especially if we’re talking about disability advocate Judy Heumann, one of the most consequential figures in civil rights history. In 1977, the wheelchair-using New York teacher spearheaded the longest sit-in protest of a federal building in American history,…
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‘Sign of the times?’ Cackles as major Trump ally hits pause on show after midterm rout
Cheers erupted Thursday night after a MAGA influencer and major ally of President Donald Trump announced a “hiatus” in the wake of Republicans’ historic midterm defeat. “Hahahahahaha, oh it just keeps getting better and better,” wrote screenwriter and comedian Jay Black in a social media post on X. That influencer is Laura Loomer, who hosts…
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Clifton’s quietly reopens with plans to become an immersive, Meow Wolf-inspired megaspace
At Clifton’s in downtown Los Angeles, a Halloween wedding is taking place, a courtship between a woman and a demon lord. Modantus is his name, his head a skull, with brassy adornments ascending like a satellite dish. He doesn’t talk so much as click, growl and grunt as if clinging to life. Before dinner is…
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‘Daily Show’ blown away by MAGA winner’s vulgar victory rant in front of little girl
The victory speech given by Rep-elect Anthony Constantino, who will take a seat in the House in January, left Daily Show host Jordan Klepper almost speechless on Thursday night. Appearing before reporters, supporters and, notably, a little girl standing right in front of him, the New York MAGA Republican dropped f-bombs and spent a considerable…
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It Gets Worse Is the Great Gen Z Comedy We’ve Been Waiting For
From left: Emily Fairn, Olive Gray, and Leo Reich in It Gets Worse —Paramount+ Lena Dunham sits behind a desk in the glassy, millennial-pink offices of a tech startup, monologuing away like someone who has just devoured all of Lean In in a single sitting. “You need to advocate for yourself,” her character insists. “Women…
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Ex-L.A. County deputy who smuggled heroin into a jail in Pringles cans sentenced to prison
A former Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy has been sentenced to more than five years in federal prison for smuggling heroin inside a pair of Pringles’ potato chips cans into a jail complex in the Santa Clarita Valley, according to federal prosecutors. U.S. District Judge Fernando M. Olgui sentenced 40-year-old Michael Meiser to 67 months…
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Elon Musk loophole that ‘almost every person would say stinks’ now in Dems’ crosshairs
With their new majorities in Congress, Democrats are going after a campaign finance gap that lets executives who make billions from federal contracts spend freely to elect the lawmakers who approve those contracts. Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), the incoming chairman of the House Oversight Committee, have introduced the Close…