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• Listen to Lil Yachty — Black Lives Matter IS a total, shady scam
• Gene Hackman's estate seeks to block release of autopsy reports, photos, and police body-cam video
• Conan O’Brien says the Academy rejected his idea to portray a 9-foot-tall Oscar statue as his domestic partner
• Judicial Watch Sues New York State for Records on Controversial Killing of ‘Peanut the Squirrel’ and ‘Fred the Raccoon’ - Judicial Watch
• McCartney joins PETA campaign to stop Peet’s from charging customers more for plant-based milk
• “Megalopolis” director Francis Ford Coppola says he's run out of money
• Just Asking Questions co-hosts Zach Weissmueller and Liz Wolfe will live stream an Ask Me Anything episode on Friday
• Self-Interested Lawyers Must Pay a Price
• 'Anora' is a tragic twist on Cinderella, but it’s not even in the same ballpark as Pretty Woman
• Jason Hill’s new book, Letters To God From A Former Atheist, is filled with pathos, intimacy, joy, and a depth that is difficult to attain through other literary forms
• Review: D.C. museum exhibit illuminates the brutalities of slavery
• National Park Service rangers told to avoid the word 'fired' and not blame cuts on staffing levels
• The Electric State is the most expensive movie in Netflix’s history
• Attacking a young tourist over her treatment of a wombat is hypocritical – and misses the point | Georgie Purcell
• Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go was a 'deeply dismaying' novel. I wish I’d been more simply and loudly a cheerleader for such an obvious masterpiece
• The exploration of Sly Stone’s genius
• What J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Had to Say About the Dangers of Immortality - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• Donald Trump's wife has taken on a very strong definition of forging an individual path, writes CNN's John Avlon
• Grumpy, Dopey and Woke — Disney’s Snow White disaster
• Trump honors National K-9 Veterans Day 2025 by honoring the heroic dogs who have served in the U.S. military
• How the Jester became King: How the Jester Became King: Dave Portnoy and the Real Unauthorized Story of Barstool Sports
• Nikki Glaser will host the Golden Globes again in January 2026
• Meghan Markle announced she’s launching a new podcast in April after losing her Spotify show
• This week on Care and Feeding, Elizabeth, Lucy and Jamilah talk about secrets
• Kim Kardashian said she was forced to return the engagement ring she wore during her second marriage even though she bought it for herself
• He Enjoys Being a Girl - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• En Vogue singer Dawn Robinson has been living in her car for three years
• John Dickinson’s love of fame was tempered by love of the true and the good
• Former child star-turned-billionaire Brock Pierce says Wendy Williams is welcome to live with him if she needs to
• I don’t need to know where my daughter is every waking minute of every day. She doesn’t need me to know where she is every waking minute of every day
• Enough with unicorns and dinosaurs – show children the magic of real, living animals instead | Isabel Losada
• Wildlife and conservation scientists are next in line for Trump's chopping block
• Trump may get his face carved into Mount Rushmore. Here's why
• Trump has taken over the Kennedy Center, and liberals are running wild
• 'Hamilton' producers pull out of Kennedy Center to protest Trump's takeover of the board
• Lift The veil On Wind Power Killing Eagles
• How often do you think about the Dark Ages?
• ‘Novocaine’ star Ray Nicholson on his A-list father Jack: ‘Niceness is intimidating’
• Ben Affleck responds to viral video of 13-year-old son asking for $6,000 shoes
• Kelly Clarkson has been missing her talk show for a week and fans are worried
• How to Do It: I love my husband, but I haven’t wanted sex with him for years
• Jack Thorne’s Adolescence is how crime drama should be done
• Laila Lalami Q&A: “Power is a dynamic. It doesn’t flow in just one direction”
• Disney ‘Snow White’ disaster proves it again: Go woke, go broke!
• From Becky Barnicoat to Nick Trend: new books reviewed in short
• "Misguided Anti-Racism Campaign Cancels College Sondheim Production"
• Best of the Babylon Bee: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. neutralizes the Kool-Aid Man and more hilarious headlines
• Education and Social Control – Neal McCluskey
• Hamilton is one of the most profoundly conservative works of art produced in the 21st century
• Kâ12: At Last, Academics Acknowledge the Reading Crisis
• On this week’s Decoder Ring, we talk to owners and users of truck nuts
• This Has to Be One of the Most Devastating Plots to Unfold in a Marvel Project
• In Take A Break, Hamilton and Schuyler Church express their affection for one another with special attention to grammar
• Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17 is about a man who signs on to a colony expedition
• The woke Snow White is dead on arrival
• The Spectator P.M. Ep. 120: Meghan Markle Clings to Royalty as ‘Meghan Sussex’ - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• Wendy Williams was taken from her New York City assisted living facility after dropping a note pleading for help
• Meghan's new Netflix lifestyle show, With Love, Meghan, has been slammed by the media
• Universality is a satire recalling Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood eco-warriors, Bella Mackie’s ridicule of the rich and the derision of the media
• Murder in the care home
• Why do I keep encountering padlocked playgrounds in New York City?
• What’s the etiquette around honoring a bride’s request for her wedding even if it might make other guests uncomfortable? —Go to Hell
• Her Last Book Was a Sensation. Everyone on Earth Should Read the Main Story in Her New One.
• This week on How To! we talk to Nicole Hardy, author of Confessions of a Latter-Day Virgin
• Meghan Markle's Netflix series 'With Love, Meghan' has been renewed for a second season
• New Yorkers are going gaga for Lady Gaga’s dad’s Italian restaurant: ‘We’re mobbed every night’
• Jack Carr reveals that 'The Terminal List: Dark Wolf' prequel is coming to screens in 2025!
• Trump says he looks forward to watching the first seven seasons of 'The Apprentice' on Amazon Prime
• This week’s episode of ‘Severance’ was a good 37 minutes of television. Why were viewers so divided over this pivotal episode?
• Actor Karla Sofa Gascn says the days leading up to the Oscars were the most exposed period of his life
• Whoopi Goldberg mocks trans-identifying influencer Dylan Mulvaney for invading women’s and girls’ athletics
• Michelle Obama is launching a new podcast with her brother, Craig Robinson
• I was struck by how much the world of literary fiction has changed in the decade and a half since the New York Times praised Swamplandia! as a ‘wave-making debut’
• One woman's boyfriend surprised her by booking a solo vacation to spend a week with his ex
• 'Love Is Blind' contestant Sara Carton left her intended at the altar due to Ben Mezzenga's stance on a variety of social issues
• King Charles III's implausible Commonwealth canon
• A beaver: to get attention they will slap the water with their tails | Helen Sullivan
• A Puritanical Constitutionalism – Sarah A. Morgan Smith
• Are you fur real? Gone is the social stigma around wearing animal skins | Ellie Violet Bramley
• I’m Dating a Single Mom
• What are smartphones stealing from us? When mine was taken away, I found out | Alexander Hurst
• It’s time for Broadway to be — or not to be — done with Shakespeare plays
• Spotify’s biggest sin? Its algorithms have pushed artists to make joyless, toothless music | John Harris
• How to do it: I’d like to have sex without the urine, but my partner is being selfish. What’s a good way to suggest a compromise?
• When parents enter the grandparenting phase of their lives, it profoundly changes their role in the family
• Mike Leigh: the last great left-wing filmmaker?
• The Best Comedy on TV Is Coming to a Hilarious, Heartfelt End
• I’m 37, and my best friend is 54. She’s 54. She’s 54. She’s 54. She’s 54. She’s 54. She’s 54. She’s 54. She’s 54. She’s 54. She
• In the 18 years since St. Agnes began its revival, there are more than 1000 self-identified 'classical parochial schools' in the U.S
• I Want a Date With Jana Hocking - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• The cost of the Unesco project is $115m, not $50m as suggested
• Donald Trump is a bully, not a strongman. And Australia will pay for his destruction as he panders to the mega-rich
• The Sussexes have to earn their bread somehow, so let them make cake | Martha Gill
• Is broccoli really still enemy No.1 on the childhood dinner menu?
• And the Academy award for most bashful Oscar contender goes to… | Tim Lewis
• Why King Charles’ royal ‘soft power’ has never been needed more than now
• What do women really want from men? I delved into romantasy and found a good few clues | Max Fletcher
• Gene Hackman and wife Betsy Arakawa both died of natural causes, New Mexico chief medical examiner says
• 'Sparrow and Vine' has been canceled due to a line that's considered pro-Elon Musk
• Kate Hudson says she’s open to having more children