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Cast of 'The Wire' reacts to Baltimore protests
As Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan declared a state of emergency following the Freddie Gray protests in Baltimore, delegates from acclaimed television series The Wire—the city's most recognizable pop...
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Twitter stock plunges after Twitter bot scoops earnings report
Any fans of the Wikipedia article about inventors killed by their own inventions—or the phrase “hoisted by his own petard”—should get a big kick out of this: Twitter Inc. had a disappointing...
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Whole Foods deletes photos supporting the National Guard in Baltimore
Whole Foods posted, and then conspicuously deleted, photos of a downtown Baltimore location offering free food to the National Guard on Tuesday.Posted by the grocery giant’s Facebook and Twitter...
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The confused millennial's guide to 'Seinfeld'
Greetings, millennials! Have you heard that Hulu just bought syndication rights to Seinfeld—a sitcom whose series finale aired in 1998—for $180 million, or a million bucks per episode?If so, you may be...
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About that mysterious 'Lizzie McGuire' reunion photo
After years of prayer, Disney Channel disciples finally got the Lizzie McGuire reunion they have been waiting for—under some of the most mysterious circumstances since Miranda's absence from The Lizzie...
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A transgender woman was shot in Baltimore and no one is talking about it
Mya Hall wasn't looking for trouble when she took a wrong turn on March 30 and wound up on the wrong exit of a Fort Meade, Md. parkway, which led to the Baltimore headquarters of the NSA. But she...
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Family makes John Boyega do the dishes because he won't spoil 'The Force...
How do you punish your phenomenally successful son for refusing to divulge spoilers about the blockbuster movie he's in? If you're John Boyega's dad, you make him do the dishes.The Force Awakens star...
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Russell Crowe infuriated by fake quote in ClickHole
Uh-oh. Looks like actor Russell Crowe didn't know that ClickHole is a satire website, and therefore threw a small hissy fit after they ran a quote from him. A fake quote, from fake comments he most...
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You can now play 'Oregon Trail' from inside a tweet
You don’t exactly have to scour the internet to find places to play retro games, but now you might see them in a place you never expected: Twitter. Thanks to the magic of the Internet Archive you can...
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Meet the sex workers victimized and exploited by A&E's '8 Minutes'
A Texas woman named Kamylla says she was screwed over by A&E's new reality show 8 Minutes. Although the show claims to "rescue" sex workers from their lives on the streets, Kamylla claims that it...
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The real reason young people are the poorest generation in 25 years
The kids are not all right. As the millennial generation starts to reach its 30s, many of these ‘80s and ‘90s kids are having kids of their own, and recent surveys show one in five millennial parents...
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Zayn Malik erases all traces of his One Direction past
It's been a turbulent couple of months for One Direction fans and their worlds are about to get turned upside down once again. Former boy band member Zayn Malik has removed the "1D" from his Twitter...
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This stoner's to-do list is almost too ambitious
I don't know about you guys, but when it comes to Saturdays, I’m lucky if I even remember to put underwear on. So maybe police in the Western Australian suburb of Murdoch have something better to do...
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On Twitter, #talkpay highlights uneven wages in the tech industry
It’s an oft-discussed topic in general terms, but rarely do we see people talking specifically about how much money they make. On May 1, International Worker’s Day, people are sharing their salaries to...
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'Suicide Squad' director David Ayer reveals first photo of cast
Just last month, the Internet went absolutely bonkers over an image showing off Jared Leto in his full Joker makeup for next year’s Suicide Squad film. Fan reactions were mixed, to say the least. It...
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J.K. Rowling is 'really sorry' about that whole killing off Fred Weasley thing
BY CASEY RACKHAMHarry Potter’s Fred Weasley might still be dead, but at least J.K. Rowling feels super bad about it. On Saturday (May 2), which happens to be the 17th anniversary of the Battle of...
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How an anonymous Twitter bot is changing the #talkpay conversation
One hashtag sparked a national conversation on Twitter last week, when people began sharing their salaries with #TalkPay. The idea was proposed by programmer Lauren Voswinkel in an effort to...
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How the whitest brands on Twitter will probably celebrate Cinco de Mayo
Cinco de Mayo has arrived, and you know what that means: brands struggling to figure out how they can market their products through a veneer of appropriated Mexican traditions and lazy...
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I celebrated Cinco de Mayo at Taco Bell
When Taco Bell announced a breakfast menu in February 2014, it was a ray of fire-saucy sunshine during one of the bleakest winters of New York City history. Soon my fave items—such as Crunchwrap...
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Joss Whedon says 'Avengers' feminists didn't chase him off Twitter
When Joss Whedon deactivated his Twitter account earlier this week, many people assumed he'd quit as a result of criticism—or even threats—from feminists who objected to certain aspects of Avengers:...
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