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The Acerbic Vice Can’t Explain Dick Cheney
The Acerbic Vice Can’t Explain Dick Cheney

This month, awards-season buzz about the Dick Cheney biopic Vice collided with the state funeral of former President George H.W. Bush, under whom Cheney served as Secretary of Defence. News coverage of the late commander-in-chief praised him as an icon of … Read More

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Stephen Miller's Spray On Hair is Wild
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Stephen Miller’s Hair Is Back to Normal Today

Stephen Miller, a Trump administration policy adviser that one of the president's outside advisers likened to "Waffen-SS," went on Face the Nation on Sunday morning…
Maggie Serota / December 17, 2018
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Killer Mike Gets Netflix Series 'Trigger Warning'
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Netflix Releases Trailer for Killer Mike’s New Show Trigger Warning

Add Run the Jewels rapper Killer Mike to the growing list of artists with Netflix shows. The streaming service released the trailer for Trigger Warning…
Maggie Serota / December 12, 2018
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Chuck Schumer Dunks on Trump During Disastrous Oval Office Meeting
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Trump Is Too Dumb to Get Schumer’s Solid Burn During Oval Office Shitshow

There's a lot to unpack from today's disastrous Oval Office meeting between President Trump, an apparently drowsy Vice President Mike Pence, and Democratic party leaders Senator…
Maggie Serota / December 11, 2018
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Netflix's Fyre Festival Documentary Comes Out in January
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Fyre Festival Documentary Coming to Netflix in January

FYRE, the first of many projects about the unmitigated disaster that was Fyre Festival, is coming to Netflix next month. The 2017 festival, the…
Maggie Serota / December 10, 2018
Culture
Trump Thinks He's in St. Louis While Addressing Kansas City Crowd
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Confused Old Man Has No Idea Where He Is

President Trump addressed a law enforcement conference in Kansas City, Missouri on Friday where he got to do two of his favorite things: rant about…
Maggie Serota / December 7, 2018
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Donald Trump and Rex Tillerson Take Shots at Each Other
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Donald Trump and Rex Tillerson Each Swear the Other Is the Dumbass

Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was presented with an enviable opportunity to publicly drag his former boss, President Trump, during a sit-down with CBS…
Maggie Serota / December 7, 2018
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John M. Chu to Direct Arnel Pineda Biopic
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Crazy Rich Asians Director Jon M. Chu to Direct Biopic on Journey Singer Arnel Pineda

Director Jon M. Chu is following the runaway success of Crazy Rich Asians with a biopic of Journey frontman Arnel Pineda, Deadline reports. The film…
Maggie Serota / December 6, 2018
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Ted Cruz Denies Drinking Nine Inch Nails' Beer, Asking for Guest Spot
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Ted Cruz Denies Drinking All of Nine Inch Nails’ Beer

Perpetually moist Texas Senator Ted Cruz has tweeted a rebuttal to Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor's claims that the failed presidential candidate asked for a guest list spot for…
Maggie Serota / November 30, 2018
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Kid Rock Joy Behar Fox and Friends
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Fox News Quickly Apologizes After Kid Rock Calls Joy Behar “That Bitch” on Live TV

Kid Rock should know better, but he didn't on Friday morning, decrying liberal comedian Joy Behar as "that bitch" during a live interview on the…
Jeremy Barr, The Hollywood Reporter / November 30, 2018
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Brett Kavanaugh Coaching Girls' Basketball Again After Sexual Assault Hearing
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Look Who’s Coaching Girls’ Basketball Again

In what's clearly the feel-good story of the holiday season, Deadspin reports that newly anointed Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh returned to coaching girls' basketball over Thanksgiving…
Maggie Serota / November 28, 2018
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Aziz Ansarai Announces "Road to Nowhere" Tour for 2019
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Aziz Ansari Announces 2019 Tour

Aziz Ansari has announced his "Road to Nowhere" tour scheduled for 2019. The comedian will be performing across North America beginning in Boston in February and…
Maggie Serota / November 27, 2018
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'Fox & Friends' Sent Interview Questions to Scott Pruitt in Advance
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Fox & Friends Gave Former EPA Head Scott Pruitt Script Approval, Questions in Advance

Just when we thought we had heard the last of the Trump administration's most shameless dirtbag, former EPA head Scott Pruitt, The Daily Beast got…
Maggie Serota / November 27, 2018
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Melania Trump Unveils Creepy 2018 White House Christmas Decorations
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The White House Is Celebrating Christmas in the Black Lodge This Year

Twin Peaks fans who have been going through withdrawal since last year's Showtime revival ended might do well to check out the Lynchian hellscape that…
Maggie Serota / November 26, 2018
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Alec Baldwin Admits to Pushing "Asshole" Who Stole His Parking Spot
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Alec Baldwin Told Police He Pushed “Asshole” Who Stole His Parking Spot

Alec Baldwin appeared in court on Monday morning following his arrest earlier this month for allegedly punching a man during an argument over a parking spot…
Maggie Serota / November 26, 2018
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Ron Chernow to Host 2019 White House Correspondents' Dinner
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Next Year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner Sounds Like a Damn Snooze

The thin-skinned denizens of the Trump administration will have one less thing to be performatively aggrieved over as a historian, rather than a comedian, will…
Maggie Serota / November 19, 2018
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