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In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, two techies started a new social network built around an increasingly unloved feature of people’s iPhones: actually talking into it. The app, called Clubhouse, was at first niche. There are no posts, no pictures, no videos. As if to underline how little …

Marjorie Taylor Greene has had a busy few days since being sworn into Congress. Known in the mainstream media as the “Qanon congresswoman” due to her support for the baseless far-right conspiracy theory QAnon, which posits the existence of a deep state cabal of left-wing cannibals and pedophiles angling for …

Celebrity doctor Drew Pinsky revealed he has tested positive for Covid-19. The diagnosis was shared via an Instagram post from his account on Tuesday. The news comes months after Pinsky, who is known as Dr. Drew, apologized for downplaying the virus when he suggested it was a “press-induced panic” and …

If you watch the White House press briefings with semi-regularity, you’ll likely see her there: ever-present scarf, belted trench dress, brows flawlessly filled in, piles of dark hair teased to near-Nineties Fran Drescher heights. She will always be wearing heels; she will almost never be wearing a mask. All heads …

Andy Richter discussed his new Audible project, meeting Conan O’Brien, basic flight etiquette and more on the latest installment of Rolling Stone‘s The First Time. Richter kicked off by discussing Vroom Vroom, a new Audible project he stars in alongside Yvette Nicole Brown. “It’s basically a sitcom that is only …

Fleabag’s Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Olivia Colman have launched the Theatre Community Fund in the U.K. in order to support artists affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Divided into two priority strands, the fund will help freelancers survive in the present with grants — and help the industry in the future by …

A gunman disguised as a delivery driver shot and killed the 20-year-old son of federal judge Esther Salas, and also wounded her husband at the family’s home in North Brunswick, New Jersey on Sunday, July 19th, the Washington Post reports. Salas, who was reportedly in the basement at the time …

Quaker Oats has announced plans to rename their 130-year-old Aunt Jemima brand in an effort “to make progress toward racial equality.” In a statement Wednesday (via NBC News), Quaker Oats — who purchased the Aunt Jemima brand of syrup and pancake mixes in 1926 — admitted the racial history of …

They have brought with them their anger and aspirations, their dreams and demands, their clarion calls for justice. They can be heard in their chants and seen in their sheer numbers, but the messages they bring are perhaps most vividly illustrated by the signs they hold aloft as they march. …

Interstate 35 is a six-lane scar that runs through the middle of Austin. To the south, the highway runs all the way down to the Mexican border. To the North, it zig-zags up to Minneapolis, where, on May 25th, Derek Chauvin, a white police officer, handcuffed and asphyxiated a black …