Every day, Donnie Caldwell gets out of his Franklin County Jail cell briefly to grab his food and bring it back to his bunk — right next to his toilet — to eat. On Saturday, April 4th, while standing in line in the jail’s cafeteria and waiting for his food …
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Just as the music livestreaming space has quickly grown saturated with competition as stay-at-home restrictions have kept concertgoers homebound, new livestreamer BeApp, launching on Thursday, is bringing a star-studded set of performances to the app. Among the many high-profile acts slated to perform through the two-month series, EDM DJ Kaskade …
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Dashboard Confessional have released a cover of Post Malone’s hit song “Circles,” recorded earlier this year at New York’s Electric Lady Studios. It was released on Wednesday in a Spotify Singles package, alongside a new version of the band’s own song “Screaming Infidelities.” The cover is a faithful rendition of …
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During an interview with Trevor Noah on The Daily Show Monday, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms expressed her concerns about Georgia’s plans to reopen its economy as coronavirus cases and deaths continue to rise in the state. Bottoms acknowledged that she had a good working relationship with Georgia Governor Brian …
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On Sunday night, a whole host of Canadian artists performed in Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble, a television special and livestream dedicated to raising money for Food Banks Canada as they help fight the coronavirus pandemic. The broadcast culminated in a remote — yet, very obviously, studio-produced — sing-along of Bill Withers’ …
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Conservative economist Stephen Moore, a member of the White House council to reopen the country, absurdly compared demonstrators who are dangerously opposing state social-distancing orders aimed at stemming the spread of the coronavirus to civil rights icon Rosa Parks. “This is a great time for civil disobedience. We need to …
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Elizabeth Warren broke down her characteristically comprehensive plans to stem the spread of the coronavirus, as well as protect the health and democratic rights of Americans, in an interview with Samantha Bee that will air on Full Frontal tonight. The segment opened with Bee acknowledging that Warren was her preferred …
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At his home in the Bronx, where he lies in bed with a fever, Jose Peralta keeps replaying the scene in his head. It was Monday, March 16th, the start of an unusually hectic week at a Walgreens in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City. Peralta, a senior pharmacy …
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Tuesday is a dismal day for what’s left of democracy in the state of Wisconsin. It’s also a warning sign for the entire country about this November’s elections. Free, fair elections in Wisconsin took a one-two punch on Monday evening. First, the conservative state supreme court, also along party lines, …
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Rita Wilson — mother of rapper Chet Haze — debuted her rapping skills two weeks ago on Instagram with a cover of Naughty by Nature‘s “Hip Hop Hooray.” The legendary hip-hop trio must be as “quarantine stir crazy” as Wilson, because they have enlisted the actress/singer for a remix of …
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