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Asking for plastic cutlery, sitting too long, and taking too long in the bathroom have all been alleged reasons for arresting black people at restaurants in 2018; questioning the restaurant’s credit card policy is also grounds for throwing a person out of the building, it seems. The Kansas City Star reports that the…

Asking for plastic cutlery, sitting too long, and taking too long in the bathroom have all been alleged reasons for arresting black people at restaurants in 2018; questioning the restaurant’s credit card policy is also grounds for throwing a person out of the building, it seems. The Kansas City Star reports that the…

The internet is lighting up with fuzzy videos of two people who appear to be America’s first couple the Obamas bouncing at a concert by America’s first couple the Carters in a skybox in Maryland on Saturday–which is not unlikely, since Michelle also took Sasha to the On the Run II tour in Paris earlier this month with …

The extensive and rapidly spreading Carr Fire in Northern California has claimed at least five lives—including two children and their great-grandmother—while several others remain missing Sunday as officials struggle to contain a blaze that already has destroyed over 89,000 acres.

The scourge of the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the whitehead on America’s nose, the nation’s petri dish for bro brawls, will reportedly be restored after it was again pulverized with a pickax this week by a public servant or vandal, depending on your worldview. (If you’re still wondering how this exists, Trump reportedly…

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It’s been two years, another Star Wars installment, and a posthumous Grammy, but every once in a while when I’m feeling crappy about getting old or being a weirdo, a Carrie Fisher anecdote lifts my spirits: her embrace of mental illness down to the Prozac urn; her f-off to ageism (“My body hasn’t aged as well as I…