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Fast Forward Obama’s Favorite Author Won’t Discuss Parenting-Work Balance Until Men Do
Lauren Groff respectfully declines to talk about it
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Fast Forward Twitter Thinks Jake Tapper Is About To Blow A Gasket
CNN anchor and chief political correspondent Jake Tapper has seen it all in the past few years. But some Twitter users are worried that the coverage of the Trump Putin summit has broken him. feels like we’re a week away from the CNN chyron just reading ‘FUCK IT’ while Jake Tapper sits there naked eating…
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Fast Forward Congressman Takes Daughters To West Wing, Remembers His Childhood Tour
New York Republican congressman Lee Zeldin took his family on a tour of the West Wing on Thursday night, embracing the nostalgia of when he first experienced it as a kid in 1986. “Last night, I took three VIPs to the West Wing for a tour of history, where Presidents have tackled some of the…
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The Schmooze Sarah Silverman And Piers Morgan Get Into An Ugly Twitter Feud
Sarah Silverman has called out British journalist Piers Morgan, for shouting at an anti-Trump protester in London in a video that “Good Morning Britain” later posted. Silverman tweeted: “Shouting your narrative at a guest [because] she has answers that don’t prove your point does not even resemble journalism. What if you listened to her instead?…
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Life Twitter Debilitated Me. Here’s Why You Should Quit.
On July 15th, 2017, I went off Twitter. I closed my account and waited for the digital tremens to hit me. As it happened, my bout was brief; I picked up my phone with intent, the way 25 years ago, having sworn off smoking, I’d rummaged around for a stale pack of cigarettes. But now…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu’s Most Retweeted Tweet Ever Praised Trump’s Wall
A new report from the research firm Twiplomacy found that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s most retweeted tweet ever lauded President Trump’s plan to build a wall on the Mexican border. “President Trump is right. I built a wall along Israel’s southern border. It stopped all illegal immigration. Great success. Great idea,” Netanyahu wrote, evoking…
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The Schmooze Backlash After Scarlett Johansson Cast As Trans Character
Scarlett Johansson has faced massive criticism this week for taking on a role as an apparently transgender man. Johansson will play Dante “Tex” Gill, an iconic massage-parlor kingpin who dominated Pittsburgh’s illicit pleasure centers in the 70’s and 80’s in the upcoming movie “Rub and Tug.” Johansson is a cisgender woman. Gill presented and identified…
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The Schmooze JK Rowling Blasts Trump With A Torah Quote Over Family Separation
In the early hours of the fourth of July, “Harry Potter” scribe JK Rowling took to Twitter to denounce the Trump administration’s family separation policies and resulting decisions to force toddlers as young as three years old to represent themselves in court. It’s so awful we could laugh. Or drink. But Rowling, who 4,224 pages…
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