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\nLast Saturday, Dosunmu scored 43 points off the bench. Thirteen of seventeen...
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\nI’l...
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\nThat’s the surface.
\nWatch it again and the loop...
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\nObviously, satire and comedy won’t fix what Jones did. Nothing can. But watching the machinery that tormented the Sandy Hook families get repurposed as a joke against itself, with a judge’s...
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\nIt’s not a movie, but close enough.
\nThe video game features the original song “First Light,” written and composed by Lana Del Rey and David Arnold. It’s got the slow strings and...
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David Graham in The Atlantic —
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Noah Hawley in The Atlantic —
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I need to tell you about Truvia Vanilla Liquid Sweetener.
\nI say “need” because this is the kind of product you find and then it just becomes a part of how you do things. You put a single squeeze in a cup of coffee and it tastes like perfect vanilla coffee, not the chemical wince you brace for with most of...
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\n\n\nOn multiple occasions in the past year, members of his security detail had difficulty waking Patel because he was seemingly intoxicated, according to information supplied to Justice Department and White House officials. A request for ‘breaching equipment’—normally used by SWAT and hostage-rescue teams to quickly gain entry into buildings—was made last year because Patel had been unreachable behind locked doors, according to multiple people familiar with the request.
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Can we please rid ourselves of these incompetent buffoons?
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— Illinois Men's Basketball (@IlliniMBB) April 17, 2026\n
What a great day for Illinois basketball on Wednesday. It wasn’t surprising but it was certainly fun.
\nI fully expect Andrej Stojakovic will be next this week. There are still some other pieces to figure out like where Ty Rogers fits and others lower on the bench, but the core looks like it will be back.
\nI’d...
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\nThe Playlist has a story on Soderbergh Bond pitches and I kind of shake my head in disbelief –
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\nThat version was designed to open up a different, more lo-fi, stripped-down, and cost-effective way of making Bond movies, but not a replacement for them. “[It would be] cheaply made, where...
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I realistically think Keaton Wagler declares for the NBA Draft while maintaining his college eligibility — that’s just the smart move in today’s game.
\nRight now, he’s projected as a top 5–7 pick. That’s life-changing money and something you simply don’t pass up lightly. Historically, this would be a...
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\nWe waited 54...
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\nHis job was to filter through that noise until he reached the essence.
\nEarly in his career, he was asked to help design a record player. At the time, the norm was to encase it in a heavy wooden lid or build it into a piece of living room furniture.
\nInstead, Rams and his team removed the clutter. They designed a player with a clear plastic cover and nothing more.
\nIt was so different that people worried it might bankrupt the company.
\nBut it didn’t.
\nOver...
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