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Chronic Lyme Disease: The Quiet Epidemic | Documentary

December 2, 2022

The Quiet Epidemic is a feature-length documentary about Lyme and tick-borne disease, a gripping medical mystery story. Now showing at IFC in New York.

How Ticketmaster Is Destroying Live Music

December 2, 2022

Ticketmaster is destroying live music. Fees as much as 78% of a ticket. Controlling events, venues, even artists. There’s a movement pushing the Justice Department to take on their monopoly. Cory Doctorow breaks it down.

MTG Back on Twitter | Mike Lindell As RNC Chair?

December 2, 2022

New rules allow misinformation back on Twitter. MyPillow guy throws his hat in the ring for chairman of the Republican National Committee. #Colbert #Comedy #Monologue

December 2, 2022

Julia Reichert, Oscar-Winning Godmother of Documentaries, Dies

Kathryn Mobley WYSO

Her films include three Academy Award nominees: "Union Maids," "Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists" (with Jim Klein) and "The Last Truck: Closing of A GM Plant" (with Steven Bognar).

December 2, 2022

Watch the Disturbing Kanye Interview Clips That Tucker Carlson Didn’t Put On Air

Anna Merlan VICE

Motherboard obtained footage of Ye making bigoted statements about Jewish people and bizarre claims about "fake children," as well as describing visions of "kinetic energy" cities sent to him by God.

December 2, 2022

White Nationalists Give Mar-a-Lago Restaurant Disappointing One-Star Reviews on Tripadvisor

Andy Borowitz The New Yorker

According to a source close to Trump, the former President was shaken by the one-star reviews.

Herschel Walker's Campaign Dealt New Blow

December 2, 2022

Herschel Walker's personal scandals have received lots of attention. This is worse.

December 2, 2022

Judge Aileen Cannon’s Reign of Error Is Over

The Trump-appointed judge, who tried to do the former president a favor in the Mar-a-Lago affair, received a stern correction from the Eleventh Circuit.

December 2, 2022

Friday Nite Videos | December 2, 2022

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Herschel Walker's Campaign Dealt New Blow. MTG Back on Twitter | Mike Lindell As RNC Chair? How Ticketmaster Is Destroying Live Music. Chronic Lyme Disease: The Quiet Epidemic. Who Paid for Jeff Bezos To Fly to Space?

December 1, 2022

The Autoworker Who Transformed California

Nelson Lichtenstein, Harold Meyerson The American Prospect

Paul Schrade, 1924 - 2022, devoted his life to building an America and a California that enjoyed broadly shared prosperity and racial egalitarianism. It’s that for which he should be remembered.