John Oliver Blackmails Congress with Their Own Digital Data

The ‘Last Week Tonight’ host paid shady brokers for lawmakers’ digital histories — promising not to release the info so long as Congress passes legislation protecting all consumer… | Continue reading


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“I betrayed the trust of the Academy,” Smith wrote. “I am heartbroken.” | Continue reading


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Lara Logan’s latest anti-Semitic dog whistle is a claim that Charles Darwin only came up with the idea of evolution because Jews paid him to | Continue reading


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Mike Braun tried to walk back his comments, but his answer to a question about judicial “activism” was pretty explicit | Continue reading


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War Heroes: How Four Women Destroyed 1,200 Tons of Syria's Poison Gas

An obscure Defense Department team had nine months to make a stockpile of Syria’s chemical weapons disappear. In doing the impossible, they helped avert a global showdown and saved untold lives | Continue reading


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Trump’s team agreed it would encourage supporters to march, but try to “make it look like they went down there on their own,” Scott Johnston tells Rolling Stone | Continue reading


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Exclusive: Witness Claims Trump's Chief of Staff Was on Phone Call Planning Jan. 6 March on Capitol

Donald Trump's White House Chief of Staff and a national campaign spokesperson were involved in efforts to encourage the president's supporters to march on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. That's according to a person who says he overheard a key planning conversation between top Trum … | Continue reading


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CNN's Jeff Zucker and His Cronies Manipulated the News

Texts, email exchanges, and 36 sources tell the true story behind the downfall of TV’s ultimate operator | Continue reading


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Ukraine Pushes to Unplug Russia from the Internet – Rolling Stone

Disconnecting Russian sites would send a strong message to a regime pumping out digital propaganda. Experts say it could be a disaster | Continue reading


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Judge drops Eminem rap (2003)

Defamation suit by bully dismissed | Continue reading


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Flat Earth: 19th-Century Meme Turned into TikTok’s Strangest Conspiracy Theory

Author Kelly Wiell talks flat-earthers and how conspiracy theories really took off on a whole new level thanks to YouTube and TikTok | Continue reading


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Betty Davis has died

The ex-wife of jazz legend Miles Davis was years ahead of her time, only to disappear from the spotlight for decades | Continue reading


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They now have a “bad trip” hotline for psychedelics

“When we are trusting the process, we’re also saying it’s OK to feel bad, it’s OK to not be OK,” says the support line’s director. “This is a part of a bigger thing happening and … | Continue reading


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Behind the Scenes of a Covid ‘S–Tshow’ China Doesn’t Want You to See

Gold-medal hopefuls and Olympic legends reveal ‘the elephant in every room’ at the Winter Games: Covid-19 | Continue reading


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Spotify to Add ‘Content Advisory’ Warnings to Podcasts with Covid Discussion

Streaming service plans to “combat misinformation” but won’t “take on the position of being content censor” in aftermath of Neil Young’s exit | Continue reading


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The NFT Art World Wouldn't Be the Same Without This Woman's Nightmares

The Bored Ape Yacht Club lit up the internet — but its lead designer, Seneca, has been watching from the shadows | Continue reading


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Depression-era “Business Plot” aimed to take power from FDR to stop the New Deal

In an excerpt from Gangsters of Capitalism, Jonathan M. Katz details how the authors of the Depression-era “Business Plot” aimed to take power away from FDR and stop his “socialis… | Continue reading


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Sneakers, the Beatles, Michael Jordan, John McEnroe, lawsuits and a revolution in advertising took place 30 years ago | Continue reading


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Is Streaming Music Dangerous to the Environment? (2019)

New study suggests streaming music leads to at least 200 to 350 million kilograms of greenhouse gas emissions | Continue reading


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6ix9ine NFT Project Deemed a Scam by Fans Who Bought In

“There were KGB-type things going on,” says one member of the Trollz Discord server | Continue reading


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A Pulitzer Prize-Winning Reporter Has Been Accused of ‘Scamming’ Musicians

Musician and YouTuber Benn Jordan claims former ‘New York Times’ journalist Ian Urbina engaged in “extremely unexpected, brazen[ly] complex web of fuckery.” Urbina denies th… | Continue reading


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Jan 6 Organizers Used Anonymous Phones to Communicate with White House and Trump

A key planner of the Jan. 6 rally near the White House insisted the burner phones be purchased with cash, a source says | Continue reading


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Reality Winner Blasts the Intercept After 4 Years in Jail

After years locked away for leaking classified information on Russian interference, the former NSA contractor has a lot to say about how she got there | Continue reading


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A key planner of the Jan. 6 rally near the White House insisted the burner phones be purchased with cash, a source says | Continue reading


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Hunter S. Thompson: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail in ’72 (1973)

Fear & Loathing in the Past . . . Present . . . Future . . . The Meaning, as it Were, of McGovern . . . & Where Do We Go From Here? | Continue reading


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Bored Ape Yacht Club Created a Billion-Dollar Ecosystem of NFTs

Bored Ape Yacht Club became internet rock stars by making NFTs of grungy simians that aren’t just viral images — they’re tickets to a whole new lifestyle | Continue reading


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Review: ABBA's 'Voyage'

The Swedish super troopers haven’t lost their appetite for emotional-crisis soundtracks | Continue reading


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Greatest Songs of All Time

For the first time in 17 years, we’ve completely remade our list of the best songs ever. More than 250 artists, writers, and industry figures helped us choose a brand-new list full of histori… | Continue reading


@rollingstone.com | 2 years ago

EXCLUSIVE: Jan. 6 Protest Organizers Say They Participated in 'Dozens' of Planning Meetings With Members of Congress and White House Staff

Two sources are communicating with House investigators and detailed a stunning series of allegations to Rolling Stone, including a promise of a “blanket pardon” from the Oval Office | Continue reading


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Two sources are communicating with House investigators and detailed a stunning series of allegations to Rolling Stone, including a promise of a “blanket pardon” from the Oval Office | Continue reading


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Eric Clapton went from setting the standard for rock guitar to making ‘full-tilt’ racist rants to becoming an outspoken vaccine skeptic. Did he change? Or was he always like this? | Continue reading


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Zodiac Expert Calls ‘Bullshit’ on Possible ID of Infamous Serial Killer

Zodiac Killer: Just the Facts author Tom Voigt tells us why the new report about Zodiac Killer’s identity is “completely bogus” | Continue reading


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Actor Pleads Guilty to Running $650M Hollywood Ponzi Scheme

Low-budget horror flick star Zachary Horwitz admits he bilked clients by faking deals with Netflix and HBO in a years-long scam | Continue reading


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‘Seinfeld’ Fans Upset That Netflix’s Aspect Ratio Cuts Out Jokes, Literally

Streaming service updates sitcom for high-definition televisions, but loses some visual gags in the process | Continue reading


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CIA Reportedly Considered Kidnapping, Assassinating Julian Assange

Mike Pompeo was apparently motivated to get even with Wikileaks following its publication of sensitive CIA hacking tools | Continue reading


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The NBA's Anti-Vaxxers Are Trying to Push Around the League--And It's Working

Conspiracy theories in the locker room. Mask police in the arena. Superstars trying to avoid the shot. After bringing back the culture from Covid, basketball confronts its own civil war | Continue reading


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Best Songs of All Time – Rolling Stone

For the first time in 17 years, we’ve completely remade our list of the best songs ever. More than 250 artists, writers, and industry figures helped us choose a brand-new list full of histori… | Continue reading


@rollingstone.com | 2 years ago

Greatest Songs of All Time (Updated 2021)

For the first time in 17 years, we’ve completely remade our list of the best songs ever. More than 250 artists, writers, and industry figures helped us choose a brand-new list full of histori… | Continue reading


@rollingstone.com | 2 years ago

Anti-Vaxxers Are Now Gargling Iodine to Prevent Covid-19

One ER doc’s response to the new trend: “Fuck me! Of course they are” | Continue reading


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Gunshot Victims Waiting as Horse Dewormer Overdoses Overwhelm Oklahoma Hospitals

“The ERs are so backed up that gunshot victims were having hard times getting to facilities where they can get definitive care and be treated,” Dr. Jason McElyea said | Continue reading


@rollingstone.com | 2 years ago

Lee “Scratch” Perry Has Died

Prolific reggae singer, producer, and studio wizard who reinvented the genre and pushed the boundaries of Jamaican music died Sunday | Continue reading


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Eric Clapton's 'This Has Gotta Stop' Appears to Take on Covid Vaxx

“This has gotta stop/Enough is enough/I can’t take this BS any longer,” rocker sings on chorus | Continue reading


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The FDA Is Begging You Not to Take Horse Dewormer for Covid-19

“You are not a horse. You are not a cow,” the Food and Drug Administration said about using the drug that hosts on Fox News have been pushing | Continue reading


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“For once, my timing has been a little off,” Watts jokes. Longtime band associate Steve Jordan to fill in for Watts on entire tour | Continue reading


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What Was the Real Relationship Between Jeffrey Epstein and Bill Gates?

How a young neuroscientist became a connection between the Microsoft co-founder and the pedophile financier | Continue reading


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The Dommes Who Are Demanding Their Submissives Get Vaxxed

“I specialize in toilet play, and I can’t do it with people who are unvaccinated,” says one domme requiring proof of vaccination for dungeon entry | Continue reading


@rollingstone.com | 2 years ago

William F. Nolan, Sci-Fi Author of ‘Logan’s Run,’ Dead at 93

Prolific author wrote hundreds of nonfiction pieces, poems, and screenplays in addition to his science fiction work | Continue reading


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ZZ Top Bassist Dusty Hill Dead at 72

“You will be missed greatly, amigo,” surviving members Billy Gibbons and Frank Beard said in a statement | Continue reading


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