There’s a really good chance that you’ve never seen any of writer/actor/producer Mark Duplass’s films (check out “Creep” if you like slow-burn psychological horror), but as Twitchy reported earlier, he took a beating from his “fellow liberal” followers when he suggested they follow Ben Shapiro on Twitter if they were interested in “crossing the aisle” and getting a different perspective…

It’s not often that a writer gives you a heads-up before springing a scorching hot take on you, but Dan O’Sullivan, who’s been published in Rolling Stone, Salon, and The Daily Beast, thought he’d put out some feelers before churning out a piece on how the TV show “South Park” gave birth to the Alt-Right movement.

Has anyone written a piece on how South Park helped give birth to the alt right……

Remember last summer when Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was doing a very campaign-like tour of all 50 states, dropping in on regular families for dinner and, oh yeah, hiring Democratic pollster Joel Benenson, who advised President Obama and was a chief strategist of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign?
It sure seemed like Zuckerberg was testing the waters for a 2020 run for president as a Democrat, but he’s in hot water with liberals today after a BuzzFeed News report that Zuckerberg called Donald Trump after the election to congratulate him…

It’s interesting to imagine ourselves with abilities that far surpass what a human can do. Just visualize yourself lifting 10 times your own weight or being able to see radiation with your own eyes. In a way, that’s not as crazy as it might sound. If it were possible to implant certain animal organs into […]
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Religious equality means that all religions ought to be equal. If Christians can pray in school, then Muslims should be allowed pray in school. And if Jews can put up menorahs in public buildings, then it’s only fair that Satanists be allowed to put up severed goat heads with inverted pentagrams carved into their skulls. […]
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Throughout much of North America, large swaths of land are still untamed and unsettled. Hundreds of millions of acres are protected in the wilds of the United States and Canada. Hikers, hunters, and tourists visit these lands every year, but not all of them leave alive. Many have died and went missing in the wilderness […]
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The drugs singled out for discounts include the flagging hepatitis C treatment Zepatier and six drugs that have lost their patent protection.

As Twitchy reported Monday, Russian national Maria Butina was arrested over the weekend on charges of conspiracy and accused of “infiltrating organizations having influence in American politics, for the purpose of advancing the interests of the Russian Federation.”
On Thursday, the official Twitter account of Russia’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs changed its profile picture to a photo and the hashtag, #FreeMariaButina…

In the last 10 years, elephants killed 800 people in the state of Assam, India, alone. Assam is an extreme case, but it’s not the only place where animals are starting to fight back. Over the last few decades, attacks by elephants have been on a steady rise. According to expert Gay Bradshaw, the animals […]
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A New Zealand firm reduced its workweek to 32 hours over four days, and found that workers were more productive during their time at work.

If you live near an arthouse theater, it still might be offering screenings of “RBG,” which has raked in almost $13 million since it was released in January. But don’t confuse that Ruth Bader Ginsburg movie with this Ruth Bader Ginsburg movie, in which the Supreme Court justice is played by Felicity Jones.

Her story made history. Felicity Jones is Ruth Bader Ginsburg in #OnTheBasisOfSex – in theaters this Christmas…

There have been plenty of hot takes following today’s meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, but one that’s gaining traction, it seems, is people calling Russia’s attempt to influence the election an “act of war.”
Over at POLITICO, Mark Hertling and Molly K. McKew make that case and double down on it, calling Russian interference in 2016 “our Pearl Harbor, our 9/11…

It seems NBC News’ Katy Tur was triggered by this morning’s joint press conference between President Trump and Vladimir Putin, and she had only one question — or does one question asked three times count as three questions? We thought journalism school at least taught the five W’s to ask for any story.

What will republicans do?What will republicans do?What will republicans do?What will republicans do?
That is the only question that matters…

Legal pot was a central campaign promise for Gov. Philip D. Murphy, and dispensaries are getting ready. But the Legislature is taking its time.

We’ve all seen the Final Destination movies or at least heard of the premise. People survive unbelievable situations which were to suppose to leave them dead. Then they end up dying shortly afterward from something that has no relation to the original situation. Well, death is something that comes with life. But these stories are […]
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The F.D.A. announced that batches of a widely used generic drug, valsartan, made in China, might be tainted with a probable cancer-causing ingredient.

The human body is made up of about 37 trillion cells. After all, that is what the textbooks say, right? Wrong! In fact, our bodies contain 30–50 trillion extra cells which belong to the bacteria living in your intestines. However, these bacteria are rather small, weighing a measly 1.4 kilograms (3 lb) altogether, a minor […]
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In today’s world, there is a lot of controversy surrounding firearms. Thousands of people lose their lives every year as a result of gunshots, so it is no wonder people are against guns. There are many advocates of guns for a variety of reasons, as well. This list is not meant to discuss the differents […]
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Articles about the test, known as the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, or MoCA, listed some of its questions, potentially influencing future patients.

The world was once filled with some absolutely incredible creatures. Thousands of years ago, massive and strange beasts roamed the planet. Most were so huge that they would tower over a man’s head. We hear a lot about the dinosaurs that lived millions of years ago, but the world was far more diverse than Jurassic […]
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Traveler’s constipation is probably real. And the scientific evidence behind it is fascinating.

As we told you earlier, President Donald Trump refused to call on CNN today and instead directed Fox News’ John Roberts to ask the next question, calling CNN “Fake News” in the process:

POTUS calls CNN fake news, calls on @FoxNews John Roberts and says “Lets call on a real network.”
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) July 13, 2018

Robert later issued this statement where he defended CNN and the other networks, saying “To issue a blanket condemnation of the network as ‘fake news’ is also unfair”:

Here is the statement from Fox News's John Roberts, who was selected by Trump to ask a question after CNN's Jim Acosta was dissed…

Apparently today is #NationalFrenchFryDay and Planned Parenthood is using what should be a national holiday to promote consent in regard to sexual relationships, as in :
F – Freely Given
R – Reversible
I – Informed
E – Enthusiastic
S – Specific
Really. That’s why they’re going with:

National French Fry Day is today but you can use FRIES to practice consent every day: https://t…

A new challenge has emerged to the I.A.A.F. rules that could require some runners to undergo medical treatment to lower their hormone levels.

Iowa and Illinois have recorded more than 100 cases of cyclosporiasis, which causes nausea and fatigue. McDonald’s has stopped selling salads at about 3,000 locations.

Well, this was somewhat unexpected after yesterday’s’ bonkers House hearing with FBI agent Peter Strzok.
Former FBI attorney Lisa Page, who had the now infamous affair with Strzok, earned praise from Republican lawmakers after testifying at a closed-door hearing on Friday.
Rep. Mark Meadows said she had been cooperative and even declared that she was “falsely accused” of not cooperating with the House’s investigation:

Lisa Page is impressing GOP lawmakers today…

Man, we thought we were rid of Al Franken. But he’s back with some questions he would ask SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh if he were still a senator, that is:

When Judge Brett Kavanaugh appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee, I wish I could be there. Because I have some questions I’d love to see him answer. Here they are: https://t.co/hLGuu4QW3w
— U.S. Senator Al Franken (@SenFranken) July 14, 2018

And in case you forgot why Al Franken is no longer a U…

Though the disease was eradicated decades ago, national security experts fear that stocks of the virus in labs could be released as a bioweapon.

After studying 23,005 comments left on videos about science and related topics, a researcher says, “I could see why people would not want to be on YouTube.”

Keeping up with the news is hard. So hard, in fact, that we’ve decided to save you the hassle by rounding up the most significant, unusual, or just plain old mind-blowing stories each week. After two weeks’ absence, Morris M. is back to guide you through the last seven days of news. It was seven […]
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Trade sanctions. Withdrawal of military aid. The Trump administration used both to try to block a measure that was considered uncontroversial and embraced by countries around the world.

An unusual transplant may revive tissues thought to be hopelessly damaged, including the heart and brain.

Earlier Tuesday, Twitchy reported on a tweet by NBC News’ White House correspondent Geoff Bennett suggesting that Justice Anthony Kennedy agreed to retire only after President Trump had assured him his pick for a replacement would be Brett Kavanaugh.

Source familiar tells NBC that Justice Kennedy had been in negotiations with the Trump team for months over Kennedy’s replacement. Once Kennedy received assurances that it would be Kavanaugh (his former law clerk) Kennedy felt comfortable retiring – @LACaldwellDC & @frankthorp
— Geoff Bennett (@GeoffRBennett) July 10, 2018

1…

You know how the Parkland activists like David Hogg liked to say, “The young people will win” at the end of their tweets?
Youth Empower, run by the youth of the Women’s March, is hoping the young people will turn out in force July 21 to march on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., to fight for “climate justice.”

July 21st, Youth will be marching for climate justice…

Remember late last month when The Daily Beast reported that Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement had sparked a run on IUDs?

Justice Kennedy's retirement has sparked a push to get IUDs https://t.co/ZeUgfV1HPV
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) June 27, 2018

That “flurry of tweets” urging women to stock up on birth control was actually two tweets. Two.
Now The Daily Beast has gone back to the well and floated the idea that contraception could be banned under Justice Brett Kavanaugh…

If you were born a “freak” in the late 18th century to the mid-19th century, there were two most likely paths for you in life. Either you would be cast out of society, left to live a life of solitude, or you were lucky and interesting enough to join the world-famous Ringling Bros. and Barnum […]
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Named after the Greek god of the sky, the planet Uranus was discovered by the famous astronomer William Herschel in 1781. Too dim for the ancient scientists to see with the naked eye, it was the first planet to be located using a telescope. As a result, Uranus was thought at first to be a […]
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Women — but not men — who worked long hours were at increased risk of diabetes.

As if there were any question as to whether there’s any difference left between the major newspapers and lefty blogs, compare the opinion piece in today’s Washington Post to yesterday’s piece in Vox making the case for packing the Supreme Court by adding a few progressive judges, an idea tried by Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Now David Faris, author of “It’s Time to Fight Dirty: How Democrats Can Build a Lasting Majority in American Politics,” is arguing that court-packing is the only way to save democracy:
Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement from the Supreme Court, and President Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to succeed him, is the doomsday scenario liberals feared when Senate Republicans thwarted the appointment of Merrick Garland in 2016: The GOP’s brazen act of democratic sabotage will almost certainly deliver the high court to the far right for a generation…

Geisha are one of the most iconic images we associate with Japan. If there’s one thing most Westerners can say they know about Japan, it’s that they had those female prostitutes who covered their faces in thick, white paint. One problem: None of that’s exactly true. Geisha weren’t prostitutes, and they didn’t always cover their […]
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Payroll records for more than 14,000 facilities show that the number of nurses and aides at work dips far below average some days and consistently sinks on weekends.

As Twitchy reported yesterday, Parkland survivor and anti-NRA activist David Hogg had a word to say about elected officials taking money from “special interests”:

Also, why is it culturally acceptable for any elected official to take money from special interests? In America we call it campaign donations the rest of the world calls it what it is, a bribe.
— David Hogg (@davidhogg111) July 6, 2018

You better talk to your partners over at Everytown about this…

Bloomberg News’ Sahil Kapur is getting a lot of attention for a tweet he posted Saturday morning about an “interesting” 2016 law article by possible Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett:

Interesting 2016 law article by Trump SCOTUS prospect Amy Coney Barrett suggesting true “originalism” requires reversing Brown v. Board of Education, invalidating Social Security as unconstitutional, and declaring West Virginia illegitimate…

Jezebel posted an interesting interview Saturday with Viva Ruiz, founder of Thank God for Abortion, who entered a Thank God for Abortion float in New York City’s pride march last month, because “we’re past the binary” and “abortion rights are queer rights.”
Language warning, by the way:

"Abortion rights are queer rights…it's about the right to do what I want with this body…

Whether it’s stuffing a body in a vat of acid or forcing a snitch to dig his own shallow grave, almost every movie with a body in it has its own way of getting rid of the corpse. Hollywood has expended more creativity into thinking up ways to hide a body than into writing a […]
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They wrap around objects ranging from the tiniest magnets to the entire Earth. Despite our fascination with these magnetic fields, they still produce many mysteries and strange behaviors. Recent discoveries uncovered fields where none were ever seen before, the spot where the planet’s poles might flip, and how to control brains and make wormholes. Magnetic […]
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His discovery led to lovastatin, but he shunned the limelight — until he was a patient himself and doctors, learning who he was, treated him “like a rock star.”

While the possibility of time travel remains debatable, we have had people who’ve claimed to have traveled to the past, the future, or even parallel universes. One common argument against time travel to the past deals with the possibility of altering the past. If you travel back in time and kill your parents, what happens […]
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“Sex and the City” star and New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon, who is running well to the left of an already liberal incumbent, Andrew Cuomo, is taking it as a badge of honor that Vice President Mike Pence takes issue with her calling ICE a terrorist organization.

If @mike_pence is attacking me, we must be doing something right. What’s really "appalling" is how ICE tears children away from their parents…

In the United States, men are sexually assaulted just as often as women. That might sound unbelievable, but the numbers are almost identical. Between 2010 and 2012, 1.267 million men and 1.270 million women claimed to be victims of sexual violence. It’s a fact that goes against a lot of what we think we know. […]
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OK, we’ll bite: why was the American Revolution a mistake, Vox?

When a cause is opposed by the two most vulnerable groups in a society, it's probably a bad idea. https://t.co/H5eUt3tBmS
— Vox (@voxdotcom) July 4, 2018

Dylan Matthews explains:
… I’m reasonably confident a world in which the revolution never happened would be better than the one we live in now, for three main reasons: Slavery would’ve been abolished earlier, American Indians would’ve faced rampant persecution but not the outright ethnic cleansing Andrew Jackson and other American leaders perpetrated, and America would have a parliamentary system of government that makes policymaking easier and lessens the risk of democratic collapse…

Dog owners reported mixed results with medication, training, herbs, CDs and ThunderShirts.

Older women who took a probiotic supplement had less weakening of bones than women who didn’t take the supplements.

Something we learned from a recent thread is that Republicans tend to be more likely to call themselves “extremely proud” to be Americans regardless of who’s in the White House.
So while most of us are celebrating Independence Day, Michael Moore is instead wishing his followers “Happy Resistance Day” — he’s seemingly under the impression that’s he and his followers are still fighting the Revolutionary War…

Sometimes a hat isn’t just a hat. Hats that we see everyday are replete with secret meanings and controversial histories that we’d never expect from such humble headgear. Everything comes from somewhere. Even what we wear on our heads everyday can broadcast surprising messages or continue unexpected traditions. In many cases, a hat’s original connotations […]
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The earliest period of US history has been so mythologized that it is sometimes hard to get a grip on what life was actually like during this time. As longtime Listverse readers know, whatever you learned in school about it probably won’t be much help. So, just in time for Independence Day, let’s take a […]
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Have you ever wondered how somebody came up with an idea? For example, how did somebody ever think of making an X-ray machine or a microwave oven? By accident, that’s how! Many of mankind’s most useful devices and contraptions were invented completely by mistake. For centuries, scientists have been tasked with finding the solution to […]
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In spite of Republican attacks, the insurance markets under the Affordable Care Act are stubbornly resilient. While consumers can expect sharp price increases in some areas, premiums are going up modestly in others.

With Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom now in theaters, dino-mania is running rampant once again. However, for true dinosaur lovers, there are many mistakes in the Jurassic movies. Specifically, how the dinosaurs changed from the earlier versions. Other scientific impossibilities also make an appearance in these films. Despite how much fun it is to suspend disbelief […]
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His discovery led to lovastatin, but he shunned the limelight — until he was a patient himself and doctors, learning who he was, treated him “like a rock star.”

The media usually focuses on reporting people who escape prison because they are considered to be a serious threat to others. However, some animals deserve to be feared just as much, if not more, than people. Animals successfully get out of zoos, shelters, and even pet shops more frequently than one may think. Mistakes made […]
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Independence Day is just a couple of days away, and many Americans are already celebrating with weekend activities and parties across the country (anyone who watched Live PD this weekend knows this is true), and it’s easy to forget what’s most important about this holiday.
This patriot gets it … read the whole thing.

I get super emotional every year when it gets close to Independence Day because I love this country so hard…

John Pavlovitz has a problem with Trump.
Actually, truth be told, reading through his tweets (which is a serious PITA since he has this editor blocked), it would seem he has a problem with Americans. For example, Pavolvitz claims Trump is weaponizing Independence Day … no, we’re not making this up.
Yeah, we say that a lot but cut us some slack, we cover a lot of crazy and stupid on Twitter…

Randy Quaid may have lost it a little, but this was pretty … interesting.
Yeah, that’s it.
It started here with Rob Reiner doing his usual, ‘Blah blah blah, I hate Trump, blah blah blah, Trump is evil, blah blah blah, Trump is destroying the country’ schtick, and this time it was because Trump gets to pick the next SCOTUS justice.
S’always something with this guy.

A President who is under investigation for possible money laundering, obstruction of justice & conspiring with an enemy to undermine Democracy can not be allowed to pick a Supreme Court justice who will decide his criminality…

In the art world, nothing hurts a career or bruises the ego like a misinterpreted artwork. That is why it’s such a shame that, hundreds of years after their conception and creation, some of the world’s most renowned artistic pieces are still frequently misinterpreted or misunderstood. This list looks at ten of the most frequently […]
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“Ruthless,” “witty,” and “scheming” are only a few of the words that describe the first female emperor of China, Wu Zetian. Despite the obstacles that stood in the way of her uphill climb to power, she overcome a plethora of opposing forces and remains one of the most impactful, influential women in Chinese history. Known […]
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Douchebag says what?
Huh, seems Vox co-founder Joshua Topolsky, for whatever reason, thought this tweet was somehow appropriate to write about Ben Shapiro.
Don’t look at us, the guy helped found Vox, it’s not like he’s a shining example of integrity anyway …

This absolutely disgusting tweet brought to you by the co-founder of Vox.
Civility, amirite? pic.twitter.com/RWTJTyAcCq
— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) July 1, 2018

Nothing says ‘civility’ like a nasty, anti-Semitic dig at a Jewish guy and not having the nads to actually tag him in it…

Have you ever wondered how your favorite foods were invented? Most of us probably envision a chef or a food company employee experimenting endlessly to craft the perfect concoction for palates that are tired of the same old thing. A pinch of this, a dash of that, and voila! Finally, after days or even months […]
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Summer is “trauma season,” when emergency rooms see a rise in injuries, but a drug supply crisis has doctors scrambling to find alternatives to needed medications.

Talismans and amulets — objects believed to have magical powers — were once part of any self-respecting doctor’s medicine bag.

Laura, please don’t do this.
Seriously.
Just don’t.

The shooting in #Annapolis is changing the news cycle.
Now nobody is going to talk about Maxine Waters or the FBI/ Rosenstein testimony that occurred on Capitol Hill today.
How convenient for the Democrats.
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) June 28, 2018

There is NOTHING convenient about people being shot, nothing. Ever. And this type of nonsense just feeds the yahoos on the Left playing politics with the shooting already…

As Twitchy told you earlier, many activists staged a sit-in at the Hart Senate Office Building, and “abolish ICE” was among their demands. Congressional Democrats who showed up were applauded, but by the time the dust settled, the Capitol Police made many arrests. MSNBC contributor and Resistance warrior Scott Dworkin put it this way:

BREAKING: 630 women are being arrested right now in the Hart Senate Office building…

The mortality rate flattens among the oldest of the old, a study of elderly Italians concludes, suggesting that the oldest humans have not yet reached the limits of life span.

The sinking of the Titanic was one of the most traumatic and horrifying events in history. Thousands of people lost their lives in the freezing cold water of the Atlantic Ocean during the early morning hours of April 15, 1912. There are many sad stories about the Titanic, but there are also many heroic stories […]
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The purchase of PillPack, an online pharmacy, is the latest sign of Amazon’s increasing interest in health care.

Conspiracy theories are some of the most captivating things to read in our world. Some of us have probably spent hours on the Internet reading about them, even on this site. Conspiracy theories range from long shots to events that might be real, and that is what makes them so interesting. Some especially interesting ones […]
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Drinking has always been one of America’s favorite pastimes. Bars, taverns, pubs, and the like have been around since the earliest parts of history. The intersection of various cultures throughout time has led to the exchange of various liquors and recipes all over the world. This sharing of liquors has led to a cornucopia of […]
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Reporters decided it would be a great demonstration of journalism to shout questions about a deadly shooting to the president of the United States across the White House lawn.

"Can you please talk to us about the dead reporters in Annapolis?"
“Do you have any words of condolence for the families, Mr. President?”
"Why are you walking away?"
Pres. Trump does not comment when asked about the deadly Maryland newsroom shooting…

The bill to pre-empt taxes is part of a wider industry effort to skip cities and go straight to the states.

Evel Knievel is the household name for death-defying stunts. When you think of motorcycle stunts, you likely picture him in his Elvis-inspired costumes, leaping over rows of cars and buses. To many, he is still the greatest stuntman of all time and arguably the most famous. However, records are made to be broken, and stunt […]
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