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Keith Preston

‘Introducing the Stunt Awards,’

— Katherine Brooks, deputy editor, Vulture We’re less than a week out from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences’ annual celebration of movie magic, and there’s one important department that will go unrecognized at the 2023 Oscars: the stunt professionals. While superior production design, visual effects, […]

3/6/23: Trump Dominates CPAC, Bannon Declares War on Fox News, New Norfolk Southern Train Derails, MSNBC Attacks Marianne, Russel Brand on Bill Maher, Amazon Bails On HQ2, Teenage Liberal Depression, Former Navy Pilot on UFOs

Krystal and Saagar discuss Trump dominating at CPAC, Desantis short circuiting when asked about Trump endorsement, Steve Bannon declaring war on Fox News, another Norfolk Southern Train derails, Buttigieg concedes he needs to do more, MSNBC smears Marianne’s candidacy, Russel Brand goes viral on Bill Maher, Krystal looks […]

A cure for your phone addiction

March 6, 2023 Hello, Insiders. Three years ago this month, COVID-19 cases skyrocketed in New York City. China was already under quarantine, Europe was in chaos, and New York quickly became the epicenter of the outbreak in the US. (Check out our 10-minute, Emmy-winning documentary about this time.) A […]

A Message From Your Jewish Comrade

December 2, 2022 by Cyber Dandy   Let’s just begin with a few easily accessible statistics from wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_population_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Jews#Demographics https://en.wikipedia.org/…/History_of_the_Jews_in_the… Jews are a multi-ethnic group totalling only 14.8 million, 0.2% of the 8 billion worldwide population. Two countries account for 81% of those recognised as Jews: the […]

Anarchy is for Anarchists

March 4, 2023 by Cyber Dandy Image: Paul Humpoletz, “The Pied Piper of 1919”, “The Götz”, June, 1921. Anarchists often argue with opponents who have already assumed certain criteria for political philosophy. A capitalist will assume that rational self-interest is a predominant characteristic of human nature that is […]

Goldman in the hot seat

March 5, 2023 Hi, I’m Matt Turner, the editor in chief of business at Insider. Welcome back to Insider Today’s Sunday edition, a roundup of our top reads of the week.   On the agenda today: Elon Musk let other car companies catch up to Tesla. How Boomers’ […]

Vice Cop Vices

Sponsored by Platform Books Sarah Schulman Red Lights, Blue Lines Three recent books examine the discrimination and hypocrisy at the heart of policing “vice.” Geoffrey Wheatcroft Bloody Panico The British Conservative Party was once one of the great popular political movements of Europe. What happened? Anjum Hasan Endless Trances […]