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Apparently there’s a new Indiana Jones movie coming next year and Harrison Ford, who’ll be 78, is in it.

Megadonor urges Pelosi, Schumer to pick candidate to stop Bernie Sanders

‘People don’t get it’: inside the world of hyper-realistic baby doll collecting

… a doll “doesn’t turn into a teenager who wants an iPhone 11”.

Where Medicare-for-all is real Today, Explained]

Looking at the healthcare systems in Taiwan, which has universal public healthcare and the Netherlands, which offers universal private health insurance. Two very different approaches, same goal.

Why liberals keep losing: We confuse slacktivism for activism

Eitan Hersh’s Politics Is for Power explains why liberals keep losing Sean Illing at Vox: If you spend a lot of time consuming news, there’s a good chance you’re doing politics wrong…. This is the thesis of a new book called Politics Is for Power by Eitan Hersh, a political scientist at Tufts University. … He coins the term “political hobbyism” to capture the problem. “We participate in politics by obsessive news-following and online slacktivism, by feeling the need to offer a hot take for each daily political flare-up, by emoting and arguing and debating, almost all of this from behind screens,” Hersh says.

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Researchers are tracking coronavirus disinformation, which could be behind the market drop. - Wayne Rash

AT&T and Verizon axed nearly 30,000 jobs last year

Firefox now stops ISPs from tracking the websites you visit.

Why America Is Losing The Toilet Race

It’s a race to the bottom.

Case Elliott was a big woman, with a big talent and a big, beautiful voice. In life she faced humiliating fat jokes.

She didn’t die eating a ham sandwich. The ham sandwich on her nightstand the night she died was untouched.

It probably wasn’t obesity that killed her. She weighed 220 pounds at the time of her death. That’s fat, but likely would not have been fatal at her young age. More likely it was years of yo-yo crash diets that was fatal.

“Empty Porn Sets” by photographer Jo Broughton “offers an insider’s behind-the-scenes look at the fantasy landscapes of porn."

Broughton worked “as an assistant at a porn studio during her early college days.” Part of her work involved cleaning the sets at night.

She says, “Dealing with the inevitable bodily fluids made me feel my own humanity and then the vulnerability of the models who had performed for the camera that day.”

Meanwhile, at the Democratic candidates debate.