Why Trump’s Favorite Trick Doesn’t Work Anymore

“Wow,” Judd Legum, the author of the Popular Information newsletter, wrote, screenshotting even more weird fact-checks published by the Post that night. “The Washington Post ‘fact-check’ of night one of the DNC is embarrassing.” This toothless tone-policing of criticisms against Trump was mercilessly parodied by The Onion during the debate. Fact-checking itself has become a…

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Even Dave Bautista Is Wearing Pearls Now

By his own account, there was a time that the former WWE champion Dave Bautista would never have envisioned himself as a professional actor. But nowadays, with megahits like Guardians of the Galaxy and Dune under his (title) belt and artier projects like the upcoming Gia Coppola film The Last Showgirl on the way, the…

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