If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. More and more employers have instituted “work from home” policies, as officials try to curb the spread of the COVID-19 outbreak, but just because we’ve swapped our conference …
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In the middle of March 2020, as stay-at-home precautions went into place across the United States to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus, New York City-based platform, collective, and booking agency Discwoman sent out a tweet asking for donations on behalf of their roster. Last year was poised to …
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At first, it was $2,000. That was the message throughout the Georgia runoffs, which Democrats carried in a shocking double victory on the back of a nationwide PR blitz, flooding airwaves with promises that a newly-blue Senate could end Mitch McConnell’s half-decade of tyranny. Then, the number shrunk: $2,000 was …
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Fox News has been a having a rough time filling its airwaves. Trump is out of office, Trump’s Twitter feed is out of commission, and President Biden has so far yet to transform the United States into crime-ridden socialist hellscape the network spent the better of 2020 warning their viewers …
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On Monday, President Biden met with 10 supposedly moderate Republicans in the Oval Office to discuss their scaled-down $618 billion Covid-relief proposal. Even though the economy is still reeling from the pandemic and tens of millions of Americans are struggling to feed their families and put a roof over their …
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As we wrap up the year and we inch closer and closer to a Covid-19 vaccine becoming widely available, certain ephemera of the 2020 pandemic year will be relegated to the margins of history: Plexiglass dividers, face shields that say “Face Shield,” the rise of outdoor dining in subzero temperatures. …
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According to Fox’s Geraldo Rivera, the 252,000 in America who have died from Covid-19 while the president mishandled the pandemic should be ignored, and instead, Trump should be celebrated by naming the coming virus vaccines: “The Trump.” Rivera’s devoted cult member-like notion came during a segment on the Trump uber-propaganda …
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In a normal country, we wouldn’t need a second round of expanded unemployment insurance benefits. The back-of-the-envelope math lawmakers did in late March would have been sufficient to see us through a temporary lockdown — the time it took to scale up testing, contact tracing, and the emergency production of …
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Great White, the rock band at the center of one of the deadliest nightclub fires in U.S. history, once again put fans at risk Thursday by performing — amid the COVID-19 pandemic — a well-attended North Dakota concert that practiced no social distancing or masks. Video from the outdoor gig …
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The 2020 Austin City Limits Festival has been canceled due to ongoing concerns about the spread of COVID-19. The festival, which typically takes place in early fall in Austin’s Zilker Park, released a statement on its website saying, “We would have loved to put on another memorable show this year, …
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