Cashgate
How a scandal started with a poor housemaid and ended up taking down the most powerful woman in Africa
via Medium: https://medium.com/latterly/cashgate-2e6628549bf5
Category: media
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The Sound and the Fury: Inside the Mystery of the Havana Embassy
The Sound and the Fury: Inside the Mystery of the Havana Embassy
More than a year after American diplomats began to suffer strange, concussion-like symptoms in Cuba, a U.S. investigation is no closer to determining how they were hurt or by whom, and the FBI and CIA are at odds over the case. A ProPublica investigation reveals the many layers to the mystery — and…
via ProPublica: https://www.propublica.org/article/diplomats-in-cuba
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The Guardians
The Guardians (2017) – IMDb
The Guardians: Directed by Xavier Beauvois. With Nathalie Baye, Laura Smet, Iris Bry, Cyril Descours. Women are left behind to work a family farm during the Great War.
via IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6213362/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
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Bundyville
Bundyville: The Remnant – Longreads
A series and podcast from Longreads, in partnership with Oregon Public Broadcasting.
via Longreads: https://longreads.com/bundyville/
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The Death of Stalin
The Death of Stalin (2017) – IMDb
The Death of Stalin: Directed by Armando Iannucci. With Olga Kurylenko, Tom Brooke, Paddy Considine, Justin Edwards. Moscow, 1953. After being in power for nearly 30 years, Soviet dictator Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin takes ill and quickly dies. Now the m
via IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4686844/?ref_=nv_sr_1
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First Reformed
First Reformed (2017) – IMDb
First Reformed: Directed by Paul Schrader. With Ethan Hawke, Amanda Seyfried, Cedric the Entertainer, Victoria Hill. A minister of a small congregation in upstate New York grapples with mounting despair brought on by tragedy, worldly concerns and a tormen
via IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6053438/?ref_=nv_sr_1
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The Rider
The Rider (2017) – IMDb
The Rider: Directed by Chloé Zhao. With Brady Jandreau, Mooney, Tim Jandreau, Lilly Jandreau. After suffering a near fatal head injury, a young cowboy undertakes a search for new identity and what it means to be a man in the heartland of America.
via IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6217608/?ref_=nv_sr_1
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The Curious Case of Bryan Colangelo and the Secret Twitter Account
The Curious Case of Bryan Colangelo and the Secret Twitter Account
A collection of Twitter accounts that has criticized Joel Embiid and Markelle Fultz, disclosed sensitive information, and outlined team strategy shares eye-opening similarities. What does that have to do with the Philadelphia 76ers’ decision-maker?
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Upgrade
Upgrade (2018) – IMDb
Upgrade: Directed by Leigh Whannell. With Logan Marshall-Green, Melanie Vallejo, Steve Danielsen, Abby Craden. Set in the near-future, technology controls nearly all aspects of life. But when the world of Grey, a self-labeled technophobe, is turned upside
via IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6499752/?ref_=nv_sr_1
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The Promise of Vaping and the Rise of Juul
The Promise of Vaping and the Rise of Juul
Teens have taken a technology that was supposed to help grownups stop smoking and invented a new kind of bad habit, molded in their own image.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/14/the-promise-of-vaping-and-the-rise-of-juul
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Jesse Michaels (Operation Ivy, Big Rig, Classics Of Love, Common Rider)
Episode 167 – Jesse Michaels (Operation Ivy, Big Rig, Classics Of Love, Common Rider)
THIS IS WHY WE DO THIS THING! This week on the show, we are joined by the legendary JESSE MICHAELS of Operation Ivy & Common Rider fame! Sit back & listen as Damian gets to talk to one of the most influential punk vocalist ever! From the Bay to th
via Audioboom: https://audioboom.com/posts/6844038-episode-167-jesse-michaels-operation-ivy-big-rig-classics-of-love-common-rider
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War of Words: Meet the Texan Trolling for Putin
War of Words: Meet the Texan Trolling for Putin
In 2014, Russell Bonner Bentley was a middle-aged arborist living in Austin. Now he’s a local celebrity in a war-torn region of Ukraine. His journey reveals a troubling development in Putin’s information war.
via Texas Monthly: https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/son-wealthy-businessman-foot-soldier-vladimir-putin-russia-hacking/
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Murder at the Alcatraz of the Rockies
Murder at the Alcatraz of the Rockies – The Atavist Magazine
The inside story of the first homicide in America’s most secure prison.
via The Atavist Magazine: https://magazine.atavist.com/murder-adx-florence-fbi-mexican-mafia
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All-American Nazis
All-American Nazis: Inside the Rise of Fascist Youth in the U.S.
How a senseless double murder in Florida exposed the rise of an organized fascist youth movement in the United States
via Rolling Stone: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/all-american-nazis-fascist-youth-united-states-w519651
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The Original Donald Trump
Frank Rich: Roy Cohn, Donald Trump, and the New York Cesspool That Created Them
The city’s Establishment will ignore unscrupulous acts to serve its interests — just look how it treated the onetime lawyer to the president.
via Intelligencer: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/04/frank-rich-roy-cohn-the-original-donald-trump.html
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The Spy Who Came Home
The Spy Who Came Home
Why an expert in counterterrorism became a beat cop.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/07/the-spy-who-came-home
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Dying Laughing
The Hilarious Life and Agonizing Death of Online Comedy
For years, inventive companies like The Onion and Funny or Die capitalized on a culture that just wanted to laugh online. But after massive disruptions in digital advertising and on social media platforms, those companies find themselves imperiled. Did th
via The Ringer: https://www.theringer.com/2018/3/26/17157020/online-comedy-the-onion-funny-or-die-digital-media
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The Ridiculous Saga Of Lance Armstrong, The Cheater Who Became An Enemy Of The State
The Ridiculous Saga Of Lance Armstrong, The Cheater Who Became An Enemy Of The State
It was more than five years ago when Lance Armstrong went on Oprah, looked her in the eye, and admitted to the world that his iconic comeback story was fueled by the most comprehensive doping regimen in cycling history. The seven-time Tour de France winne
via Deadspin: https://deadspin.com/the-ridiculous-saga-of-lance-armstrong-the-cheater-who-1802288537
