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Early Addition: Apple TV Was Making A Show About Gawker Until Tim Cook Killed It
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Published Dec 14, 2020
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- The Electoral College vote has already begun this morning in states across the country—and no, "an alternative" group of electors can't do shit about it, Stephen Miller.
- Trump keeps losing so much, so often: at least 86 judges across the political spectrum have rejected post-election lawsuits filed by Trump or his supporters, which the Washington Post calls "a remarkable show of near-unanimity across the nation’s judiciary."
- AppleTV+ was making a new show based on Gawker—until Tim Cook found out and killed the project.
- Nancy Meyers reflects on her career with Vulture, explains why she's thinking of retiring from movies, and talked about how Fleabag is the best romcom in many years.
- Vox explains why police officers are prosecuted for murder in less than two percent of fatal shootings.
- Senator Kelly Loeffler posed for a smiling selfie with Chester Doles, whom the Atlanta Journal-Constitution describes as “a longtime white supremacist who spent decades in the Ku Klux Klan and the neo-Nazi National Alliance.”
- The Cleveland baseball team plans to drop their team name which they have used for more than a century.
- The NY Post exposed a city medic who has turned to sex work to support herself in an awful article with no news value, and now that paramedic is worried that she is in danger of losing her job.
- Watch the official trailer for likely Oscar nominee Nomadland.
- Four Tet and Madlib are collaborating on a new album, and you can listen to the first single "Road Of The Lonely Ones" now.
- And finally, everybody has their own beauty routine:
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