Extra Extra: Nothing Is Scarier Than 'Teenage Cancel Culture'

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Published Oct 31, 2019

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Less than a month after he was named Trump’s cybersecurity adviser in 2017, Rudy Giuliani walked into an Apple store in downtown San Francisco because he needed help unlocking his iPhone.
Oh God, writer Darcie Wilder spent "an excruciating afternoon at a Levi’s-sponsored symposium on social change."
The NY Times investigates "teenage cancel culture," which is as harrowing as it sounds.
Here's what Studio 54's infamous Halloween parties looked like.
This guy dressed as 432 Park Avenue for Halloween.
Vulture ranked every Martin Scorsese movie and they did a pretty good job of it.
A New Jersey woman is suing a country club for $30,000, claiming a waiter spilled wine on her pricey Hermès handbag.
The Outline asks: why don't we eat swans?
Aaron Sorkin excoriated Mark Zuckerberg in a NY Times op-ed.
Earl Sweatshirt is releasing a surprise seven-track project tonight, and Vince Staples released a new single as well.
A court ruled that a Colorado man whose house was partially blown up in a police operation in 2015 isn't entitled to any money.
A 14-year-old wearing a Joker costume was arrested at his Queens school today after he threatened to “kill people after school."
And finally, always make the best of a bad situation:

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