T he 911 call came in around 2:30 a.m on April 4. “Help, someone stabbed me,” said the voice on the phone. Police and paramedics rushed to the address he gave near the downtown waterfront, beneath the hulking steel beams of the Bay Bridge. By the time first responders arrived …
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DURING a series of performance residencies this year titled Satellite Business, Sampha played in a circle of musicians — different voices, synths, drums, and electronics vying gracefully for center stage. The shows required smaller, more intimate venues, like St. John at Hackney Church in London, where he performed three nights …
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Two weeks into the horrific war between Israel and Hamas, the state of online discourse has descended from “generally bad and stupid” to “unfathomably dumb and borderline dangerous.” Case in point: recent allegations that environmental activist Greta Thunberg, after posting a “Stand with Gaza” sign and demanding a ceasefire, was …
Read More »America's Biggest Charities Bankrolled RFK Jr.'s Anti-Vax Outfit
T his report was produced in partnership with Important Context, the news outlet of the OptOut Media Foundation. In April 2020, as the first wave of the deadly coronavirus pandemic was breaking across the U.S., the largest charitable fund in the country, Fidelity Charitable, announced a plan to help mitigate …
Read More »MAGA Influencers Tearing Each Other Apart Over Israel-Hamas War
While conventional wisdom has long held that Republicans, and particularly evangelicals, are the staunchest allies of Israel in the U.S., the latest bloody exchanges between the state and Hamas militants have revealed fault lines in that critical base of support. Rather than close ranks to back Israeli attacks on Gaza, …
Read More »Inside Scorsese's Meeting With the Osage That Changed 'Killers of the Flower Moon'
O n a November evening in 2019, Oscar-winning filmmaker Martin Scorsese and about a dozen members of his production team for Killers of the Flower Moon settled into folding chairs in a wood-paneled community hall in the Osage Nation in Pawhuska, Oklahoma. They had flown more than 1,300 miles after …
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I t’s a little more than three hours before Mannequin Pussy take the stage at Brooklyn Steel in front of a near-capacity crowd. A long line of fans is already stretching down the block, waiting for the doors to open. But the four members of the punk band are unable …
Read More »An AI Nightmare Has Arrived for Twitter — And the FBI
As the school year kicked off in the Spanish town of Almendralejo, teenage girls began to come home telling their parents of disturbing encounters with classmates, some of whom were claiming to have seen naked photos of them. A group of mothers quickly created a WhatsApp group to discuss the …
Read More »Killed in Cop City
T he police entered the foggy forest not long after sunrise. The group of officers made their way through the thin, bare trees and found two people tucked into a hammock. With guns drawn, they ordered that the couple get out, and placed Sarah Wasilewski, her partner, and their friend …
Read More »Bad Bunny Is Paranoid, Petty, Bored, Brilliant on 'Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana'
Bad Bunny is the most-streamed artist on the planet, a status further underscored by the fact that his new album,Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana,is certain to debut at Number One on the Billboard 200 album chart. He’s a fashion icon, a WWE mainstay, a gods-gift to both …
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