Neutral Milk Hotel is firmly established in the canon of indie rock through their landmark 1998 album In The Aeroplane Over The Sea. Where the band hasn’t really established themselves at all is through any semblance of an online presence. No official Twitter or Instagram page exists for the band and frontman Jeff Mangum’s status […]
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“Columbine” began to trend online Thursday after Twitter users discovered that some people not only sympathize with mass shooters but stan them. The trend kicked off as a response to a tweet calling for members to join a Twitter group chat dedicated to Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the two Columbine shooters. The teenagers carried […]
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My Hero Academia mangaka Kohei Horikoshi is again at the center of online controversy after a Twitter user discovered that many of the characters in Horikoshi’s work share birthdays with infamous fascist figures. On Feb. 8, Twitter user @Object501 shared a graphic they titled “My Fascism Academy” which shows that characters Midoriya Izuku, Katsuki Bakugo, […]
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Last night’s best picture Oscar win by Parasite was a historic moment in cinema history. The Korean subtitled movie about greed and class discrimination was the first foreign-language film to win the Academy Award’s highest honor. Parasite’s triumph inspired extreme reactions ranging from exuberance to rage, and YouTuber Robert Storms was firmly in the latter camp. In […]
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Lucifer would never dare quote the holy Bible, for the very incantation of Scripture would freeze his fiery hell over. That’s according to Donald Trump Jr., who claimed that the “likelihood of Nancy Pelosi praying for Trump is about the same as the likelihood of Satan running around quoting the Scriptures.” This would imply that […]
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A memetic video of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is making the rounds on Twitter. In the video, which is fast approaching three-quarters of a million views at this writing, a voice pretending to be Sanders say, “Any female born after 1993 can’t cook. All they know is McDonald’s, charge they phone, twerk, be bisexual, eat […]
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On Tuesday evening, just before the 2020 Democrats took the stage for their last debate before the Iowa caucuses, the House Intelligence Committee released a collection of evidence provided by Lev Parnas, Rudy Giuliani’s fixer in Ukraine Among the figures featured in those documents were Giuliani, Parnas, and a Connecticut man named Robert F. Hyde, […]
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