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A senior official is set to bring down the British government for the crime of violating COVID-19 lockdown to [checks notes] visit his parents. Chris Evans aka Captain America apparently has anxiety (v relatable). And after a racist confrontation in Central Park went viral, we spoke to The New Yorker’s Jelani Cobb about the way the police are weaponized against black people.
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Issa Rae talks to us about her new movie, “The Lovebirds,” the real life experiences that inspired this season of “Insecure,” and her college production of a Motown rendition of “Grease.” Plus, Trump’s favorite miracle cure for COVID-19 is actually more likely to kill you than save you, Ariana and Gaga have blessed us this summer, and the city is quiet... too quiet.
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The CDC is absolutely counting the number of coronavirus tests being performed wrong. Full House’s Aunt Becky has pleaded guilty to bribing USC college admissions scam. And we have BuzzFeed News’ Anne Helen Petersen with us to talk about her piece on the death of Americans’ drive to shop as the pandemic has worn on.
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Wow, so Trump thinks that he can host the G7 at Camp David next month. [sure_jan.gif] A pair of dams collapsed in Michigan and the ones in your state probs aren’t much better tbh. We figure out which TV doctors we’d trust during These Times. And we talk to Mark L. Goldberg, host of the Global Dispatches podcast, about this week’s World Health Organization meeting AKA the new battleground between the US and China.
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Michigan is letting everyone vote absentee this fall. Ryan Seacrest is fine, honest. If you’re looking for a non-”Tiger King” documentary to binge, we’ve got you covered. And we have Patrick Hinds, co-host of the podcast “True Crime Obsessed” on with us to talk about how to make crime funny, our favorite Broadway shows, and that time he told the New York Times that he saw a ghost.
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President Trump told reporters he’s taking the controversial drug and...what?! Harry Styles’ “Watermelon Sugar” finally has a music video and Hayes is scandalized to learn what the song is about. Snoop Dogg and Idina Menzel vibe to each other’s music and honestly? We stan. Plus, we’ve got graduation bangers from the past for the class of 2020. And we talk to Protect Native Elders co-founder Jo Overton about the struggle to contain the coronavirus on Native lands.
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The White House’s coronavirus test of choice is a bit dodgy, per the FDA. Um, TikTok teens might be messing with us with this bottle-biting trend — we investigate. You might be still sending GrubHub money, even if you call your local restaurant. And we talk to the FAO’s Keith Cressman about why swarms of locusts could become the next plague we have to worry about.
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The New York Times wrote about quarantine ghosts and we are here for it. A whistleblower warns of the “darkest winter in modern history” if we don’t get an actual plan for countering the coronavirus. And BuzzFeed’s Stephen LaConte gives advice for some of his followers' most interesting problems in our new segment, "DM 911.”
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California universities are going to be online-only through the rest of 2020. A ten-year-old in Florida can hack into everyone in his school system’s account. We look at some of the biggest box office flops that are near and dear to our hearts. And we talk to NARAL Pro-Choice president Ilyse Hogue about how some states are using the pandemic to limit women's access to abortion.
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There have been over 80,000 confirmed COVID-19 deaths in the US and health officials warn reopening the country soon could add many, many more. “Hamilton” is coming to Disney+ just in time to celebrate America this summer. Robert Pattinson’s GQ profile is so bizarre we had to turn it into Theatre. And writer Roxana Hadadi joins us to talk about her essay for Pajiba exploring the ways Alison Roman’s recipes seem to borrow from other cultures.
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