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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
<h1 data-aos="fade-right" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom" id="contents">Contents</h1>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Rise and Fall of Vibes-Based Literacy</strong> - Is a controversial curriculum, entrenched in New York Citys public schools for two decades, finally coming undone? - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-education/the-rise-and-fall-of-vibes-based-literacy">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Mikhail Gorbachev, the Fundamentally Soviet Man</strong> - The last leader of the U.S.S.R. attempted to modernize and reform his country, even as he failed to imagine it as anything but an empire. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/postscript/mikhail-gorbachev-the-fundamentally-soviet-man">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Bidens Student-Debt Plan Could Chip Away at the Racial Wealth Gap</strong> - Loan forgiveness and other measures dont solve the problem of rising tuition costs, but they could help some Black families start to catch up. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/bidens-student-debt-plan-could-chip-away-at-the-racial-wealth-gap">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Debate Over Muslim College Students Getting Secret Marriages</strong> - Scholars, students, and campus leaders are rethinking how young Muslims should navigate the world of intimacy. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-education/the-debate-over-muslim-college-students-getting-secret-marriages">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>California Students Are Struggling in Math. Will Reforms Make the Problem Worse?</strong> - Critics argue that new proposals to make math accessible to more kids will widen the privilege gap, and end up shutting out students of color. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/california-students-are-struggling-in-math-will-reforms-make-the-problem-worse">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>Hundreds of thousands of Californians may soon get their criminal records cleared</strong> -
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Sealing felony records is integral to a bill sitting on Gov. Gavin Newsoms desk.
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Encounters with the criminal justice system, no matter how long ago or for what reason, can ruin a persons life. California is on the verge of an ambitious attempt to change that.
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An estimated <a href="https://www.americanprogress.org/article/one-strike-and-youre-out/">70 million to 100 million</a> Americans have a criminal record, a history with law enforcement that turns up on background checks and sometimes Google searches. Applicants with criminal records can be half as likely as those without them to get a callback or job offer. <a href="https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/risk-management/pages/background-screens-criminal-records.aspx">Nearly 9 in 10 employers</a> use criminal background checks; so do <a href="https://nhlp.org/files/Page%208%20Doc%205%20FCRA%20and%20ICRAA1.pdf">4 in 5 landlords</a>, and <a href="https://www.brookings.edu/research/thinking-beyond-the-box-the-use-of-criminal-records-in-college-admissions/">3 in 5 colleges and universities</a>. These practical realities make it harder to successfully reintegrate into society, in what researchers call “<a href="https://www.sentencingproject.org/issues/collateral-consequences/">collateral consequences</a>” of mass incarceration.
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<a href="https://ccresourcecenter.org/the-many-roads-to-reintegration/">Most states</a> have laws allowing for some form of criminal record clearing. Eligible individuals — generally those with no convictions, or who were convicted of a low-level offense — are typically required to petition a judge or state agency for clearance. Most dont, whether because of<strong> </strong>the cost, complexity, or simply from lack of information. One University of Michigan study <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/20/opinion/expunge-criminal-records.html">published in 2019</a> found over 90 percent of those eligible didnt apply.
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As a result, the “Clean Slate” movement was born — a recent<strong> </strong>push by criminal justice reformers to automatically clear,<strong> </strong>or<strong> </strong>seal from public view, records for eligible offenses.
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Pennsylvania was the first state to enact automatic record clearing in 2018, followed by Utah, California, Michigan, Virginia, Delaware, and Colorado. Michigans law — passed in 2020 — was the first state to automatically clear some prior felony offenses.
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A new bill, <a href="https://legiscan.com/CA/bill/SB731/2021">SB 731</a>, recently passed by the California legislature and now sitting on Gov. Gavin Newsoms desk, would go further.
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If signed, SB 731 would significantly expand automatic sealing eligibility for people who served time in prison. And while people with violent, serious felony records would not be offered the automatic “clean slate,” they could, for the first time, petition to have their records sealed. Virtually all ex-offenders, except registered sex offenders, would now be eligible for relief.
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“Clean slate automates the current process, but what we said is, the current process sucks,” said Jay Jordan, CEO at <a href="https://allianceforsafetyandjustice.org/">Alliance for Safety and Justice</a>, the criminal justice group that has led the charge for SB 731. Jordan said theyve been focused on making the petition process easier for individuals with records, so that everyone could have their fair day in court.
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Two decades ago Jordan was sentenced to prison for a gun robbery charge. “I did eight years in prison and when I got out at 26 and tried to navigate the world, I realized I couldnt,” he told Vox. He was rejected from various jobs and he and his wife are still facing barriers to adopting a child. “Ive dedicated my life to trying to change this,” he said. “If I can get free, then everyone else can get free.”
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How SB 731 would work
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The bills author, state Sen. Maria Elena Durazo, wanted to help ex-offenders have an easier time transitioning out of prison. “About 75 percent of formerly incarcerated individuals are <a href="https://www.aclu.org/report/back-business-how-hiring-formerly-incarcerated-job-seekers-benefits-your-company">still unemployed</a> after a year of their release,” Durazo told the <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-08-18/lawmakers-consider-sealing-some-criminal-records-after-4-years-of-release">Los Angeles Times</a>. “So somethings wrong there. We expect them to get back on their feet, but were not allowing them the resources to get jobs and [have] careers.”
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Under SB 731, while landlords and most employers would not be able to view expunged records, public and private schools would still be able to review them during job background checks. Law enforcement, courts, and the state justice department would also still have access to the sealed records, and individuals would be required to disclose their criminal history if asked about it when applying to serve in a public office, among other exceptions. And the law would not apply to sex offenders.
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“This is not an über-progressive bill,” acknowledged Jordan. “We worked heavily with folks who dont necessarily share our vision, the licensing agencies, the DOJ, it went through the rings of fire. But because of that, weve got the mod squad on board,” he said, referring to the more centrist lawmakers in the state legislature. <strong> </strong>
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If signed into law, record relief would become available for most defendants convicted of a felony on or after January 1, 2005, if they had completed their sentence and any remaining parole and probation, and had not been convicted of a new felony offense for four years. Advocates originally wanted records sealed after two years, but that version failed to clear the state assembly a year ago.
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Californians for Safety and Justice estimates at least 250,000 people would be eligible for automatic record sealing under SB 731, and possibly as many as 400,000. Will Matthews, a spokesperson for the group, told Vox they believe at least 1 million more individuals would gain the right to petition courts for record clearance.
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What we know — and dont know — about record clearings effects
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Criminal justice researchers caution that even if automated record clearing expands to millions more people nationwide, it might not inevitably make it easier for people with criminal records to find jobs or places to live. While <a href="https://osf.io/2vzma/">some research</a> is <a href="https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/wiener/programs/criminaljustice/projects/automatic-record-clearance#full-project-description">in the works</a>, not much is yet known about how these record-clearing policies work in practice.
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Beginning in 2004, some criminal justice reformers pushed to pass<strong> </strong>“ban the box” policies, a bipartisan reform that effectively barred employers from asking about a job applicants criminal history until at least after an interview. The <a href="http://www.nelp.org/publication/ban-the-box-fair-chance-hiring-state-and-local-guide/">majority of states</a> ultimately did it for public-sector employment and <a href="https://www.ncsl.org/research/civil-and-criminal-justice/ban-the-box.aspx">at least 12</a> did so for private employers as well.
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But the success <a href="https://www.vox.com/2016/6/3/11842950/ban-the-box-race">came with some unintended consequences</a>. Research published in 2016 found employers were actually more likely to discriminate based on race following the passage of “ban the box” policies, thus increasing racial disparities in job interviews. More recent research suggests the reforms <a href="https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-criminol-061020-022137">have done little</a> to increase employment for ex-offenders in the private sector.
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Last month, three California academics <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/lasr.12625">published a new analysis</a> showing that the eligibility criteria for automatic record clearing can also exacerbate racial disparities. Californias record clearing laws — passed in <a href="https://www.courts.ca.gov/prop64.htm">2016</a>, <a href="https://openstates.org/ca/bills/20172018/AB1793/">2018</a>, <a href="https://www.greghillassociates.com/ab-1076-what-does-this-new-law-provide-and-when.html">2019</a>, and <a href="https://openstates.org/ca/bills/20212022/AB145/">2021</a> — have disproportionately benefited white Californians over Black Californians, the scholars found. “It is easy to see how racial disparities in criminal record relief might emerge, as a range of discretionary decisions by criminal justice actors from the time of arrest through to sentence completion can affect subsequent eligibility,” they wrote.
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“Policies dont start from nowhere,” Amy Lerman,<strong> </strong>one of the studys co-authors, told Vox. “We know that Black Americans have historically been much more likely to live in heavily policed neighborhoods, to be stopped and questioned by police, <a href="https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/ndlr/vol95/iss4/9/">and to be sentenced</a> to prison or jail. That means when you pass a law that limits criminal record clearance to only people who have committed some types of crimes, or who have some types of criminal records, it is going to have a different impact across racial groups.”
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SB 731 would be an improvement over the status quo, the California scholars told Vox, but racial disparities would likely persist until offenses classified as serious or violent, such as robbery, are included for automatic<strong> </strong>eligibility. They pointed to <a href="https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2009-08151-002">empirical research published</a> in 2009 that found among people arrested at age 18, the risk that they would be arrested again <a href="https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-9125.2009.00155.x">eventually declined</a> to match people of the same age who had not been arrested. It took<strong> </strong>7.7 years after a robbery arrest, 3.8 years after a burglary arrest, and 4.3 years after an aggravated assault arrest.
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The impact of SB 731 would also likely come down to implementation. New notification systems may be needed so that eligible candidates become aware of their new rights; also needed are clear agency guidelines regarding missing data and timely communication between state agencies and commercial background companies.
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Data collection and quality have been an issue for criminal justice reformers in the past, and the challenges are exacerbated by the rise of digitized records online. Every year, digital records of <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/law-and-social-inquiry/article/abs/digitizing-and-disclosing-personal-data-the-proliferation-of-state-criminal-records-on-the-internet/0D7B9A42DA08BADB223D2DE206413585">over 10 million arrests</a>, 4.5 million mug shots, and 14.7 million court proceedings are digitally released nationwide. Often, outdated or false paper trails create additional barriers for those looking to seal their records.
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Tiffany Lewis, a San Francisco-based consultant who advises tech employees on their job applications, <a href="https://californiaglobe.com/articles/bill-to-seal-felony-convictions-of-most-ex-felons-after-4-years-passes-senate/">predicted that</a> SB 731 would do little to remove the kind of criminal information an employer routinely finds online. Private companies also aggregate, scrape, and share criminal record data. To prevent this, Sarah Esther Lageson, a professor of criminal justice at Rutgers University-Newark, said states need to issue stronger regulatory standards and limit employer and landlord uses of unregulated background checks.
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Lageson told Vox that the best thing states could do is centralize their criminal record disclosure policies. “For instance,” she said, “police departments might disclose pre-conviction mug shots, while courts release a different set of criminal case information online, while the office in charge of releasing rap sheets might only disclose convictions from seven years ago.”
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Such <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/lapo.12193">disclosure patchworks</a> can cause harm and undermine automatic record-sealing efforts. “States might also consider ending the bulk release of pre-conviction records altogether, reserving the release of some mug shots and arrest or charging information on a case-by-case basis or through more traditional transparency law requests,” she said.
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Theres new federal momentum for record relief
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While theres always a risk with criminal justice reform that advocates will pass incremental measures that leave too many behind, early experience with clean slate policies suggest activists are not looking at passing record-clearing legislation as a one-and-done activity.
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California is not the only state pushing to expand eligibility from its initial reforms. Following the passage of Pennsylvanias clean slate bill in 2018, a provision requiring payment of fines and fees for clearance emerged as a major barrier to relief. <a href="https://whyy.org/articles/pa-residents-with-court-debt-could-have-their-records-automatically-sealed-under-new-bill/">One analysis</a> found that half of otherwise eligible misdemeanor convictions statewide and 75 percent of otherwise eligible misdemeanor convictions in Philadelphia <a href="https://www.americanprogress.org/press/statement-caps-rebecca-vallas-applauds-pennsylvania-eliminating-fines-fees-barrier-clean-slate/">would be disqualified</a> due to relatively small amounts of outstanding debt. Two years later activists <a href="https://www.americanprogress.org/press/statement-caps-rebecca-vallas-applauds-pennsylvania-eliminating-fines-fees-barrier-clean-slate/">succeeded in removing</a> the fines and fees requirement in Pennsylvania.
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On the federal level, two bipartisan bills to aid automatic record clearing have also<strong> </strong>picked up momentum and are scheduled for their first Senate Judiciary Committee markups later this month. One bill, the <a href="https://www.casey.senate.gov/news/releases/casey-ernst-introduce-legislation-to-seal-low-level-nonviolent-criminal-records">Clean Slate Act</a>, would automatically seal federal arrest records for individuals who werent convicted, and records for individuals convicted of low-level, nonviolent drug offenses after successfully completing their sentence.
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A second bill, <a href="https://spartz.house.gov/media/press-releases/representatives-spartz-trone-introduce-fresh-start-act#:~:text=The%20Fresh%20Start%20Act%20of,jobs%2C%20housing%2C%20and%20education.">the Fresh Start </a><a href="https://spartz.house.gov/media/press-releases/representatives-spartz-trone-introduce-fresh-start-act">Act</a>, would create a federal grant program to help states build the infrastructure necessary to implement automatic record clearing. President Joe Biden <a href="https://www.marijuanamoment.net/biden-proposes-federal-aid-to-help-states-expunge-marijuana-records/">had floated this latter idea</a> while on the campaign trail in 2020.
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“Historic levels of bipartisan momentum have continued to trickle up from the states to Congress,” said Rebecca Vallas, a senior fellow at the Century Foundation who helped develop the clean slate model.
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For now, Jordan and other advocates in California remain optimistic that Newsom will sign SB 731 into law, even though the governor vetoed <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/22/us/gavin-newsom-vetoes-drug-injection-sites.html">a bill last month to establish</a> new supervised drug-injection sites. With rumors of presidential ambitions, some critics believe Newsom ducked signing the bill out of fear it would <a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/167584/newsom-veto-harm-reduction-overdoses">be used against him</a> on a national campaign trail. A spokesperson for the governor, Omar Rodriguez, declined to comment on SB 731, but said “the bill will be evaluated on its merits.”
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<li><strong>Does Taylor Swift want an Oscar? Perhaps (ahem) All Too Well.</strong> -
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The musicians (probable) quest for a short-film Academy Award, explained.
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Say you are an extremely famous and/or wealthy person, and you decide you would like to have an Oscar. You could have just bought the Oscar that cinematographer Clyde De Vinna won at the second ceremony ever when it was <a href="https://movieposters.ha.com/itm/movie-posters/adventure/white-shadows-in-the-south-seas-mgm-1928-very-fine-academy-award-statuette-55-x-1225-/a/7276-86277.s?utm_source=thegoldknight">auctioned earlier this year</a>, but maybe you were busy that month. Or maybe what you want, more than anything, is to win a competitive Oscar, despite not being primarily known to this point for your film career.
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Now imagine that you are a specific extremely famous and/or wealthy person. Imagine you are Taylor Swift, acclaimed pop star, celebrated songwriter, and director of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tollGa3S0o8"><em>All Too Well: The Short Film</em></a>. And if you want to win an Oscar, those two words “short film” are your ticket to the stars. Increasingly, the live-action and animated short film categories are ways for famous people to win Oscars in far less competitive categories.
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The Oscars are famously one of the more difficult competitive awards to win, but there are categories that are … less contested, lets say, and categories where the rules to qualify are less stringent than in others. If you have access to the resources required to first get a film to qualify and then to mount a campaign for it to be nominated and eventually win — well, youll have a real leg up over the other nominees in a historically under-the-radar category.
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As such, it makes sense for you, Taylor Swift, to mount an Oscar run in the live-action short category for your 15-minute, music-video-adjacent expansion of your 10-minute song expansion of your already pretty perfect five-and-a-half minute song “All Too Well.” (<a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/22778502/taylor-swift-all-too-well-10-minutes-red-rerelease-taylors-version">More on the relationships between all of that here</a>.)
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You arent breaking new ground here. You are following in a tradition several decades old, one that has benefited everyone from Kobe Bryant to Christine Lahti. Youre just arguably the most famous person to ever tread this path, and as such, youre probably going to draw a lot more attention to this occasionally traveled Academy Awards byway.
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How to win an Academy Award for your short film
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The Academy Awards for animated and live-action short film have long been afterthoughts in the endless Oscar ceremony. Short films used to be shown before the main feature, back in the days when you would go to a movie theater for an evenings entertainment that would often feature, among other things, a cartoon, a newsreel, a short, and at least one feature film. Now they exist primarily as a way for interesting young writers and directors to create calling cards that will get them noticed in the industry.
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Sometimes, those promising young writers and directors create something that garners so much notice it launches their career and wins them a major prize. Directors like <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVR827pnGSs">Taylor Hackford</a> (<em>Ray</em>), <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CGR0T9-Qho">Andrea Arnold</a> (<em>American Honey</em>), and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_xMyx_SogA">Martin McDonagh</a> (<em>Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri</em>) won Oscars for live-action short film — Oscars that helped launch their feature-film directing careers.
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The short film categories are unusually susceptible to interlopers, however, because they play by their own set of rules. <a href="https://www.oscars.org/sites/oscars/files/95th_oscars_complete_rules.pdf">Most categories at the Oscars</a> require a movie to screen for a week in theaters in LA, New York, Chicago, the Bay Area, Atlanta, or Miami to be eligible. But the short film categories offer three different paths to Oscar glory, since so few short films are screened in American theaters anymore. <a href="https://www.oscars.org/sites/oscars/files/95aa_live_action_short.pdf">Those three paths are</a>:
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Screen your short film in a theater in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, the Bay Area, Miami, or Atlanta for at least one showing per day for one week. The public has to be able to buy tickets to those screenings, and at least one of those screenings has to precede the release of your short film in a medium other than a movie theater, such as television or streaming. This path is similar to most other Oscar categories.
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Win an award for your short film at a film festival the Academy has deemed worthy of qualifying you for a run at an Oscar. The list of eligible film festivals is <a href="https://www.oscars.org/sites/oscars/files/95aa_anim_short_festivals.pdf">14 pages long</a> and includes everything from winning the Palme dOr for short film at the Cannes Film Festival, the most prestigious in the world, to winning the “Golden Starfish Award for Best Short Film” at the Hamptons International Film Festival. You have options!
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For her part, Taylor Swift (sorry, youre not her anymore, unless you literally are, in which case, hi) screened <em>All Too Well: The Short Film</em> for one week at the AMC Lincoln Square in New York last November. While that timing would qualify her for the 2021 Oscars in most other categories, which run on a January 1 to December 31 qualifying calendar, the short film categories follow the festival calendar more closely and run on an October 1 to September 30 calendar. Therefore, a short film from November 2021 is eligible for the 2022 Oscars.
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Swift took the short to the Tribeca Festival in June, and she will also <a href="https://variety.com/2022/film/news/taylor-swift-toronto-film-festival-all-too-well-talk-1235358283/">screen it at the Toronto International Film Festival</a>, complete with a Friday, September 9, conversation with the festivals CEO, Cameron Bailey.
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The Tribeca and TIFF appearances arent really for Oscar-qualifying purposes as much as theyre designed to keep the film in the public eye (since TIFF is one of the major Oscar precursor festivals) and to establish Swifts bona fides as a director. A <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jun/12/taylor-swift-tribeca-film-festival">Tribeca conversation with filmmaker Mike Mills</a> dug into Swifts filmmaking influences, her potential desire to direct a feature someday, and her increasing ability to step outside of her songwriting comfort zone.
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It is worth noting here that Taylor Swift is extremely rich and famous. She can afford to not only make a short film, but also book a movie theater to screen it at a time when most theaters arent making a habit of showing short films. Thats a path not every filmmaker can take, and it gives her an advantage in a category that historically favors up-and-coming directors. That said, Swift is technically an up-and-coming director, one whose short film bears a sophisticated visual eye while also falling prey to the common young director pitfall of moving the camera way, way too much.
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Finally, Swift is Oscar-eligible in a different category this year, one where youd more likely predict her to be nominated: Best Original Song. “Carolina,” a song she wrote for the film <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egxyRSb_XtI"><em>Where the Crawdads Sing</em></a>, will be eligible for that category. Whether “Carolina” will be nominated or suffer the same fate as her <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trIjpVH8h88">non-nominated song from <em>Cats</em></a> remains to be seen. Shes also in the movie <em>Amsterdam</em>, from Oscar-favorite director David O. Russell, but thats a small supporting part and unlikely to garner awards attention.
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Taylor Swift might be the most notable famous person to use the different rules of the short-film category as a sneak attack on the Oscars, but shes far from the only one. Shes not even the only famous person to attempt an Oscar run like this in this year.
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Why did Kobe Bryant win an Oscar? He made a short film.
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In 2018, basketball legend <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boFbw7cwaG8">Kobe Bryant won an Oscar</a> for animated short film for the film <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejU0v6-Na8w"><em>Dear Basketball</em></a>. Bryant was not an animator, and he did not direct the film. (Legendary animator Glen Keane handled that job, thus winning his own first Oscar.) Because the film was based on his script, however, Bryant shared in the prize. It was the first time many Oscar watchers became aware that, hey, a short-film Oscar seems to be much easier to win than an Oscar in a more competitive category.
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The very next year, actress Jaime Ray Newman, best known for her work on TV, shared the live-action short film prize with director Guy Nattiv for the film <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NbO16AS5oc"><em>Skin</em></a><em>.</em> Earlier this year, actor Riz Ahmed (previously an Oscar nominee for Best Actor for <em>The Sound of Metal</em>) won his own Oscar in the live-action short film category for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lzz50xENH4g"><em>The Long Goodbye</em></a>, directed by co-winner Aneil Karia and based on Ahmeds album.
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Dig around in Oscar history and youll find all sorts of examples of the short-film categories relatively looser restrictions allowing interesting things to happen. Character actors like <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aqFucEjqyM">Christine Lahti</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd5ZOnFHUY8">Ray McKinnon</a> have won Oscars for shorts they directed and starred in, and the categories have also seen failed TV pilots and animated TV specials triumph. (The Academy quickly closed up the loopholes that allowed those wins to happen.)
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This year, the recent prominence of Bryant and Ahmeds wins has raised the profile of this path to Oscar glory, and other famous people are availing themselves of it. The Hollywood Reporters Scott Feinberg says that musician Kendrick Lamars short film <em>We Cry Together </em><a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/taylor-swift-kendrick-lamar-oscar-live-action-short-eligibility-1235194690/">screened for a week in Los Angeles in June</a> and thus will be Oscar-eligible this year.
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I want to be careful not to be too cynical here. All of the short films listed here stemmed from places more pure than simply longing to win an Oscar. Swifts reclamation and reinvention of one of her most famous songs, Ahmeds exploration of his fears around racism in Britain, Bryants ode to a sport he loved — theyre all best understood as artistic expressions first and awards plays second. Yet they are all awards plays, too. Why would any of these people go to the trouble of booking a theatrical run if not<em> </em>to qualify for an Oscar?
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Which brings me to my final question: Do you think Taylor Swift cares if she EGOTs?
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Do our celebrities feel the looming specter of the EGOT, or do they not care?
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The EGOT — winning a competitive Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony — is one of those weird little bits of celebrity trivia that has slipped into the public consciousness. Though the term was invented by <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/06/the-strange-tragicomic-history-of-egot/486182/"><em>Miami Vice</em> star Philip Michael Thomas</a>, who stated it was his career ambition (hes won none of the awards), it has taken off in the public consciousness. Thats thanks to some combination of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAdZbw6Qido"><em>30 Rock</em></a>, the way the internet makes it much easier to collect this sort of trivia, and how fun EGOT is to say.
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Just 17 people have won an EGOT, with Jennifer Hudson <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_EGOT_winners">joining the list in June</a>, making her the most recent addition. Lots and lots of people have won two or three of the prizes; few have won all four. Even illustrious names like Stephen Sondheim and John Williams have only won three out of four. (Barack Obama, the only president to win more than one of these awards, has two out of four, thanks to a long-ago Grammy win and an Emmy win earlier this month. We can only hope hes mounting a Tony-eligible revival of <em>Urinetown</em> even as we speak.)
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Jennifer Hudson (seen here with RuPaul) completed her own EGOT by winning a Tony Award for producing the musical <em>A Strange Loop</em> earlier this year.
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Swift has an Emmy and a Grammy, but the Oscar and Tony are historically the trickiest of the four awards to win. Whats more, her rough contemporary Adele just added an Emmy to her Grammy and Oscar last Saturday, when her special <em>Adele One Night Only</em> picked up a prize for the best prerecorded special. When it comes to other woman pop stars of the moment, Billie Eilish has several Grammys and an Oscar, and one can only assume an Emmy will follow whenever she decides she wants to write a song for <em>Euphoria</em> or something. If we expand to include men making music at the moment, John Legend already has his EGOT. Swift is falling behind!
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(A musician who doesnt yet have the awards recognition youd expect is Beyoncé, who has won several Grammys but lost her first Oscar nomination to Eilish earlier this year. She received two Emmy nominations for her stunning 2016 video album <em>Lemonade</em>, but she lost a directing bid to <em>Grease Live!</em> and the variety special prize to a <em>Carpool Karaoke</em> special. Icons are often not recognized by awards bodies until later on, but Im going to go out on a limb and say <em>Lemonade</em> probably should have won an Emmy over fucking <em>Carpool Karaoke</em>.)
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Im just not sure how much these celebrities actually think about EGOTing. If a legend like Stephen Sondheim gave a shit about whether he won an Emmy Award, allowing him to EGOT before he died, he surely would have cranked out a theme song for some forgettable sitcom or something. Lots of famous people probably enjoy winning awards but dont think as hard about whether they will EGOT as those of us who follow “the industry” might.
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So does Swift spend all her time strategizing how to win an EGOT? God, I hope not. If I were Taylor Swift, I would think about lots of other things before I thought about getting added to the Wikipedia page <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_EGOT_winners">“List of EGOT Winners.”</a> I must admit, however, that if I had an Emmy and a Grammy, I would definitely think all the time about how to get the Oscar and Tony, so maybe Im wrong.
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Regardless of motives, regardless of intent, winning an Oscar would be a feather in anyones cap. If Taylor Swift is able to win the Oscar for live-action short film, it wouldnt be the category youd most expect her to win in, but it would be an Oscar. For the rest of us, Swift winning a short-film Oscar would make for a fun trivia question years down the line. So see? We all win!
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The Justice Department files an extraordinarily savvy response to the Trump judges “special master” order.
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On Monday, Judge Aileen Cannon — a Trump appointee to the federal bench — issued a <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/9/6/23339017/trump-fbi-mar-a-lago-aileen-cannon-judge-special-master-supreme-court-executive-privilege">surprising order</a> that effectively halted much of the Justice Departments criminal investigation into classified records it recovered last month from former President Donald Trump. Cannons legal reasoning has been widely mocked by lawyers from <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/barr-judges-ruling-on-special-master-in-trump-documents-case-deeply-flawed-221452196.html">across the political spectrum</a>.
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Today, the Justice Department made its first attempt to regain control over the classified documents.
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In a <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763.69.0_2.pdf">motion asking Cannon to stay parts of her order</a>, the Justice Department warns that the order risks “irreparable harm to our national security and intelligence interests” by sabotaging the intelligence communitys efforts to determine whether any of the sensitive information contained in the seized records has leaked beyond Trump. To understand why, you have to understand a bit about what makes Cannons order odd.
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In her Monday order, Cannon ruled that she would appoint an official known as a “special master” to comb through the several boxes of documents the FBI seized from Trumps Florida residence, and determine if any of those documents might be protected by attorney-client privilege or executive privilege. The FBI says it seized these documents from Mar-a-Lago as part of <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/9/6/23339017/trump-fbi-mar-a-lago-aileen-cannon-judge-special-master-supreme-court-executive-privilege">a criminal investigation into potential violations of several statutes</a> prohibiting unauthorized retention of national security documents, including <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23306941/donald-trump-crimes-criminal-investigation-mar-a-lago-fbi-january-6-election-georgia-new-york">the Espionage Act</a>. (Trump denies any wrongdoing.)
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But that investigation hit a huge roadblock Monday, because Cannon also prohibited the Justice Department “from further review and use of any of the materials seized from Plaintiffs residence … for criminal investigative purposes” until the special masters review is complete.
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The DOJs motion seeks a partial stay of this order. It seeks permission to continue using the classified documents in its criminal investigation, as well as a ruling that the special master will not review the classified documents themselves.
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Under the process that typically governs stays of a federal district courts decisions, the DOJ must first ask Cannon to suspend parts of her order before it may ask a higher court for a stay. The DOJ indicated in its motion that it will seek such a stay from an appeals court “if the Court does not grant a stay by Thursday, September 15.” The government also formally announced on Thursday that it will <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/9/6/23339017/trump-fbi-mar-a-lago-aileen-cannon-judge-special-master-supreme-court-executive-privilege">appeal Cannons order</a>.
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The FBI says Cannons order undermines US national security
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The FBI took several boxes of documents from Mar-a-Lago, Trumps Florida residence, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-02/what-the-fbi-found-at-trump-s-mar-a-lago-estate-by-the-numbers?leadSource=uverify%20wall">103 of which had classified markings</a>. According to the Washington Post, these papers include “a document describing a foreign governments military defenses, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/09/06/trump-nuclear-documents/">including its nuclear capabilities</a>.”
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According to the Justice Departments motion, assessing the “<a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763.69.0_2.pdf">potential damage to our national security and intelligence interests</a>” of having these documents remain insecure for so long is of “vital importance.”
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Technically, Cannons order permitted the intelligence community to continue its investigation into whether Trumps alleged theft of these classified documents harmed national security. But, as the Justice Department explains in its Thursday motion, “the ongoing Intelligence Community (IC) classification review and assessment are closely interconnected with—and cannot be readily separated from—areas of inquiry of DOJs and the FBIs ongoing criminal investigation.”
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The FBI is both a law enforcement body and “part of the Intelligence Community,” the DOJ explains. Indeed, the FBI is the intelligence agency with primary responsibility for conducting intelligence investigations within the United States. For this reason, “the same personnel from the FBI involved in the criminal investigation were coordinating appropriately with the IC in its review and assessment.” And the FBI often relies on criminal investigative tools, such as grand jury subpoenas or search warrants, to conduct intelligence investigations.
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Thus, the DOJ argues, preventing the FBI from conducting a criminal investigation into the classified documents also frustrates its intelligence investigation. As the DOJ explains, “any FBI agent or analyst who investigated whether the classified records were improperly accessed, for instance, would by definition be gathering information highly relevant to —and thus in furtherance of — criminal investigative purposes.’”
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The DOJ makes several very savvy concessions in its motion
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In her Monday decision, Cannon gave several reasons why she believed that Trump should be able to seek the return of some of the seized documents, and then referred to these reasons as justification for appointing a special master. Cannon claimed, for example, that “at least a portion” of the seized records include “medical documents, correspondence related to taxes,” “accounting information,” and “material potentially subject to attorney-client privilege” that Trump may need for his personal business.
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The Justice Departments motion announces that it will make several concessions to Trump, in an apparent effort to take some of Cannons objections off the table. Specifically, the DOJ reveals that it “plans to make available to [Trump] copies of all unclassified documents recovered during the search — both personal records and government records — and that the government will return [Trump]s personal items that were not commingled with classified records and thus are of likely diminished evidentiary value.”
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Thus, Cannon will no longer be able to argue that the FBI has deprived Trump of access to his personal documents. And, by returning at least some of the non-classified documents, the DOJ will also reduce the number of records that a special master could review.
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Cannons Monday order was highly unusual and rested on extraordinarily dubious legal reasoning. Among other things, Cannon argued that <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/9/6/23339017/trump-fbi-mar-a-lago-aileen-cannon-judge-special-master-supreme-court-executive-privilege">Trump is entitled to special protections</a> that are not ordinarily afforded to other criminal suspects because he used to be president. So it remains to be seen whether any concessions by the DOJ — or any warnings that Cannon is endangering national security — could move this judge to reconsider her earlier approach.
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If Cannon does not reconsider, the next move will be to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, where Trump appointees hold six of the courts 11 active judgeships.
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Neeraj focused on performance not results</strong> - The Olympic champion is now a bona fide ambassador of Indian athletics</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Rodrigo and Birkin Blower excel</strong> -</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Kalamitsi, Forest Flame, De Villiers and Victoria Punch shine</strong> -</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>FIBA Asian Womens U-18 Championship —India relegated to Division B</strong> - Poor shooting in the first two quarters lets the hosts down as it loses to Indonesia, which gets to remain in Division A</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Cashew processors say no steps taken to implement OTS scheme</strong> - Banks initiate procedures to attach around 25 factories</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Zenara launches generic version of Pfizer Covid drug Paxlovid</strong> - Sets MRP at ₹5,200 for a box of 20 Nirmatrelvir tablets, 10 tablets of Ritonavir</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>No progress in implementation of master plan for restoration of Bharathapuzha, says NGT</strong> - Kerala Environment department pulled up for failure to submit proper report on action taken</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Veterinary surgeon and dog handler vacancies</strong> -</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Bharat Jodo Yatra | Fight is between structure of Indian state and opposition, says Rahul Gandhi</strong> - Asked whether the battle of ideology had entered a decisive phase with the beginning of the yatra, he said it had been going on for a “couple of thousand years” now between two visions</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Ukraine has retaken 1,000 square kilometres in a week - Zelensky</strong> - Kyiv says a lightning counteroffensive has recaptured vast swathes of territory in its south and east.</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Ukraine war: Heavily pregnant medic held in Russian prison</strong> - The family of Mariana Mamonova are calling for her release before her due date at the end September.</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Ukraine war: US approves $2.6bn in aid for Ukraine and allies</strong> - Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin announces military support at a meeting with other ministers in Germany.</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Zelensky hails good news as settlements recaptured from Russia</strong> - Ukraines president says his troops have recaptured several settlements from Russian forces.</p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Rocket Report: SLS launch targeted for late September, unique view of Falcon 9</strong> - “I cannot see a rebuild of the cooperation we had in the past.” - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1879651">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Feds claw back $30 million of cryptocurrency stolen by North Korean hackers</strong> - Blockchain analysis keeps getting better. Expect more seizures to come. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1879887">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The knives are out again in first teaser for Glass Onion</strong> - “Lock the doors. Stay in your rooms. Everyone is in danger.” - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1879703">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>From “stop the spread” to “you do you”: NY mask policy has experts facepalming</strong> - The messaging is seen as a “low point” in public health messaging. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1879862">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>GirlsDoPorn founder, on the run for 3 years, now on FBIs Ten Most Wanted list</strong> - $100K reward for Michael Pratt, who was charged with sex trafficking in 2019. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1879847">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>A boy tells his father “Dad, my math teacher is asking to see you.”</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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The father asks “What happened?”
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“Well, she asks me, how much is 7 x 9? I answer 63 , then she asks, and 9 x 7? so I ask whats the fucking difference?’”
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“Indeed, what is the difference?” says the father. Sure, Ill go.
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The next day, the boy comes home from school and asks “Dad, have you gone by the school?”
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“Not yet” the dad replies.
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The boy says “Well when you do, come and see the gym teacher also.”
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“Why?” asks the father.
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The boy answers “Well we had a gym class today, and he asked me to raise my left arm, so I did. Then my right arm, so I raised it. Then he asked me to lift my right leg, so I did. Now he says, lift your left leg, so I answer What, am I supposed to stand on my cock!?’”
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“Exactly” says the father. “Alright, Ill come.”
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The next day, the boy asks his father “Did you go by the school?”
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“No, not yet.”
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“Dont bother, I got expelled.”
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The father asks surprised “Why did you get expelled?”
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“They summoned me to the principals office, and there were the math teacher, the gym teacher, and the art teacher.”
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“What the fuck was the art teacher doing there?” the father asked.
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“Thats what I said!”
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<li><strong>Queen Elizabeth and Dolly Parton die on the same day, and both go before an Angel to find out if theyll be admitted to Heaven.</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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Unfortunately, theres only one space left that day, so the Angel must decide which of them gets in.
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The Angel asks Dolly if theres some particular reason why she should go to Heaven.
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Dolly takes off her top and says, “Look at these, theyre the most perfect breasts God ever created, and Im sure it will please God to be able to see them every day, for eternity”.
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The Angel thanks Dolly and asks Her Majesty the same question.
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The Queen takes a bottle of Perrier out of her purse, and drinks it down. Then, pees into a toilet and pulls the lever.
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The Angel says, “ok, your Majesty, you may go in”.
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Dolly is outraged and asked,“What was that all about, I show you two of Gods own perfect creations and you turn me down. She pees into a toilet and she gets in! Would you explain that to me”?
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“Sorry Dolly, says the Angel, but even in Heaven A Royal Flush Beats a Pair No Matter How Big They Are”
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<li><strong>Queen Elizabeth II may have made it to 96 before she died…</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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But Princess Diana made it to 120
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Stage one: Whole house sex. You and your partner have sex in every room of the house. Standing up, bending over, on any surface available.
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Stage two: Bedroom Sex. You and your partner only have sex in the bedroom… after you shower… with the lights off.
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Stage three: Hall sex. You and your partner yell “fuck you” down the hall before going to your separate rooms.
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… is getting so dire that the elderly arent getting to enjoy their retirement.
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The BBC interviewed 73 year old Charles from Windsor: “despite having a generous government pension, Ive had to start working today.”
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