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Just in case you aren’t caught up on new episodes of Star vs. the Forces of Evil, here’s something to inspire you. The Disney XD series recently aired multiple same-sex kisses in the episode “Just Friends,” Mashable reported Tuesday. The episode is a historic move for the network, marking the first same-sex kiss in a Disney…
Over the last five months, there’s been a steadfast movement to boycott stores that carry Trump family products. Amid the visible — and effective — #GrabYourWallet campaign, there’s been another type of advocacy rumbling, this one targeting companies for where they advertise. An anonymous group of activists who call themselves Sleeping Giants have been working…
Mayor de Blasio will rack up frequent-flier miles this weekend by holding three out-of-town fund-raisers — including an A-list Beverly Hills affair being thrown by hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons and legendary TV producer Norman Lear. De Blasio has already cited small donations from ordinary New Yorkers, which qualify for public matching funds, as a key…
The Big Apple is on a weather roller coaster — and New Yorkers don’t know how to dress anymore. Temperatures rose from the low 40s on Sunday to the mid-50s on Monday and Tuesday, before surging to a balmy 70 degrees on Wednesday. The city was then hammered with heavy winds topping 50 mph on…
The Disney film studio is in damage control this week, as news spreads that its live action remake of Beauty and the Beast may contain a gay subplot, in what is being described as a first and now a last for any high budget children’s film. Conservative pundits and cinemas alike are protesting the “unnatural”…
“The system works!” So says Mayor de Blasio, and it’s working for him at least. Which is a local manifestation of a national problem. Let me explain: The mayor’s allies in the Working Families Party have been talking for years about building a “Tea Party of the Left,” and de Blasio has endlessly tried…
Gamers tried out the coming Nintendo Switch video game console in Tokyo in January. Credit Richard Atrero de Guzman/NurPhoto, via Getty Images Every few years, one of the big video game companies comes out with a new box that it wants consumers to make space for in their living rooms. These systems, known as…
“This is the first time I’ve been willing to admit that I need leadership help and I intend to get it,” wrote Travis Kalanick, the chief executive of Uber, in an email to his staff the other day. In that same email, which he sent out after Bloomberg published a video showing him berating an…
There is no such thing as the “alt-left.” But in a piece for Vanity Fair, James Wolcott pretends otherwise: Disillusionment with Obama’s presidency, loathing of Hillary Clinton, disgust with “identity politics,” and a craving for a climactic reckoning that will clear the stage for a bold tomorrow have created a kinship between the “alt-right” and an alt-left….
Aude Guerrucci-Pool/Getty Images There is an old African proverb that has been passed down from the ancestors through generations of black people that goes like this: “Never trust anyone who lets people put their feet on the couch.” After meeting with the Trump administration for two days and reviewing Cheddar Bob’s executive order on HBCUs,…