Broken Elephants, Part I: Donald Trump and the Triumph of the Conservative Media Machine | Ordinary Times

I Consider a simple and deceptively important question: What exactly is the Republican Party, anyway? One possible answer to this question — more commonly held than one might expect at first blush — is that the Republican Party is a group of people very loosely bound by little more than an arbitrary shopping list of…

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Queerness, Censorship, and ‘Steven Universe’

Cartoon Network Fans of Cartoon Network’s Steven Universe were disappointed to discover that the episode We Need to Talk, which first aired in the US in June 2015, was apparently re-edited for its UK broadcast, removing the most intimate shots of the fusion dance between Pearl and Rose Quartz, replacing them mostly with Greg Universe’s slackjawed reaction….

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Star Trek Fan Film Makers Didn’t Know They Were Being Sued … Until They Read the News

Yesterday, Star Trek fans were up in arms at the news that CBS had filed a lawsuit seeking to shut down the hugely successful crowdfunded fan production Axanar, after a year of tolerating the project’s development. Also surprised? Axanar producer Alec Peters, who found out about it by reading said news. Ooh err. http://io9.gizmodo.com/cbs-suddenly-w… Following…

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Steven Universe Guidebook Spills The Secrets Of The Crystal Gems

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Steven Universe Keeps Giving Us Some of the Most Complex Heroes on TV

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Steven Universe Is Quickly Becoming A Show About Flawed Mothers

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Steven Universe Leaves Us Hanging In The Best—And Worst—Possible Way

‘; if (google_ads[0].bidtype == ‘CPC’) { /* insert this snippet for each ad call */ google_adnum = google_adnum + google_ads.length; } document.write(s); } } google_ad_client = ‘ca-pub-0457527031304647’; google_ad_output = ‘js’; google_max_num_ads = ‘1’; google_ad_type = ‘text’; google_feedback = ‘on’; google_skip = google_adnum; google_ad_channel = ‘1102379497’; Last night, Steven Universe returned for what is purportedly the…

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Netflix Hit “Making A Murderer” Is Also Making A Ton Of Trolls

  The Netflix documentary series “Making a Murderer” reexamines a murder case that the filmmakers believed to be potentially biased against the defendant. As the popularity of the series exploded over the past week, angry commenters and trolls have turned their anger toward the law enforcement and prosecution team featured in the series. The 10-episode series follows the…

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