Jake Romm
By Jake Romm
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Culture Spicer Continues The White House’s Disgraceful Line On The Holocaust
It should come as no surprise that “I’m sorry” does not seem to be in the current administration’s vocabulary. Following the widespread backlash against Donald Trump’s disgraceful Holocaust Memorial Day statement (you can read my piece on all the statement’s problems here), White House Secretary Sean Spicer doubled down on the statement in a press…
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Fast Forward Montreal Holocaust Museum Issues Statement of Solidarity After Quebec Mosque Shooting
On January 29, a shooting occurred at the Sainte-Foy mosque in Quebec City that left six dead and many more injured. Authorities initially arrested two men after the attack, Alexandre Bissonnette and Mohamed El Khadir, but have since reported that only Bissonnette is being held as a suspect. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has called…
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Culture Reclusive Marvel CEO Ike Perlmutter Suing Over Stolen DNA
You’d be forgiven for not knowing of Ike Perlmutter, even though he is the CEO of Marvel Entertainment; the Israeli-born executive is a notorious recluse. For a recluse, particularly a powerful and wealthy businessman, all theft is an immense transgression – even the theft of DNA. You read that right, Perlmutter is alleging that someone…
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Culture Trump’s Holocaust Remembrance Day Statement Is A Threefold Disgrace
January 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. But “Holocaust Remembrance” is not as clear cut a phrase as it might seem. In Poland, the government is suing Holocaust scholar Jan Gross over his work on the country’s role in the genocide. In Lithuania, another blood-soaked nation that refuses to reckon with its past, we see…
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Culture Is Trump Attacking CNN Because of Grudge Against Jewish CEO?
Jeff Zucker, President of CNN, just can’t catch a break. (Not that he necessarily deserves one, given CNN’s long history of blunders, from mistaking a dildo covered flag for an ISIS flag, to falsely reporting the arrest of the Boston bombers, to Don Lemon suggesting the missing Malaysia Air flight MH370 may have been swallowed into…
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Culture The History Behind Sean Spicer’s Favorite Breakfast Food – Orbit Gum
Sean Spicer, the new White House Press Secretary, is, well, a very weird guy. Leaving aside his unfashionable, dogmatic loyalism and his , we still have his tweets. His glorious glorious tweets. The long standing Dippin’ Dots feud (“Dippin dots is NOT the ice cream of the future,” Spicer declared in 2010. “I think I…
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Fast Forward Roxane Gay Withdraws Her Book From Simon & Schuster In Response to Milo Yiannopoulos Deal
Following the controversy surrounding “alt-right” fascist Milo Yiannopoulos’s $250,000 book deal with Simon & Schuster with TED Books, another Simon & Schuster imprint. Gay’s book, “How To Be Heard” was scheduled for release in March 2018, but is now indefinitely shelved until Gay can find another publisher. In a statement to Buzzfeed, Gay said that…
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Culture Vintage Slapstick Movies Show Just How Much, And How Little, Racism Has Changed
Watching a comedy from the silent film era is, as the Museum of Modern Art’s website suggests, to stare directly into the “vast subconscious that is American slapstick.” And, based on the title that the museum has chosen for its series of silent film screenings, “Cruel and Unusual Comedy: Astonishing Shorts from the Slapstick Era,”…
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