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A Ruth Bader Ginsburg Action Figure is Happening
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is no longer just a heroine that you worship from afar. Thanks to a Kickstarter that has raised $613,705, we are now being blessed with an Ruth Bader Ginsburg action figure. During a time in which our country is wracked with political turmoil, what could be better than having RBG as a…
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The Real Reason Pete Davidson Deleted All His Social Media
For once, Pete Davidson seems to be onto (into?) something. And we don’t mean Ariana Grande. If you haven’t heard, he recently left social media. To deflate your suspicions — there is no internet-outage-apocalypse. Millennials may also speculate that his abrupt departure from the cyber world is just a ploy to elope with Ariana to…
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Georgia Rep Resigns After Screaming N-Word on Sacha Baron Cohen’s Show
Jason Spencer, the Georgia State GOP representative who appeared on Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Who Is America” on Sunday night, has resigned. One could say he was caught with his pants down. The disgraced representative had already been defeated in his primary and was set to leave office in November when footage aired of him on…
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Millie Bobbie Brown and Drake ‘Talk All the Time’ and We are Overjoyed
Millie Bobby Brown and Drake – the unlikely pairing that makes our hearts soar with affection and jealousy. We at the Schmooze are ardent fans of both stars and, so when “Stranger Things” lead Brown spoke to W Magazine about her friendship with Drake in an interview released yesterday, we felt a rush of excitement…
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You Haven’t Seen The Hora Till You’ve Seen It Done On Jet Packs
It’s been a long, hard, emotionally exhausting week, and we are sad to report that it is only Tuesday. A video of Orthodox men performing a synchronized jet pack dance is the only thing that can save us now. In the most audacious bit of Jewish filmmaking since Mel Brooks made “Blazing Saddles,” BarStool Sports…
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Ivanka Trump’s Brand Is Dead: A Loving Obituary
The Ivanka Trump fashion brand met an untimely death on Tuesday morning, July 24th. It was only 11 years old. The brand’s sudden demise was confirmed by its founder, Ivanka Trump. Ivanka Trump brand began as a fine jewelry company, and grew to include so much more: shoes, bags, even clothes. The brand was initially…
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Ding Dong, The Kitsch Is Dead: Ivanka Trump Clothing Just Folded
See you in hell, pastel cardigans manufactured in Ethiopian sweatshops. Ivanka Trump’s namesake clothing brand will shutter, Trump said on Tuesday. The first daughter and advisor to the president issued a statement on the closing of the brand, which has faced intense criticism for, among other things, its treatment of workers and manufacturing in third-world…
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Karlie Kloss And Joshua Kushner Are Engaged, And We Think She Already Converted To Judaism
It finally happened. Karlie Kloss, the supermodel-turned-coder, is finally engaged to her longtime partner, Jewish princeling Joshua Kushner. In an effusive caption of a picture of the couple on Instagram, Kloss wrote, “I love you more than I have words to express. Josh, you’re my best friend and my soulmate. I can’t wait for forever…
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Fox News Falsely Reports Lena Dunham Campaigned for Cynthia Nixon In Underwear
“Fox News Blurs the Facts of a Story to Make an Obscure Point Denigrating Women” is hardly breaking news at this point, any more than “Airplanes Go Up In the Air” is breaking news. But we feel honor bound, and also bound by the cumulative one million hours we’ve spent watching HBO content, to report…
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Netta: I’m In Love With What Winning Eurovision Did For My People
Netta Barzilai, who won Eurovision this year representing her home country of Israel, owes the Holy Land a debt. And Israel owes Netta Barzilai a debt as well. In an in-depth live interview in New York City this weekend, Netta explained that since she grew up in Nigeria attending an international school till the age…
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Meet HQ Trivia’s Fiercest Competitor: MajorityRules
Imagine if there was a free program that predicted correct answers on the popular gameshow app HQ Trivia with near-perfect accuracy, helping countless people cheat the system and win cash? For a while, there was. When Jonathan Nassimi and Jake Mor created HQuack, they created a phenomenon within a phenomenon. Nassimi and Mor’s site “predicted…
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