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Sep 26, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Jawad Iqbal |Ella Johnson |Philip Hensher |Charles Lipson
A new DC bar dedicated to crossing partisan lines, “Political Pattie’s,” has taken the “political” out of its name… though Cockburn will note the removal is “temporary.” Owners Drew Benbow and Sydney Bradford dropped an Instagram post on Tuesday about their name and logo change, as the “representation of the red elephant was hurtful to the community.” “Political Pattie’s aims to be a fun, inclusive space that pokes fun at politics, not the pain politics often causes,” the post read.
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Ella Johnson |Zoe Strimpel |Paul Wood |Ben Domenech
I love the first day of school. Summer break was the perfect amount of time to make me long for the tedium of learning again. Mom would purchase new binders; I would begin to dream about that perfect first-day-of-school outfit; friends would discuss frightening future assignments and school supplies would be gathered.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Rory Sutherland |Freddy Gray |Elisenne Stoller |Ella Johnson
For any readers seeking evidence that, despite the election, we are in the heart of silly season, look no further than this week’s non-troversy concerning Republican congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna and her swimwear. In midweek, TikTok users apparently discovered a 2016 video of APL wearing a “Make America Great Again” one-piece swimsuit.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | James Heale |Elisenne Stoller |Ella Johnson |Europe Woody Johnson
Milwaukee, WisconsinIf Donald Trump does return to the White House, then another restoration could soon follow. Woody Johnson, a confidant of the president since the 1980s, served as his man in London from 2017 to 2021 and is now tipped for a second spell as ambassador to the UK. “What I know about President Trump is if he asks you to do something, you probably do it,” Johnson says. “So, it depends on what he would want me to do, if anything.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Elisenne Stoller |Ella Johnson |Jawad Iqbal |Ben Domenech
The Democratic National Convention Committee announced last month that it has issued the same credentials as traditional news outlets to over 200 content creators from TikTok, YouTube and other platforms for the August convention in Chicago. The creators will be able to use dedicated workspaces at Chicago’s United Center and have access to party surrogates. They will also be able to attend related events in Chicago, such as third party panel discussions, and capture content there.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Ella Johnson |Jawad Iqbal |Ben Domenech |Deborah Ross
While Donald Trump’s outlandish behavior usually garners free publicity for him in the news, this time, there is a lot on the line. Trump’s Wednesday comments at the National Association for Black Journalists convention have been branded “audacious lie[s],” “outrageous insults,” “overtly racist,” “repulsive” and “insulting.”“She was always of Indian heritage and she was only promoting Indian heritage,” Trump said, in one of the more widely circulated quotes.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Roger Kimball |Charles Lipson |Amber Duke |Ella Johnson
The question going into Joe Biden’s address to the national from the Oval Office tonight was: will he, having announced that he is dropping out of the race to be president, will he also resign the presidency now? Or would he announce that he was sticking it out till 11:59 a.m. on January 20, 2025? Given the perks of the office, and the appetites of Dr. Jill Biden, I thought it likely that he would choose to stick it out. I am often wrong in my political predictions, but about this I was right.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Charles Lipson |Amber Duke |Ella Johnson |Stephen MIller |Stephen Miller
Joe Biden delivered a eulogy for his presidency and his political career from the Oval Office Wednesday evening. It was a sad, sluggish ending to a life in politics, decades in the Senate, two terms as vice president, and finally a single term as president.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Amber Duke |Ella Johnson |Stephen MIller |Stephen Miller |David Kaufman
Hello everyone and welcome back to Culture Shock! We took a couple weeks of off because I went on vacation and then was in Milwaukee covering the Republican National Convention. We’re going to kick off this edition by hopefully settling the years-long debate as to whether Donald Trump is as good at golf as he claims.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Ella Johnson |Stephen MIller |Stephen Miller |David Kaufman |Debbie Hayton
Today Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu became the first world leader to address a joint session of Congress four times, surpassing the previous record jointly held by him and Winston Churchill. And the anti-Israel protesters, not unlike the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health, drastically inflated their numbers ahead of Wednesday’s proceedings.
