A routine bike ride opened the world of roller derby to a newcomer to Portland, Ore., โ€” and made her coming out a celebration. Read more from [@time](
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Learning to Fall in Roller Derby Taught Me How to Be Myself
Every bruise carried a lesson: resilience, humility, and the courage to be fully, messily human.
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Doris Miller enlisted in the U.S. Navy around the time World War II broke out and served on the battleship USS West Virginia. Because of his race, Miller was prohibited from gunnery training. That didnโ€™t stop him from saving an untold number of lives during the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack. On the eve of National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, read about Millerโ€™s heroics in this gripping story from Mental Floss:
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Doris Miller, the Naval Cook Who Became a Hero of Pearl Harbor
Despite being prohibited from gunnery training due to his race, Miller ended up saving an untold number of lives.
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U.S. President Donald Trump won a totally valid and completely not made-up peace prize today, conferred by FIFA, the governing body of world soccer. Here's what MSNow's Steve Benen thought about it.
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FIFA rewards Trump with a new, hastily arranged, entirely unwarranted โ€˜peaceโ€™ prize
After the president didnโ€™t get a Nobel Peace Prize, soccerโ€™s global governing body came up with a way to placate him.
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[@IndieWire](
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The Best Series of 2025, Ranked โ€” A Top 10 List
What will we remember about television in 2025? With a little luck, it will be shows like these โ€” the year's best series.
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The Best Series of 2025, Ranked โ€” A Top 10 List
What will we remember about television in 2025? With a little luck, it will be shows like these โ€” the year's best series.
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Writer Olivia Nuzzi's stint as Vanity Fair's West Coast editor is over โ€” by mutual agreement, according to a statement โ€” after revelations about her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and allegations about her journalistic ethics. Managed to avoid all the brouhaha? Here's an excellent primer from [@Independent](
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Vanity Fair and Olivia Nuzzi โ€˜mutuallyโ€™ agree to part ways after new RFK Jr. claims
The departure comes after Olivia Nuzziโ€™s ex-fiancรฉ published a series of blistering Substack posts accusing her of journalistic ethical violations.
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Frank Gehry, the iconic Canadian-American architect famed for his Guggenheim Museum Bilbao design, has died at age 96. Here's more from Dezeen. https://flip.it/rbUd8o #FrankGehry #Architecture #Design #Bilbao #Guggenheim #RIP #InMemoriam
Unless there's intervention from regulators, Netflix is to acquire Warner Bros. for $83 billion. Kate Erbland writes for [@IndieWire](
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Netflix Is Buying Warner Bros., HBO, and HBO Max (FAQ)
The great consolidation of Hollywood continues apace, as Netflix buys Warner Bros.
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Spain, the Netherlands, Ireland and Slovenia have pulled out of next year's Eurovision Song Contest after organizers decided to allow Israel to compete. Here's more from [@abc](
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