Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez masterfully exposed America’s broken campaign finance system

Maybe you’ve never heard of the H.R. 1 bill, but chances are you’ve seen the viral video of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez playing what she’s called the “Corruption Game.”
On Wednesday, the House Committee on Oversight and Reform held a hearing about …

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Here’s the Super Bowl halftime show if Maroon 5 had actually played the ‘SpongeBob’ song

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Maroon 5 and the NFL made a grievous mistake (one of many!) when they failed to include “Sweet Victory” in the Super Bowl halftime show. 

Fortunately, disappointed SpongeBob fans can soothe their devastation with an approximation of what could’ve been. On Monday, Yeek Studios uploaded a re-dub of the very boring Maroon 5 halftime performance. Instead of “Moves Like Jagger” or “Big Tattoo That Says California” or whatever Maroon 5 songs are, the band simply plays “Sweet Victory” instead.

It is much better — even though, sadly, Adam Levine is still shirtless. Read more…

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This video shows the hilarity of teaching parents how to use technology

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This is One Good Thing, a weekly column where we tell you about one of the few nice things that happened this week.


While there are plenty of differences between Millennials and Gen Z, as digital natives we can all relate to one thing — being the in-house IT department for our parents. 

We’ve all been there: When your mom wants to change her Facebook profile pic, you’re the expert. But one wrong click and suddenly — you’ve broken her entire phone, all her photos are gone, and it’s somehow your fault

YouTuber Gus Johnson captures this hilarious juxtaposition of youth frustration versus parental struggle in his video titled “helping mom use the ipad.” Watching the video threw me straight back into circular conversations I’ve gone through with my own mom, who’s a big fan of calling all Apple products “iPods,” and referring to everything from the remote, to her phone, as “el tiki-tiki.” Read more…

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Rapper gets trolled by production company after allegedly not paying for music video

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Rapper Sheck Wes hired the production company Ridge Production to shoot a music video for his song “Gmail.” Now, Ridge alleges that Sheck Wes didn’t like the completed video and stiffed them on their work — so, naturally, they’re trolling him into oblivion.

On Thursday, Ridge uploaded a YouTube video called “Sheck Wes Didn’t Like Our Music Video, So We Made This.” It’s the “Gmail” video, but the song has been replaced with troll-y narration making fun of Sheck. (Listen for highlights like “I’m outside; kiss my gun” and “kick sand.”)

The video blew up on the subreddit r/videos, where people were 99 percent on Ridge’s side.  Read more…

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Bored Midwesterners are throwing boiling water into the frigid wind during the polar vortex

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All across the Midwest this week, people are extremely cold — extremely cold and extremely bored.

Temperatures dropped as low as minus-60 Farenheit in parts of the Midwest on Wednesday, forcing schools to close and sequestering workers in their homes. To combat their cabin fever, some folks have started stepping out of their homes for a brief second to boiling hot water into the frigid air.

Of course the water, once tossed into the wind, quickly solidifies and turns into snow.

It’s actually way more entertaining than it sounds. I’m dead on the inside, and I’ll still watch this middle school science class trick any day: Read more…

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