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mashup "Start Wearing Purple" as sung by Sesame Street's Count Rusty Blazenhoff

canada Canada Post apologizes for stamps bearing decapitated head of prime minister John Macdonald statue David Pescovitz

History New Netflix movie about the Chicago 7 trial, starring Sacha Baron Cohen as Abbie Hoffman David Pescovitz

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crime Tourist fined $1,200 for swiping sand from Italian beach David Pescovitz

Sex Safer sex now means wearing a mask, says Canada's Chief Public Health Officer David Pescovitz

music "Good Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy" David Pescovitz

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oregon First-ever virtual Oregon Country Fair is happening this weekend Rusty Blazenhoff

tabloids Jeffrey Epstein’s prison confession, the world’s most dangerous woman, and the end of the world, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

News U.S. files superseding indictment against Ghislaine Maxwell Xeni Jardin

short 'Tokri,' a gorgeous stop-motion short 8 years in the making Rusty Blazenhoff

music video Iggy Pop's "The Passenger" gets a video after 43 years Gareth Branwyn

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GOP Convention Mitch McConnell is 7th senator to back away from the Republican National Convention Carla Sinclair

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free speech Why Harper's "Letter on Justice and Open Debate" is dumb Mark Frauenfelder