NYC Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is bringing fun to the race for City Hall. On Saturday, his campaign held a scavenger hunt. [@aftermath.site](
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 )'s Riley MacLeod writes about what it was like to participate. "Being fun is no guarantee that you’ll make a good mayor, but Mamdani’s campaign has embraced what seems like a genuine joy and love of what the city has to offer," MacLeod writes. "Several of his campaign events have involved stunts out on the streets, walking the length of Manhattan or racing a slow bus; these kinds of things get Mamdani’s name and face out there while also portraying him as someone who actually likes being here."
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I Didn't Win Zohran Mamdani’s Scavenger Hunt, But I Did Have A Nice Day Out In NYC - Aftermath
Maybe the City doesn't suck and you don't have to be afraid of it
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Britpop band Oasis has made it to North America after touring the U.K. and Ireland for six weeks, with neither of the Gallagher brothers throwing a single punch (as far as we know). [@USAToday](
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 ) reports on how things went last night at Rogers Arena, Toronto. The band will play one more night there, before heading to the U.S. for five shows. "What Oasis has brought with this tour, perhaps inadvertently, is a communal spirit," writes Melissa Ruggieri. "New best friends were made – at least for 120 minutes on a rainy weekend night – as beers were hoisted and lyrics were shouted."
Oasis reunion tour finally hits North America: An honest review
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Here’s one for all of you who’ve ever dared to stir the pot. Penelope Barker was the wife of a Colonial agent tasked with representing North Carolina’s interests in England. This was in 1774, some 146 years before women were granted the right to vote in the United States, when a woman’s political beliefs were largely ignored. That didn’t stop Barker from convening the women in her hometown of Edenton, North Carolina, to support the boycott of British goods. Read more about her story from [@Smithsonianmag](
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Jerry Adler didn’t take up acting until he was in his 60s. Turned out to be quite a move. Adler, best known for playing an advisor on “The Sopranos,” died at 96 years old on Saturday. Read about his career from [@AssociatedPress](
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'Sopranos' star Jerry Adler, Broadway backstage vet turned late-in-life actor, dies at 96
Actor Jerry Adler has died at 96. Adler started his career behind the scenes in theater and worked on more than 50 Broadway productions.
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This one will warm the heart of all the servers, bussers, bartenders and anyone who has worked in the service industry. Restaurants are calling out guests who have given unfair reviews. [@foodandwine](
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Restaurants Are Fighting Back Against Harsh Online Reviews and So Much It's Fun to Watch
More restaurants are pushing back against harsh online reviews, defending their staff and setting the record straight with receipts, screenshots, a...
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At the Spicemas celebrations on the island of Grenada, incredible music and viral traditions travel from Africa to the Caribbean, creating one of the world’s best party scenes. [@RollingStone](
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Grenada’s Carnival is Full of African History, Resistance, and the Some of the World’s Best Parties
For this month's edition of 'Made In Africa' we travel to Grenada for Spicemas ahead of Notting Hill Carnival and Brooklyn's We...
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Donald Trump is attacking the Smithsonian Institute, with claims it focuses too much on slavery, among other things. Clint Smith, who wrote the 2022 book "How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America," writes for [@TheAtlantic](
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 ) about the horrors of slavery in the United States, the psychological pain it wrought, and the importance of remembering it. He says he is sometimes tempted, on encountering another instance of the Trump administration's racist antagonism, to let it be — and yet, he will not. "This is part of the reality of Black life in this country: We must make a record of those forces that seek to erase us and erase our histories so that future generations know we did not simply accept it. Our ancestors’ words remind us that we never have," he concludes.
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Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad
The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.
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On April 1, Mohammad Halimi, a 52-year-old exiled Afghan scholar who had been assisting U.S. diplomats in understanding his homeland, learned that his name had appeared in a viral post on X, shared by Elon Musk. The post declared that Halimi was a former Taliban member, and that payments to him for his work for the United States Institute of Peace constituted support for militants. Halimi had worked for the Taliban government in the 1990s, but subsequently switched sides and served as a cabinet minister in the U.S.-backed Afghan government. The Taliban had attempted to assassinate him three times. And the U.S. government — including Musk and DOGE — knew all of this. Musk's post exposed Halimi and endangered him, and those family members who are still in Afghanistan. He immediately began to receive threatening messages. A week after Musk's April 1 social media post, three of his family members were taken by the Taliban in Kabul, questioned and beaten. @ProPublica reports on everything that happened, how DOGE took things to another level on Fox News, and how they continue to justify their actions.
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DOGE Targeted Him on Social Media. Then the Taliban Took His Family.
Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi, who fled the Taliban in 2021, had worked to help U.S. diplomats understand his homeland. Then DOGE put his family...
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The newest target for the anti-woke brigade: Cracker Barrel. The U.S. restaurant chain has redesigned its logo, simplifying it and removing the image of the man sitting next to a wooden barrel. Donald Trump Jr. implied on X that the changes might be motivated by DEI efforts. "Cracker Barrel has fallen," declared the far-right account @endwokeness. Find [@huffingtonpost](
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Cracker Barrel Just Made A Major Change And Conservatives Are ‘Melting The F**k Down’
Republicans slammed the restaurant chain’s “absolutely horrible” move after it removed a decades-old fixture at the company.
Cracker Barrel loses almost $100 million in value as stock plunges after new logo release
Cracker Barrel stock plunged as much as 15% after the restaurant chain released a new logo that removes its long-time image of a man leaning agains...
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Brent Hinds, the cofounder of the heavy metal band Mastodon, died in a motorcycle accident yesterday, a representative for the group says. Hinds was the group's guitarist for 25 years before leaving the band earlier this year. The band won six Grammys in total, and 2004 album "Leviathan" was named one of Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Metal Albums of all Time. Here's more.
Brent Hinds, Mastodon Co-Founder, Dead at 51
Brent Hinds, the co-founder of acclaimed heavy metal group Mastodon who played with the group for 25 years, has died at age 51.
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