• U.S.
    HuffPost

    Marjorie Taylor Greene Sinks To New 'Level Of Dumb' In Biden Speech Criticism

    The conspiracy-loving lawmaker just got schooled on how education funding works.

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  • Technology
    TechCrunch

    MoviePass co-founder's PreShow Interactive raises $3M to expand into gaming

    PreShow Interactive is giving gamers a new way to earn in-game currency in exchange for watching ads — a concept that's become familiar in mobile games but hasn't really made much headway on PCs or consoles. The startup is led by MoviePass' founding CEO Stacy Spikes. When I spoke to Spikes about PreShow two years ago, he was beta testing an app that provided users with free movie tickets in exchange for watching ads.

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  • U.S.
    National Review

    Dem Nebraska State Senator Says He’ll Abandon School Choice When Colleagues Send Their Kids to Public School

    During a speech before the Nebraska legislature, Democratic state senator Justin Wayne promised to vote against a school choice bill if his colleagues agreed to send their kids to the public school system. “I will vote to kill this bill if you send your kids to one of the kid’s schools in my district that we’re waiting to turn around,” Wayne offered to the lawmakers. Wayne, who is black, acknowledged that he struggled with the issue and rejected a school choice bill his freshman year in the Nebraska chamber. “My community can’t wait anymore,” he said. Nebraska Senator Justin Wayne (D) tells his colleagues he'll vote against the school choice bill if they agree to send their own kids to public schools. pic.twitter.com/JzvS7iW6FE — Corey A. DeAngelis (@DeAngelisCorey) April 28, 2021 The bill currently on the table in the Nebraska senate is titled LB364 Adopt the Opportunity Scholarships Act and provide tax credits. “The only people who are opposing school choice today are the same people who have choice. And many of them exercise that choice,” Wayne remarked. The Nebraska Democrat insisted that his anti-school choice counterparts take their kids out of expensive private schools and enroll them in public schools, so they can witness the under-resourced learning environments first hand and have a stake in improving them for all students. “When they fall behind, when they don’t have the resources…when they’re dealing with suspensions and things like that, then we can all go through it together,” he said in reference to the senators’ kids. “Don’t make a choice that you won’t allow anybody else to make just based off of income,” Wayne implored his fellow legislators.

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  • Celebrity
    TheGrio

    Friday’ star Tommy ‘Tiny’ Lister’s cause of death is revealed

    Over four months after his untimely passing, Friday star Tommy “Tiny” Lister‘s cause of death has been revealed. As theGrio previously reported, Lister died in December 2020 at the age of 62, found dead at 3 a.m. in his home in Marina del Rey. In his final interview, he was clearly battling coronavirus symptoms, as he had a hard time speaking and continued to clear his throat throughout.

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  • Science
    The Telegraph

    Huge amphitheatre for gladiator fights dubbed 'Turkey's Colosseum' unearthed in remote fig orchard

    A Roman amphitheatre which would have hosted gladiator contests has been discovered in Turkey after lying hidden for centuries. The huge site, similar in structure to the Colosseum in Rome, remained undetected because it is mostly buried underground. The arena, which could seat around 20,000 spectators, was found near the ancient city of Mastaura in the western province of Aydin, inland from the Aegean coast. It is believed to have been constructed 1,800 years ago and would have hosted gladiatorial contests as well as fights involving wild animals. The stone arches that formed the outer walls of the amphitheatre are visible but most of the structure is buried underground and covered in olive and fig trees.

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