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After almost a decade of procrastination, it’s time to hear the three songs on the thirty-nine-year-old Wee Wee Pole demo tape. I formed Wee Wee Pole in the autumn of 1982 with my childhood friend Todd Butler and a singer named RuPaul Andre Charles. Todd and I were 17. I think Ru was 21. Functioning adult percussionist David Klimchack – in his mid-20s – would soon join. We performed and recorded with a Roland CR-8000 drum machine.

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Si deseas, puedes leer la versión en español aquí. Over 7.7 million souls have fled Venezuela, marking the largest exodus in Western Hemisphere history. Each number carries a story of struggle, resilience, and the profound human cost of an unparalleled crisis. Recently, my family and I watched SIMÓN, a movie based on true events, depicting the inspiring story of a Venezuelan college student and freedom fighter who found himself at the forefront of challenging the tyranny of the Venezuelan government.

In 2013, when I was a reporter at the incredible-but-now-deceased NSFWCORP, Cory Booker was gunning for the Senate. He was an up and coming neoliberal star politician back then. And to America’s liberal media and political class, Booker represented a bright new hope for the future. But there was a weird, little-known side to Booker’s meteoric rise: his political career got going largely because of support from Chabad, an old Jewish religious sect that originated in the 18th century in a village in modern day Belarus: Chabad is a fascinating and kinda scary movement.

I’m sitting at the dining table in my Mum and Dad’s house, and directly in front of me at the opposite end of the table is an imposing piece of furniture. It has two low cupboards with intricately carved wooden doors, two drawers above these and a set of shallower shelves above these, covered by two glass doors. It sits about seven feet tall. It’s beautiful and the dark polished wood glistens in the light.

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When two planes struck the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 — a month before his hit television show The West Wing was set to premiere its third season — Aaron Sorkin had a choice to make. He could take this paradigm-shifting event that proved terrorism could hit American soil and merge it with the alternate universe he’d constructed, or he could ignore it and continue with his story as planned.