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Barbie Joins The Olympics With Athlete Dolls Championing Diverse Sports Skateboard

Barbie Joins The Olympics With Athlete Dolls Championing Diverse Sports

By Thanussha Priyah, 20 Feb 2020 Image via The OlympicsBarbie maker Mattel has unveiled a lineup of athlete dolls in celebration of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. Each variation represents a sports activity from the Games like skateboarding, softball, karate, sport climbing, and surfing. To symbolize the competing sports,…
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February 20, 2020
Analysis: Mike Bloomberg gets badly roughed up in debate that tests his unconventional campaign Obamacare

Analysis: Mike Bloomberg gets badly roughed up in debate that tests his unconventional campaign

(CNN)Mike Bloomberg's rivals tore into his claim to be the best candidate to defeat Donald Trump in November by branding him as a misogynistic, Obamacare-hating, soft-on-Wall-Street bully -- basically the rough equivalent of that other New York billionaire.The question now is whether the torching that unfolded after Bloomberg's first turn…
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February 20, 2020
Michael Bloomberg will pay hundreds $2,500/mo to say nice things about him Astroturfing

Michael Bloomberg will pay hundreds $2,500/mo to say nice things about him

One of the things that's becoming increasingly clear as Bloomberg has emerged from behind his gauzy commercials is the fact that he's not a likable person.  From the rarefied heights of his multi-billionaire status, he speaks about ordinary people in dismissive terms and apparently was a beast to women.  At the debate,…
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February 20, 2020
The Opioid Crisis Has Not Peaked Oxycodone

The Opioid Crisis Has Not Peaked

The opioid crisis is far from over.  It has merely morphed, and it may be getting worse in some areas.  Without diminishing President Trump's exuberance that the death rate has peaked, caution is more in order. Ahead of a 2020 race already focused on health care, President Trump is boasting that his…
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February 20, 2020
Elizabeth Warren put Michael Bloomberg on blast in the debate, and the internet loved it Twinfluencer

Elizabeth Warren put Michael Bloomberg on blast in the debate, and the internet loved it

By Caitlin Welsh2020-02-20 05:37:20 UTC Michael Bloomberg's bizarre Nega-Trump presidential tilt has produced plenty of mortifying moments so far, from the Meatball Tweet and cringeworthy influencer meta-sponcon to that time he shook a dog's snoot.  But unless this entire campaign is some kind of I'm Not Here style performance art,…
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February 20, 2020