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The 50 Best Alt-Rock Love Song

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The 50 Best Alt-Rock Love Song

s Not all love songs are romantic. Not all love songs are even happy. It all depends on your definition of the term. For every “My Girl” or “Your Song,” there’s at least one track with a nuanced take on the darker, more complicated sides of love — the drama of a long-term relationship, the fear of losing a partner, the void left in love’s wake. Many of those songs fall under the admittedly broad umbrella of “alt-rock.” So to mark Valentine’s Day, we decided to gather 50 of our favorite “love songs” in the genre — both conventional and...

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How to Create an Amazing Webinar in 2021

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How to Create an Amazing Webinar in 2021

Creating a webinar is one of the best ways to engage with potential customers in an increasingly remote world.  Since the rise of remote work, people rely on technology for education and social interaction more than ever. This means more Zoom meetings instead of in-person meetings, more walks to a home office instead of commutes to a high-rise, and of course, more webinars instead of live events. The B2B webinar platform BrightTalk reported a 76% increase in video, webinar, and virtual events uploaded to their platform from March to June 2020. From April 2019 to April 2020, ON24 saw a...

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Marjorie Taylor Greene Was a Moderator of a Facebook Group Featuring Death Threats and Racist Meme

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Marjorie Taylor Greene Was a Moderator of a Facebook Group Featuring Death Threats and Racist Meme

s Before she was elected to the House of Representatives as a member from Georgia, Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Trumpy, QAnon-friendly, conspiracy-toting, gun-lovin’, mass-shooting-denying, assassination-promoting lightning-rod Republican, was a top official of the Family America Project, a right-wing outfit. In that capacity, she served as one of a handful of moderators of the group’s Facebook page, which has provided a forum for death threats against Democrats, bigoted attacks on the Obamas and others, and assorted conspiracy theories. The group has also championed the John Birch Society, a far-right conspiracist outfit that claimed throughout the Cold War that globalist and communist treason...

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The Chinoiserie Front Door

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The Chinoiserie Front Door

Edith Anne Duncan - Southern Home   I love blue and white Chinese porcelain at the front door of a home. I have a covered entry with a pair of antique blue and white Chinese garden stools and a blue and white Chinese umbrella stand filled with navy and white striped umbrellas. This is a lovely example with blue and white ginger jars and even a cobalt blue door to match.  #BlueAndWhiteChinesePorcelain #CobaltBlue #GingerJars #FrontDoor

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How the GOP Surrendered to Extremism

How the GOP Surrendered to Extremism

Nelson Rockefeller and Barry Goldwater at the 1964 Republican National Convention (Francis Miller / The LIFE Picture Collection / Getty)It’s an image that still shocks in its feral intensity: On July 14, 1964, supporters of Barry Goldwater, the arch-conservative senator from Arizona whom the Republican Party was preparing to crown as its presidential nominee, unleashed a torrent of boos against New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller as he spoke at the party’s national convention in San Francisco. More than half a century later, Goldwater’s army of conservatives from cookie-cutter Sun Belt subdivisions howling their discontent at Rockefeller—the embodiment of the GOP’s...

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