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View ArticleWhen Trolling Gets Teens Thrown in Jail
On Sunday morning, a Dutch teenager named Sarah made one of the most disastrous attempts to be funny on Twitter in history. The 14-year-old girl, whose now-suspended handle was @QueenDemetriax_,...
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The other night some friends and I went to a midnight screening of Trainspotting at Nighthawk cinema in Brooklyn. I first saw the movie as a freshman at UCLA, back in 1996. I had read the book over...
View ArticleWill Algerians Rise Up Against Their Crooked Election System?
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At the end of 2013, Uruguay became the first country in the world to fully legalize marijuana. VICE correspondent Krishna Andavolu headed over to Uruguay to check out how the country is adjusting to a...
View ArticleBreaking News: America Is a Bona Fide Oligarchy
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View ArticleThe Police Raided My Friend's House Over a Parody Twitter Account
Jon Daniel, the creator of the parody Twitter account that caused all the commotion Jon Daniel woke up on Thursday morning to a news crew in his living room, which was a welcome change from the...
View ArticleGreece's Muslim Immigrants Are Ashamed of Their Prison Tattoos
Hamid from Iran has been in Greece for two and a half years. He has a knife tattooed on his chest and two flames on his arms. The flames are symbols of Zoroastrianism. The appointment had been...
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