The Tuesday Edition - Jul 16, 2019
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Lady Betsy Wilde’s first season was triumphant by any measure, and a duke has proposed—but before marriage, she longs for one last adventure.

No gentleman would agree to her scandalous plan—but Lord Jeremy Roden is nogentleman.

Get your copy of Eloisa James' Say No to the Duke now!

News, donald trump, Journalism, racism

Why Are So Many Journalists Afraid to Call Trump Racist?

Donald Trump holds his hand up, as if to stop us from calling him out on his racism.
This week, Trump has been especially aggressive in his racist attacks on four Democratic Congresswomen of color, telling them to go back where they came from, despite the fact that three of them were born in the United States and all of them are not only citizens. He repeated that sentiment on Twitter and to reporters. And still, too many reporters refuse to call his message what it is: racist AF.
News, Black Excellence, Rest in Peace

Activist and Founder of the Baton Rouge African-American History Museum, Sadie Roberts-Joseph, Has Been Murdered

Sadie Roberts Joseph Found Dead
Sadie Roberts-Joseph, 75, was a community leader, the founder and curator of her city’s African-American history museum, and an activist whose work made her a shining star in her Baton Rouge home. That's why the heartbreaking news that her body has been found in the trunk of her own car is such a devastating blow to many.
Movies, Avengers: Infinity War, Tom Holland

It’s Better That This Avengers: Infinity War Scene Was Cut

Spider-Man hugs Iron Man Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War
Not everything that is filmed makes the final cut of a movie. That's especially true of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, so to hear of cut scenes from Avengers: Infinity War isn't surprising, but I'm glad this one was left out.
TV, costumes, Melissa Benoist, Supergirl (TV show)

Supergirl Gets a Bold New Costume Change…And Also Some Break-Up Bangs

melissa benoist
Kara Zor-El has ditched her short skirt for pants, in a fierce new look that she previewed on Instagram.
Big on the Internet, donald trump, Joe Biden

Joe Biden Challenges Donald Trump to a Push-up Match Because Men

Joe Biden speaks at a campaign rally.
Joe Biden has decided that instead of attempting to beat Donald Trump with facts and ideas to fix the country, he's going to challenge him to a push-up competition to prove that he isn't old, which ... what?
Big on the Internet, TV, 13 Reasons Why, Netflix

13 Reasons Why Finally Editing Down Graphic Suicide Scene

Katherine Langford in 13 Reasons Why as Hannah Baker
After years of backlash, controversy, and discourse about what it means to graphically depict suicide, especially in media directed at teenagers, the Netflix original series, 13 Reasons Why has decided to edit down the scene where its main character, Hannah Barker, dies of suicide.
Movies, Justice League, San Diego Comic-Con 2019, The Snyder Cut

There Are Three Snyder Cut Billboards Outside San Diego Comic Con, and No, This Is Not a Joke

Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot, and Ezra Miller in Justice League (2017)
Despite it being nearly two years after the fact, the Snyder Cut fans have not given up their quest to see Zack Snyder's full, three-hour cut of Justice League.
TV, Stranger Things 3

Stranger Things 3 Tackles the Lie That Is the American Dream

Stranger Things season 3
How many of us have heard of the "American Dream"? How many of us have believed it? For characters like Alexei in Stranger Things, it seems more like a possibility than just some fanciful ideal people want to believe.
AMP Featured, TV, Chernobyl, contributors

I Couldn’t Stop Thinking About the Terror HBO’s Chernobyl Held for Women and Motherhood

Lyudmilla in HBO's Chernobyl.
The understated yet still graphic repercussions of the “impossible” nuclear core explosion, the melting off of the senior engineers’ faces, their labored breathing, the risking of so many people’s lives in damage control, Legasov’s unignorable suicide … all of those images and realities are harrowing, but the most compelling, at least to me, was the Sword of Damocles introduced in the first of the chronological scenes.
Big on the Internet, News, FIFA, USWNT, Women's World Cup

Secret Deodorant Offers $529K to Help the USWNT Achieve Equal Pay … But Isn’t That the Soccer Federation’s Job?

USWNT world cup champions
Secret's pledge, which joins Luna Bar's commitment to pay each player $31,250, is undoubtedly awesome and well deserved.
AMP Featured, Big on the Internet, Game of Thrones, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, things we saw today

Things We Saw Today: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau On Game of Thrones Backlash — “We Worked so Hard”

Gwendoline Christie and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in Game of Thrones
At a Game of Thrones fan event, actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, who played Jaime Lannister, was asked about his feelings on Game of Thrones and let his love for the series and his frustration with the backlash out.
TV, character death, Stranger Things, tropes

Stranger Things Sure Loves to Sacrifice Those Lovable Side Characters

Bob (Sean Astin), a few scenes before he meets his untimely demise in season two of Stranger Things.
The sacrificial side character is Stranger Things's favorite trope besides nostalgia and telepathy.
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