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Today, we learn that no place and no person is above trolling Donald Trump on the internet.

The Office of Government Ethics, an office under the commander in chief’s jurisdiction, is trolling the president on Twitter in a turn of events that should, at this point, shock absolutely nobody.

The incident happened on Friday after reports that Trump asked former FBI Director James Comey (yes, the one he fired) for his “loyalty” at a private dinner.

The ethics office seemingly responded on Twitter with a poignant message for the president. Read more…

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Well, that was fun, er, nerve-wracking while it lasted. 

After months of study, NASA has decided that it won’t try to send astronauts to space aboard the first flight of its huge Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, designed to eventually bring people and payloads to destinations like Mars or the moon.

While acting NASA administrator Robert Lightfoot said that it would be technically feasible to add crew to the first SLS mission (called Exploration Mission-1 or EM-1), the risk would be too great when compared to the possible benefits. 

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On a warm and sunny Friday morning, President Trump started his day just like any other president: by going on Twitter and revealing that he just might have secretly taped the former director of the FBI.

If only the American public could hear these possible tapes, Trump seemed to suggest, they would finally see Comey for who he really was — a useless showboat — and reveal Trump to be the greatest president in the history of the United States.

All we needed was the transcript.

Thankfully, the same heroic stranger who slipped us Trump’s tax returns also mailed us a transcript of Trump’s Comey recordings. Late this morning, I went to my mailbox only to find the transcript hidden in a manilla envelope labeled “TOP SECRET.” Any good journalist will tell you that “TOP SECRET” makes it very real and obviously not leaked by Trump, which means you must share it on cable television. Read more…

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Will Ferrell is an accomplished actor, can make people pee their pants with laughter, and we have now learned that he can also do a pretty impressive a capella version of “I Will Always Love You.” 

After a touching commencement speech, Ferrell serenaded the graduating class at the University of Southern California on Friday, maybe in an attempt to ease the pain of their newfound debt. Either way, it was a beautiful moment for everyone involved.

Yes, it appears the version of this song is the one popularized by Whitney Houston, but Dolly Parton wrote this damn song and Dolly deserves the credit.  Read more…

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Grass trimmers and nerf guns aren’t exactly as intimidating as the weapons in Overwatch, but Good Sport Dad Mike Luciano Jr. pulls these emotes off anyway.

This isn’t the first time he’s reenacted video game movements, either. His son, Nick Luciano, has documented similar antics in the past.

We’re just all thankful he continues to do so. Read more…

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We continue our look at some of the best shots in all of film history by digging into relational shots, two shots, over the shoulders, group shots and crowds. Not just based on how cool they look (because there’s too many cool looking shots for that!) but how they work and why.

Visit CineFix for more episodes and movie-related content. Read more…

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A widespread ransomware attack hit multiple European countries on Friday, locking up computers and ransoming access in exchange for large Bitcoin payments, while another attack has hit the UK’s National Health Service, affecting computers at hospitals and doctors’ offices.

Screenshots shared of both sets of attacks show the ransomware program Wanna Cry was used in each, but, as of now, there’s no report officially connecting the larger attack across Europe to the one that helped take down the NHS computers. 

Officials have added that the attack that affected the NHS was not specifically targeting just the NHS. Read more…

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One Direction is accidentally the best named boy band in the history of coordinated turtlenecks. Legend has it that Harry Styles picked it on a whim because it sounded cool after Simon Cowell gave the five boys a second chance to compete on X Factor if they were willing to go at it as a team.

For about five years, it worked remarkably well, and then the tears fell. 

There’s a line in Zadie Smith’s The Autograph Man, a book about the the trappings of idolization published when Harry Styles was eight years old, that seems oddly prescient for the current situaton. Just after a line that happens to be about a character’s ruffled shift, Smith writes, “All fandom is a form of tunnel vision: warm and dark and infinite in one direction.”  Read more…

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Dumpling maker by day, club DJ by night – an 82-year-old Japanese woman, who goes by the moniker DJ Sumirock, spins techno tunes for club-goers in Tokyo. Read more…

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