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Nixed Metaphors
Mary Wilson with today’s three things: 1) A tabloid with sang-froid, 2) Are we sure carbon dioxide is bad? 3) Block that metaphor.
3 min
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Everybody Loves This Bill, Believe Me
Mike Pesca with two things you need to know, one you don't: 1) The CIA is spying on you via smart TVs; 2) Trump loves this healthcare bill, it's terrific, fantastic; 3) An icon in waffle-making has died.
1 min
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Intensities
Mary Wilson with today’s three things: 1) China warns of an arms race in its backyard, 2) We’ll see about “Invincible,” and 3) Standing Rock supporters set up camp in Washington.
1 min
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The Blitzkrieg of Women Voters
Mary Wilson with today’s three things: 1) The Trump White House looks for leak-stopping technology, 2) The questionable tactics of supporters of Liberia’s first female president, and 3) The world’s first robot lawyer.
1 min
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Rubber Duckies in Crazy Glue
Chris Berube and Wendy Zukerman with three science-y things: 1) A new use for gene therapy; 2) A new metaphor for climate change; 3) A new mammal is revealed by its beautiful "song."
4 min
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Cup of Joe vs. the Volcano
Mike Pesca with two things you need to know, one you don't: 1) Marine Le Pen loses her immunity; 2) The DHS is a little short on cash for that border wall; 3) Tom Hanks is giving the press corps a coffee machine and this news is inspiring for Mike.
1 min
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Disbar Kellyanne Conway at Your Peril
Chris Berube and Dahlia Lithwick with three things: 1) The White House sends a confusing message on the immigration order; 2) Why Trump is not calling out recent killings as "terrorism"; 3) The move to disbar Kellyanne Conway.
3 min
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Mr. Jones Goes to Washington
Chris Berube and Ben Mathis-Lilley with three things: 1) Boarder agents are searching planes now; 2) Betsy DeVos sends a troubling press release about school choice; 3) Alex Jones and InfoWars hit the mainstream.
3 min
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Bonnie and Clyde, At It Again
Chris Berube and Aisha Harris with three things about the Oscars: 1) Moonlight is the least expensive Best Picture ever; 2) What the hell happened with that envelope?; 3) Some historic firsts.
2 min
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Drink Sustainably
Mary Wilson with today’s three things: 1) China taunts President Trump, 2) Check-in at the conservative carnevale, and 3) When you want to make bad decisions, but you also want to save the planet.
1 min
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Garden Anxiety
Mike Pesca has today's three things: 1) The break-out star of this week's town halls, 2) Bad Catholics, and 3) The War on Rhododendrons.
1 min
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A Cliff of Scandal
Mary Wilson has today's three things: 1) Trump's travel ban looms over Match Day, 2) A rat at Bears Ears?, and 3) Kashmir cracks down on wedding extravagance.
2 min
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Town Bloody Halls
Mary Wilson with today's three things: 1) Duck if you see the White House counsel, 2) Marine Le Pen will not cover up, and 3) Survival tips for elected officials hosting town halls.
1 min
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Order Whatever You Want, As Long as it's Meatloaf
Chris Berube with three things: 1) The high cost of a billionaire president; 2) German spy dolls must be stopped; 3) Trump really wants you to have the meatloaf, you're going to love it, it's fantastic.
2 min
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Senator Kid Rock
Mike Pesca with three things: 1) Cerberus joins the White House; 2) An incompetent baseball owner heads to France; 3) Senator Kid Rock from the great state of Michigan.
1 min
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No Big Deal, We're Just Taping Your Conversations
Chris Berube with three things: 1) The White House changes course on the Israel-Palestine conflict; 2) Omarosa has a run-in with a journalist; 3) Eurovision drama!
1 min
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Love is Dead in Pakistan
Chris Berube with three things: 1) When did Trump know Michael Flynn was lying?; 2) Valentine's Day is banned in Pakistan; 3) Shia LaBeouf's ill-considered art project is shut down.
1 min
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Golden Raspberry Award Winner Donald Trump
Chris Berube with three things: 1) Trump's labor secretary faces more delays; 2) The politics of Linda McMahon; 3) Trump and Mnuchin's inauspicious film careers.
2 min
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Plant Some Truffles
Mary Wilson fills in for Mike Pesca with today's three things: 1) The other Conway, 2) A fine for France's Underground Railroad operator, and 3) Using the trolls as fuel.
1 min
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Puritanic at the Disco
Mary Wilson with today's three things: 1) Play it again, Bonjean, 2) Sleeping at school, and 3) Henryetta fails to save the last dance.
1 min
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Spicer Up Your Life
Mary Wilson fills in for Mike Pesca with today's three things: 1) The supreme leader's scorn, 2) A hospitalized Kremlin critic is being tested for exposure to poison, and 3) Sean Spicer's manifesto.
1 min
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God's Stock
Mike Pesca has today's three things: 1) Behold, the glory of the God Index, 2) Super Bowl ratings dip for the second year in a row, and 3) Namibia cracks down on walkers.
2 min
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Kremlin Calling
Mary Wilson fills in for Mike Pesca with today's three things: 1) A flap over PLAP, 2) Puerto Rico's governor approves a statehood referendum, and 3) The Kremlin calls on Fox News to apologize.
1 min
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The Massacre That Wasn't
Chris Berube with three things: 1) An update on the Betsy DeVos confirmation fight; 2) Why does everyone believe there was a nonexistent massacre in Kentucky?; 3) Broadway gets topical.
2 min
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Wait, We Have a Refugee Deal with Australia?
Chris Berube with three things: 1) Why is Donald Trump mad at the Australian PM?; 2) 76 protestors arrested at Standing Rock; 3) Don't make predictions in Sri Lanka.
1 min