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Jon Skolnik

Brooklyn, New York
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How Self-Care Is Turning Into Self-Indulgence

How Self-Care Is Turning Into Self-Indulgence

Political Animal — Self-care began as a movement of ideas concerned with individual health and wellness. However, it is radically transforming from a movement of ideas to a movement of things. As corporations continue to marketize self-care, it is becoming increasingly accessorized by the elite to signal a lifestyle of luxury.
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MR Online | Hollywood and the Pentagon are cheating on the American public

MR Online | Hollywood and the Pentagon are cheating on the American public

The Monthly Review — Most propaganda machines are not observable to the naked eye, but the military-entertainment complex hides in plain sight. Long have Hollywood and the Pentagon worked together in what has been called a relationship of "mutual exploitation," producing war agitprop for the masses. Who is the victim amid all this exploitation?
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The Art of the Lucrative Con in Right-Wing Celebrities

The Art of the Lucrative Con in Right-Wing Celebrities

Buzzflash — Remember John Stossel, that slender mustachioed man whose shrill, facetious voice you were forced to endure lecturing you in your 9th grade economics class about why sweatshop labor is a force for good? Yes, that's the one. The guy who accosted homeless addicts in the streets and called them 'freeloaders'.
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Virtue by the Numbers

Virtue by the Numbers

The Baffler — If you were to randomly sample the websites of a hundred different multinational companies and guess which website belonged to which based solely on the looks of their Diversity & Inclusion pages, you'd be entering into a dizzying game of Photo Hunt. The homogeneity across these sections, which are now de rigueur, is staggering.
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Teen stabbed, wounded in neck, during Brooklyn cellphone robbery

Teen stabbed, wounded in neck, during Brooklyn cellphone robbery

New York Daily News — A 16-year-old boy was stabbed in the neck by a mugger who snatched his cellphone in Brooklyn early Tuesday, officials and friends said. The teen, who is expected to recover, was walking along Atlantic Ave. in East New York with a friend when the crook stormed up to him on Euclid Ave.
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New York Daily News — The teen, who is expected to recover, was walking on Atlantic Ave. near Euclid Ave. in East New York when the crook stormed up and demanded his valuables about 5:45 a.m.,, cops said.
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NYC judge rules homeless men living at Upper West Side's Lucerne hotel can stay for now

NYC judge rules homeless men living at Upper West Side's Lucerne hotel can stay for now

New York Daily News — A judge's eleventh-hour court ruling on Monday halted the transfer of more than 200 homeless men slated to be moved from a hotel-turned-shelter on the Upper West Side to a facility downtown. Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Debra James granted a temporary restraining order filed on behalf of three men who have been staying at the Lucerne Hotel...
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