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Brad Pitt, \u2018Sex Education\u2019s Ncuti Gatwa, Spike Lee Gets Oscar Nod, and More: HOT LINKS<\/b><\/p>\n

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RELAX<\/strong> The day is almost over just look at Spidey.<\/a><\/p>\n

YOUNG GIFTED AND BLACK\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Ncuti
\nGatwa, who stars in Netflix\u2019s hit show\u00a0Sex
\nEducation<\/em>, has said that it\u2019s important to represent the
\nexperiences of the black, gay<\/a> community because TV only offers a \u201cnarrow
\nrepresentation\u201d of gay<\/a> people.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very important to see a black gay<\/a> teen<\/a> represented,\u201d Gatwa told <\/a>PinkNews <\/em>of his character. \u201cI think there\u2019s quite a narrow representation of gay<\/a> people on TV and I think that we need to push that.<\/p>\n

SAY IT AIN\u2019T SO\u00a0<\/strong>Chris\u00a0Brown\u00a0is\u00a0arrested\u00a0on\u00a0rape\u00a0and\u00a0drug\u00a0charges\u00a0in\u00a0Paris.<\/a><\/p>\n

WE\u2019LL ALWAYS HAVE ROMA\u00a0<\/strong>Yalitza Aparicio was nominated in the Best Actress category for her work in Netflix\u2019s Roma<\/em> at the 2019 Oscars, and she actually recorded and posted her reaction to the news.<\/p>\n

This is just the second time that a Mexican actress has been nominated in this category (the first being back in 2002 when Salma Hayek was nominated for Frida<\/em>.)<\/p>\n

Aparicio woke up bright and early to watch the live<\/a> stream of the nominees! In a video<\/a> posted to her official Twitter account, Aparicio could be heard cheering and then seen crying.<\/a><\/p>\n

BREAKING<\/strong> The New York\u2019s Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) is suing the NYPD on behalf of a transgender woman<\/a> who was charged with \u201cfalse personation\u201d after she provided officers with both her previous and current legal names. \u201cWe can\u2019t allow the NYPD to continue criminalizing transgender people for existing.\u00a0\u201c<\/p>\n

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BREAKING: We’re suing the NYPD on behalf of a transgender woman<\/a> who was charged with \u201cfalse personation\u201d after she provided officers with both her previous and current legal names.<\/p>\n

We can’t allow the NYPD to continue criminalizing transgender people for existing. pic.twitter.com\/MOaNCQlKqF<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 NYCLU (@NYCLU) January 22, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

BREAKING THE BANK<\/strong> <\/a>Page Six\u00a0<\/a><\/em>report<\/a>s<\/a> that Brad Pitt\u2019s Make It Right Foundation is essentially broke, hasn\u2019t built a new house since 2016, hasn\u2019t updated its website since 2015, and last publicly posted its tax filings in 2014. Brad\u2019s been\u00a0pointing fingers<\/a>\u00a0and trying to\u00a0get his name removed<\/a>\u00a0from a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of MIR homeowners. They are suing because the MIR homes they bought with their hard-earned money are garbage. And potentially life threatening.<\/p>\n

THE COUNTDOWN BEGINS \u00a0<\/strong>Every single part of this awards seaso<\/a>n<\/a> has felt crazy-early, and it\u2019s only going to get worse next year, when they move the Academy Awards up by three weeks (are they still doing that? They need to not do that). So this feels hella early, but Academy voters have already voted on this year\u2019s Oscar nominations. There are some surprises, like always, but what remains the same is how quickly various \u201cconsensus\u201d nominees there are. Also consistent: Academy voters are pretty dumb and racist. I\u2019m devoting this post to the \u201cbig nominations\u201d (sorry costume designers) and you can see\u00a0the full list of 2019 Oscar nominations here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

DAWWWW\u00a0<\/strong>Your daily dose of cute.<\/a><\/p>\n

A FIRST\u00a0 <\/strong>Spike\u00a0Lee\u00a0finally\u00a0gets\u00a0an\u00a0Oscar\u00a0nod\u00a0for\u00a0Best\u00a0Director<\/a> for \u00a0BlackKklansman<\/em><\/a>; the film earned six Oscar nominations overall. The news comes as Lee\u2019s original screenplay\u00a0Do the Right Thing<\/em>\u00a0will celebrate its 30th anniversary this summer.\u00a0\u00a0Less acclaimed, but certainly celebrated classic films include:\u00a0Jungle Fever<\/em>\u00a0(1991),\u00a0Crooklyn<\/em>\u00a0(1994), and\u00a0Mo\u2019 Better Blues<\/em>\u00a0(1990).\u00a0She\u2019s Gotta Have It\u00a0<\/em>was adapted for small screen in 2017.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While Lee received an Honorary
\nOscar in 2015, this Academy Award nomination arguably commemorates his
\nlongstanding contribution to cinema and documentary filmmaking.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter what happened with\u00a0Do the Right Thing<\/em>, I just
\nhad to let it go and just be at peace with knowing that the great work is going
\nto outlast awards,\u201d Lee\u00a0told<\/a>\u00a0Variety\u2019<\/em>s \u201cPlayback\u201d
\npodcast\u00a0in October.\u00a0Do
\nthe Right Thing<\/em>\u00a0was notoriously passed over in a number of
\ncategories, including best picture, where\u00a0Driving Miss Daisy<\/em>\u00a0reigned.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are still shocked to this day that\u00a0Driving Miss Daisy\u00a0<\/em>won best picture,\u201d Lee continued. \u201cWho\u2019s watching that film now? So, I\u2019m at peace with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

TV DINNER <\/strong>Tonight on <\/a>Frontline<\/a><\/em>: Coal miners across Appalachia are dying from a resurgence of severe black lung disease. But could this epidemic have been prevented? NPR Correspondent Howard Berkes was reporting on the disease when he received a tip about an outbreak of severe black lung \u2014 a disease that epidemiologists thought was nearly gone. Berkes met with a radiologist whose clinic was so overwhelmed with such cases, he turned to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), for answers.\u00a0The NIOSH researchers found it difficult to believe\u00a0what the radiologist had seen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s pretty difficult to hear the miners just working so hard to catch their breath and to know that the reason for that is those exposures at work that we absolutely know how to prevent,\u201d Celeste Monforton, a former top official at the Mine Safety and Health Administration says. She adds, \u201cIt\u2019s abundantly clear\u2026this problem really is a silica problem\u2026this is such a gross and frank example of regulatory failure.\u201d
And while the mining industry and federal regulators both say they\u2019ve made progress in protecting miners, there still is no plan for tougher regulation of silica at coal mines \u2013 and there are still more than 50,000 coal miners working nationwide.<\/p>\n

HEY ANT<\/strong> How do ants sniff out the right path?<\/a> They may seem like automatons, but ants are surprisingly sophisticated in their navigational strategies.Carpenter ants follow trails. Just watch them wandering about on your wooden porch until they strike a trail of pheromones (chemicals ants use for communication) that another ant has laid down. Ants don\u2019t have noses, so they wave their antennas around to pick upthe trail, then off they go on the road to ruin. (Carpenter ants destroy houses.) Scientists know plenty about ants, including their ability to follow scent trails, but researchers at Harvard wanted to get a more detailed understanding of how exactly ants sniff, or taste, the pheromone-marked path. First, some basics: Ants use their antennas to pick up chemical cues left by other ants.<\/p>\n

And the chemical sense of
\nants, call<\/a> it smell or taste or chemo-reception, enables them to follow
\nstraight trails, curved trails, even zigzags.<\/p>\n

FROM THE OVAL OFFICE<\/strong> President Trump<\/a>\u00a0on Tuesday said he directed White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders to stop holding regular briefings, citing unfair treatment by the news media says The Hill<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe
\nreason Sarah Sanders does not go to the \u2018podium\u2019 much anymore is that the press
\ncovers her so rudely & inaccurately, in particular certain members of the
\npress,\u201d Trump tweeted. \u201cI told her not to bother, the word gets out anyway!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not that they\u2019ve
\never stopped, it\u2019s just that sometimes we need to come to the podium to
\ncommunicate things and sometimes we don\u2019t,\u201d Gidley said.<\/p>\n

THE FUTURE IS NOW<\/strong> Connecticut\u2019s 5th grade Kid Governor is sworn<\/a> in with LGBTQ platform. Every year, the state\u2019s 5th graders\u00a0elect a student<\/a>\u00a0with a specific platform. The 2018 Kid Governor Megan Kasperowski made videos<\/a> and\u00a0helped people with cancer.<\/a>\u00a0The 2019 Kid Governor ran on\u00a0a very different platform.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to having your help to keep our schools safe and to spread the message that love is love,\u201d said Briggs in her campaign video<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Briggs wants to educate students and teachers about accepting everyone.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo start gay<\/a>-straight aliances, otherwise known as GSAs, and safe spaces where members of the LGBTQ community and their allies can find pride in who they are,\u201d Briggs said in her inauguration address<\/p>\n

CARE BEAR STARE<\/strong> Why you should give and get more hugs<\/a>. We hug others when we\u2019re excited, happy, sad, or trying to comfort. Hugging, it seems, is universally comforting. It makes us feel good. And it turns out that hugging is proven to make us healthier and happier. According to scientists, the benefits of hugging go beyond that warm feeling you get when you hold someone in your arms. <\/p>\n

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BACK ON THE BRINK?<\/strong> It began as a joke: the Twitter hashtag #euroboom tacked on to news of any sign, no matter how faint, of a euro-area recovery. <\/a>By 2017, when French, German and even Spanish GDP grew by more than 2 percent, it seemed to describe a real phenomenon. Alas, all too quickly #euroboom has turned to #eurogloom. GDP data scheduled for release later this month are likely to confirm that in the final three months of 2018 Italy\u2019s economy contracted for a second consecutive quarter, satisfying one of the technical definitions of a recession. Germany appears to have escaped recession, but only just. The euro area, formed in January 1999, may pass its anniversary on the brink of another downturn.<\/p>\n

The euro has been an economic fiasco. GDP growth in the euro area has lagged behind that in other advanced economies, and in the European Union as a whole, throughout its life\u2014before the financial crisis, during the global recession and its euro-area encore, and even during the recent #euroboom. Perhaps the area would have done as badly without the single currency. But attempts to estimate euro-zone performance relative to a counterfactual world sans euro suggest not. The past decade has been especially brutal. A list of the world\u2019s worst performers in terms of real GDP per person since 2008 contains places suffering geopolitical meltdowns\u2014plus the euro-area periphery. Greece has been outgrown by Sudan and Ukraine. Cyprus and Italy have been beaten by Brazil and Iran; France and the Netherlands by Britain.<\/p>\n

The Hummingbird Project\u00a0<\/strong>You\u2019ll make a lot more money at the stock exchange if you\u2019ve got the fastest connection to it. In\u00a0The Hummingbird Project<\/em>, a team of traders attempts to get the best connection possible by actually building their own fiber-optic network. Out on March 15th, the film stars Jesse Eisenberg, Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd, Michael Mando, and Salma Hayek.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>2019 Oscar
\nnominations: who got rewarded & who got snubbed?<\/a><\/strong>Every single part of this awards season has
\nfelt crazy-early, and it\u2019s only going to get worse next year, when they move
\nthe Academy Awards up by three weeks (are they still doing that? They need to
\nnot do that). So this feels hella early, but Academy voters have already voted
\non this year\u2019s Oscar nominations. There are some surprises, like always, but
\nwhat remains the same is how quickly various \u201cconsensus\u201d nominees there are.
\nAlso consistent: Academy voters are pretty dumb and racist. I\u2019m devoting this
\npost to the \u201cbig nominations\u201d (sorry costume designers) and you can see\u00a0the full list of
\n2019 Oscar nominations here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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