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Ozy Media shuts down just one week after most of us found out it exists

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Samantha Bee, Mark Cuban, CEO and Co-Founder Carlos Watson, and Jeb Bush speak onstage during Ozy Fest 2017 | Photo by Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Ozy Fusion Fest 2017. This morning, Watson stepped down from the board of National Public Radio. The eight-year-old media startup was unrecognizable to most. News: Ozy is shutting down.

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Secret Agent L: Covering the Globe with Random Acts of Kindess

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Photo by Rob de la Cretaz "We're so busy. I decided to do a little anonymous act of kindness, take photos, call it a secret mission, put it up on a blog, and then I told her about it. I follow your blog, and you don't put up every photo that everyone sends you, do you? I try to post most of the photos that the agent sends to me.

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How to watch the Democratic National Convention

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Photo by Drew Angerer / Getty Images. The Democratic National Convention kicks off Monday night online. The coronavirus pandemic forced the Democrats to can their initial plans of an in-person event in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to formally nominate former Vice President Joe Biden as the party’s nominee for president. Who’s speaking?

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Can pickleball become the quintessential NYC sport? These founders are banking on it

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Photo: courtesy CityPickle] And its an opportunity that businesses large and small are seizing on. This past summer, it operated 32 courts around the city and sold a minority stake to ex-Milwaukee Bucks owner Marc Lasry’s Avenue Sports Fund. In hypercompetitive New York City, though, that kind of innovation can be harder.

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How to come up with cash in a hurry

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For example, I live in Milwaukee, which hosted the Republican National Convention last summer. Some Milwaukee residents were able to get as much as $2,400 per night by renting out their homes to visitors. Use your skills Like Liam Neeson , you have a very particular set of skills that can equal quick cash.

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Chuck Todd on why Meet the Press can’t survive on just one platform

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Photo Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge. A lot of people may not like John Bolton, but John Bolton’s got an ideological point of view on national security issues. That said, if you’re the local NBC reporter in Milwaukee, he’s the elected United States senator, what do you do? I wouldn’t put on Alex Jones either.

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Count Every Vote got its power from the Black Lives Matter movement

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Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images. And in addition to tools like Slack and Signal, they used tools developed by national organizations for progressive- and left-leaning groups, specifically tailored for mobilization. But Democratic activists were prepared to rally for counter-demonstrations.