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Venice Bullied Jeff Bezos's Wedding to a Second Location (compliment)

Venice Bullied Jeff Bezos's Wedding to a Second Location (compliment)

Plus Free Merch in NYC's Mayoral Race

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Hi chat! Today all I keep hearing about is the NYC Mayoral Primary. Which is important and I think it’s great that so many people are seemingly participating in it. I hope the seemingly-ness is wrong on my part and people actually are. And before you ask, no I don’t have all the facts so I’m not going to attempt to share an opinion on it, though I’ll offer an observation. It looks like a ton of public figures and young influencers are supporting Zohran (he even made free merch!) and as a result Andrew Cuomo and team have been actively trying to typecast the kid as “other” iykwim.

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So like idk between that and the whole SA accusations piece, I’m hoping people stay on the right side of history and just don’t fux with Cuomo at all. But hey, I could be way off base. I’m going off of what TikTok and an article in The Cut tell me. And sadly, this is how we get our news now, so I can’t assure you it’s right. Anyway if you can exercise your right to vote, I hope you do, it’s such a privilege and who knows how much longer we’ll even have it lmao.

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Dear Media acquires fitness platform, obé for an undisclosed amount. Okay this one really made my ears perk up. Because obé was founded by two ex-CAA agents, Mark Mullett and Ashley Mills, and the platform has identified itself as an “entertainment” fitness app which is a unique selling prop to me and here’s why…

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