Media entrepreneur and Mediaite owner Dan Abrams acquired two liquor event companies to complement his Bottle Raiders website, a consolidation of several spirits review sites he launched in recent years.

The event brands, Whisky Washback and Arte Agave, currently hold 11 tasting events each year in major cities across the country. Abrams plans to expand the number of events and locations, as well as offer custom virtual and in-person events to organizations.

“With this acquisition, we are sort of bringing everything together, which is events, video, an app and the web,” Abrams said in an interview with Variety announcing the deal.

Abrams recently combined his whiskeyraiders.com, tequilaraiders.com, ginraiders.com and rumraiders.com websites  into one umbrella site called Bottle Raiders. The consolidated site bills itself as “the world’s largest spirits review website,” that will now include tasting events.

“Our goal has long been to use powerful content from experts to drive experiences and expand our revenue streams,” Abrams said in a statement. “Being able to connect our audience with top-notch tasting events around the country where they will have exclusive access to brands and industry personalities is a perfect fit.”

Abrams added that the Whiskey Washback and Arte Agave team will remain in place, with founders Walter and Emily Easterbrook continuing to lead the events portion of the business.

“This partnership not only represents a significant milestone for the company I have passionately built but also signals a transformative era for the hospitality industry,” Walter Easterbrook said.

The next event is from Arte Agave and will be held on May 31 in Miami.

Last fall, Abrams sold his Law&Crime network to Jellysmack in a reported nine-figure deal that marked the tech startup’s largest acquisition to date.

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When you move in the real world, you usually fill out a change of address form with the post office, and boom!—your mail appears at your new home. If only it was as easy to change your email address. Whether you’re leaving an outdated service, moving to a new job, or just want to get rid of the silly username you created in high school, here’s how to make the transition to a new email address simple and orderly.

Pick an email you’ll actually keep

First, make sure your new email address is one you’ll actually use for a long time. That might involve finally getting your own domain and associating your email address with your real name. Something like firstname@lastname.com has a lot more staying power than yourname@yahoo.com. This way, you won’t deal with an email provider and you don’t have to worry about changing your email address ever again.

That might sound daunting to set up, but it’s actually pretty easy to get your own domain name and set up an email address you can use in a more familiar interface like Gmail (or your app of choice). Having an email address through your domain registrar might cost you a little extra each month for the privilege, but it’s a small price to pay for a custom email.

If you don’t want to spend the money on a domain, we’d recommend going with one of the big free providers like Gmail or Outlook. Basically, you want to avoid the email address you get from your school, the email address your ISP gives you, or your company’s email address. Work and school emails are fine, but they might not last forever. You need something you can always come back to.

As for your actual email address, make it as easy to remember and as “grown-up” as possible. That means avoiding cringe-worthy names like “thorinsparkles2000@gmail.com” or “zeldafan1969@outlook.com.”

Instead, stick to some variation of your given name whenever possible. You can add something to it if it’s already taken on whatever service you choose, but don’t use something potentially embarrassing or anything that gives away too many personal details about you: your birth year, your political affiliation, or your favorite sports team, for example.

Migrate your old inbox to your new one

In a lot of cases, you can migrate your old emails and contacts to your new email address pretty easily. We can’t cover how to do this with every single webmail and domain provider out there, but here’s how you’d migrate to a new account with Gmail. (The process should be pretty similar with other services.)

How to migrate your email to Gmail

Once you set up a new Gmail account, you can import email and contacts into that account like so:

• Sign in to your Gmail account and click the gear icon, then select Settings.

• Open the Accounts and import tab.

• In the “Check mail from other accounts” section, select Add a mail account.

• Enter your old email address, click Next, make a selection, and hit Next again.

• Select the options you want (label incoming messaging, always use a secure connection, etc.).

• Click Add Account.

All your old emails will now be pulled into your new account. You’ll also get any new emails that come through, so you don’t need to worry about email forwarding. This process can be a little slow, so if you need to get the emails still going to your old address quickly, we’d recommend setting up a forwarding system on your old email account as well (see the next section for how to do that).

Gmail also has a separate “Import mail and contacts” option that can also pull in the aforementioned data from other accounts. Consider giving this a try, too.

Keep your old email alive—set up email forwarding

Next, it’s time to set up a system so that anything sent to your old email account gets forwarded to your new one. You’ll need to do this on your old email account (if you switched to Gmail, you already set this up in the last step). This is different for each email provider, but here’s how to set up email forwarding from Gmail and Outlook.

How to set up email forwarding from your old Gmail account

If you switch from Gmail to another service, you want to forward those emails to a new account. Here’s how to do it:

1. Open Gmail and click the gear icon.

2. Select Settings.

3. Select the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab.

4. Click Add a forwarding address.

5. Enter your new email address.

6. Click Next > Proceed > OK.

7. You’ll get a verification email at your new email address—click the link to confirm.

8. Refresh your browser and go back to Forwarding and POP/IMAP > Forwarding > Forward a copy of incoming mail to to select what you want to have happen to the Gmail copy of your messages.

Now, when someone emails you at your old Gmail address, you’ll receive that email at your new email address. If you want to receive only select forwarded emails, you can set up filter-specific email forwards so you don’t bring along any junk or spam to your new email.

How to set up email forwarding from your old Outlook account

Email forwarding is easy to set up in Outlook:

1. At the top of the page in your web browser, select the Settings gear icon.

2. Select Mail > Forwarding.

3. Select Enable forwarding and enter your new email address.

4. Select Save.

Now, any email sent to your old Outlook address will go to your new one.

Update your email address on all your accounts

One of the biggest pains with a new email address is that you have to update your information in all your online accounts. This means you need to log in and change your email address everywhere on the web—from Facebook to your bank. It’s tough to remember everywhere you have accounts.

This process is much easier if you use a password manager, which should give you a long list of all the sites where you have accounts. Take an afternoon to log in to each of them and update your email address. And don’t forget to update your info in your preferred password manager while you’re at it so it isn’t using your old email address for your logins.

If you don’t use a password manager, it’s a little harder to find all your accounts. The easiest way to do this is to search through your old email for phrases like “confirm your email,” “unsubscribe,” “your new account” or “welcome to.” This should provide you with a solid list of websites you have accounts at, email newsletters you’ve subscribed to, and just about everything else.

Tell your friends and family

Finally, it’s time to break it to your friends and family that they need to update their address books with your new email address.

Depending on how many people you need to contact and your relationship with them, you might want to send out a few different emails to announce your big change: one for your family, one for friends, and one for business associates. Send the emails from your new email address and BCC everyone else on your list so you don’t accidentally share a bunch of email addresses that people might not want shared.

Finally, it’s time to throw an auto-responder on your old email address and let it die gracefully. Just head into your old account and create one (it’s also known as a vacation responder in some services) with a message that tells recipients about your new email address.

In some cases, you might need to follow up on your change-of-address email to make sure your initial note didn’t end up in someone’s spam or junk folder, but you should now be well on your way to ditching that old email address and moving on to something you’ll actually want to keep for a long while.

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For the second straight week, ABC’s This Week opened with a stunning commentary — this one about the stakes of the 2024 election.

Right at the outset of Sunday’s show, host Jon Karl — filling in for George Stephanopoulos — pointed to a oft-repeated refrain about elections, and argued that, for once, it actually applies.

“For as long as I’ve covered politics, politicians have said this will be the most important election of our lifetimes,” Karl said. “They said that no matter how high or low the stakes actually were. Election Day 2024 is exactly six months from today, and this time the divisions in our country are so vast and the choice so stark, there’s little doubt this really is the most important election of our time.

“No more crying wolf,” Karl said. “This is it.”

The back half of Karl’s monologue focused mostly on former President Donald Trump.

“In a lengthy interview with Time magazine, the man who still refuses to accept the results of the last election refused to say whether he would accept the results of this one,” Karl said. “And the man who saw his supporters attack the Capitol three years ago said there would not be violence this time if he wins, adding, quote ‘and if we don’t win, you know, it depends.’ It always depends on the fairness of an election. To be clear, Trump says no violence if he wins. All bets are off if he loses.”

Karl’s commentary comes one work after a Stephanopolous show opener went viral in which he said “bedrock tenants of democracy are being tested in a way we haven’t seen since the Civil War.”

“It’s a test for the candidates, for those of us in the media, and for all of us as citizens,” Stephanopoulos said.

Watch above, via ABC.

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CNN’s Jake Tapper pressed President Joe Biden’s campaign co-chair about abortion — an issue on which, according to Tapper, Biden has been “all over the map.”

In an interview of State of the Union Sunday, the CNN anchor confronted former Gov. Mitch Landrieu — who is the co-chair of the Biden-Harris 2024 campaign — about the president’s past rhetoric on abortion.

Here’s how Tapper summed up Biden’s history on the subject.

“I know that the Biden campaign, the Biden-Harris campaign, sees support for abortion rights as a real asset for November. I have to note that in his 50 years in politics — and I’ve been covering him for, I don’t know, 25 of them — Joe Biden has been all over the map on abortion. In ’74, he said Roe v. Wade ‘went too far’ and that ‘a woman should not have the sole right to say what should happen to her body.’ That was a long time ago. Of course, in 2006, he said, ‘I do not view abortion as a choice and a right.’ Just this year, he said, ‘I’ve never been supportive of, you know, it’s my body. I can do what I want with it,’ By his own admission, Biden is an odd man out with his party on abortion.”

The CNN anchor went on to ask, “Do you think his own long, complicated history on this issue, do you think it muddies his message and undermines the contrast with Donald Trump?”

Landrieu started his reply with a lengthy critique of former President Donald Trump, before finally addressing Tapper’s question.

“Joe Biden obviously has evolved over time, but in the last eight years of his life and since his presidency, he has been very strong in his support of a very simple notion that he trusts women to make decisions about their reproductive health,” Landrieu said. “Donald Trump trust the states. That is kind of where it is right now, and that is where both of them say they will govern from.”

Watch above, via CNN.

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Fox News host Greg Gutfeld mocked anti-Israel college protesters as the “most hilarious” in history, saying never before have so many who contributed so little demanded so much. But he also said the “comedy” distracts from how “hateful they really are.”

On the lastest Gutfeld! on Fox News friday, the late-night host called out the demonstrators as “the most hilarious protest in history” before noting that the students, who are “physically and spiritually sick,” represent the “spores of October 7th.”

Over the last month, college protesters and local activists have begun protesting against the war between Hamas and Israel in the Gaza legion by demanding the U.S. stop supporting Israel.

The nationwide protests at prominent universities, such as UCLA and Columbia, have led to Democrats and Republicans denouncing the demonstrators as “anti-Semitic.”

They’re so used to having their demands catered to. They literally now demand catering. Never before have people who contributed so little demanded so much. And so this may be the most hilarious protest in history, but in this comedy, it’s easy to forget how hateful they really are. So let’s do some reminding. When you have an ideology that encourages the execution of gays and unmarried girls who aren’t virgins, we can say that to evil. It’s obvious because it’s brutal and it causes suffering.

But there’s something just as evil. And it’s the intent, the pleasure and the certitude driving those evil acts. Now, we aren’t seeing these acts on campus, obviously, but what you are seeing in those faces and voices are the seeds of them. The certitude, the blind dogma, the impulse for retribution, the spores of October 7th. It’s why you can’t equate Islamophobia with anti-Semitism.

And this helps answer why the protesters seem so naive yet angry, ignorant but deadly certain, passionate, but also deeply unwell. They are physically and spiritually sick, for they are operating from the manual of a punitive ideology. And I don’t mean Islam, I mean another iteration of Marxism that simply absorbs new allies. They don’t wish to progress, but to punish. So as we scan these images, you see a profound ugliness. It’s not just the appearances. It’s the souls. And that’s no laughing matter.

Watch the clip above via Fox News.

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Turning Point USA, the right-wing youth advocacy organization founded and run by Charlie Kirk, is operating a secret website distancing itself and Kirk from Candace Owens, the controversial former employee that TPUSA continues to associate itself with despite her recent embrace of overtly anti-Semitic rhetoric.

The website can be found at the domain https://israel.tpusa.com/ and its header reads “TPUSA Stands With Israel.”

The rest of the page is dedicated to expressing Kirk and TPUSA’s affinity for Israel and stressing the fact that Owens does not represent either the organization or its founder.

“Below we provide a list of articles and videos so that you can fully understand Charlie’s and Turning Point USA’s unapologetic support of Israel and the Jewish people. Charlie is one of the most vocal supporters of Israel in this country. I hope these videos and links help clear up any questions you may have,” it states. “As a reminder, Charlie is not Candace, and Candace is not a TPUSA employee. If you have specific questions about Candace’s comments or views, we suggest you contact her directly.”

It continues:

Charlie has been to Israel twice, and Israel and the Jewish people hold a special place in his heart. Additionally, it is worth noting that TPUSA as an organization supports Israel in a number of ways including, but not limited to: Hosting an annual Young Jewish Leadership Summit; Sending 100+ students to Israel for educational trips; Sending an Israel-specific ‘Activism Kit’ to hundreds of high school and college campuses each semester; Welcoming Dennis Prager and other Jewish thought-leaders to our national events; and Hosting pro-Israel social media trainings for TPUSA ambassadors and online influencers.

There are also several videos of Kirk expressing his support for Israel embedded on the page.

In a statement delivered to Mediaite, TPUSA spokesman Andrew Kolvet confirmed the authenticity of the page — which internet archives indicate has existed since at least April 20 — but did not expand upon its purpose. “We love Israel and Candace,” said Kolvet.

How to explain its existence then? Occam’s razor would suggest that TPUSA would like to continue to reap the benefits of its professional relationship with Owens while using the page to assure conservative donors, the vast majority of whom continue to support Israel, that it is not an anti-Israel organization.

That’s a tough argument to make, however, given the content that can be found on the organization’s main website, which uses Owens’s name, likeness, and words to secure donations, identifies her as a member of its executive team, and features her on its homepage.

 

On X, TPUSA also frequently promotes Owens, who is slated to speak at the organization’s upcoming Young Women’s Leadership Summit and appears to currently be on campus tour for the organization.

Are you ready, LADIES!? Our latest #YWLS2024 speaker drop is one for the books!

Join us June 7th-9th in San Antonio, TX, for the nation’s LARGEST gathering of young, conservative women! Head over to https://t.co/Z96ozRGJKG to register! pic.twitter.com/yIVGLlpL84

— Turning Point USA (@TPUSA) April 24, 2024

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Moreover, as tensions heated up between Owens and Daily Wire founding editor Ben Shapiro over Israel last fall, Kirk brought Owens on his show, where he characterized Shapiro’s behavior as “totally out of line” and incredulously asked what Shapiro meant when he accused her of modeling “faux sophistication” on the issue of Israel.

“I call balls and strikes where I see it and Candace, I think it’s been super unfair the way some people have been treating you — really unfair,” said Kirk.

Owens was fired by The Daily Wire in March after a number of incidents, including one in which she inveighed against “political Jews” and another in which she expressed concern over a small, “sinister” “ring” of Jews exercising power in Hollywood. Owens resigned from her position of communications director at TPUSA in 2019 after spending less than two years in the role. TPUSA still oversees BLEXIT, an initiative co-founded by Owens.

TPUSA has not yet responded to an inquiry about whether Kirk was personally aware of the secret website’s existence.

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Now that so many of us are signed up to cloud storage services, USB drives aren't as ubiquitous as they once were, but they still have their uses. One of those uses is running an entire computer system entirely on the USB stick, which you can then bring anywhere. Your files and apps are always with you rather than being left at home or at the office, and if you're at a new desk you don't have to spend time getting everything set up the way you want—just plug in the drive, and you're up and running.

How it works

Of course you can't take an entire PC around with you on a USB stick—you need a monitor, a keyboard, a motherboard, and everything else. That said, all of the software and storage can be handled on a portable USB drive: As long as you have access to a computer with a spare USB slot, you can run your portable PC.

There's no interference with the existing setup on the computer you're using either, so you can borrow one from a colleague or a friend without causing them any hassle. You reboot the PC, tell it to load up your USB stick rather than what's on the internal drive, and your operating system appears. When you're done, shut down the computer, unplug your USB drive, and you've left no trace behind.

It's great if you're always moving between locations, and want to have access to the same desktop interface wherever you go. It can also be useful if you're trying to troubleshoot problems with your hardware setup, or if you want to try out different operating systems without installing anything permanently on your computer.

You do need to bear in mind some caveats, though. A USB drive isn't as fast or as capable as a full desktop or laptop system, so you're limited to basic computing tasks. This doesn't really work on Macs either, because of their different architecture—if you need to run a separate system on macOS, the best approach is setting up a virtual machine.

Choosing an OS

When it comes to picking an operating system for your USB PC, you can use Windows if you'd like to—via a third-party tool such as WinToUSB—though you will need a paid license for it, and the user experience isn't the best. A better idea is to go for a flavor of Linux: Not only is the software free to use, it's also more lightweight, which means you're not putting as much stress on the USB drive and everything should run more smoothly.

If you're new to Linux, it's an open source desktop OS that comes in a wide variety of flavors known as distros. It doesn't offer the same kind of broad software selection or hardware support as Windows or macOS, but all the core computing apps are covered: You can browse the web, check your email, do some work, edit images, and plenty more on Linux.

When it comes to choosing the distro you want to use, it's really up to you: Just about any version of Linux can be run fairly easily from a USB stick. Make sure you look for a feature called "persistence" in the distro documentation, though—this means you're going to be able to save settings and files to the USB drive, rather than starting up fresh with a clean slate every time you boot it up.

Ideally, you want to choose a distro that's lightweight and basic, to give you the smoothest operation possible. Puppy Linux and Linux Lite are often recommended for this particular purpose, while Tails is great if security is a priority—it automatically connects to the Tor network when you go online. Ubuntu is an excellent choice too, offering a polished interface and plenty of help documentation.

Getting started

Head to the official website for your Linux distro of choice, then look for an ISO download—this is essentially the operating system in its entirety. Downloads like this can often run to several gigabytes in size, so you might have to wait a while. It's also worth checking in the distro's documentation to see if there are any notes or recommendations regarding USB installation.

Next, you need a program to put the ISO on the USB drive for you—not just to copy over the file, but to make the drive bootable. There are a few options here, including Rufus, but we've gone for Etcher for this guide: It's really simple to use, and you can run it on both Windows and macOS (and, indeed, Linux).

Fire up Etcher, and you'll see there are three stages: Pick Flash from file to pick the ISO from disk, then Select target to choose a USB drive connected to your computer, and then click Flash to complete the operation. As far as USB drives go, a capacity of at least 8GB is recommended, plus the fastest read/write speeds you can find—you might find more requirements listed on the pages of the distro you've chosen.

With all that taken care of, you can use your USB drive by putting it in a spare USB port on any computer, then restarting the computer and choosing to boot from the USB stick. How this is done varies, but it usually involves pressing a key to choose a boot device while the computer's starting up—look for a message on screen or check the documentation that came with the computer, if you're not sure.

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Other streamers, especially those with close corporate ties to major movie studios, might reel in a few more major theatrical releases than Netflix. Where Netflix outshines them, however, is in its slate of original movies produced specifically for the streaming service. At a glance, it might seem as though the streamer emphasizes quantity over quality, but they've released nine Best Picture Academy Award nominees since 2019. Oscars aren't everything, of course—but they're not nothing, either.

Here, then, are some of the best recent movies streaming on Netflix, whether wide theatrical releases you might have missed, or originals.

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Society of the Snow (2023)

The true story of the 1972 Uruguayan rugby team lost in the Andes following a place crash has been the subject of multiple documentaries and two previous dramas. For all that, this would seem to be the best of all of them: a thoughtful and tasteful take on what's sometimes been presented as a salacious drama, with director J. A. Bayona emphasizing both the physical perils faced by the team, but also the spiritual toll of survival.

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Thanksgiving (2023)

Patrick Dempsey stars in this funny but bleak satire from Eli Roth, his first horror film since 2013. When an unruly mob storms a Walmart (sorry: RightMart) on Black Friday, violence and bloodshed ensue, leaving one of the victims of the incident to seek revenge. It's wild and gory holiday fun.

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Anyone but You (2023)

A loose spin on Much Ado About Nothing, Anyone But You stars Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell as a couple who meet, hit it off—and then immediately piss each other off such that neither really wants to see each other again. Until, of course, they need wedding dates and find themselves surrounded by scheming friends. It's not wildly out there as rom-com premises go, but this one's briskly directed and boasts strong chemistry between the leads.

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Orion in the Dark (2024)

Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) wrote this DreamWorks animated adaptation of the Emma Yarlett novel. When Orion is visited by the literal incarnation of his fear of the dark, he's taken on a whirlwind journey around the world to explore the world of night and help him to face his fears.

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The Perfect Find (2023)

Numa Perrier’s film hits plenty of the traditional rom-com beats, but no matter: Lead Gabrielle Union provides the spark that ignites the whole film (based on the Tia Williams novel). She’s never been better than she is here, playing Jenna, a woman in her 40s making a clean break of a long-term relationship and taking on a high-profile, high-stakes career in beauty journalism—only to wind up in a one-night stand with Eric (Keith Powers), 15 years younger and the son of her boss.

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Damsel (2024)

Netflix's favorite action lead, Millie Bobby Brown, is back in this dark fantasy from director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (28 Weeks Later). Brown plays Elodie, the damsel of the title, offered into an arranged marriage by her family, only to discover that she's marked as the sacrifice to a dragon. Which turns out to be bad news for her new in-laws.

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Rebel Moon, Parts One and Two (2023/2024)

Zack Snyder, late of the entire DC cinematic universe, isn't to everyone's taste—but his Army of the Dead, also for Netflix, was a fun spin on the zombie formula, done as a heist movie. His followup is pure science fiction: a multi-part (it's unclear how many parts that will be) space opera that blends Snyder's distinctive visual style with Star Wars-style action. Sofia Boutella stars as a former soldier who rallies warriors from across the galaxy to join in a revolt against the imperial Motherworld on the title's out-of-the-way farming moon.

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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (2023)

This short adaptation of the Roald Dahl story finally earned Wes Anderson his first Oscar. Benedict Cumberbatch stars as the titular Henry Sugar, a man who uses his inherited fortune to fund his gambling habit. When he learns of a secret means of winning by seeing through the eyes of others, he comes to perceive more than he, perhaps, bargained for. It's cute and sweet, and among one of Anderson's most visually inventive works (which is saying quite a bit). At 39 minutes, it never has time to wear out its welcome—even if you're not a huge fan of Anderson''s twee sensibilities. Ralph Fiennes, Dev Patel, Ben Kingsley, and Richard Ayoade also star.

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American Symphony (2023)

Director Matthew Heineman's film follows a year in the lives of writer Suleika Jaouad and her husband, musician Jon Batiste, during which she confronts a recurrence of a rare form of leukemia while he constructs his first symphony. It's a moving film that goes beyond the obvious tropes to make the case that there are things that only music can say. It had a lot of Oscar buzz, while receiving just a single nomination for Best Song.

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Scoop (2024)

The great Gillian Anderson plays real-life British journalist Emily Maitlis, who lead the BBC2 team that secured the disastrous (for the Prince) interview with Prince Andrew (Rufus Sewell) that laid bare his associations with sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Keeley Hawes and Billie Piper also star.

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We Have a Ghost (2023)

Christopher Landon, writer/director behind innovative comedy-horror movies like Happy Death Day and Freaky (and, briefly, of the next Scream movie), helms this similarly fun but more family-friendly entry. Anthony Mackie is in the lead as Frank Presley, who, with his family, buys a cheap fixer-upper, only for his son Kevin (Jahi Winston) to discover a ghost (played by David Harbour) unliving in the attic. So far, familiar territory, but Kevin wants to help their new ghost while dad only wants to make money—and so, their ghost goes viral.

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The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)

He may be America's least favorite Chris, but Mr. Pratt still leads the voice cast for the year's second highest-grossing movie: a colorful, goofy animated adventure pitting proudly Italian-American brothers Mario and Luigi against Bowser (Jack Black), King of the Koopas.

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May December (2023)

Todd Haynes directs this insightful and moving, but also deliberately campy, story of an actress visiting the woman whom she'll be playing in a film. The movie's deft, and unexpected, blending of tones makes it pretty consistently fascinating, and the lead performances from Natalie Portman, Julianne Moore, and Charles Melton are all top-tier.

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Nyad (2023)

Annette Benning stars as the real-life Diana Nyad, who swam from Florida to Cuba in her 60s. The movie succeeds in large part because of the performances from and chemistry between lead Annette Bening and Jodie Foster, both of whom received Oscar nominations for their work here.

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The Killer (2023)

David Fincher's latest didn't seem to generate his typical buzz, perhaps because it's so thoroughly action-oriented (a far cry from his last Netflix original, the screenplay-writing drama Mank). Michael Fassbender plays the movie's nameless hitman protagonist, a fastidious and ruthless killer who makes the first mistake of his career—accidentally shooting the wrong person—and then finds his carefully managed life crumbling faster than he can keep up.

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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)

The sequel to one of the very best superhero movies pretty much ever is also excellent, and even more visually innovative than the first. Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) is back, joined by Gwen (Hailee Steinfeld), herself on a secret mission that puts them both at odds with pretty much every Spider in the multiverse.

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Rustin (2023)

Colman Domingo gives a stellar performance (earning a Best Actor Oscar nomination) as the title's Bayard Rustin, the gay Civil Rights leader who planned the March on Washington. Not only is it a corrective to our very straight-centered vision of the Civil Rights Movement, it's a stylish and moving biopic in its own right.

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Nimona (2023)

Long in the making, and based on the similarly delightful graphic novel by ND Stevenson, Nimona is a heartfelt, joyful, and funny fantasy set in a futuristic world that's also thoroughly medieval in its look and feel. Ballister Boldheart, alongside his boyfriend, Ambrosius Goldenloin, is about to be knighted by the queen, and he’ll be the first commoner ever to receive the honor. All good, until he’s framed for the queen’s murder and forced to flee, becoming the criminal that the snobs already took him for. Luckily (or not) he’s joined by Nimona, a teenager who’s an outcast because of her shapeshifting powers.

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Wedding Season (2023)

Asha (Pallavi Sharda) just broke off her engagement and left her Wall Street investment firm in favor of a Jersey City startup. Her concerned mother sets her daughter up on a dating app, and Asha acquiesces to a single date with the first match: Ravi (Suraj Sharma). It doesn’t go particularly well, but they’re both under a lot of parental pressure to get married, and Asha has about a dozen weddings to go to over the course of the summer, most of them filled with busybodies who want to see her in a relationship. So, naturally (for a movie), Ahsa and Ravi decide to play at being a couple to get people off their backs—which works out fine, until it doesn’t.

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They Cloned Tyrone (2023)

This smart, funny genre mashup spins plenty of plates, and mostly manages to keep them from crashing down. John Boyega stars as Fontaine, a drug dealer in a world just off to the side of our own (there’s definitely some Blaxsploitation influence in the dress styles). Following a showdown with one-time Pimp of the Year(!) Slick Charles (Jamie Foxx), Fontaine is shot dead before waking up in his own bed with nothing, seemingly, having changed. Teaming up with Slick Charles and sex worker Yo Yo (Teyonah Parris), he leads the three of them into an unlikely web of scientific conspiracy.

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Leave the World Behind (2023)

Look at this cast: Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali, Ethan Hawke, Myha'la Herrold (Industry), and Kevin Bacon are all on hand for this apocalyptic thriller that has that Bird Box vibe without the alien implications—the monsters here are all human. As technology begins to inexplicably fail, our protagonists find themselves in a last-days-of-America scenario, including a scene of self-driving Teslas run amok. It's occasionally a little on the nose, but still a pretty compelling thriller.

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City Hunter (2024)

The City Hunter manga, about the titular detective agency, has been adapted several times in the past, with very mixed results. This latest looks like it might be the best: a candy-colored, high-action, appropriately goofy take starring Ryohei Suzuki as lead detective Ryo Saeba and Misato Morita as the daughter of his murdered partner, with whom he teams up to avenge that death and to find a missing teenage runaway with deadly superpowers.

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Spaceman (2024)

Adam Sandler stars here in one of his occasional dramatic roles, here as a Czech astronaut coming to terms with the potential dissolution of his marriage. At the edge of the solar system. With some help from a spider-like alien creature trying to understand humanity. Carey Mulligan and Isabella Rossellini co-star.

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Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget (2023)

If it's not entirely on the same level as the Aardman-animated original from way back in 2000, it's still a delightful and cheeky return from the escapees from Mr. and Mrs. Tweedy's Farm. Thandiwe Newton leads the impressive voice cast.

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Down the Rabbit Hole (2024)

The House of Flowers creator Manolo Caro directs this quirky and thoughtful drama about meticulous, fussy kid Tochtli (Miguel Valverde), living in a palatial estate somewhere in rural Mexico. He's old enough to start questioning his wildly privileged and sheltered life, slowly discovering that his father Yolcaut (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo) is a major, well-connected drug lord. It's a quietly stylish drama that avoids taking any obvious routes.

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CNN data guru Harry Enten broke down the latest polling data surrounding abortion and the 2024 presidential election with anchor John Berman this week.

“Let’s take a look at states that will or may have an abortion measure on the ballot,” Enten began, adding:

In Arizona, 59% believe that abortion should be always or mostly legal. In Nevada, two-thirds, 66%. Now in Florida, where all the news is developing this morning, 57% of registered voters say that in fact, abortion should be legal up to 24 weeks. Now, why is that 57% important? Because in Florida, in order for a ballot measure to pass, you need 60% of the vote. So even though the majority here believe that abortion should be legal up to 24 weeks, the fact is that may not be enough to enshrine abortion rights in the state of Florida, because, again, you need at least 60% of the vote to do so.

“If you are the Biden campaign looking at these numbers in important states for them on the map, Arizona and Nevada, what do you see?” Berman followed up.

“Yeah, you love the fact that abortion is in the news because would Biden or Trump do a better job? This is nationally, look at abortion. Biden leads on this measure by 14 points. It’s by far his best issue,” Enten replied, adding:

The economy, Trump leads. Immigration, Trump leads, foreign conflicts, Trump leads. And even on preserving democracy, which is obviously been a focal point of the Joe Biden campaign. He only leads on issue by this issue by four points. So abortion being in the news is something that Joe Biden wants, because it’s the issue that he runs most ahead of Donald Trump on.

“What do the polls now say about how important the abortion issue could be in voting?” Berman asked.

“Yeah. So all right. You see this 14-point lead for Joe Biden. But will abortion be important for votes, for folks in their voting patterns? So in our new CNN poll, how does abortion affect your vote for major offices? Candidates must share your views? Only 23%, John. Only 23% of Americans say that candidates must share your views on abortion. So even if they agree with Joe Biden, it doesn’t necessarily mean they vote for him. And more than that, John, when we look at the top issues, the nation’s most urgent issues, look where abortion is on this list. It’s all the way down at 5%. The issues that are at the top of this list are immigration and the economy, which of course are Donald Trump’s best issues,” Enten explained, offering some bad news for Biden’s reelection hopes.

Berman concluded the segment, saying, “Democrats are convinced that abortion did help them do well in the 2022 midterm elections. It’s interesting to see if maybe something’s not showing up in the polling, but right now it’s not showing up as a driving issue.”

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Notetaking Jedis know the power of organization. Creating a system for your Google Keep notes isn't any different, even if the sticky notes app doesn't have an obvious tier of folders and sub-folders. Google Keep is deliberately minimal, but there are enough tips and tricks you can combine to stop yourself from drowning in a sea of digital sticky notes.

Seven tips for organizing Google Keep

It's important to set up a system before the sea of notes starts overwhelming you, but you can do this retroactively, too. Start by discarding notes you no longer need and shifting the relatively vital notes to more permanent places. For instance, a shopping list isn't a permanent note, but a list of contact numbers might be. Next, begin by creating a scheme or rules (that works for you) with these features in Keep.

Color code your notes with colors and backgrounds

Since Google Keep doesn't have folders, use colors and background options instead. I suggest you reserve the darker peach color for urgent tasks or notes. There are specific background patterns for groceries, recipes, places, travel, etc. You can drag the notes around and arrange them by color.

If you use Google Keep for tracking projects, specific colors can help you design a Kanban board too.

Tip: Tracking family chores with a Kanban board is absolutely doable with Google Keep's checklists and collaboration options.

Embrace labels to tag your notes

You can think of labels as "folder names," so give your Google Keep labeling system a lot of thought. Tag related notes with labels. Any note can have more than one label, so you can connect related notes. The "/" or "|" could be a clever way of visualizing related notes with different labels.

For instance, notes can have a primary label like "Personal Development." Then, you can create separate related notes with labels like "Personal Development/Health,"; "Personal Development/Nutrition,"; "Personal Development/Projects," etc. You can also add labels with a "#" (hashtag).

You can use a similar labeling system to keep a note private while sharing a related one with a collaborator.

Think about your labels with care, as Google Keep allows a maximum of 50 labels.

Number your labels

The heart of Google Keep's organization lies in the labeling system. Though you cannot organize labels by dragging and dropping them, you can use numbers to force them in the order you want.

Add a number to the label names in the order you use them. So, if it's "Work," then "1 - Work" will push this label to the top, followed by any label you number with a "2"... and so on.

Make notes (and labels) more visual with emojis

Don't let the lack of formatting options deter you from creating visual notes. You can insert all sorts of emojis and symbols in Google Keep. Inserting the right emoji in a note is easy on the desktop too, with the Windows + keyboard shortcut that opens the emoji keyboard.

Tip: Insert emojis in your labels and make your Google Keep sidebar look fun.

Pin only the important notes on the top

Pin the notes that are absolutely necessary—ideally, limit the pinned notes to a number that doesn't make you scroll. My iOS screen lets me see four to five notes at a glance in the Tile view. I usually pin notes that are reminders or timely, like a shopping list.

Use reminders to clean up

Reminders are a great way to ensure that you don't forget important tasks or deadlines. You can also set reminders for recurring daily or weekly tasks. But why not also use reminders to clean up the notes you no longer need?

Choose a time in the future to review a specific note. If it's no longer useful, trash it.

Archive notes for a cleaner home view

One of the problems with Google Keep is that all your notes show up on the home screen, even if you've labeled them. This clutter can be overwhelming when you have a lot of notes.

A nice tip from the Simpletivity YouTube channel suggests using the archive feature to clean things up. You can archive all your notes as long as they are labeled properly. They will still be searchable and editable, but they won't clutter up your home screen anymore. You can unarchive any note at any time.

You can then display only the critical pinned notes on the home view.

Tip: Google Keep has a powerful search with several filters too. It can look through your pile and find notes by Types, Labels, Things, and Colors.

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Alyssa Farah Griffin brought down the mood on The View on Wednesday, confusing her co-hosts after declaring she was in a “good mood” and then proceeding to paint a bleak picture of President Joe Biden’s reelection chances.

“So, I am in such a good mood today and I hate to raise this point, but I have to,” began Griffin, a former top communications official in Donald Trump’s administration.

Griffin said she needed to “ring some alarm bells” and argued that young progressives upset over Biden’s support of Israel amid the country’s strikes on Israel could be enough to hand Trump a victory. It was a point made earlier this week on CNN by filmmaker Michael Moore who flat-out predicted Biden’s continued support of Israel would lose him the election.

“The election is seven months out. I don’t trust polling. I do agree with that. I think you can take it on aggregate and if the polls on aggregate are to be believed, Donald Trump may very well be president in seven months. And here’s what fear, my initial thought was him being on trial in a courtroom and not on the campaign trail was going to hurt him. I’m starting to think that it doesn’t in the same way,” Griffin said.

She continued with the reality check until Joy Behar jumped in to ask how she could be in a “good mood.”

“I think there’s a real reality right now that Joe Biden could pick up swing voters, he could pick up modern Republicans in suburban —” Griffin said before her co-host spoke up.

“Why are you in a good mood again?” Behar asked.

Griffin continued making her point.

“He could pick up all the demographics you generally need, but lose young progressives and lose the election to Donald Trump,” she said.

“You said you were in a good mood!” Behar and Sunny Hostin said at the same time in shock.

“No, I’m sorry to bring the mood down with my take, but I’m very worried,” Griffin replied.

“What’s the good mood about?” Behar asked.

“I just happen to be in one,” a laughing Griffin answered.

“What are you on some kind of drug or something?” Behar said.

“I thought we were going to get something different,” Hostin said and Sara Haines agreed.

Hostin argued voters are paying attention to Trump’s ongoing hush money trial in Manhattan and developments like his $9,000 fine for violating a gag order will blow back on him.

Biden has faced protest votes in Democratic primaries in multiple swing states over the issue of the Israel-Hamas war. In Michigan, more than 100,000 voted “uncommitted” in the Democratic primary, which Biden still easily won.

Behar made a last-ditch pitch on Wednesday for Biden to her audience, many of whom were college-age.

“You don’t have to love Joe Biden. You just have to love your freedom. That’s all you have to love,” she said.

Griffin and Behar both laughed off the exchange during a later segment after Behar was discussing keeping people’s drug prescriptions private to which Griffin joked Behar had asked her if she was on drugs on national television.

Watch above via ABC.

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You can get these Mezzo bone-conduction headphones on sale for $39.96 right now (reg. $69.95) using the promo code MEZZO. They rest over your ears while bone-conduction technology sends sound waves to your inner ear, allowing you to stay aware of your surroundings without disturbing anyone around you. It comes with a dynamic sound range with deep bass, IPX5 water resistance, noise-canceling microphones, and six hours of battery life on a full charge with a 1.5-hour recharge time.

You can get these Mezzo bone-conduction headphones on sale for $39.96 right now (reg. $69.95) using the promo code MEZZO, though prices can change at any time.

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Noa Fay, a Jewish student attending Columbia University, compared anti-Israel Jews on her campus to “Blacks for Trump and Gays for Trump” on CNN Monday night.

Speaking with Abby Phillip, Fay said that the months following Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel have been “really difficult.”

“One of the things that your classmates will say is that they are protesting Zionism, which is specifically this movement to create, to develop, to support a Jewish state. Is it legitimate, in your view, to protest Zionism specifically?” asked Phillip.

“Absolutely not, and there there are many different ways you can look at this. But number one is that Zionism makes — the Jewish people, 80% of them are, identify as Zionist, potentially more,” answered Fay. “We know that Zionism, which is the the Jewish right to self-determination in our historic homeland, is inextricably linked to our religion.”

“At least at Columbia, we do not protest any form of any person’s right to self-determination. There’s no other movement, there’s no other self-determination movement that is protested that I’ve seen, definitely not at Columbia,” she continued. “So for this to be the only movement that is taken issue with amongst the students and that it’s the Jewish movement is inherently anti-Semitic.”

Later, Phillip noted that “there are Jewish students who are part of the pro-Palestinian protests” and that Fay has “compared them to Blacks for Trump, gays for Trump.”

“It’s fair?” inquired Phillip.

“Yeah, of course it’s fair,” shot back Fay. “I mean, I say take them as seriously as we all take Blacks for Trump and gays for Trump. And I think it’s absolutely a fair, a fair comparison. It’s the same tokenization that we’re seeing and in terms of our perception of them, that’s that’s absolutely how seriously we should take them. They don’t represent our community and they’ve been tokenized.”

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Every decluttering method and technique is slightly different, but one thing they almost all have in common is that they urge you to sort your possessions into at least three categories: keep, donate, and throw away (with the possibility of adding a fourth: sell). Throwing everything away is pretty easy, but figuring out what could actually be donated—and how/where to donate it—can be hard.

What you should donate

For the most part, there are three questions you should ask yourself when considering donating something: Is it in good condition—not broken, missing parts, falling apart, or dirty beyond repair? Is it useful? Is it safe, or does it contain chemicals or small parts that could be harmful to someone, especially kids?

When I’m deciding whether to donate, throw, or sell clothes, for instance, I consider each item and where I got it from. I do buy some fast fashion from time to time and those tops and dresses don’t last many wash cycles, so I don’t usually donate them; instead, I consider if I can use them for household tasks, like wiping the floor or something, but usually, I throw them away. (Do not come for me while I’m being honest!) Give yourself permission to throw things away. If something isn’t in good condition or it’s not going to be useful, you don’t have to beat yourself up for not donating it, especially when you’re doing something good for yourself, like decluttering your home. That said, I always donate nicer things and attempt to sell really nice things, but if something doesn’t sell from my Poshmark storefront within six months, I donate that, too. If the clothing is in good condition, someone else can use it. Google whether there are clothing-specific donation organizations in your area. For instance, Dress for Success specializes in accepting gently used professional attire for women. Perform a quick search to find out if there are niche organizations like this looking for the kinds of items you have on hand or if any drives with specific needs are taking place near you.

Otherwise, check in with your local donation place. If you use the Salvation Army, for example, check to see what they’re taking right now. Call them or use their online guide to determine the approximate tax-deductible value of your stuff. Goodwill, too, releases lists of what they will and won’t accept, making it easy to figure out which of your items are worth bringing over. 

Easy ways to donate

Making a pile to donate and actually donating are two very different things. This exercise is not useful if you’re just going to keep a “donation” box around your house or in your trunk for months. Remember that your first mission here is to declutter your home—any good you can do beyond that is a bonus, so if you don’t live near a donation center or don’t think you can reasonably do it, make other plans. 

There are some ways to do this easily. Pick Up Please operates in 15 states and will come grab your donation bag from outside your house, while ClothingDonations.org operates in 33 states and does the same. Check with your local centers, too, to see if they have their own pickup service. Bear in mind that when using pickup services, you are generally limited to donating smaller items that a person could reasonably pick up and transfer to their truck on their own, so if you’re trying to offload furniture or appliances, call ahead and make a plan for transport. Habitat for Humanity, however, does offer furniture pickups in select areas. Pick Up My Donation acts as a kind of liaison, so if you give them the details of what and how much you want to donate, they'll coordinate with a donation center in your area for a pickup, provided you have enough to justify it. Otherwise, that center will reach out with information on where you can bring the stuff. Green Drop is similar, picking up your household items and clothing, then paying a local nonprofit for the access, funding community-based programs in your area.

You can also list larger or more unorthodox items on the Buy Nothing platform, Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace, or independent Facebook "buy nothing" groups in your area. The Buy Nothing app exists as a platform for users to set up free exchanges or giveaways in their area and may not include your location, but try typing your city or town into Facebook with the words "buy nothing" to find other independent groups doing the same thing. Always do this with a timeline in mind. If the thing doesn’t get a taker within a month, have a plan to throw it away or donate it in an alternate way. Keep your goal of decluttering top of mind and don’t allow your willingness to get rid of something eventually to turn into an excuse for why you haven’t cleared it out. 

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Portable power stations are getting bigger, more powerful, and less expensive all the time. You'd expect a company like Anker (known for producing smaller backup solutions for mobile devices) to move into this arena, but you might not have expected this kind of leap from is DJI, which has been producing drones and cameras for the last 10 years.

That said, both drones and cameras need to pack a lot of battery capacity into small packages, so really, DJI is just bringing that knowledge and experience to the consumer power station—and while you could use these new units to recharge your devices on the road, they also work as backup systems for your home.

The DJI Power 1000 Portable Power Station, which sells for just under $1,000 on Amazon, has a battery capacity of 1024 Wh and fully charges in an hour and 10 minutes. Although I'd personally go with a more powerful power station, there is a lot to like about the DJI. 

Fewer outlets, but higher output

I’ve been testing a few power stations in the 1,000 to 3,000 watt hour range for the last month, as this is the minimum amount of juice you'll need to keep some of the basic household electronics going during a power outage, like a laptop, phone, and microwave, plus a heater, A/C or fan, or medical equipment like a CPAP machine. They’re also still light enough to realistically haul to a campsite.

The DJI 1000 sits at the low end of that power range, but has some features more powerful banks don't. I like the design, which features a slightly wider but lower body with two handles that extend off the sides. I found it easier to carry around, which is a significant benefit, considering it weighs in at 32 pounds. The face of the unit offers two AC outputs (continuous 2,200W AC output) and two USB-A and two USB-C ports (140W output). Both AC outputs can be used as a UPS in case of power interruptions. Those USB-C ports are no joke, either: 140W is a much higher output than most USB-C power sources, and can support USB PD 3.1 to power your MacBook. 

Other stations offer at least as many ports, if not more, but lack DJI’s SDC and SDC lite ports. These “smart” DC ports which are specifically made to quickly charge DJI drones or a mini ecosystem of DJI dongles that provide input and output for other devices. These ports are what you'll use to connect the unit to solar panels or your car charger, but again, to do that you'll need to buy some proprietary dongles. For now, the only solar panel DJI offers is the Zignes 100 Watt Solar Panel, available  only on their website, for $299; this is the recommended brand, but there’s no language that says other brands wouldn’t be compatible.

Most power stations offer car charging and solar panel connections out of the box, and while I enjoy the idea of faster charging (and possibly higher output in the future as hinted by DJI), having to purchase and keep track of proprietary cables does not appeal to me—if one went out (or went missing) during an outage, you'd be out of luck.

There's no app for managing the power station

Many newer power stations offer apps to manage the power going in and out and help you monitor what you’ve got in reserves. DJI doesn't offer one, which is curious considering the battery is designed to help manage your DJI devices, and DJI already has an app for device management.

Still, as a power station, the DJI 1000 does everything it should: It comes with a three year warranty that you can extend to five years, and offers an expected lifespan of 4,000 cycles or 10 years. The max input via solar charge is 800 watts, which feels appropriate for the capacity. DJI's marketing makes a lot of noise about how quiet the unit is (topping out at 25dB), but none of the power stations I've tried have had noticeable sound issues, including the DJI. 

A best bet for existing DJI customers

On a basic level, a power bank is a power bank. As long as it outputs power, it’s doing the job, and at $999, the DJI isn’t a bad value. Still, at this price you can find a number of other power stations in the 1000w range that don't require the extra required dongles and will often come with additional output options—I like the Jackery Explorer 1000 ($999) or Anker SOLIX C1000 ($999).

Over the course of testing these units, I have found that 2,000W is a comfortable middle ground for ensuring you have enough power to keep a family’s worth of devices powered during an outage, run a heat or A/C source, allow for occasional microwave use, and the use of necessary medical equipment. For now, the DJI only comes in 500 or 1,000W versions.  If you can afford a 2,000W unit and add on a solar panel or two to recharge in case of a multi-day outage, consider a pricier solution like an EcoFlow DELTA Max 2000 ($1,499) or Anker SOLIX F2000 ($1,999).

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Former Biden White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain told MSNBC host and ex-Biden press secretary Jen Psaki that President Joe Biden will debate former President Donald Trump but that “rules are going to have to be enforced” to prevent a chaotic “shouting match.”

Trump has been trolling Biden with a demand for immediate debates, to which Biden responded in an interview with Howard Stern by saying “I am, somewhere. I don’t know when. I’m happy to debate him.”

On Sunday’s edition of MSNBC’s Inside With Jen Psaki, Psaki asked Klain about debates, specifically what rules there should be:

PSAKI: I want to ask you about debates because I don’t — perhaps you have prepped more presidential candidates for debates than anyone. Someone can fact check me on that. But there’s this whole question of will they debate, won’t they debate, we’ll see what happens. They both said they would.

But you’ve also said that there need to be kind of fair rules. What do those look like? And what should people understand about that?

KLAIN: I think they will debate. President Biden said this week on Howard Stern’s show that he’s willing to debate him, and Trump was running around claiming he’d debate him anytime anywhere.

PSAKI: Including today. I like it when he said it.

KLAIN: Yes. I don’t think that’s true. But I think there will be debates. I think what we have to see is something different than we saw in 2016 and 2020, where the debate commission lost control of the debates, Trump didn’t follow the rules at all, he talked over his opponents, there wasn’t a fair division of time, it was more a spectacle than a debate. That’s always going to be true with Donald Trump on the stage.

But we need to have debates where the candidates get equal time, where there is an orderly way of proceeding, where they can be heard, where it’s not a shouting match, where the American people can compare the two people who are the leading candidates for president.

PSAKI: Yes. The rules are so important, which I think people don’t realize that that’s part of the negotiation of it all.

KLAIN: Definitely — rules are going to have to be enforced.

PSAKI: Absolutely.

Watch above via MSNBC’s Inside With Jen Psaki.

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