Since the most recent hearing of the January 6 Committee, a lot of talk has focused on new revelations about Vice President Mike Pence's Secret Service detail—namely, that they were concerned enough while holed up with him inside a Capitol under mob attack that they tried to get in contact with their families to say goodbye. But the role of the Secret Service more generally through those fateful days came under the microscope last week with revelations that the agency has failed to produce text records from January 5 and 6, telling the committee that they were lost in a reset of agency systems. We asked Jim Helminski, a Secret Service agent for the better part of three decades, what exactly he thought was going on here.
Since the most recent hearing of the January 6 Committee, a lot of talk has focused on new revelations about Vice President Mike Pence's Secret Service detail—namely, that they were concerned enough while holed up with him inside a Capitol under mob attack that they tried to get in contact with their families to say goodbye. But the role of the Secret Service more generally through those fateful days came under the microscope last week with revelations that the agency has failed to produce text records from January 5 and 6, telling the committee that they were lost in a reset of agency systems. We asked Jim Helminski, a Secret Service agent for the better part of three decades, what exactly he thought was going on here. |
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In the last episode of The Bear, Carmy, the chef at the center of the show, is speaking at an Al-Anon meeting. He's there because of his brother, Michael, an addict who killed himself and left Carmy his restaurant. The seven-minute monologue meanders through familiar territory. How food was central to his life and his relationship with his family, and how cooking professionally in fine dining restaurants became a way to try and reconnect to his estranged brother, to raise his self-esteem, to find his place in the world. His description of professional cooking—"My skin was dry and oily at the same time and my stomach was fucked and it was … everything"—hits home. And then he stares at the camera with sad blue eyes and says something unexpected. "I felt like I could speak through the food, communicate through creativity… The deeper into this I went and the better I got, and the more people I cut out, the quieter my life got. And the routine of the kitchen was so consistent and exacting and busy and hard and alive and I lost track of time and he died." I stopped and rewound and watched it again. And again. This was my life. My everything. |
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It's no secret that Nintendo has a family-friendly grip on certain corners of the gaming industry. That stronghold is certainly on platform fighters. Ever heard of a little game called Super Smash Bros.? Now, there's a new challenger in the arena: MultiVersus, which sees characters from the massive Warner Bros. library duke it out. (Think: Shaggy, Harley Quinn, Bugs Bunny, and LeBron James. No Jay Gatsby, though.) The title has now commenced its open beta phase, which means that the game isn't quite finished, but everyone is free to download, play, and test it out. I'd recommend that you do exactly that, because MultiVersus just might come the closest we've ever seen to the heights of Smash Bros.—because it isn't trying to be Smash Bros. |
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