The new season premieres in March.
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Every woman’s greatest fear.
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In August, LaVoy Finicum — one of the men occupying a wildlife preserve in Oregon — published Only by Blood and Suffering: Regaining Lost Freedom. The novel is about many of the same issues raised in Oregon, but culminates in a series of brutal gunfights and killings.
Dwane Ehmer, a supporter of the group occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, rides his horse Friday near Burns, Oregon.
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Five days after a group of armed militia members and ranchers took over a federal wildlife refuge in rural Oregon, one of the occupiers sat outside in the cold and said he'd rather die than go to jail.
"There are things more important than your life and freedom is one of them," LaVoy Finicum told NBC News.
The comment from the 54-year-old Mormon rancher from Arizona was not necessarily unusual for the standoff, but it is significant for another reason: It might as well have come straight out of Finicum's bloody, post-apocalyptic novel, Only by Blood and Suffering: Regaining Lost Freedom.
Finicum's book, published in August and reviewed this week by BuzzFeed News, tells the story of the Bonham family, Utah-based ranchers living in the near-future when a nuclear attack — possibly from Russia or China — has precipitated social collapse. The first chapters recount how the Bonhams converge on the family homestead — witnessing murder, rape, and cannibalism along the way — while the later portions are about a "war" between well-armed, well-prepared ranchers and their short-sighted neighbors and government agents.
The ranchers, and particularly protagonist Jake Bonham, are the heroes of the story as they take a stand against tyranny — and shoot many of those who oppose them.
As a work of fiction, it's not necessarily a given that everything in the book is a reflection of the author's views. BuzzFeed News reached out to Finicum about the novel but was told he would be unable to discuss it until the situation at the wildlife refuge was resolved.
Still, many scenes in the book bear a resemblance to what is going on in Oregon, and the characters repeatedly make comments that could have come out of the standoff. Finicum also suggests a didactic purpose for the novel in the author bio, revealing he wrote the book to "show that certain truths are 'self-evident' and that our rights come to us from God and are 'inalienable.'"
Only by Blood and Suffering portrays a future that vindicates the worldview of the Oregon occupiers. It's a future defined by government overreach and cowboy justice, and the parallels to real life offer a unique glimpse into the values at play in the standoff. There is, however, one big difference: The end of the book is a bloodbath.
Finicum speaks to reporters at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge Friday.
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In the future the book describes, people have been forced to turn in their guns.
"Before our previous President had finished his last term in office, gun control was the law of the land," the book states. "With the new appointments in the Supreme Court it had moved hard left. The new Court upheld the President's executive orders, which consolidated even more power in the executive branch of government."
Let’s separate the “need” from the “don’t need.”
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NBC
They’ll love you, no matter what!
He said the network’s alleged racism was “extraordinarily blatant.”
One such story is of a time in 1982 when Bowie blasted MTV for not playing black artists' videos, as recollected in the book Inside MTV.
Bowie in '73.
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Bowie said he first heard about the channel excluding black artists from black musician Nile Rodgers, whom he had hired to work with him to produce his album Let's Dance.
Rodgers told Bowie that "black music" was frequently excluded from "white radio and white television," and noted MTV's refusal to play "Super Freak" by Rick James because it "didn't define him as rock."
"I'm just tired of the bullshit," James once told Rolling Stone. "I have sold over 10 million records in a four-year period ... and I can't get on the channel."
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*Takes a picture of you sleeping.*
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Non-morning people, rejoice.
I mean 8AM is practically in the middle of the night, amiright?
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There's a Kickstarter to fund the project, which has over 850 backers. If you pledge $82 or more, you can get your Ruggie by September of 2016.
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Or you can program the turn-off time if 3 seconds isn't long enough to keep your lazy self from falling back into bed. Also, it has memory foam padding to ~ease~ you into the AM.
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PEACE.
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American Hot Story.
“I’m scared that I can only fall in love with people who will never love me back.”
If you’ve been wondering what Lizzie McGuire’s been up to in her adulthood, it’s probably this.
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This is either a really funny gag or the meanest gift ever.
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It’s only a matter of time — sooner if you live in Westeros.
You’re already on the bandwagon, you just have to keep it going.
Here are 7 healthy lunches you can make ahead of time. And, if you don't care about variety, just make big batches of your favorite protein, vegetables, and maybe a grain, then divvy them up.
This fried egg has an extra-delicious secret.
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Let’s see if you’re a true frozen dairy fanatic.
New Year, New Mimi!
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And even though the color of the outfit is different, this kind of looks like what Mariah is wearing, right?
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In pizza we crust.
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SNOT today, math class.
