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The Queer Luggage Kleptomaniac, Based Ben Stiller, & RIP Aunt Jemima

Sam Brinton, a former member of the Biden Administration’s Office of Nuclear Energy (and often celebrated for his LGBTQ identity and advocacy), was recently called out by an African woman on social media who had receipts that he repeatedly wore clothing from her stolen luggage. Plus, Ben Stiller defends Robert Downey, Jr.’s “Blackface” in the 2008 comedy “Tropic Thunder,” and actor Ben Stein laments “the large African woman” on Aunt Jemima syrup.