Legislating from the Stage: The Brilliance of John Oliver

Julio Vincent Gambuto
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Published in
5 min readApr 11, 2022

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Photo source: The Kennedy Center

Looks like John Oliver is trending across the internet today because he is holding hostage the personal data of some click-happy members of Congress. Twitter has lit up in praise of the stunt. Well done, good sir.

Hollywood and Washington, DC, have always been strange bed fellows. In the popular — and my — imagination, Jackie Kennedy appearing on the cover of Vogue

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Julio Vincent Gambuto
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