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IT'S AN HOUR after the Miami Heat shocked the basketball world, taking a 2-0 lead over the Boston Celtics in the Eastern Conference finals. And Jimmy Butler, who just scored 27 points in 41 grueling minutes is ... singing. As he walks to the postgame podium, inside a makeshift conference room in the belly of Boston's TD Garden, country music singer Morgan Wallen's "Somebody's problem" blares from a speaker attached to the Heat star's phone. Somebody's problem, but that ain't minnnnnne, Butler croons. As he breaks down the game, and his heated, forehead-to-forehead exchange with Celtics forward Grant Williams, after...

The legendary rock group Nickelback has announced that they will pull their song collection from Spotify. A spokesman for Spotify stated "Since no one has ever tried to listen to Nickelback on Spotify the move will have no impact on our business."

To whoever just subscribed my email accts (family, work, obsolete) to multiple @Nickelback promotional & fan newsletters: It's. Not. Funny.

Nickelback is back — thanks to President Trump. The Canadian pop rockers, who haven’t exactly topped the Billboard charts in more than a decade, saw downloads of their 2005 song “Photograph” go through the roof after Trump posted a clip of the tune online to take a shot at Joe Biden, Yahoo Finance said Tuesday. Trump’s meme using the song on Twitter and YouTube sparked a 569 percent jump in downloads of the song — and more than 770,000 audio and video streams. “LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH!” Trump said in the now-removed post.

Twitter took down a meme tweeted by President Donald Trump, in which the music video for Nickelback's hit 2005 song "Photograph" was edited to attack former Vice President Joe Biden. Trump tweeted the clip Wednesday. At the moment where singer Chad Kroeger holds up a photo frame, the image was edited to show Biden, his son Hunter Biden, and a Ukrainian gas company board member, seeming to cast doubt on assertions by Biden that he never spoke to Hunter about his business overseas.

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1179502966606352386?s=21

Great America PAC's TV ad “American Dream” features Dr. Ben Carson discussing how a focus on education from a young age allowed him achieve the American Dream. Carson praises Donald Trump’s plans for education reform including an expansion of school choice, encouraging competition, and supporting merit pay for teachers.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) has been dogged on the campaign trail here in Iowa by a curious protester: a young man holding a sign that states, "Ted Cruz likes Nickelback." Nickelback is a Canadian band that has become synonymous with bad musical taste. The protester appeared at various Cruz events earlier this month and photos of him holding the sign have gone viral. Saturday, he showed up outside a rally hosted by Cruz's super PAC. He was dressed in a Royal Canadian Mounted Police uniform and stood behind Canadian flags he placed in the ground, as well as a picture...

Donald Trump has been called a lot of things in his time, but rarely have his critics stooped quite as low as this. At a rally in South Carolina last week, a Trump aide removed a handwritten sign from a man in the crowd after it was noticed it bore an egregious claim: Trump likes Nickelback.

via TwitterA sign seen during a protest by the Chicago Teachers Union.The strike going on in Chicago is serious: 350,000 students are locked out and we brought you the news in a post from this morning.We'll get back to real news in a little. First, here's a bit of levity:There is a picture from the picket lines on Monday that had Daniel Strauss, who tweeted it, saying, "Civility has disappeared in Chicago Teachers Union protests."The sign was written in all caps: "RAHM EMANUEL LIKES NICKELBACK."Nickelback, if you're not of that persuasion, is a popular Canadian rock band, which is not...