The Warped Case Against Alec Baldwin

Alec Baldwin, photographed during a pretrial hearing on July 8, 2024, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. (Photo by Ross D. Franklin—Pool/Getty Images)
The actor is about the worst kind of thing you can be in 2024: an old, white, rich, and famous man protesting his innocence.
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Picture this: you’re hanging out at a Fourth of July barbecue when your friend hands you a stick of dynamite. Not real dynamite, obviously—that would be insane, and dangerous!—but a harmless facsimile, a piece of clay with a lil’ sparkler stuck in the end. “Go on, light it,” he says, and you do, laughing, before passing the fake dynamite to your friend,…
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