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Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields and editor-at-large Ben Shapiro are resigning from the company over the site’s handling of Donald Trump’s campaign manager’s alleged assault on Fields, BuzzFeed News has learned. Fields and Shapiro informed Breitbart News chair Steve Bannon of their decision Sunday night. “Today I informed the management at Breitbart News of my immediate…
Today we appear to be going further and further into uncharted territory. After the cancellation of Trump’s event yesterday in Chicago, we had the incident at the rally in Dayton, Ohio in which a protestor, Thomas Dimassimo, jumped the security perimeter surrounding Trump and tried to rush the speaking platform. Dimassimo was charged with disorderly…
A new survey of young Americans aged 13 to 20 years old (also known, in marketing-speak, as “Generation Z”) has found that they are far more open-minded and permissive than their older millennial counterparts when it comes to issues of gender and sexuality. According to a report by trend forecasting agency J. Walter Thompson…
My fellow millennials, we’re already a relic of the past. Gone are our days of defining the zeitgeist. Pack it up. Show’s over. Nothing to see here. Because the upcoming legendary children, as Vice so gingerly puts it, are queer as fuck. A new study by trend forecasting agency J. Walter Thompson Innovation Group found…
At pep rallies and football games, University of Texas students sing “The Eyes of Texas,” a school spirit song that’s ostensibly meant to inspire greatness, but instead, creeps everyone out with its threat of constant surveillance. “Do not think you can escape them/ At night or early in the morn,” goes the song, which was…
Ariana Grande was one of the first artists to show public support after Kesha was denied the opportunity to break from her recording contract with her alleged abuser Dr. Luke. Ariana talked more about the industry double standards in a recent interview. “I love Kesha. I worked with her when I was a lot younger….
The president of CBS News is standing by one of the network’s journalists who was arrested outside a Donald Trump rally that was canceled amid violence between Trump supporters and protesters. David Rhodes tweeted that journalist Sopan Deb, who was covering the rally at the University of Illinois’ Chicago campus on Friday, was handcuffed and…
It’s 10am on 11 March, two hours before Donald Trump’s rally in St Louis is set to begin, and the line goes on for blocks. The Peabody Opera House in downtown St Louis can seat 3,100, but it cannot contain the enthusiasm for Trump. Some fans drove through the night from nearby states, including Indiana…
A Trump rally in Chicago was cancelled tonight amid chaotic protests and clashes between the protestors and Trump supporters in the venue. The first thing to say about this is that it is wrong to disrupt and shut down a political rally, period, full stop. This was a mob action, and it was disgusting. Of…
When Ja’Mal Green, a prominent black activist and Bernie Sanders supporter in Chicago, saw that Donald Trump was coming to the University of Illinois-Chicago, he knew what he had to do. “Everyone, get your tickets to this. We’re all going in!!!! #SHUTITDOWN,” he posted on Facebook last week. Little did he know, they actually would…