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Politics

200 people leave Schumer’s show over joke Amy Schumer draws boos when she mentions an “orange, sexual-assaulting, fake-college-starting monster.”‘Stay the hell out of Florida’ »

Beatrice Verhoeven9 years ago01 mins

Around 200 people walked out of Amy Schumer‘s show in Tampa, Florida, on Sunday when she called Donald Trump a “orange, sexual-assaulting, fake-college-starting monster,” according to the Tampa Bay Times. The paper claimed Schumer was met with loud booing about halfway through the show when her jokes switched from raunchy topics to more topical matters, including…

Rolling Stone Stays Focused as Defamation Trial Is Set to Begin – The New York Times

Ben Sisario and Sydney Ember9 years ago014 mins

Gus Wenner, 26, head of Wenner Media’s digital operations, with his father, Jann Wenner, 70, Rolling Stone’s editor. Credit Jesse Dittmar for The New York Times With his spiky gray hair and the top few buttons of his shirt undone, Jann S. Wenner looked every bit the aging but still vigorous lion of pop-culture media…

Why Twitter Is Actually a Media Company – WSJ

Christopher Mims9 years ago09 mins

If you are among the 73% of American adults who don’t log in to Twitter at least once a month, you can be forgiven for viewing it primarily as a place where presidential candidates launch broadsides and celebrities embarrass themselves. Twitter Inc.’s long struggle to define itself goes hand in hand with its recent inability to grow…

Peter Thiel, YC, and hard decisions – Project Include – Medium

Ellen Pao9 years ago9 years ago05 mins

Photo by Sasquatch I Diversity and inclusion are hard, especially in tech. Doing them right means agreeing on values, setting standards, calling out bad behavior, and sometimes firing people. At Project Include, we call it getting comfortable being uncomfortable with the hard work of reshaping a homogeneous industry. Today, we struggle to rationalize Peter Thiel’s power…

John McCain: ‘I don’t know’ if Trump will be better for Supreme Court than Clinton – CNNPolitics.com

Chris Massie, CNN9 years ago03 mins

Story highlights “I don’t know, because I hear him saying a lot of different things,” McCain says of Trump appointing justices. McCain added that the Senate would oppose any Supreme Court nominee Hillary Clinton puts up. Trump has released lists of 21 potential justices. He has pledged to choose from among those 21 when making…

Media

I Hardly Expected My Letter to Donald Trump to Go Viral – The New York Times

David Mccraw9 years ago013 mins

close story-meta-footer Times Insider delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how news, features and opinion come together at The New York Times. In this piece, David McCraw, a newsroom lawyer for The Times, describes the reactions to his now famous letter to Donald J. Trump’s lawyer. Photo The New York Times printed David McCraw’s reply in last…

Striking new research on inequality: ‘Whatever you thought, it’s worse’ – The Washington Post

Ana Swanson9 years ago011 mins

Social mobility, the amount that a typical American moves up or down the economic ladder from where their parents and grandparents stood, has became a major focus of political discussion, academic research and popular outrage in the years since the global financial crisis. While Americans have traditionally seen their country as a place where anyone can make through…

How do we respond to threats after our endorsement?

Mi-Ai Parrish9 years ago014 mins

cxenseparse_start The Arizona Republic announces its editorial board presidential endorsement for 2016. The Republic What is the correct response to these threats? Today, I offer you a few. Mi-Ai Parrish, president of Republic Media, which includes The Arizona Republic and azcentral.com.(Photo: Tom Tingle/The Republic) As someone who has spent a career in the business of…

Keegan-Michael Key forecasts the country’s grim, grim future.

David Canfield9 years ago02 mins

We’re just three weeks from Election Day, and just in case anyone was starting to feel complacent about preventing the rise of Supreme Leader Trump, Joss Whedon and Keegan-Michael Key have come out with a new ad that should put the fear back into you. In the newest spot for Whedon’s aptly-named anti-Trump PAC Save…

How to Illegally Sway an Election Using “Sponsored Content” – ART + marketing – Medium

Ryan Singel9 years ago5 years ago014 mins

How to Illegally Sway an Election Using “Sponsored Content” Bernie Sanders rallied tens of millions of voters by decrying the influence of corporate dollars in U.S. politics. But that’s not stopping big corporate donors from using his writing as part of illegal campaign advertisements. That’s thanks, in no small part, to the failure of the…

Capitalism and Schizophrenia – Annotated

Nonprofit leaders furious as Chan Zuckerberg Initiative cuts funding

Efforts to Weed Out Fake Users for Online Advertisers Fall Short

The Anxiety of Influencers

Andrew Tate, charged with rape and trafficking in Romania, returns to the U.S.

As measles cases rise in the U.S., some adults may need a vaccine booster : Shots – Health News : NPR

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200 people leave Schumer’s show over joke Amy Schumer draws boos when she mentions an “orange, sexual-assaulting, fake-college-starting monster.”‘Stay the hell out of Florida’ »

Rolling Stone Stays Focused as Defamation Trial Is Set to Begin – The New York Times

Peter Thiel, YC, and hard decisions – Project Include – Medium

John McCain: ‘I don’t know’ if Trump will be better for Supreme Court than Clinton – CNNPolitics.com

I Hardly Expected My Letter to Donald Trump to Go Viral – The New York Times

Striking new research on inequality: ‘Whatever you thought, it’s worse’ – The Washington Post

How do we respond to threats after our endorsement?

Keegan-Michael Key forecasts the country’s grim, grim future.

How to Illegally Sway an Election Using “Sponsored Content” – ART + marketing – Medium