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Protestors rally during at John F. Kennedy International Airport. Stephanie Keith / Getty Images ID: 10418555 Hundreds of people tweeted they are deleting their Uber accounts Saturday amid accusations the company took part in taxi cab strike-breaking in New York during a protests against President Trump’s refugee ban. Cabbies affiliated with the New York Taxi…
Hicks provided a link to a Huffington Post UK story noting that while 6 million Jews were killed by the Nazis, 5 million others were also slaughtered during Adolf Hitler’s genocide, including “priests, gypsies, people with mental or physical disabilities, communists, trade unionists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, anarchists, Poles and other Slavic peoples, and resistance fighters.” Asked…
A Texas mosque was set on fire just hours after Trump signed an executive order restricting migration from Muslim-majority countries. The Islamic Center of Victoria was set on fire around 2 a.m. on Saturday, according to local reports. Victoria Fire Marshal Tom Legler told the Victoria Advocate he had no theories about the cause of the fire, but he…
WASHINGTON — President Trump on Friday closed the nation’s borders to refugees from around the world, ordering that families fleeing the slaughter in Syria be indefinitely blocked from entering the United States, and temporarily suspending immigration from several predominantly Muslim countries. In an executive order that he said was part of an extreme vetting plan…
.entry-header /share-comment-etc Ad Bar /Ad Bar I was working the polls on election day, handing people ballots and explaining how to fill them out properly. I made it my mission to come up with interesting uses for the removable tabs and entertain people for the 30 seconds that I had their captive attention. When…
Two years ago, the tech world erupted into one of the ugliest gender-related scandals it has ever seen. Serial entrepreneur and one-time wunderkind who sold a company to for $40 million at the age of 16 and another one for $300 million at the age of 25, Gurbaksh Chahal pled guilty to misdemeanor battery and…
The first time I ever wrote something about Max Levchin, it was in BusinessWeek, and I cited as evidence of his calculating data obsession that he once graphed his girl friends’ bra sizes over time to see how his taste in women was changing. His PayPal mafia friends thought it was a little unfair. Said…
Speaking with the Christian Broadcasting Network, Trump said that it had been “impossible, or at least very tough” for Syrian Christians to enter the United States. “If you were a Muslim you could come in, but if you were a Christian, it was almost impossible and the reason that was so unfair — everybody was…
(Image: ZDNet) Senior Trump administration aides communicating over encrypted messaging apps may be violating federal record-keeping laws. The Wall Street Journal reported that political aides close to the president are using Signal, an end-to-end encrypted messaging app. And it’s not just in the White House. Aides close to the New York governor and the mayor…
Image Credit: Brad Jonas for Pando From The Gender Wars Desk This member-only article was unlocked for you by Doug Henwood. Unlock expires 1 day, 14 hours from now. For unlimited access to all of Pando, become a Pando member for just $10 a month. I first moved to Silicon Valley in 1999. I have seen no…