The Political Future is Female – by Stats
Record numbers of women are running for office…and now they’re winning primaries. Source: The Political Future is Female – by Stats
February 2025
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Mueller probe indicts 12 Russians for hacking Democrats in 2016 – The Washington Post
A dozen Russian intelligence officers have been charged with conspiring to hack Democrats during the 2016 presidential campaign, according to a new indictment in the probe led by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III. The 12 were members of Russian military intelligence, known as the GRU, and are accused of engaging in a sustained effort…
CDC Honey Smacks warning: ‘Do not eat this cereal’ – The Washington Post
The Kellogg Company has recalled its Honey Smacks cereal from the shelves after a salmonella outbreak infected 100 people in 33 states, according to the CDC. (Gene J. Puskar/AP) A salmonella outbreak linked to a popular Kellogg’s cereal has infected 100 people, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday. The agency is urging…
Hey, Remember How Much Bustle Founder Bryan Goldberg Sucks?
On Thursday Wall Street Journal reporter Lukas Alpert tweeted that Bryan Goldberg, founder of the Bleacher Report and “women’s website” Bustle, had won Gawker’s bankruptcy auction. You might remember that Goldberg was, I’ll remind you again, a man, who bragged about raising $6.5 million to start a site for women, something he seemed to think…
Mobile In-App Scams Expose Limits of Ads.txt – AdMonsters
In a recent article in AdWeek, Forensiq shared findings that 1,400 mobile apps loaded ads while under the guise of TV Guide’s domain. That raised a lot of eyebrows across the industry, particularly since the vaunted Ads.txt was supposed to put an end to such domain-spoofing tomfoolery. Forensiq suggested that those 1,400 apps were only…
FBI probes media trading practices in the US | Campaign US
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking into media trading and transparency in the US advertising market. Campaign has learned from multiple sources that representatives from the FBI have been contacting people with knowledge of the ad industry and asking for their help in recent months. It is thought that the FBI, the law enforcement…
Ad fraud one of the most profitable criminal enterprises in the world, researcher says – Which-50
Ad fraud is at an all-time high and remains one of the most profitable criminal enterprises in the world, generating tens of billions of dollars a year. That’s the view of Dr Augustine Fou, cybersecurity and ad fraud researcher who this morning released a Slideshare presentation on LinkedIn describing the state of digital ad fraud in 2018….
Peter Strzok Is A Fucking Badass. Let’s Liveblog His All-Day Testimony! – Wonkette
FBI agent Peter Strzok, who most people know as the FBI agent who committed the sin of telling his girlfriend Lisa Page that he has opinions sometimes on politics, including opinions unfavorable to our Dearest Leader Donald Trump (and Bernie Sanders and Loretta Lynch and Eric Holder and Ted Cruz and Hillary Clinton), will be…
It was the cheese that let John Kelly down – The Washington Post
Why did White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly shift and grimace in discomfort when President Trump spoke about Germany being “totally controlled” by Russia? “[Kelly] was displeased because he was expecting a full breakfast and there were only pastries and cheese,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told The Post. But it was…
Ask Polly: ‘I Feel Empty’
Get Ask Polly delivered weekly. Dear Polly, I’m writing to you from Paris, precisely from my kitchen table, full of empty coffee mugs I haven’t cleaned for like a week, unpacked useless goodies that I received for my job (I’m a lifestyle journalist, or what’s left of her), opened notebooks with unfinished logos for a…