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Image: Wikimedia/Facebook/Gizmodo As the FBI’s investigation into Russian election interference reaches a fever pitch, Facebook rolled out a new News Feed alert Monday night. The bulletin told users who followed pages created by Russian trolls that those pages have been removed. And some of the affected users did not like this. A brief search revealed…
Jonathan Ernst / Reuters COMING UP EMPTY Team Trump Struggling to Fill National-Security Jobs Turned down by top talent, Trump’s administration-in-waiting is trying to find someone to operate the agencies tasked with stopping hackers and terrorists. President-elect Donald Trump is scrambling to line up senior officials to run the government’s sprawling intelligence and homeland security…
Hide CM floating unit I spent much of this fall listening, both online and in person, to the connoisseurs of ugliness who call themselves the alt-right. This is such a new category that no two people agree on precisely what it means or how many people fall within it. Some on the alt-right are committed…
Hide CM floating unit Now Is the Time to Talk About What We Are Actually Talking About In the wake of the election, we must resist the slightest extension in the boundaries of what is right and just. Credit PHOTOGRAPH BY LIVIO MANCINI / REDUX Barrier Status: ‘none’ America has always been aspirational to me….
President Barack Obama on Sunday mocked Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump for having his Twitter access taken away by his campaign staff, who hope to minimize the real estate mogul’s frequent social media ramblings in the last days before the election. “Apparently, his campaign has taken away his Twitter,” Obama said, speaking at a Hillary…
Donald Trump’s final campaign advertisement appears to employ classic antisemitic innuendo. “The establishment has trillions of dollars at stake in this election,” the GOP presidential nominee warns in the two-minute video. “For those who control the levers of power in Washington and for the global special interests, they partner with these people that don’t have…
.entry-header Terri Lynn Rote, a registered Republican, is accused of submitting ballot at two different early voting stations, the Des Moines Register reports. Rote told Iowa Public Radio that she was afraid her first ballot for Donald Trump would be changed to a vote for Hillary Clinton. “I wasn’t planning on doing it twice, it…
Credit Illustration by Barry Blitt Barrier Status: ‘none’ In late September, when Donald Trump spoke in Chester Township, Pennsylvania, outside Philadelphia, he wasn’t the only star at the event. Kellyanne Conway, his new campaign manager, who grew up nearby, and who has become ubiquitous on television, was greeted as a celebrity. “Did you see the…
American troops in the Pacific during the Second World War. Credit PHOTOGRAPH BY PAUL POPPER / POPPERFOTO / GETTY Barrier Status: ‘none’ I am late weighing in on this election—late in more ways than one. Monday brought my ninety-sixth birthday, and, come November, I will be casting my nineteenth ballot in a Presidential election. My…
Barrier Status: ‘none’ On Thursday morning, Donald Trump doubled down on his latest verbal outrage: the claim that President Obama was the “founder” of ISIS. Actually, the Republican Presidential nominee tripled down. Appearing on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” he described himself as “a truth teller” and went on to say that the President was “the founder…