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Netflix’s runaway hit Stranger Things did a lot of things right, and chief among them: antagonizing the US Department of Energy. Of course, the DoE wasn’t going to be reduced to a stale sci-fi trope laying down and penned a blog post refuting how it was depicted by a fictional internet TV show. The DoE…
Melania Trump wore a style of shirt literally marketed as a “pussy bow” top to the debate Sunday night. A campaign spokesperson tells CBS’ Sopan Deb it “was not intentional,” which is also what the campaign said about her speech plagiarizing Michelle Obama. core-decorated Source: Melania Trump Wore a $1,100 Gucci ‘Pussy Bow’ Shirt to…
Bald eagle trapped in the grille of a car in Florida (Clay County Sheriff’s Office, Facebook) The bald eagle is a proud and noble creature that the United States chose long ago to be its national symbol. But this particular bald eagle, trapped in the grille of a car in Florida, has become a much…
close story-meta Photo Donald Trump making a point at the debate on Tuesday. Credit Stephen Crowley/The New York Times This article is part of the Opinion Today newsletter. You can sign up here to receive more briefings and a guide to the section daily in your inbox. He lied about a sex tape. He lied…
The ‘Last Week Tonight’ host took on footage of Trump bragging about committing sexual assault and his half-assed apology. ‘This is on you, too,’ he said of the GOP leadership. “The second presidential debate wrapped up half an hour ago but we taped this before it began,” said John Oliver, “so I don’t know anything…
Let’s not lower the bar for Donald Trump: President of the United States is a difficult job that requires wide-ranging knowledge of the American government and the myriad issues that land on the president’s desk. Nothing in Trump’s career suggests he is in any way prepared to do the job, and nothing he did in…
In the wake of recorded Trump comments which brag about sexual assault, Leah McElrath broke down his subsequent statement to provide real-world examples of common manipulative tactics of abusers. (Trigger warning, obviously.) Trump’s statement is an eerie replica of psychological manipulations made by abusers after episodes of abuse.Let’s break it down. 1. “I’m not perfect”…
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Sometimes, it takes a few minutes for an attack line casually tossed off in a debate to sink in. Tonight, Donald Trump launched into Hillary Clinton’s handling of classified information as secretary of state. “If I win,” he threatened, “I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into…
Back in December, I wrote this article(which got over 44,000 views), which showed some insights about the Donald Trump Facebook audience that can be extracted from Facebook’sAudience Insights tool by anyone with a Facebook ad account. I decided to quickly compare what has changed in the data. There are plenty of other things you can extract, and I…