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ISIS supporters are urging their fellow extremists to “follow trending hashtags” and “monitor the media for lies” in an extensive, new propaganda manual that provides a rare inside look into the terrorist organization’s social media strategy, Vocativ has learned. While ISIS has been skilled at using social media and forums to distribute their propaganda, the…
A Louisville police officer is facing assault and misconduct charges after his alleged use of force at a middle school. Screenshot from school surveillance footage Over the past year, video footage from around the country of law enforcement officers killing citizens, many of them black, has brought scrutiny on policing in the streets. Yet,…
You got it wrong right from the first three words, South by Southwest. On Monday, the 18 year-old annual Austin music, film and interactive media conference and festival issued a statement regarding why it decided to cancel two planned panels for its 2016 event. Director Hugh Forrest called the announcement “Strong community management.” Yeah, let…
Whenever the media talks about ‘gun control,’ it sends gun hoarders into a frenzy. It’s time to use a different phrase. Olivia Pope and Associates (OPA), the smartest, bravest, best-dressed crisis communications company in the nation’s capital, recently took on the sensitive topic of dog-whistle politics. Dog-whistle politics refers to inflammatory language so coded that…
Shortly after midnight on September 14, 2000, James Ghent slipped out of his Miami home, climbed into his car with a suit, a toothbrush, and a change of underwear, and drove nearly 500 miles to Tallahassee to ask Jeb Bush for his rights back. The journey, he hoped, would help him close the door…
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Seems like a lot of Republican presidential candidates have been dropping references to superheroes this political season, what with Donald Trump calling himself Batman, Ted Cruz dumping out his proverbial action figures, and now Jeb Bush telling the world he thinks Supergirl is hot. And he didn’t mean her heat vision. When Jeb Bush received a softball question about his favorite…
A US Navy guided-missile destroyer sailed close to China’s man-made islands in the disputed South China Sea on Tuesday, drawing an angry rebuke from Beijing, which said it warned and followed the American vessel. The patrol by the USS Lassen was the most significant US challenge yet to the 12-nautical-mile territorial limits China asserts…
On Monday, a case against the Church of Scientology went to trial in Belgium, where the Agence France-Presse reports the international celebrity church faces a possible ban for fraud and extortion. According to the AFP, Belgian authorities opened an investigation into the church’s financing in 1997 after a number of former members came forward to…
Entry Text Democrats must win swing states in 2016 to prevent Trump or another Republican from sitting in the Oval Office. Since voters in general elections normally won’t vote for a candidate they don’t like or at least find trustworthy, it’s imperative that a Democratic nominee hold positive favorability ratings going into Election Day. I…