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One California member of Congress will no longer stand on the House floor to pay tribute to mass shooting victims. The day after the horrific attack in San Bernardino, Rep. Jackie Speier says she’ll boycott the congressional chamber or stay seated instead. “I’m not going to stand up for a moment of silence again and then watch us…
WASHINGTON — United States security officials told President Barack Obama on Saturday that there was still no indication that the two people who carried out the deadly attack in San Bernardino, California, that left 14 dead this week were linked to a larger terrorist group. The officials also told Obama that there was evidence the…
The New York Times front page on Saturday. There is a way of thinking — one that tends to comfort the comfortable and leave the afflicted in extended misery. It’s a way of dividing every vexing, complicated, long-running but slow-moving matter of public debate into one of three categories, then getting about the more ordinary business…
Perhaps the close of every year feels this borderline apocalyptic, and we simply lose perspective each time, but 2015 seems like it has to be the darkest year in my living memory. Between carnage in Nigeria and Paris and Syria and American abortion clinics; Donald Trump and company turning the presidential race into a word…
During last night’s Game Awards, Geoff Keighley announced that Metal Gear Solid director Hideo Kojima would not be present to accept any awards for the game due to Konami allegedly blocking him from attending the event. Keighley said that Kojima was told by a lawyer representing Konami that he was not allowed to travel to…
Yesterday, the Los Angeles County DA’s office announced that it would not be pressing charges against highway patrol officer officer Daniel Andrew, who was filmed punching 51-year-old Marlene Pinnock in July 2014. It may go without saying but needs to be noted regardless: Pinnock is black. Dist. Atty. Jackie Lacey’s statement, via the Los Angeles…
Here are today’s front pages of New York City’s two tabloid newspapers. Which one is “better?” NY Daily News front page retweets: 20,500 NY Post front page retweets: 500 NY Daily News front page Facebook shares: 73,000 NY Post front page Facebook shares: 1,700 More likely to stoke public anger toward craven politicians: NY Daily…
More people know how to use Facebook, which was started in 2004, than natively speak any single language; the particular syntax of Google’s email service, which soft-opened the same year, is familiar to about three times as many people as live in the United States; Pinterest won’t say how many people use its app, but…
This is what I wore to work today. On my way to get a burrito before work, I was detained by the police. I noticed the police car in the public lot behind Centre Street. As I was walking away from my car, the cruiser followed me. I walked down Centre Street and was about…
You may have heard about the staggering wealth inequality that exists in America. A new report gives us some new figures that show just how bad the situation is. Among the findings from “Billionaire Bonanza: The Forbes 400 and the Rest of Us” by the Institute for Policy Studies: At $2.34 trillion, the Forbes 400…