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In this Dec. 1, 2015, photo, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., joined by Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn of Texas, tells reporters that he’s confident he will have enough support on an effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act this week during a news conference following a GOP policy meeting on Capitol Hill…
Journalists storm San Bernardino shooters’ apartment after landlord pries open door By Brian Ries2015-12-04 17:51:34 UTC In a surreal scene, a swarm of local and national media entered the apartment where Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik lived after the landlord tore off a piece of plywood that was blocking the door. News outlets, including MSNBC,…
Multiple news organizations are reporting that Tashfeen Malik pledged allegiance on Facebook to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Updated on December 4 at 12:06 p.m. Tashfeen Malik, the wife of Syed Rizwan Farook, swore allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS, on the morning the couple killed 14 people at a social-services center in San…
O Thursday afternoon, George Zimmerman, the Florida man who was charged in the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin, tweeted nude photos of a woman he claimed cheated on him “with a dirty Muslim.” In addition to posting a topless photo of the woman, who is identified in the tweet by her first name, Zimmerman also…
Library of Congress In 1930, the economist John Maynard Keynes famously argued that by the time a century had passed, developed societies would be able to replace work with leisure thanks to widespread wealth and surplus. “We shall do more things for ourselves than is usual with the rich to-day,” he wrote, “only too glad to…
The word for debt in German also means guilt. A friend who used to live in Munich mentioned this to me recently. I took note because I’m newly in debt, quite a lot of it, from buying a house. So far, my debt is surprisingly comfortable, and that’s one quality of debt that I’ve been…
Eep! Denny’s Tumblr, I luv you, but no. The Denny’s social media accounts tend to be surprisingly enjoyable, but a recent Tumblr post really missed the mark by referencing Jessica Jones‘ Purple Man to promote $4 pancakes. It’s depressing to see anyone make light of Kilgrave’s mind control, since his power is analogous to the manipulation many…
I’ve seen two reactions to the idea of Jessica Jones fans framing its antagonist Kilgrave as a potential romantic interest: abject disgust, or shameful participation. Almost all of the reactions I’ve seen have been in the former category, though, and they’ve been vehement. When I first saw the nascent Kilgrave fandom appearing on social media,…
Each year Pantone bestows upon a single hue the title “color of the year.” This is, let’s face it, nothing more than a marketing ploy to drum up excitement and sales within the beauty, fashion, and design worlds. And yet, every year since 2000, the world’s arbiters of color have selected a color in its singularity…
Do you smell rice? It’s not like none of us in journalism has ever shit the bed on a story before; it’s rather a rite of passage. I once made a “dead gay son” joke without realizing Randall Terry’s gay son actually was dead. I remain, as I should be, horrified. Another time, I had…