The Top Ten Things I Learned from the Twitter Tantrum that is #TheTriggering (So Far) :: We Hunted The Mammoth

Well, at least they’re trying Today is the day of the Twitter tantrum known as #TheTriggering, a contrived hashtag in which the Internet’s biggest jerks have decided to post crap that is slightly more jerky than the crap they usually post. I’ve been poking around in the hashtag for a couple of hours and I have to say it’s…

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Exposing the Reality of Black Women and Venture Funding: digitalundivided Founder Kathryn Finney on #ProjectDiane | Model View Culture

digitalundivided is a groundbreaking organization focused on Black and Latina women founders. Their latest effort, #ProjectDiane, is a major study of venture funding, Black women founders, and startups, and the findings are out now. In our last issue, Kara Melton highlighted how Black women lead entrepreneurship — indeed, creating the very business models the startup…

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It Took a FOIA Lawsuit to Uncover How the Obama Administration Killed FOIA Reform | VICE News

  The Obama administration has long called itself the most transparent administration in history. But newly released Department of Justice (DOJ) documents show that the White House has actually worked aggressively behind the scenes to scuttle congressional reforms designed to give the public better access to information possessed by the federal government. The documents were obtained by the Freedom of the Press Foundation,…

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