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In the three days since President Donald Trump’s Tuesday night address to the country, you’ve probably already forgotten the significance of his parroted talking points about a border wall, or all that weird nose breathing. If you live in Seattle and were watching it on your local Fox affiliate, however, you probably can’t stop thinking…
A six-hour standoff between police and a 40-year-old man who allegedly splashed gasoline on the floor of a Novato, California, convenience store “while threatening to burn it down” and later fled to a nearby Safeway ended when police defused the situation with a robot carrying a vape pen, the Sacramento Bee reported Sunday, citing reports…
Photo: AP With the government shutdown, Donald Trump has been looking for ways to distract the public from his failure to BUILD THE WALL, and a trip to Iraq seemed like a publicity slam dunk for his image at a critical time. Surely he couldn’t fuck this up, right? Unfortunately for the administration, any goodwill…
Why is U.S. Public Transit Crumbling? The United States is falling way, way behind on funding public transit. And it’s hurting us. Source: Why is U.S. Public Transit Crumbling? – by Josh Kramer and Dan Nott
This week, protesters scaled the Arc de Triomphe, burned cars, and clashed with police in the third consecutive weekend of riots in France. More than 300 people were arrested in Paris last weekend alone, and 37,000 law enforcement officers have been deployed around the country to restore order. The “Gilets Jaunes” or “Yellow Jackets” protests…
Paris riot police fired tear gas and rubber bullets near the famous Champs-Elysees boulevard against “yellow vest” protesters who are staging another weekend of demonstrations against French President Emmanuel Macron. The French government said 31,000 people were protesting across France, including 8,000 in Paris. Around 700 people have been arrested so far today. Police tried push…
I had an excellent time talking about social media with Kara Swisher and her precocious 16-year-old s December 3 · Issue #257 · View online I had an excellent time talking about social media with Kara Swisher and her precocious 16-year-old son, Louie, on the 300th episode of the Recode Decode podcast. To the…
Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-N.J.) lost his seat to Democratic challenger Andy Kim on Wednesday, resulting in a near-wipeout for the GOP in the state, The Associated Press reported. With MacArthur’s loss, Democrats successfully flipped four Republican seats in New Jersey in the midterm elections this year, some of which had been held by the GOP for decades….
Photo: Getty The Republican Party in California has been on life support for quite some time. There are no elected Republicans in statewide offices. Democrats have held the governorship and both chambers of the state legislature for the last eight years, and in the 2018 midterms, the party gained supermajorities across the entire legislature. 2018 was…
Ever since Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the fiery Democratic Socialist from the Bronx, toppled the ten-term incumbent in her New York district, analysts have wondered whether she can be as much of a renegade in Washington as she was on the campaign trail. So far, all signs suggest she will be. In the mere week since Ocasio-Cortez…