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New Celebrity PSA Implores Members of the Electoral College to Reject Trump Byline Unit /33173478/Mediaite_Adsense_468x60 end post-heading There’s a new celebrity PSA out tonight featuring some big-name actors asking members of the electoral college to do the right thing and step in to vote their conscience (a.k.a. not Donald Trump). Martin Sheen, Richard Schiff, Debra…
Michelle Obama has a strikingly successful record of fighting the obesity epidemic and improving nutrition — both symbolically and through legislation. Back in October, I talked to a bunch of food and nutrition policy wonks about the first lady’s influence on food issues. They offered near-unanimous praise: She planted a garden, waged snappy social media…
So now that we’re about to be in Donald Trump’s America, a few people have explained how GamerGate was the canary in the coal mine for the rise of the “alt-right”. (If you’re not familiar with this stuff, go read those articles. I’ll wait.) GamerGate did a lot of obvious damage — the chilling effect on free speech that…
James Dowson, a far-right political activist, ran a constellation of websites out of the United Kingdom. Credit Rex Features, via Associated Press The Patriot News Agency website popped up in July, soon after it became clear that Donald J. Trump would win the Republican presidential nomination, bearing a logo of a red, white and blue…
The grammar police on Saturday trolled President-elect Donald Trump for misspelling the word “unprecedented” as “unpresidented,” in a tweet about China taking a Navy drone in international waters. Good morning! The #WordOfTheDay is…not ‘unpresidented’. We don’t enter that word. That’s a new one. https://t.co/BJ45AtMNu4 — Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) December 17, 2016 Trump swiftly deleted the tweet…
The band at D.C.’s Howard University, which marched in Obama’s first inaugural parade, also did not apply to march in Trump’s parade startclickprintincludeThe Ballou High School marching band proudly represented D.C. in President Barack Obama’s second inaugural parade, Jan. 20, 2013. Here’s the band on the parade route. (Published Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2016) endclickprintinclude startclickprintinclude…
The Russians aren’t the only ones watching you.Lyrics:Now if you’re black, watch your back cuz you never aloneThey take the data that you own and they don’t have to condoneWe go through episodes too like Attack of The ClonesExcept even Darth Vader wasn’t hacking our phones.To get byJust to get byJust to get by, just…
Everybody could see Hillary Clinton was cooked in Iowa. So when, a week-and-a-half out, the Service Employees International Union started hearing anxiety out of Michigan, union officials decided to reroute their volunteers, giving a desperate team on the ground around Detroit some hope. They started prepping meals and organizing hotel rooms. Story Continued Below SEIU…
Wanted: Columnists to say nice things about Donald Trump. Must be able to make cogent arguments in favor of the president-elect’s policies, appointees and statements. Experience preferred but not required. It’s not an actual want ad, but it might as well be one. As they discovered during the long campaign season, the nation’s newspapers and…
Rex W. Tillerson has voiced skepticism about sanctions that halted some Exxon Mobil projects in Russia. Credit Ben Torres for The New York Times MOSCOW — Now that President-elect Donald J. Trump has chosen Rex W. Tillerson, the chief executive of Exxon Mobil, to be the next secretary of state, the giant oil company stands…