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Screengrab from Fox News’ The Five Laurie Rubel typically publishes her research on mathematics education in relatively obscure journals. The Brooklyn College professor’s most recent paper explored the challenges white teachers face while trying to connect with students in large urban school districts. It also contained all the right buzzwords to be swept up in…
Getty Welcome to WHAT NOW, a morning round-up of the news/fresh horrors that await you today. The long-awaited In Touch interview in which porn actress Stormy Daniels talks about her affair with Donald Trump—an affair which eventually led to a reported $130,000 hush money payment from Trump’s lawyer—is finally online, and it’s really a lot….
Andrew Harrer-Pool/Getty Image Donald Trump’s long-promised “big beautiful wall” is set to do more than just separate the United States from Mexico. It now seems to be coming between Trump and his fellow anti-immigrant racist, Chief of Staff John Kelly. On Wednesday evening, Kelly told Fox News’ Bret Baier that the president has “changed his attitude…
Screengrab – Fox News According to his Ted Cruz-penned Twitter bio, Mark Steyn is an “International bestselling author, Top Five jazz recording artist, & a leading Canadian human rights activist.” (He also recorded—I kid you not—a moody, introspective cover of Mel Blanc’s classic “I Taut I Taw a Puddy Tat.”) But based on his Thursday…
Alex Wong/Getty Images Sebastian Gorka, the Nazi-adjacent former adviser to president Donald Trump, has been the subject of an active warrant issued by Hungarian police in 2016, according to a report from BuzzFeed News on Thursday. Gorka, whose nebulous role at the White House was never fully defined during his eight-month tenure in the Trump…
Illustration by Jim Cooke/GMG The things Donald Trump had to say about Shark Week, according to Stormy Daniels, according to In Touch Weekly, are easy to chuckle over: He was like, “I donate to all these charities and I would never donate to any charity that helps sharks. I hope all the sharks die.” Trump…
Facebook Inc. FB 0.83% plans to start ranking news sources in its feed based on user evaluations of credibility, a major step in its effort to fight false and sensationalist information that will also push the company further into a role it has long sought to avoid—content referee. The social-media giant will begin testing the effort next week by…
(AP Photo/Eric Risberg) Facebook unveiled major changes Friday to the News Feed of its 2 billion users, announcing it will rank news organizations by credibility based on user feedback and diminish its role as an arbiter of the news people see. The move comes after the company endured harsh criticism for allowing disinformation to spread on its social…
Source: Trump is making the racist subtext text – Vox
When President Trump spoke by phone with Sen. Richard J. Durbin around 10:15 a.m. last Thursday, he expressed pleasure with Durbin’s outline of a bipartisan immigration pact and praised the high-ranking Illinois Democrat’s efforts, according to White House officials and congressional aides. The president then asked if Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), his onetime foe…