Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter, rejects dirty political ad money. Meanwhile, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg wants it all, and refuses to filter out the false claims. Is this just a beautiful flowering of the free market, or is Twitter a censor, and Facebook a libelous publisher? Will President Elizabeth Warren still break up both of them?
Memes and hashtags multiply with “OK Boomer” (or #OKBoomer), a sarcastic slap from Gen Z to mock their elders who created this mess — whether that’s climate change, wars, political division, economic hardship, lack of health care, and more. Bill Whittle thinks it’s funny…at first. #EpicRant warning. #OKSnowflake
The NCAA announced guidelines this week to allow college athletes to profit from use of their name, image and likeness, opening the gate for amateurs to cash in on sports through endorsements while still in school. Is this just a booster bonanza that puts some legal juice in a recruiting pitch?
Announcing that sex harassment victims are not constrained by the non-disparagement agreements (NDA) they sign as a condition of employment, NBCUniversal garners praise for defending abused employees. But the parent company of NBC News implies that its NDA never muzzled them in the first place.
The raid that ended in the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi came thanks to masterful coordination among U.S. troops, our intel resources, and our Kurdish allies. President Trump gets credit even from the Left, but his post-raid remarks about the Kurds and U.S. intelligence left some wondering if he’s capable of avoiding unforced errors even at this moment of triumph.
New study shows that almost all political tweets come from a tiny fraction of Twitter users. Does this mean that America is not as divided as we’d think from scanning social media? Should government step in to stop these bad actors from splitting our Republic, risking a civil war?
Sevier County, TN, Commissioner Warren Hurst calls Pete Buttigieg’s presidential candidacy “as ugly as you can get” because Mayor Pete is “a queer”. Hurst was making an argument about his county becoming a gun sanctuary, but has drawn national protest and ridicule for his broader comments about society, Democrats, homosexuality, and the waning rights of white men.
Theoretical physicist Sean Carroll at California Institute of Technology is among the growing cadre of scientists embracing a kind of multiverse theory that builds on Schrodinger’s insight about the power of observation to fix location of an object in the quantum realm.
Hillary Clinton, tells David Plouffe’s Campaign HQ podcast audience that Democrat presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard is being groomed by Russia to play spoiler in 2020, like Green Jill Stein did in 2016. Tulsi hits back with boldness, calling out Clinton as “queen of warmongering,” and corruption.
Now it looks like a big win for ISIS, but what can President Trump do after the U.S. pull-out from Northeast Syria? The loss of intel on the ground from our abandoned Kurdish allies, the release/escape of terrorist prisoners, and the perception of U.S. apathy, creates conditions for an Islamic State revival. Is there a U.S. position somewhere between warmongering and isolationism?
Former Secretary of Defense James Mattis makes jokes that react to President Trump’s general insults to Gen. Mattis as “the world’s most overrated general.”
Hong Kong CEO Carrie Lam, China’s compliant puppet, gets jeered from the legislature when she tries to give her annual speech. She later gives the speech by video, saying the independence movement won’t be tolerated, and blames the protest on income inequality.
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un rides a white horse on Mt. Paektu (aka Baekdu), the holy mountain of his grandfather Kim Il-Sung, in advance of “a great operation to strike the world with wonder again and make a step forward in the Korean revolution,” according to official news coverage.
Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden says his White House will follow the “squeaky clean transparent” model of the Obama administration. This, just hours after Hunter Biden bails from board of financial firm in China.
Esports gamer Chung Ng Wai, who goes by Blitzchung, wears a gas mask and goggles and ends an interview saying “Liberate Hong Kong: Revolution of our times.” Hearthstone tournament sponsor Blizzard Entertainment bans him for a year and strips him of $10,000 in 2019 winnings.