Twitter announced Tuesday that it has suspended Alex Jones for one week, the latest social media platform and tech company to admonish the Infowars host. While Apple, YouTube, Spotify, Facebook and even YouPorn all took definitiveaction against Jones and Infowars in recent weeks, Twitter still allowed the controversial far right …
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Former Silicon ValleystarT.J. Miller was arrested Monday night for allegedly making a fake bomb threat, CNN reports. The actor is accused of “intentionally conveying to law enforcement false information about an explosive device.” On March 18th, Miller allegedly called 911 and told the dispatcher that he was on an Amtrak …
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Bill Murray praised Parkland high schoolers for kickstarting a new push for gun control following the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in February.Speaking with NBC News, the actor said the student protestors reminded him of the student protestors that began the movement to end the Vietnam War. “It …
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The reaction online to the school shooting in Parkland, Florida yesterday has been pitiful, which is to say, it’s been typical. Politicians from both major political parties have offered empty words on Twitter. Media pundits all agree that anyone who doesn’t agree with them is wrong, wrong, wrong. The NRA …
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Meryl Streep penned a statement Monday after actress and Harvey Weinstein victim Rose McGowan accused Streep of “hypocrisy” and “happily” working with the disgraced producer. Streep was reportedly among the actresses planning on donning black dresses to the upcoming Golden Globes to protest gender inequality in Hollywood, where powerful men …
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Ashley Judd described the alleged sexualharassment by Harvey Weinstein, saying the former movie executive needed to get help for his “sick[ness],” on Good Morning America. “If he’s a rapist, he absolutely should go to jail,” Judd said, addressing allegations of sexual assault against Weinstein reported by The New Yorker. “What …
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Someday we’ll look back on the great Harvey Weinstein scandal of 2017 as the moment the worm turned on the patriarchy, at least for a while. It was the critical mass that did it. Among the many remarkable things about the story has been the way it has unfolded, or …
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Madonna, Run DMC, Duran Duran, Boy George, Cyndi Lauper, Prince, Michael Jackson and . . . Pretty in Pink‘s Duckie? The Eighties were a much more potent, boundary-pushing era – in music, style and pop culture – than casual armchair historians often give it credit for, as we explore in …
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What is considered bizarre in many American cities has long been the norm in Portland. A much-satirized stronghold of nonconformity, Oregon’s largest city boasts a whole museum dedicated to weirdness – and, perhaps even weirder, another to vacuum cleaners. It has a vegan strip club. It has a franchise that …
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