Twitter’s “Verified” Users Are Spreading Viral Misinformation
Richard James Mendoza/NurPhoto via ZUMA On Monday afternoon, as one of Europe’s most famous landmarks was engulfed in flames from an accidental fire, a Twitter user with a MAGA hat clad profile picture and over 30,000 followers hit send on a post spreading baseless rumors of arson. “BREAKING: Workers at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris…
TSA Agents Say They’re Not Discriminating Against Black Women, But Their Body Scanners Might Be
John Bazemore/AP This story was originally published by ProPublica. Dorian Wanzer travels frequently for work. And almost every time she steps out of an airport body scanner, security screeners pull her aside and run their fingers through her hair. It’s called a hair pat-down. “It happens with my natural Afro, when I have braids or…
Don’t Worry About the 2020 Primaries. They Won’t Hurt the Progressive Movement.
How worried should we be about all the dissension among progressives these days? We have Nancy Pelosi vs. AOC. We have centrists vs. lefties. We have Bernie bros vs. CAP. We have purists vs. compromisers. We have the young vs. the boomers. We have Glenn Greenwald vs. everyone. But here’s the thing: I can’t remember…
The White House Reportedly Knows Details About the Mueller Report Ahead of Its Release—And Democrats Are Pissed
House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold NadlerJ. Scott Applewhite/AP Democrats are not happy with the Justice Department. At a press conference Wednesday night, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) criticized Attorney General William Barr’s handling of the long-awaited Mueller report. A redacted version of the report is expected to be released Thursday morning, following a press…
WaPo: Mueller Report Will Be “Lightly” Redacted
This is obviously not the place to go if you want an instant response to the release of the Mueller report tomorrow, but I’ll try to keep up with the latest news. Today the Washington Post reports that the report will be “lightly” redacted: The report — the general outlines of which the Justice Department…
Americans Are Really Afraid of a Looming World War
Here’s another interesting GSS chart for you. I still haven’t extracted the data I went there for, but I’ll get to it eventually. In the meantime, check this out: There are several surprising things here: First, that the numbers in general are so high. Half the population expects us to be in a world war…