Social Media Giants Have Been Promising to Stop Livestreamed Violence For Years. They Still Can’t.
A vigil three days after a gunman livestreamed his murder of at least 50 people at two New Zealand mosques.PJ Heller/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. By Saturday night, Facebook said it had removed 1.5 million videos depicting the deadly mass shooting in New Zealand that had taken place…
EU to Britain: Approve the Brexit Deal or Fuck Off
It looks like rough weather ahead for Great Britain.Kevin Drum Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The EU has spoken: They will not grant a short Brexit extension unless Britain approves the deal negotiated by Theresa May. So that’s that. Approve the deal or crash out of the EU in nine…
United in Tragedy, Pittsburgh’s Jewish Community Is Raising Money for the Christchurch Victims
A woman places a candle near Al Noor mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand.Carl Court/Getty Images For members of Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue, the mosque shootings that killed at least 50 people in Christchurch, New Zealand felt all too familiar. After hearing about the shooting last Friday, the congregation quickly began raising funds for the…
Trump Loses Yet Another Federal Case
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Speaking of the Trump administration’s inability to get anything done because they don’t understand the law, today brings yet another example: A federal judge ruled late Tuesday that the Interior Department violated federal law by failing to take into account the climate impact of its…
Centrists Have Great Bullshit Radar (in Sweden, Anyway)
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Via Tyler Cowen, here are the results of “The Complex Relation Between Receptivity to Pseudo-Profound Bullshit and Political Ideology,” a recently published paper: Among Swedish adults (N = 985), bullshit receptivity was (a) robustly positively associated with socially conservative (vs. liberal) self-placement, resistance to change,…
Donald Trump Is Too Dumb to Implement His Own Policies
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump seems to believe that presidents are allowed to change policies with the stroke of a pen. They aren’t. Longstanding law requires that changes can’t be arbitrary or capricious, which means the executive branch has to explain why they’re changing things. As the Washington…