We Annotated the White House’s Wildly Misleading Border Security Briefing to Congress
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Trump Threatens Government Shutdown Could Last “Months or Even Years”
Jacquelyn Martin/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump confirmed that he threatened Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to continue the partial government shutdown, now in its 14th day, for “months or even years” if Democrats did not agree to appropriate more than $5 billion for his proposed border…
There Is No Crisis on the Southern Border. None.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Mike Pence was burbling a few minutes ago about the “crisis” on our southern border, so I’d like to share that crisis with you. Here it is: Yes, there is traffic across our southern border. However, the net traffic entering the US is zero or…
L Devine’s Message to a Homophobic Mom Perfectly Captures One Key Part of the Queer Experience
L Devine/Twitter Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This week: “Daughter” by L Devine (Warner Bros. Records UK, 2018) Why we’re into it: Part confession and part love letter, this track is vulnerable and honest, evoking an inner and outer world of character and conflict. Coming out is one of the most sacred…
Is There Any Way to Clean Up Facebook and Twitter?
Frankhoermann/Sven Simon/DPA via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Tyler Cowen proposes today that there is no form of internet speech moderation that will satisfy everyone: I’d like to suggest a simple trilemma. When it comes to private platforms and speech regulation, you can choose two of three: scalability, effectiveness…
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Responds to Her Dance Haters With Even More Dancing
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Wednesday, one day before Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was sworn into office, an anonymous Twitter user posted a video of the new representative from New York’s 14th Congressional District dancing on a rooftop from her days as a student at Boston University. “Here is America’s favorite commie know-it-all…