I’m Obsessed With This 1994 Today Show Clip About “Internet”
Today Show It’s a lazy Saturday so let’s talk about this bonkers Today Show clip from 1994: I haven’t seen this clip in years… Today Show, 1994: “What is internet, anyway?” pic.twitter.com/G2YustAEbD — Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) September 28, 2019 Where to start? Bryan Gumbel asking: “What is internet, anyway?” Katie Couric—if we can trust…
The Washington Post Published a Bombshell Report About Trump and Russia
Susan Walsh/AP On Friday night, the Washington Post published an absolute bombshell report about President Donald Trump: President Trump told two senior Russian officials in a 2017 Oval Office meeting that he was unconcerned about Moscow’s interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election because the United States did the same in other countries, an assertion…
Watch Teenagers Confront Chevron Executives During the Latest Climate Strike
A climate striker with Youth vs. Apocalypse rallies the crowd outside Chevron’s headquarters.Bunker Seifert The security team at Chevron’s behemoth corporate campus in San Ramon, California, was only admitting badged employees, but it couldn’t stop a swarm of protestors from gathering outside the gate on Friday morning. A crowd of several dozen people, many of…
After a Week From Hell, Donald Trump Calls Democrats “Savages”
Utrecht, Robin/Action Press via ZUMA Press How was your Friday night? Donald Trump’s was terrible. His envoy to Ukraine, Kurt Volker, stepped down. Rep. Mark Amodei of Nevada became the first Republican member of Congress to come out in support of an impeachment inquiry. And the Washington Post reported on another bombshell meeting with a…
Rudy Giuliani Has a Long, Shady History With Ukraine
Rudy Giuliani speaks at the Victor Pichuk Foundation in Kiev, Ukraine, in 2017.Danil Shamkin/NurPhoto via Getty Images In March 2018, Rudy Giuliani met in Manhattan with a delegation of lawmakers from Kharkiv, a city of 1.4 million in eastern Ukraine. Giuliani, who joined President Donald Trump’s legal team a few weeks later, was at this…
The Big Apocalyptic Bird Story Everyone Read This Week May Have Missed Some Necessary Nuance
Patrick Pleul/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images This story was originally published by Undark and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When a major new study on North American bird populations appeared in the journal Science last week, it included all the trappings of a typical scientific paper, along with one, less conventional addition: The study also came with its own…