Former Facebook Manager: Being Black at Facebook Is Bad, But Being Black in Silicon Valley Is Worse
Maciej Luczniewski/NurPhoto/ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Just before Mark Luckie quit his job as a manager at Facebook, he sent out a departing internal memo November 8 calling out his former employer for having a “black people problem”—and then, last week, shared that note with the public on his…
Trump Jr. Invested in a Hydroponic Lettuce Company Whose Chair Was Seeking Trump Administration Funds
Donald Trump Jr. departs from the National Christmas Tree lighting ceremony.Andrew Harnik/AP Photo Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This article was originally published by ProPublica. Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son, took a stake last year in a startup whose co-chairman is a major Trump campaign fundraiser who has…
Did Sean Spicer Break the Law With His Tweets?
#NeverTweetChris Kleponis/CNP via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. No one would accuse Sean Spicer of being a fashion or beauty influencer, but it turns out he has something in common with them: shady spon-con practices. In the seeming eternity since he exited the White House in July 2017, …
Travel Back to the ’70s With These Unreleased Bob Dylan Sessions
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Bob DylanMore Blood, More Tracks–The Bootleg Series Vol. 14Columbia Records/Legacy Recordings Released in 1975, Bob Dylan’s chart-topping Blood on the Tracks was rightly hailed as a masterpiece, and marked a dramatic return to form for an artist whose output in the first half of the…
Why Is Tumblr Taking the Fall for Apple?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I have now read about a dozen articles taking Tumblr to task for its decision to ban adult content. I don’t get this. Tumblr’s decision was very clearly forced on it by Apple, which removed Tumblr from the App Store until it cleaned up its…
We Need a Climate Miracle. Would You Spend $500 Billion per Year to Get One?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I don’t know for sure if the rural/working class revolt in France is more about fuel taxes, reduced speed limits, or just a general dislike for that city slicker Emmanuel Macron. But higher diesel prices are part of it, so yesterday Macron backed off his…