Vox: Elizabeth Warren Exists
Reading Time: 5 minutes There is a smarter, even-tempered, non-oligarch candidate who has never stopped, frisk, ignored or incarcerated a black body.
Yes, Virginia, there is an Elizabeth Warren.
She exists.
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This dad’s love for his daughter launched a movement to restore the confidence of Black youth through photography
Reading Time: < 1 minute This dad’s love for his daughter launched a movement to empower and restore the confidence of Black youth across the country through photography
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Politico: Sex, Lies and Prenups: Donald Trump’s Timeless Wisdom on Love
Reading Time: 14 minutes “The divorce from Ivana taught him a great lesson,” the late Liz Smith, the longtime gossip columnist, told the makers of the documentary, Trump: An American Dream. “He proved then he couldn’t have his reputation destroyed. He learned he could ultimately get away with anything.”
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Vox: Trump Forgot He Lied, Now Admits He Sent Rudy Giuliani to Ukraine to Dig Up Dirt on Bidens
Reading Time: 3 minutes During a podcast appearance Thursday with former journalist-turned-Fox News anchor Geraldo Rivera—a man whose mustache looks like a fat caterpillar going through cardiac arrest walked on his face and died over his lip—Trump now readily admits that he sent Rudy Giuliani to Ukraine.
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America’s democracy is failing. Here’s why.
Reading Time: 11 minutes The system is rigged. It was rigged from the outset, quite intentionally, to favor small states. Under current political coalitions, that’s become an enormous advantage for Republicans. The country’s framers obviously could not have known that they were creating a system that would give Donald Trump’s party an unfair advantage over Hillary Clinton’s party more than two centuries later. But they did create a system that favors small states over large states.
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CNN: Mysterious radio signal from space is repeating every 16 days
Reading Time: 3 minutes Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are millisecond-long bursts of radio waves in space. Individual radio bursts emit once and don’t repeat. But repeating fast radio bursts are known to send out short, energetic radio waves multiple times. And usually when they repeat, it’s sporadic or in a cluster, according to previous observations.
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CNN/CBS: This man says he’s stockpiling billions of our photos
Reading Time: 7 minutes Over the last month, fears about facial recognition technology and police surveillance have intensified, all thanks to Ton-That’s startup, Clearview AI.
First came a front-page investigation in The New York Times, revealing Clearview has been working with law enforcement agencies to match photos of unknown faces to people’s online images. Next, cease-and-desist letters rolled in from tech giants Twitter, Google and Facebook. Lawmakers made inquiries and New Jersey enacted a statewide ban on law enforcement using Clearview while it looks into the software.
Vox: “We’re losing our damn minds”: James Carville unloads on the Democratic Party
Reading Time: 8 minutes “Eighteen percent of the population controls 52 Senate seats,” Carville said. “We’ve got to be a majoritarian party. The urban core is not gonna get it done. What we need is power! Do you understand? That’s what this is about.”
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Transcript of Trump’s post-impeachment speech
Reading Time: 28 minutes The rambling, stream-of-consciousness, more-than-hourlong “speech” touched on the usual grievances: Russia, Mueller, witch hunts, impeachment. “It was all bullshit,” the president said in the East Room of the White House.
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The Root: Trump Refused to Shake Nancy Pelosi’s Hand and Other Petty Moments From the State of the Union
Reading Time: 4 minutes The State of the Union under the Trump administration has become a congressional version of the mythical Hater’s Ball. Everyone goes but everyone hates everybody. It’s basically a sorority step show without the stepping. There is more shade being thrown here than all of the Housewives series combined.
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