TOPLINE Congressional Democrats on Monday unveiled a sweeping police reform bill created in the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing—but, before doing so, took a knee in memory of Floyd and other black people who died during police interactions while wearing kente cloth, a traditional patterned textile from Ghana—eliciting backlash from black writers and performers. House […]
Chasten Buttigieg (L) kisses his husband, Pete Buttigieg. Radio Host Rush Limbaugh said Democrats … [+] would be “scared” to nominate him. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) Getty Images Rush Limbaugh’s taunt about Pete Buttigieg’s sexuality is a tactical error that Democrats should do their best to amplify. Though he artfully couched the comments as
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The 2016 Playbook In the wake of the 2016 election, some on the left sought an explanation for Mr. Trump’s victory in the idea that his campaign had used shadowy digital techniques inspired by military-style psychological warfare — a “Weaponized AI Propaganda Machine,” as one article described it — created by the defunct political consulting
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Thousands of miles from the union halls of Pennsylvania and Michigan, organized labor is flexing its muscles in a pitched battle with Big Tech. And the Democratic Party’s 2020 class isn’t being shy about picking sides. In a rare injection of presidential politics into a state policy debate, virtually every major Democratic White House hopeful
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At the moment, the most popular article on Straight.com is “Who will replace Jagmeet Singh as leader of the federal NDP?”. Yesterday was a slow news day, so I decided to compile a list of possible successors to the embattled politician. It seemed like a worthwhile exercise, given the federal NDP’s low standing in the
The New York Times reported that Democrats created fake Russian Twitter bots in a disinformation campaign, also known as fake news, in order to influence voters to influence the Senate election in Alabama. The campaign was reportedly funded by liberal billionaire Reid Hoffman and included the creation of more than a thousand Russian-language accounts that
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The US Senate voted on Wednesday to save net neutrality. The chambers used the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to stop the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) decision to undo regulations regarding Internet usage set during the term of President Barack Obama. The bill was passed with a 52 to 47 vote, with the Democrats and Independents
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Did The White House update their voice message on the automated telephone comments line to blame Congressional Democrats for the recent government shutdown? Apparently, yes, someone at The White House changed the voice message for the comments line to issue accuse the Democrats for the reason that no one was available to answer the call.
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