Don t start with the cancel culture bulls t, any man in any place would be fired : Meghan McCain leads calls for Matt Gaetz to RESIGN amid sex trafficking probe
Meghan McCain took to social media Thursday to demand the Florida lawmaker and staunch Trump ally stand down
She insisted this is not about the cancel culture bulls t but that any man in any place would be fired for his alleged behavior
Rep. Ted Lieu, from California s 33rd Congressional District, also demanded Gaetz resign and be prosecuted if the allegations are true
He urged House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to oust the congressman from his committee appointments while the probe is underway
Police in the D.C. area and around the world are testing a new kind of electronic lasso designed to take down a suspect without hurting them. It’s called a BolaWrap and looks a little like something Wonder Woman or Spider-Man might have dreamed up. A handheld device that looks like a Taser shoots cord as far as 25 feet.
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She Did It
Despite the barriers, despite the pain, Kamala Harris becomes the first woman, the first Asian American, and the first Black American to be elected vice president.
November 7, 2020
Daniel Acker / The New York Times / Redux
When I interviewed Vice President–elect Kamala Harris last year at the Essence Festival, she had plenty of wisdom to share about the challenges a Black woman faces when pursuing national office. “Some might think that breaking barriers means you start off on one side of the barrier,” said Harris, who was running for president at the time, “and then you just turn up on the other side of the barrier. No, there’s
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Despite considerable hype about foreign interference, the greatest danger to American democracy is domestic.
January 10, 2021
Shannon Stapleton / Reuters
The attack Wednesday on the U.S. Capitol was a product of the modern internet. The far-right extremists who forced their way into the building had consumed viral conspiracy theories about “stolen” elections and a “deep state” cabal theories that President Donald Trump himself amplified. The attackers had been radicalized. They saw themselves as heroes and truth-tellers.
Wednesday was not the first time the United States has been forced to reckon with social media’s impact on its politics. Four years earlier, to the day, American intelligence officials released a report describing Russian efforts to promote Trump’s candidacy and sow doubts about the Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton, during the 2016 presidential election campaign. As the 2020 election approached, the specter of a renewed foreign effort
The next time the soft serve truck rolls around your block, don’t be surprised if kids start singing “ice cream rules everything around me.” That’s because Wu-Tang founder and producer RZA has teamed up with Good Humour to create a new jingle for trucks across the country. It’ll replace the most commonly heard jingle, “Turkey in the Straw,” a. Netflix Aug 3, 2020
Netflix dating series “Indian Matchmaking” sheds light on the realities of arranged marriages and has led to a slew of tweets, including those from Dr. Mythri Jegathesan, a Professor at Santa Clara University, who is questioning the editing of the reality show and says it lacks representation of South Asian Americans.