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May 24 2020
News
New York Times front page honors Covid-19 victims as death toll nears 100,000
The stark front page of today's New York Times, plus three inside pages, consist of two-line obituaries ("Always first on the dance floor. ... Preferred bolo ties and suspenders") for 1,000 of the nearly 100,000 Americans who have died of the coronavirus — 1% of the toll.
The big picture: A huge team at The Times drew the accounts "from hundreds of obituaries, news articles and paid
AxiosAug 30 2019
News
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s account has been hacked
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s Twitter account was hacked on Friday afternoon by a group that calls itself the Chuckle Squad. Twitter’s communications team issued a statement via Twitter.
The hackers tweeted racial slurs from Dorsey’s account. Some offensive tweets were up for about 10 minutes, though not long after the hack began, those tweets were being deleted. The hackers also plugged a
The VergeApr 27 2020
News
The state we're in: will the pandemic revolutionise the role of government?
The state has been in retreat since the 80s heyday of Reagan and Thatcher but that could change as coronavirus delivers a shock to the system of historic proportions
Ronald Reagan’s 1986 wisecrack – “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help” – would not get a lot of laughs today. In much of the world, people are desperate
The GuardianApr 27 2020
Analysis
Bill Gates’s vision for life beyond the coronavirus
Bill Gates saw the coronavirus coming. Here’s his plan to beat it.
In 2015, I asked Bill Gates a simple question: What are you most afraid of?
He replied by telling me about the death chart of the 20th century. There’s the spike for World War I. The spike for World War II. But between them sat a spike as big as World War II. That, he said, was the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic,
Ezra KleinDec 11 2015
News
What I Learned Watching 15 Hours of Cruz Family Videos
His kids call him a guest his mother is the most interesting member of the family and Ted really likes to rub people's backs.
PoliticoFeb 21 2020
News
Trump angry after House briefed on 2020 Russia election meddling on his behalf
The briefing cost the acting director of national intelligence, Joseph Maguire, his job, a former intelligence official said.
President Donald Trump pushed aside his acting director of national intelligence, Joseph Maguire, because he was angry that lawmakers were briefed about Russia's plan to interfere in the 2020 election to help Trump, a former intelligence official briefed on the
NBC News (Online)Dec 29 2016
News
Donald Trump: Situation with my business ‘going to work out very easily’
President-elect Donald Trump said Wednesday that stepping away from his business empire is much less complicated than the press is making it, and that the people who elected him knew about the scope of the business going into the election anyway.
Washington TimesNov 25 2019
News
Pro-democracy candidates dominate Hong Kong’s local elections in a rebuke to China
Pro-democracy candidates achieved a staggering victory in Hong Kong’s local elections on Sunday — a peaceful but pointed rebuke of pro-Beijing leadership after six months of sustained protests in the territory.
Sunday’s elections were a landslide for pro-democracy candidates, who won majorities in 17 out of 18 of Hong Kong’s district councils; previously they had majorities in none. Pro
VoxMar 30 2017
News
North Carolina Strikes a Deal to Repeal Restrictive Bathroom Law
North Carolina’s Republican-controlled legislature and its Democratic governor announced late Wednesday that they had reached an agreement to repeal the controversial state law that curbs legal protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and sets rules that affect transgender bathroom use in public buildings.
New York Times (News)Mar 16 2018
Opinion
OPINION: 7 Techniques Liberals Use to Silence Conservatives
Free speech has become a conservative idea by default because liberals don’t believe in it any more. Liberals have given up on the idea of coming up with the best argument and now work tirelessly to silence their opposition so they can win the argument by default. Liberals NEED to do this because their ideas don’t work very well in the real world and if their ideas are tested and evaluated
Townhall