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By Jeanette Winterson
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the latest sign that Anthony Weiner will enter the New York City mayoral race and televangelist Pat Robertson’s dubious marital advice for women.
Posted on May 16, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including three whistle-blowers testify before a House panel on September’s attacks in Benghazi and Michele Bachmann sees more trouble related to her 2012 presidential campaign.
Posted on May 8, 2013
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A chemist tried to swap orange juice bottles with containers filled with rubbing alcohol at a coffee shop in San Jose, Calif.; Republicans’ insistence on hampering immigration reform thanks to a provision concerning gay immigrants is utter stupidity; meanwhile, people with health insurance are going bankrupt thanks to medical costs, but Obamacare isn’t the answer. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on May 6, 2013
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on Apr 26, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the release of a post-9/11 torture report that lays the blame squarely at the feet of the nation’s highest officeholders and the unveiling of a bipartisan agreement on immigration reform.
Posted on Apr 16, 2013
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When a staffer at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo posted a link to “The Daily Show” on Twitter, the American and Egyptian governments learned the power of social media; with digital product placement, editors can integrate advertisements into film or television scenes that were never there to begin with; meanwhile, to make way for a parking lot near the 2014 World Cup stadium site in Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian authorities are kicking indigenous squatters out. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Apr 12, 2013
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More than 1,057,000 people have been killed by gun violence in the U.S. since the former Beatle was shot to death, according to the text above a picture that his widow tweeted.
Posted on Mar 21, 2013
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Manny Francisco, Cagle Cartoons, Manila, The Phillippines —
Posted on Mar 11, 2013
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Donald Trump is upset that someone gained access to his account and tweeted lyrics from the Will.I.Am song “Scream & Shout (Remix)” to his more than 2 million followers Thursday.
Posted on Feb 21, 2013
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Implicit in “SNL’s” version of Nugent—played in the “Fox & Friends” skit by Bill Hader—is that the right-wing rocker is, well, off his rocker.
Posted on Feb 19, 2013
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The world’s fifth-largest defense contractor has developed a surveillance program that predicts your behavior by tracking the movement of your smartphone and mining public data from sites such as Twitter, Facebook and Foursquare.
Posted on Feb 13, 2013
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Manny Francisco, Cagle Cartoons, Manila, The Phillippines —
Posted on Feb 12, 2013
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The actor, who is mostly known for comedic roles, took on a serious tone when he used Twitter to focus on the gun debate that has emerged in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., school shootings.
Posted on Feb 6, 2013
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Chuck Hagel’s confirmation hearings to become secretary of defense have raised questions about the Republican Party’s ability to conduct U.S. foreign policy worthy of a major international player; Hillary Clinton may be responsible for the decline in the use of “Hillary” as a baby name; meanwhile, although President Obama is quite adept at Internet use, his tendency toward waging a “cyber war” is a deficient approach to online security. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Feb 6, 2013
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Sen. John McCain’s attempt at humor has seriously backfired once again. On Monday, the Arizona Republican tweeted a joke comparing Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the monkey the country claims it sent to outer space.
Posted on Feb 4, 2013
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Anonymous hackers gained access to the usernames, email addresses and passwords associated with a quarter of a million Twitter accounts before the company noticed “unusual access patterns” across its network Friday, The Guardian reports.
Posted on Feb 2, 2013
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Curmudgeons the world over will tell you that TV makes you go blind and expressing ideas 140 characters at a time makes you soft in the head, but some actual scientists looked into this and the results were surprising.
Posted on Jan 27, 2013
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Canines have more to do with presidential elections than one might think; the conditions in which alleged WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning was detained were “excessive,” a military judge found; meanwhile, The Associated Press has started selling sponsored tweets on its Twitter feed. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Jan 10, 2013
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Angel Boligan, Cagle Cartoons, El Universal, Mexico City —
Posted on Jan 1, 2013
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The hacker collective’s Twitter account was temporarily suspended Wednesday after the group posted personal information belonging to members of the Westboro Baptist Church.
Posted on Dec 19, 2012
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Patrick Chappatte, Cagle Cartoons, Le Temps, Switzerland —
Posted on Dec 14, 2012
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After days of buildup, Pope Benedict XVI sent out his first message Wednesday to his hundreds of thousands of Twitter followers.
Posted on Dec 12, 2012
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Nerilicon, Cagle Cartoons, Mexico City —
Posted on Dec 5, 2012
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Peter Broelman, Cagle Cartoons, Australia —
Posted on Nov 24, 2012
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Over the weekend, Rupert Murdoch tweeted this to his followers: “Why Is Jewish owned press so consistently anti-Israel in every crisis?”
Posted on Nov 19, 2012
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Cam Cardow, Cagle Cartoons, The Ottawa Citizen —
Posted on Nov 17, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a CEO who claims he fired employees because of Obama’s victory, and Ted Nugent, who has a meltdown over the election on Twitter.
Posted on Nov 9, 2012
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According to geography research group Floating Sheep, pinpointing the spike in Twitter hate speech is a “useful reminder that technology reflects the society in which it is based, both the good and the bad.”
Posted on Nov 9, 2012
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If Mitt Romney loses Tuesday’s election—a very real possibility given that Nate Silver’s latest forecast gives President Obama an 83.7 percent shot at winning—we now know who to blame it on: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
Posted on Nov 3, 2012
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Shashank Tripathi, the Twitter troll who went by the handle @ComfortablySmug and deliberately spread false information when the massive storm hit the East Coast on Monday, has apologized.
Posted on Oct 31, 2012
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A new study inspired by social media’s role in the Arab Spring has revealed that links contained in 11 percent of posts published on websites such as Twitter and Facebook were defunct within a year, leading readers to dead Web pages. And that number rose to 27 percent within two years.
Posted on Sep 20, 2012
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Twitter has bowed to threats of substantial fines and released messages sent by Occupy Wall Street protester Malcolm Harris relating to the arrest of roughly 700 people at a demonstration on the Brooklyn Bridge in October 2011.
Posted on Sep 15, 2012
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Actor Alec Baldwin hit back at Hank Williams Jr. after the country singer’s vitriolic, hate-fueled rant against the president and homosexuals over the weekend.
Posted on Sep 4, 2012
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The social media driven effort to get the 90-years-young actress began after Clint Eastwood’s awkward, rambling and nonsensical introduction of GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney at the Republican National Convention that involved, among other things, the actor and filmmaker speaking to an empty chair.
Posted on Sep 2, 2012
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By Alexander Reed Kelly — Many journalists become grudgingly used to the fact that their work has little to no visible effect on the course of world events. When conservative writer Joshua Trevino was let go from The Guardian last month, Ali Abunimah, co-founder of the pro-Palestinian news and opinion site The Electronic Intifada, wasn’t one of them.
Posted on Sep 1, 2012
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What better way to remind Republicans that Mitt Romney is not Ronald Reagan than by bringing out the former president in hologram form at the convention?
Posted on Aug 29, 2012
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Karina Bolanos, a vice minister in Costa Rica, was let go after a video of her claiming her longing to her lover while clad in underwear was made public on YouTube; Americans apparently throw away nearly half of their food; meanwhile, a 15-year-old used the Internet to create an advanced cancer test. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Aug 25, 2012
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Progressive has settled with the family of a policyholder that claimed the insurance company defended her killer, but the deal came about only after the truly awful story made its way around the Internet.
Posted on Aug 17, 2012
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It seems young people are more interested in buying iPhones than automobiles these days; Central American families with links to death squads helped Mitt Romney fund Bain Capital; and Jill Stein, the presidential nominee for the Green Party, went to jail for protesting home foreclosures. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Aug 10, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a new tax defense from Mitt Romney and what is possibly the most ridiculous claim ever about President Obama.
Posted on Aug 9, 2012
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By Mark Heisler and Mike Littwin —
If social networks helped mobilize Egyptians to confront Hosni Mubarak’s tanks and men, shouldn’t they also be able to take on a PAC, even one as powerful as that belonging to the National Rifle Association?
Posted on Aug 4, 2012
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OK, so it’s only 135. Nonetheless it gives us pause when the former labor secretary and economic soothsayer tweets that China’s “bubble will pop.” If that happens, you can stop worrying about Greece and the other comparatively tiny economies of Europe.
Posted on Jul 31, 2012
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The International AIDS Conference is making dangerously impossible promises about putting an end to the epidemic; the London Olympics’ opening ceremonies included a unique tribute to free, universal health care; meanwhile, British graffiti artist Banksy has proved he will not be erased. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Jul 29, 2012
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In the race to build the most widely used and technologically redundant social network out there, Apple has considered investing hundreds of millions of dollars in Twitter. (Or not.)
Posted on Jul 28, 2012
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Deng Coy Miel, Cagle Cartoons, Singapore —
Posted on Jul 22, 2012
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The cute little communicator that helped topple Hosni Mubarak is reportedly so focused on advertising dollars that it plans to impose severe restrictions on third-party partners. Essentially, Twitter wants to have more control over users so it can have more control over how they see ads.
Posted on Jul 10, 2012
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The release of Twitter’s first “Transparency Report” comes with the revelation that the microblogging site has received more government requests pertaining to its users’ accounts in the first half of 2012 than in the entirety of 2011.
Posted on Jul 3, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including another Romney flip-flop and pro-life Republicans getting dealt a blow in Mississippi.
Posted on Jul 2, 2012
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A judge in Manhattan ruled Monday that Twitter must turn over some three months’ worth of data from the account of an Occupy Wall Street protester who is being prosecuted on charges of disorderly conduct.
Posted on Jul 2, 2012
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