With the 2020 presidential election just over two weeks away, celebrities are using their clout for one last push for the candidates they support. And as a new virtual fundraiser for Joe Biden is set to take place this week, people have noticed one person who didn’t show up. First […]
Like a lot of people, I wrestle with the pros and cons of social media. The desire to reach out and feel connected is a fundamental aspect of our species. The human brain evolved to seek out human contact. It’s no surprise, then, that the need to be tagged, tweeted, […]
Obviously, the way to show you care about women is through tampon art. No, it’s cocktail drink names. No, no, I got it—it’s by hiring a man for a central leadership position. This is all true of a Hotel Zena, a renovated downtown D.C. hotel that markets itself as a […]
The results are in and Xbox has won the distinction of becoming the first brand to win the “Best of Tweets” competition put on by Twitter, and now gamers can look forward to official Xbox mini fridges in the future. In the lead-up to the championship round between Xbox and […]
Photo credit: The Washington Post – Getty Images From Bicycling Pete Buttigieg unintentionally got himself a healthy dose of feedback from Cyclist Twitter. Politico reporter Michael Stratford tweeted a short video of the freshly confirmed Secretary of Transportation riding a bike home from work through Washington, D.C.’s Navy Yard neighborhood […]
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) began his speech at Orlando’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Friday with a quip about his controversial trip to Cancun during last week’s extreme snowstorms in Texas — and Twitter was decidedly unimpressed. “God bless CPAC,” Cruz said to a cheering crowd. “I gotta say, […]
Here’s what you need to know: Jack Dorsey, left, the chief executive of Twitter; Sundar Pichai, the chief executive of Google; and Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook, will appear before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on March 25.Credit…Lm Otero Jose Luis Magana/Associated Press The chief executives of […]
Perhaps you’ve heard by now, but Anna Delvey was released early from prison on Thursday. Her four-to-12-year sentence for fraud has been cut short thanks to good behavior, per New York State Department of Corrections records cited by Insider. Delvey (whose birth name is Sorokin) spent over three years in […]
The viral thread has since been deleted. Photo: Kristen Gray/Twitter American travel influencer Kristen Gray, who went viral on Twitter last week for a thread about eat-pray-loving in Bali during the pandemic, is currently being sent back to the United States, pending the next available flight. Following an official investigation, […]
photo by: Journal-World Photo Illustration Lawrence Journal-World Editorial Think whatever you want about the fairness of Twitter banning Donald Trump from its platform, but reasonable people should quash this notion that Twitter’s decision somehow is a violation of the First Amendment. Instead, reasonable people — which hopefully […]
Lana Del Rey released the album cover and tracklisting for her seventh album, Chemtrails Over the Country Club on Sunday, before launching into a lengthy Instagram comment which saw her defending herself from accusations of racism, and which many have criticized for being tone deaf. The cover of Lana’s album, […]
Robert Galbraith/Reuters On the social media site Reddit, a subreddit called “Am I The A–hole” (known as AITA) has became an unlikely source of joy this year. In it, people describe scenarios — often involving a romantic partner, often shocking — and ask other online to judge whether they were […]
It was the second time the CEOs had been summoned to testify in as many months. As expected, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter’s Jack Dorsey faced their fair share of allegations by lawmakers of anti-conservative bias and failure to remove misinformation and hate speech. But this hearing lacked much of […]
Horror films and queer culture have always gone hand in hand. You only have to watch Courteney Cox in a neon yellow skirt, emasculating every man she meets, as Gale Weathers in the Scream franchise to get an understanding as to why: the genre is packed full with strong women, […]