Being the B in LGBT can feel isolating sometimes. Twitter users wanted to change that. Marc Bruxelle Beginning Wednesday, Twitterers across the globe have been celebrating bisexuality and combatting cultural erasure of their identity through the hashtag #BiTwitter. Sure, things trend on social media all the time, but this time, it’s a little different. After […]
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Congress Votes on Giving Away Your Internet Privacy Today
ROYALTY-FREE/GETTYIMAGES.COM Last week, the United States Senate voted to repeal broadband privacy rules, which require internet service providers (ISPs) to obtain permission before releasing consumers’ private information. Republican senators all voted in favor of repealing the rules, which were established by the Federal Communications Commission’s Telecommunications Act of 1996. Congressional representatives are expected to vote […]
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Uber Kept Driving Amid Taxi Strike, Announces $3M In Support of Ban-Threatened Drivers; Lyft Donates $1M to the ACLU
Delete @Uber It only takes a minute https://t.co/uZ0lqGOOEU pic.twitter.com/gs2S20xmUX— Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) January 29, 2017 This story has been updated to clarify that Uber continued to pick up passengers from the JFK Airport amidst a taxi driver strike that was held in response to Trump’s Muslim ban, and now also includes the statement CEO Travis […]
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People in Besieged Aleppo Are Filming What Could Be Their Last Messages to the World
From The Morning News digest… The messages are circulating all over social media — and for good reason. The city is under heavy bombardment from Syrian President Bashar Assad and leaving unimaginable destruction and “streets are littered with carnage. The White Helmets, who are a volunteer rescue organization, say they can’t give a body count […]
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Instead of Tweeting, Donald Trump Should Be Reading These Kids’ Letters When He’s Up at 4 a.m.
Rather than sending out nonsensical tweets at 4 a.m., the Racist-in-Chief should try perusing this Facebook group instead. Joseph Sohm / Shutterstock.com Molly Spence Sahebjami, who lives in Seattle’s Wallingford neighborhood, started up the Facebook group “Dear President Trump: Letters from Kids About Kindness” the day after the devastating election. “Sahebjami decided on the Facebook […]
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Louis C.K. Wants You to Get Over Yourself and Vote
Louis C.K., beloved (and allegedly problematic) stand-up comedian, talked politics with Conan O’Brien last night. After “outing” himself as a Hillary Clinton supporter, C.K. said this: I don’t have any quarrel with someone who votes for Trump if that’s what they feel they want. Um, no. Do not vote for a flagrantly racist xenophobe. But […]
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Convicted Stanford Rapist Brock Turner Freed from Jail After Serving Only Three Months
Brock Turner has been released from jail. https://t.co/vOBZ4rsmvm pic.twitter.com/adCCYpRvul— Complex (@ComplexMag) September 2, 2016 Brock Turner, a Stanford University student convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman earlier this year, was released from Santa Clara County Main Jail this morning after serving only half of his outrageously short six-month sentence. Turner’s sentence was so controversial […]
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After a Deluge of Angry Tweets, The Daily Beast Takes Down Story on Gay Olympians
lazyllama / Shutterstock Yesterday, Nico Hines, a reporter for The Daily Beast, published a dangerous “exposé,” which outed a number of gay Olympic athletes, many of who live in countries with repressive anti-gay laws. Hines—who is straight, married, and has a child—used gay hookup app, Grindr, to bait male athletes. As was to be expected, […]
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Dan Savage to Daily Beast: Take Down Your Creepy Olympic Grindr “Exposé”
lazyllama / Shutterstock In recent years, the Olympic games have become synonymous with sex. And the 2016 games in Rio de Janeiro are no different. Usually, the reports focus on the hundreds of thousands of condoms that are being handed out to athletes in the Olympic Village. But this year, Nico Hines, a reporter for […]
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This Feel-Good Cop Video Is Ill-Timed at Best, Exploitative at Worst
Earlier this week, a video showing a Virginia police officer pulling over a black woman at a traffic stop went viral. In the video, the white male officer asked the driver if she knows why she was pulled over, she keeps her eyes averted and says “no” and then quickly rushes to say, “I mean, […]
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Mother of Philando Castile Discusses Her Son’s Killing and the Struggles of Being Black in America
WATCH @AlisynCamerota‘s full interview with #PhilandoCastile‘s mother and uncle: https://t.co/tebqvDKwjt https://t.co/gOdiQrtHlF— New Day (@NewDay) July 7, 2016 Valerie Castile, the mother of a 32-year-old man shot by police in Falcon Heights, Minn. on Wednesday, told CNN that her son was “black in the wrong place.” Castile, who was interviewed alongside Philando’s uncle, Clarence Castile, told […]
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People Are Boycotting Target Because The Store Supports Their Trans Employees And Customers
Target is standing up to anti-trans bigots. Northfoto / Shutterstock.com Last week, Target reaffirmed its commitment to support its LGBT guests and made it clear that they would respect transgender employees and guests by welcoming them “to use the restroom or fitting room facility that corresponds with their gender identity.” So, naturally, members of a […]