Mary The DogKonstantin Kilimnik U.S. has new intel that Manafort friend Kilimnik gave Trump campaign data to Russia NBC News - By Tom Winter and Monica AlbaPaul Manafort was chair of the Trump campaign for part of 2016. Kilimnik had worked for him in Ukraine. U.S. officials say Kilimnik is a Russian spy. The U.S. intelligence community has developed new about...
Mary The DogAtheism It’s Not Just Young White Liberals Who Are Leaving Religion verified_publisherFiveThirtyEight - Ryan P. Burge and Perry Bacon Jr. Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup. Only 47 percent of American adults said they were members of a church, mosque or synagogue, …
Mary The DogTim Berners-Lee Interview: Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee thinks his creation is out of control. Here's his plan to save it sciencefocus.com - Thomas Ling Computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee is best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. We talk to him about his plans to help us reclaim our …
Mary The DogYouTube Kids Lawmakers Call YouTube Kids a 'Wasteland of Vapid, Consumerist Content' TIME - By BARBARA ORTUTAY / APA House subcommittee is investigating YouTube Kids, saying the Google-owned video service feeds children inappropriate material in “a wasteland of vapid, consumerist content” so it can serve them ads....
Mary The DogBurma The Myanmar beauty queen standing up to the military verified_publisherBBC News - By George WrightSpeeches by beauty pageant contestants rarely make headlines. But when Han Lay, Miss Grand Myanmar, spoke out last week against alleged atrocities committed by her country's military, her speech turned...
Mary The DogU.S. Politics Chuck Todd Confronts GOP Senator: Weren’t Trump Tax Cuts an ‘Economic Failure’? The Daily Beast - Justin Baragona “At one point former President Trump said this thing is going to pay off the debt like it’s water. As you know, the debt is way up,” Todd noted at …
Mary The DogTechnology Personal data of 500 million users surfaces in leak that Facebook calls "old" verified_publisherAxios - Jacob Knutson A leaker said Saturday they are providing personal information on 533 million Facebook users, including phone numbers, locations, birthdates and …
Mary The DogRepublican Party Why Matt Gaetz is a product of the modern Republican Party MSNBC "The reason we are where we are today is because the old school Republicans didn't stand up to the crazies. They embraced them, however uneasily. And …
Mary The DogMatt Gaetz Looking back at the track record of Matt Gaetz MSNBC “We thought it would be worth reminding you who Matt Gaetz was before he was an accused child sex trafficker,” says Mehdi Hasan. “Because this guy is …
Mary The DogDigital Currency Ray Dalio: The government 'outlawing bitcoin is a good probability' verified_publisherCNBC - Taylor Locke Billionaire investor Ray Dalio, founder of the world's largest hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, thinks bitcoin may have a similar fate as gold did …
Mary The DogScience This High Schooler Invented Color-Changing Sutures to Detect Infection smithsonianmag.com - Theresa Machemer Dasia Taylor has juiced about three dozen beets in the last 18 months. The root vegetables, she’s found, provide the perfect dye for her invention: …
Mary The DogBritish Humour People love the slip given out by this bar if security kicks someone out thepoke.co.uk - John Plunkett This is brilliant, a catch-all slip that this bar gives out to anyone kicked out by security.It went viral because it really does capture every …
Mary The DogU.S. Politics Half of Republican men say they don’t want the vaccine. They’re mooching off the rest of us verified_publisherLos Angeles Times - Doyle McManusMillions of elderly Americans are still hunting for appointments to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Millions of younger Americans are waiting impatiently for their turn in line. But there’s one group...
Mary The Dog A Fake Culture War Is All Republicans Have Left Medium - Michael Arceneaux Last week, during a Biden administration press briefing, a Fox News political reporter tried to take White House press secretary Jen Psaki on a trip …
Mary The Dog People Can't Get Enough Of Rep. Katie Porter Bulldozing This Oil Exec HuffPost - Josephine Harvey"Please don't patronize me by telling me that the oil and gas industry doesn't have any special tax provisions," the California Democrat told the company chief. Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) didn’t need...
Mary The Dog Republicans Probably Would Prefer an Interior Secretary From Exxon, But They're Getting Deb Haaland verified_publisherEsquire - By Charles P. PierceMeanwhile, they're pretending to be very concerned about the place of mean tweets in our national dialogue. The Republicans in the Senate, the folks who voted to overturn the 2020 presidential election...
Mary The Dog An entrepreneur who retired at 36 says his simple investment strategy means he'll never have to work again verified_publisherBusiness Insider - Laila MaidanJeremy Schneider never wanted to work for a big company. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a master's degree in computer science but turned down a job offer from Microsoft as a software...
Mary The DogSenator calls Waltons the 'poster child for greed' -- and says taxpayers should no longer subsidize Walmart's starvation... Raw Story - Common Dreams With the possibility of getting a more straightforward $15 federal minimum wage increase passed under the reconciliation process as part of the …
Mary The Dog Republicans Failed to Sink Deb Haaland’s Nomination—And Looked Like Fools in the Process The Nation - By Julian Brave NoiseCat Biden’s nominee for Interior responded to GOP bluster with grace and is headed for confirmation. Deb Haaland, a Laguna Pueblo tribal citizen and …
Mary The Dog Bitcoin plunges 16% in 24 hours: Two people may be the reason why verified_publisherFast Company - By Michael GrothausThough one bitcoin is worth around $46,000 now—down from an all-time high of $58,000 a few days ago—bitcoin is still up 60% YTD. It’s been a rough 24 hours for bitcoin traders. The cryptocurrency has 16%...
Mary The Dog Opinion: These are the women who crushed the Caliphate verified_publisherCNN - Opinion by Jane Greenway CarrThese are the women who crushed the Caliphate (CNN) — In early 2016, the first time a friend told Gayle Tzemach Lemmon the story of Kurdish Women's Projection Units in northeastern Syria -- also known...
Mary The Dog GOP's Thune says Trump allies engaging in 'cancel culture' verified_publisherPOLITICO - Associated PressThe Senate's No. 2 Republican on Thursday defended fellow Republicans who sided with Democrats on the “vote of conscience.” PIERRE, S.D. — U.S. Sen. John Thune is criticizing Republican activists and leaders...
Mary The Dog No, Frozen Wind Turbines Did Not Cause the Texas Blackouts verified_publisherVICE - David GilbertThe false narrative has been picked up by several conservative politicians. On Sunday night as a massive winter storm hit Texas, Luke Legate, a publicist for the fossil fuel industry, tweeted a picture...
Mary The Dog Networks are struggling in Texas amid historic winter storms verified_publisherThe Verge - Jay PetersMuch of Texas has been hit by a historic winter cold front, leaving many without power and affecting internet and cell phone services in the state. Downdetector is showing spikes in user reports for T-Mobile...
Mary The Dog Brands Against Humanity is here to remind you that your favorite company is still evil verified_publisherFast Company - By Mark WilsonThis unofficial expansion pack to the famous game is perfect for our late-stage capitalist era, highlighting real-life horrors from the likes of Amazon, Coca-Cola, and DuPont. Cards Against Humanity is...
Mary The Dog Del. Plaskett: “We didn’t need more witnesses. We needed more senators with spines.” verified_publisherAxios - Maria Arias Del. Stacey Plaskett (D-Virgin Islands) told CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday that Democrats “didn’t back down” from calling witnesses during …
Mary The Dog OAN prefaced Mike Lindell’s election "documentary" with a hilariously massive disclaimer verified_publisherVox - Aaron RuparMyPillow CEO and staunch Trump loyalist Mike Lindell has a new documentary out, pushing his long-debunked lies about former President Donald Trump’s loss to President Joe Biden being the product of fraud....
Mary The Dog Fox News cancels Lou Dobbs’ show verified_publisherAxios - Jacob Knutson Fox News has cancelled its business network's “Lou Dobbs Tonight" and will air the program's final show on Friday night, the LA Times first …
Mary The Dog 'There is real teeth to this': Legal experts weigh in on Smartmatic's $2.7 billion lawsuit against Fox News verified_publisherCNN(CNN Business) — A version of this article first appeared in the "Reliable Sources" newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. "This is the definition of defamation." That's what CNN senior legal...
