A bombshell report detailing virulently racist and antisemitic text messages shared among members of Young Republicans groups from across the nation has pulled back the veil on how the next generation of GOP leaders talk when they think no one is watching. “Can we fix the showers? Gas chambers don’t …
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On June 30, WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert held a press conference announcing the league would expand into three more cities in the next five years — bringing the WNBA team count to a league record of 18. “This historic expansion is a powerful reflection of our league’s extraordinary momentum, the …
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Lootings. Fights. Things thrown at customer service workers. Arguments in grocery stores. The trial of a 17-year-old alleged stabber. High schoolers dancing to rap music at graduation. A Black, female Iron Man. To scroll on these kinds of videos online is to interact with different communities. But while the average …
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It’s now official: New York State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani is the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City, having toppled disgraced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the establishment pick, in a wild primary that has already had seismic effects throughout the party. A 33-year-old Democratic Socialist, he will go up …
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Elon Musk calls the current version of Grok, a large language model developed by his company xAI, “the smartest AI on Earth.” But lately, the chatbot has struggled with even the most basic questions from users on X, which was acquired by xAI in March and has long included Grok …
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The Vice President and Elon Musk, the de-facto head of government under Donald Trump, are tag teaming on social media to promote the reinstatement of Marko Elez, a key Musk deputy who departed his post inside the Treasury Department amid a Wall Street Journal exposé linking him to racist social …
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Since the names of the younger, inexperienced people working for Elon Musk‘s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have become public, a flurry of reports have detailed their troubling histories of extremism and severe workplace infractions. One individual who resigned Thursday over revelations of racist posts on his X account …
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For the first time since February 2021, the “End Racism” message stencil will not appear across the end zone of the Super Bowl. Instead, “Choose Love” will be featured along one of the end zones at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans for Super Bowl LIX on Sunday. The other end …
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Emilia Pérez actress Karla Sofía Gascón is embroiled in controversy once again after users on X found posts from 2020 and 2021, in which she shared controversial comments about Muslims, the killing of George Floyd, and diversity at the Oscars. “I want to acknowledge the conversation around my past social …
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SPRINGFIELD, OHIO — It’s been two weeks since Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election, in part on a pledge to aggressively purge the small city of Springfield, Ohio, of its large Haitian immigrant population. To the president-elect, it doesn’t matter that the Haitian workers and families are there legally; …
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