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House Democrats call for accountability while Republicans call for unity and rail against 'cancel culture' in impeachment debateJanuary 13, 2021 at 5:27 PM Reuters
The House of Representatives impeached President Donald Trump on Wednesday for the "incitement of insurrection" in the wake of last week's deadly Capitol siege.
During the House debate, Democrats argued Trump must be held accountable for provoking the violent mob, while Republicans called for "unity and healing" and defended the president's rhetoric and election lies.
Trump is the first president in American history to be impeached twice. His impeachment is also the most bipartis...Tags: Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Florida, Politics, New York, Texas, News, Instagram, Maryland, Supreme Court, Congress, California, Washington, Kentucky 52 people like this. Like House members engage in a fiery debate over impeaching Trump for inciting an insurrection at the CapitolJanuary 13, 2021 at 3:59 PM Reuters
The House of Representatives impeached President Donald Trump on Wednesday for the "incitement of insurrection" in the wake of last week's deadly Capitol siege.
During the House debate, Democrats argued Trump must be held accountable for provoking the violent mob, while Republicans called for "unity and healing" and defended the president's rhetoric and election lies.
Trump is the first president in American history to be impeached twice. His impeachment is also the most bipartis...Tags: Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Florida, Politics, New York, Texas, News, Instagram, Maryland, Supreme Court, Congress, California, Washington, Kentucky 94 people like this. Like The House prepares to impeach the president after a fiery debate and as Trump is more isolated than everJanuary 13, 2021 at 3:59 PM Reuters
The House of Representatives is poised to impeach President Donald Trump for the second time for "incitement of insurrection" following last week's deadly Capitol siege.
Debate over the article of impeachment began shortly after 9 a.m. ET and can be watched online on C-SPAN, YouTube, and the House's official website.
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The House of Represe...Tags: Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Florida, Politics, New York, News, Instagram, Maryland, Supreme Court, Congress, California, Washington, Kentucky, Senate 131 people like this. Like Democratic Rep. Cori Bush makes a fiery speech calling to impeach 'the white supremacist in chief'January 13, 2021 at 3:05 PM Reuters
The House of Representatives is poised to impeach President Donald Trump for the second time for "incitement of insurrection" following last week's deadly Capitol siege.
Debate over the article of impeachment began shortly after 9 a.m. ET and can be watched online on C-SPAN, YouTube, and the House's official website.
Scroll down to watch the livestream and follow Insider's live coverage of the historic event.
Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.
The House of Represe...Tags: Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Florida, Politics, New York, News, Instagram, Maryland, Supreme Court, Congress, California, Washington, Kentucky, Senate 66 people like this. Like LIVE: House minority leader Kevin McCarthy says Trump 'bears responsibility' for the Capitol siege and shoots down antifa conspiracy theoriesJanuary 13, 2021 at 1:53 PM Reuters
The House of Representatives is poised to impeach President Donald Trump for the second time for "incitement of insurrection" following last week's deadly Capitol siege.
Debate over the article of impeachment began shortly after 9 a.m. ET and can be watched online on C-SPAN, YouTube, and the House's official website.
Scroll down to watch the livestream and follow Insider's live coverage of the historic event.
Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.
The House of Represe...Tags: Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Florida, Politics, New York, News, Instagram, Maryland, Supreme Court, Congress, California, Washington, Kentucky, Senate 54 people like this. Like LIVE: Rep. Cedric Richmond says some Republicans are 'co-conspirators' in the insurrection and tells them to 'man up, woman up,' and defend the ConstitutionJanuary 13, 2021 at 1:08 PM Reuters
The House of Representatives is poised to impeach President Donald Trump for the second time for "incitement of insurrection" following last week's deadly Capitol siege.
Debate over the article of impeachment began shortly after 9 a.m. ET and can be watched online on C-SPAN, YouTube, and the House's official website.
Scroll down to watch the livestream and follow Insider's live coverage of the historic event.
Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.
The House of Represe...Tags: Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Politics, New York, News, Instagram, Maryland, Supreme Court, Congress, California, Washington, Kentucky, Senate, White House 90 people like this. Like YouTube suspends Trump content, newcomers join Super Bowl line-up; Wednesday Wake-Up CallJanuary 13, 2021 at 6:33 AM Welcome to Ad Age’s Wake-Up Call, our daily roundup of advertising, marketing, media and digital news. If you're reading this online or in a forwarded email, here's the link to sign up for our Wake-Up Call newsletters. YouTube suspends Trump content
YouTube is the latest Big Tech platform to bar President Trump from posting online, announcing last night on Twitter that it has suspended his account to new uploa...Tags: Amazon, Texas, Instagram, Youtube, Amy Schumer, Advertising, Unilever, New York Times, The Times, Mitch McConnell, Capitol Hill, Donald Trump, Brooklyn Nets, Cadbury, Trump, Mike Pence 4 people like this. Like This Week in Apps: Social apps react to riots, Parler gets booted, FTC threatens regulationJanuary 9, 2021 at 12:09 PM Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy.
The app industry is as hot as ever, with 204 billion downloads and $120 billion in global consumer spend in 2019. Consumer spend also hit a record $112 billion across iOS and Android alone.
Not including third-party Chinese app stores, iOS and Android users 130 billion apps in 2020. Due to COVID-19, time spent in apps 25% year-over-year ...Tags: Apple, Google, TC, Mobile, Facebook, Apps, Mark Zuckerberg, Instagram, Microsoft, China, US, Tech, Developers, Bbc, Beijing, Epic 120 people like this. Like The deplatforming of a presidentJanuary 9, 2021 at 11:46 AM After years of placid admonishments, the tech world came out in force against President Trump this past week following the violent assault of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington D.C. on Wednesday. From Twitter to PayPal, more than a dozen companies have placed unprecedented restrictions or outright banned the current occupant of the White House from using their services, and in some cases, some of his associates and supporters as well.
The news was voluminous and continuous for the past f...Tags: Apple, Google, Social, TC, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter, Elon Musk, Media, Instagram, Minneapolis, Obama, Youtube, Washington, Government, White House 29 people like this. Like The deplatforming of President TrumpJanuary 9, 2021 at 11:46 AM After years of placid admonishments, the tech world came out in force against President Trump this past week following the violent assault of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington D.C. on Wednesday. From Twitter to PayPal, more than a dozen companies have placed unprecedented restrictions or outright banned the current occupant of the White House from using their services, and in some cases, some of his associates and supporters as well.
The news was voluminous and continuous for the past f...Tags: Apple, Google, Social, TC, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter, Elon Musk, Media, Instagram, Minneapolis, Obama, Youtube, Washington, Government, White House 9 people like this. Like Facebook was just hit with 2 big antitrust lawsuits. Here's what 'antitrust' means and how 'trust-busting' laws attempt to keep the biggest firms in US history from growing too powerful.December 9, 2020 at 4:13 PM An 1889 political cartoon.
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Antitrust laws were created to keep the big conglomerates, or trusts, that were forming across oil, railroad, steel, and other sectors in the late 1800s and early 1900s from growing too large and powerful.
Now, regulators are coming after 21st-century big tech — the Federal Trade Commission and a group of 48 attorneys general filed two separate antitrust lawsuits against Facebook on Wednesday.
The lawsuits could lead to Facebook...Tags: Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Politics, New York, Instagram, Microsoft, Congress, Washington Post, US, Trends, Strategy, Tech, ExxonMobil, Reagan 150 people like this. Like Facebook exceeds Q3 revenue expectations, but stock falls slightly due to expected headwindsOctober 29, 2020 at 4:18 PM Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Financial Services Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill October 23, 2019 in Washington, DC.
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Facebook on Thursday reported $21.5 billion in revenue for Q3 2020, up 22% year-on-year, and beating Wall Street's expectations of $19.8 billion.
The social media giant, which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp, said its daily active user base grew to 1.82 billion, up 12% year...Tags: Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Instagram, Washington, US, Trends, Markets, Bloomberg, Canada, Earnings, Silicon Valley, Capitol Hill, Facebook Instagram, House Financial Services Committee, FB, Amazon Apple 137 people like this. Like Facebook's much-hyped oversight board that can overrule even CEO Mark Zuckerberg likely won't make any decisions until after Election DayOctober 22, 2020 at 4:59 PM Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appears before a House Financial Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019.
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Facebook's oversight board — a pseudo-independent group sometimes called Facebook's "Supreme Court" that can review and overrule the company's decisions to remove posts — announced its launch Thursday.
Facebook and Instagram users will now be able to submit appeals on content moderation to the board for review. The board has give...Tags: Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Politics, Instagram, Washington, Advertising, US, Trends, United States, Capitol Hill, Co, Board, HARRIS, House Financial Services Committee, Andrew Harnik, Helle Thorning Schmidt 90 people like this. Like Who regulates social media?October 19, 2020 at 4:33 PM Social media platforms have repeatedly found themselves in the United States government’s crosshairs over the last few years, as it has been progressively revealed just how much power they really wield, and to what purposes they’ve chosen to wield it. But unlike, say, a firearm or drug manufacturer, there is no designated authority who says what these platforms can and can’t do. So who regulates them? You might say everyone and no one.
Now, it must be made clear at the outset that these companie...Tags: Google, Amazon, Social, TC, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter, Europe, Instagram, Fcc, Social Networks, Congress, California, France, Government, Social Media 26 people like this. Like Athletes, priests and presidents: 10 public figures who didn't take the coronavirus seriously and then got infected themselvesOctober 2, 2020 at 4:57 AM President Trump holds a Make America Great Again campaign rally in Winston-Salem, NCÂ United States on September 8, 2020
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President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump both tested positive for the coronavirus on Thursday.
Trump is the biggest name in a lineup of political figures, athletes, and celebrities who didn't take the COVID-19 pandemic threat seriously, refused to wear face masks, or publicly joked about the virus.
But despite dismissi...Tags: Europe, Politics, News, Instagram, Nbc, Washington Post, Cbs News, White House, Denver Nuggets, Trends, Joe Biden, Features, Getty Images, Britain, Gop, Washington Dc 125 people like this. Like Athletes, priests and politicians: 9 public figures who didn't take the coronavirus seriously and then got infected themselvesSeptember 12, 2020 at 10:11 AM Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro adjusts his protective face mask at a press statement during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Brasilia, Brazil, March 20, 2020. Picture taken March 20, 2020.
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Some political figures, athletes, and celebrities didn't take the COVID-19 pandemic threat seriously, refusing to wear face masks or publicly joked about the virus.
But despite dismissing claims about the threat of the virus, they ended up getting it themselv...Tags: Europe, Politics, News, Instagram, Nbc, Washington Post, Cbs News, Denver Nuggets, Trends, Features, Britain, Gop, Washington Dc, House, Paris, News UK 96 people like this. Like Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Denies Reports That He Tested Positive for CoronavirusMarch 13, 2020 at 10:50 AM Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who met with several U.S. officials including President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence during an official visit over the weekend, has denied that he tested positive for the 2019 novel coronavirus.Brazilian news outlet Jornal O Dia and Fox News, citing Bolsonaro’s son Eduardo, reported Friday that Bolsonaro had the flu-like virus. He was tested Thursday after his press secretary Fabio Wajngarten, who was part of the visiting Brazilian delegation, te...Tags: Facebook, Usa, News, Instagram, Cdc, White House, Miami, Fox News, Capitol Hill, Pentagon, Donald Trump, Suarez, Trump, Mike Pence, Scott, KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE 109 people like this. Like Facebook hits 2.5B users in Q4 but shares sink from slow profitsJanuary 29, 2020 at 4:12 PM Facebook beat Wall Street estimates in Q4 but slowing profit growth beat up the share price. Facebook reached 2.5 billion monthly users, up 2%, from 2.45 billion in Q3 2019 when it grew 1.65%, and it now has 1.66 billion daily active users, up 2.4% from 1.62 billion last quarter when it grew 2%. Facebook brought in $21.08 billion in revenue, up 25% year-over-year, with $2.56 in earnings per share.
But net income was just $7.3 billion, up only 7% year-over-year compared to 61% growth over 2018...Tags: Social, TC, Mobile, Facebook, Apps, Mark Zuckerberg, Instagram, Advertising Tech, US, Tech, Canada, Earnings, Capitol Hill, Ftc, Zuckerberg, Zack 79 people like this. Like Social Media Helped Juul Dominate the Vaping Market. Now, Teens Are Using It to Help Each Other QuitJanuary 21, 2020 at 11:47 AM Juul Labs , the e-cigarette company so popular its name became a verb, wouldn’t be where it is without social media. In the company’s early years, a steady stream of posts from users and influencers helped turn Juul from a smoking alternative to a cultural phenomenon. So many Juul users— many of them teenagers —voluntarily posted about vaping that it hardly made a difference when the company in 2018 silenced its own accounts to help stem its popularity among underage users.
Now, in th...Tags: Florida, News, Instagram, California, Virginia, New York City, Uncategorized, Public Health, Capitol Hill, Fda, Vaping, Juul, Don, Miami Beach, Herman, U S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC 29 people like this. Like Two Days of History on Capitol HillJanuary 16, 2020 at 8:34 PM As the impeachment trial of President Trump begins, theatrical ritual — and gravity — are on display.Tags: Photography, News, Senate, House Of Representatives, Capitol Hill, Dc, Nancy, Trump, Democratic Party, Roberts, Pelosi, Schiff, United States Politics and Government, Donald J, Impeachment, Adam B 11 people like this. Like Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian took 16 weeks of paid paternal leave after his daughter with Serena Williams was born in 2017. Now he's taking the fight for paid family leave to Congress — and explaining why.October 31, 2019 at 9:50 AM Alexis Ohanian may have made it big as the cofounder of Reddit and as a venture capitalist, but he spends more of his time discussing his newest job: fatherhood.
Ohanian took four months off following the birth of his and Serena Williams' daughter, Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr.
Ohanian spent the week of October 21 meeting with lawmakers on Capitol Hill, working to make paid paternity leave "the law of the land," he told Business Insider in a phone interview.
Visit Business Insider's homepage for...Tags: Facebook, Hollywood, Instagram, Congress, US, Trends, Williams, Reddit, Alexis Ohanian, Capitol Hill, Fast Company, Unicef, Serena Williams, Initialized Capital, Business Insider, Olympia 65 people like this. Like Putting on the dog — and cat — at the Halloween Pet ParadeOctober 20, 2019 at 6:57 PM The Halloween Pet Parade and costume contest was held Sunday at Volunteer Park in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle.Tags: Photography, News, Capitol Hill, Local News, Volunteer Park, Photo & Video 101 people like this. Like Putting on the dog at the Halloween Pet ParadeOctober 20, 2019 at 6:57 PM The Halloween Pet Parade and costume contest was held Sunday at Volunteer Park in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle.Tags: Photography, News, Capitol Hill, Local News, Volunteer Park, Photo & Video 94 people like this. Like Queer Eye guy can marry youApril 30, 2019 at 1:30 PM Fans of Queer Eye who happen to be engaged might be able to check one item off their wedding to-do list. A new contest from Elysian Brewing and Seattle Pride is offering a unique grand prize: having Jonathan Van Ness as your wedding officiant.
The grooming expert will perform a ceremony on June 4, 2019 — marking both Pride Month and the one year anniversary of a Colorado baker refusing to bake a cake for a same-sex couple — at Elysian Brewing’s Capitol Hill brewpub in Seattle.
In a statement,...Tags: Travel, Instagram, Colorado, San Francisco, Capitol Hill, Seattle, All, Van Ness, Seattle Pride, Elysian Brewing, Jonathan Van Ness, Joe Bisacca 53 people like this. Like DC, but make it glam: Queer Eye's fab five meet AOC in WashingtonApril 4, 2019 at 4:11 PM The cast met with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Nancy Pelosi on a trip to Washington to advocate for the Equality ActCongresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez met with the cast of Queer Eye in Washington DC on Thursday. Photograph: Yuri Gripas/ReutersConsidering her self-confessed “completely depraved lifestyle”, New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could probably use a visit from the style experts of Netflix’s hit show Queer Eye.But on Thursday, four of the show’s Fab 5 presenters arrive...Tags: New York, News, Instagram, Washington, Netflix, United States, Washington Dc, House, Capitol Hill, Nancy Pelosi, Customs, Library Of Congress, Aoc, Van Ness, Steny Hoyer, Washington Monument 115 people like this. Like Some lawmakers are already raising concerns about Facebook's plans to merge its messaging apps (FB)January 25, 2019 at 8:52 PM Some lawmakers have spoken out about Facebook's plans to partially merge WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram.
The social network plans to combine the back-end systems of the three apps, so users can talk to each other across platforms.
But the move has faced early skepticism from some politicians, with concerns raised around data privacy and anti-trust issues.
Facebook plans to partially combine its most popular messaging apps — and some lawmakers don't sound happy about it.
On Friday, The New...Tags: Apple, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Instagram, California, Trends, New York Times, Myanmar, Capitol Hill, Signal, Ron Wyden, Alex Stamos, Facebook Messenger WhatsApp, Ro Khanna, Cambridge Analytica, Jennifer Hakes 68 people like this. Like The Daily Promo – Hannele LahtiJanuary 14, 2019 at 9:43 AM Hannele Lahti
Who printed it?
smartpress.com
Who designed it?
David Labrozzi, my in-house designer/artist/husband, put it together. Nadia Hughes and Lori Franklin, from the Nat Geo Image Collection, helped me edit the images.
Tell me about the images?
The images are from my most recent personal project: The Office Dogs of Capitol Hill. The project came about after the 2016 election and my curiosity about culture on Capitol Hill. I’ve lived in DC for my entire career but neve...Tags: Photography, Capitol Hill, Dc, The Daily Promo, Congressional, Lori Franklin, Hannele Lahti, David Labrozzi, Nadia Hughes, Office Dogs of Capitol Hill 27 people like this. Like Donald Trump to deliver TV address to nation and visit US-Mexico border as shutdown stand-off intensifiesJanuary 7, 2019 at 3:24 PM Donald Trump will address the nation on Tuesday and visit the US-Mexico border on Thursday to highlight his demands for a border wall as the government remains partially shut down. Newly empowered Democrats in the House of Representatives are stepping up pressure on Mr Trump and Republican lawmakers to reopen the government, which has been closed more than a fortnight. Mr Trump said he would discuss the "Humanitarian and National Security crisis on our Southern Border" at 9 pm EST. He maintains...Tags: News, Instagram, Nbc, Congress, Abc, Mexico, Senate, White House, Iraq, US, Cnn, Afghanistan, Democrats, Maine, House, House Of Representatives 76 people like this. Like PayPal is cutting off Alex Jones and says it will no longer do business with InfoWars because it promotes 'hate and discriminatory intolerance' (PYPL)September 21, 2018 at 3:53 PM PayPal said on Friday it will end its business relationship with InfoWars, the conspiracy spreading website.
The company said an extensive investigation had determined that InfoWars has promoted hate and discriminatory intolerance against certain communities and religions.
PayPal announced on Friday that it will stop providing business services to InfoWars, the website created by Alex Jones that promotes conspiracy theories.
The payment processing company said it determined that InfoWars "...Tags: Apple, Facebook, Instagram, Trends, Paypal, Cnn, Capitol Hill, British Airways, Jones, Alex Jones, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Infowars, Oliver Darcy, Twitter YouTube Facebook Apple, New York Times PayPal, Alex Jones Show Spotify 128 people like this. Like Denver Riggleman Is Our Duke Of The WeekAugust 4, 2018 at 11:50 AM Some political figures loom large in history. They take on mythic proportions as their legacies transcend the centuries. Leaders like Abraham Lincoln, Eleanor Roosevelt and Thurgood Marshall have earned spots in the pantheon of American heroes.
One of these titans has been invoked in the congressional race in Virginia’s fifth district. His shadow stretches long and the fascination with him spans years, continents and cultures.
Bigfoot.
In a bizarre turn of events, Leslie Cockburn, the D...Tags: News, Instagram, Virginia, United States, Bigfoot, Capitol Hill, Denver, Daily Beast, Thurgood Marshall, R VA, Corey Stewart, Tom Garrett, CRTV, Golden Dukes, Kate Riga, Riggleman 18 people like this. Like |
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