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America’s oligarchs face left-wing, right-wing backlashFebruary 22, 2019 at 6:18 PM When the late Steve Jobs died in 2011, even protesters from the left-wing Occupy Wall Street movement mourned his passing. Today, it is unlikely that the passing of tech giant would elicit much in the way of sympathy from progressives or, for that matter, almost anyone else.
As Amazon’s expulsion from New York suggest, the tech oligarchs are gradually morphing from great saviors to widely perceived threats to the republic. Rather than gutsy entrepreneurs, they are seen increasingly as greedy oli...Tags: Amazon, Facebook, New York, Obama, California, Washington Post, Steve Jobs, Opinion, China, America, Sport, Soccer, Houston, Jeff Bezos, Seattle, Boeing Samsung changed smartphones forever with the Galaxy Note. But can it do the same with the $1980 Galaxy Fold?February 21, 2019 at 11:54 AM  Tags: Apple, Facebook, Steve Jobs, Samsung, Trends, United States, Pew Research Center, Denison, Justin Denison 148 people like this. Like Samsung changed smartphones forever with the Galaxy Note. But can it do the same with the $1,980 Galaxy Fold?February 21, 2019 at 11:54 AM Tags: Apple, Facebook, Steve Jobs, Samsung, Trends, United States, Pew Research Center, Denison, Justin Denison 148 people like this. Like Teenagers Say Depression and Anxiety Are Major Issues Among Their PeersFebruary 20, 2019 at 6:55 PM A Pew Research Center survey found that teenagers across all demographic groups grapple with mental health issues.Tags: News, Social Media, Research, Pew Research Center, Teenage pregnancy, Anxiety and Stress, Alcoholic Beverages, Teenagers and Adolescence, Depression (Mental, Polls and Public Opinion, School Shootings and Armed Attacks 42 people like this. Like Here’s what animal sacrifices in Rome have to do with Valentine’s DayFebruary 14, 2019 at 11:23 AM  Tags: News, Holidays, Infographic, Sport, Rome, Soccer, Catholic Church, Cupid, Pew Research Center, Valentine, St Valentine, Romulus, Remus, Roman Catholic Church, Lupercalia, Alban Butler 84 people like this. Like The Steep Financial & Emotional Toll Of Breaking-Up With Your Live-In PartnerFebruary 14, 2019 at 7:00 AM  Tags: Fashion, Music, New York, New York City, David, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Pew Research Center, Ana, Tom, Jake, Jessica, Ian, Mika, Lina, National Domestic Violence Hotline 135 people like this. Like Swipe right for Trump? Online dating is a MAGA-splintered thingFebruary 13, 2019 at 4:15 PM TrumpSingles.com wants to “Make Dating Great Again.” DonaldDaters.com promises to “quickly find the RIGHT partner near you” without “bias, judgment or liberal intolerance!”
At LiberalHearts.com, the choices for political views are progressive, liberal or very liberal. DemocratSingles.com wants to “find your politically correct match.”
Welcome to dating in the Trump era, where love may or may not be blind, but it’s definitely partisan. Matchmaking apps and websites cater to singles of all hats, b...Tags: Facebook, Obama, White House, America, Sport, Soccer, Oklahoma, Donald Trump, George W Bush, Cal State Fullerton, Pew Research Center, Trump, Bush, Reynolds, Department of Communications, Maga 16 people like this. Like A third of Americans say blackface is ok for Halloween costumesFebruary 11, 2019 at 1:09 PM Thirty-four percent of Americans said they find a white person using makeup to darken their skin so they appear to be a different race as part of a Halloween costume to be always acceptable (15%) or sometimes acceptable (19%), with big divides between political parties, according to a Pew Research Center poll.Tags: Cnn, Pew Research Center 31 people like this. Like Concern Over Climate Change Is Rising Sharply Around the World, Survey FindsFebruary 11, 2019 at 11:23 AM  Tags: Science, National Security, Pew Research Center, Because Its True, Pew Research Center Read 130 people like this. Like Climate change seen as top threat, but U.S. power a growing worry: pollFebruary 10, 2019 at 6:13 PM  Tags: Science, Washington, Islamic State, United States, Pew Research Center 138 people like this. Like Students taking Lyft and Uber to class are taking LA's smog problem from bad to worseFebruary 7, 2019 at 3:30 PM  Tags: Lyft, Design, Los Angeles, The Washington Post, Bangkok, Pew Research Center, Ucla, Washington Post Image, Yifang Zhu 89 people like this. Like Study: People Who Attend Worship Services Regularly Are Happier Than OthersFebruary 6, 2019 at 6:00 AM A new Pew Research Center study investigates the connection between religion and well-being.Tags: News, Pew Research Center 30 people like this. Like Gannett Rejects $1.36B Buyout Offer From Digital First MediaFebruary 4, 2019 at 10:10 AM MCLEAN, Va. (AP) — The publisher of USA Today and other newspapers is rejecting a $1.36 billion buyout from a hedge-fund backed media group with a history of taking over newspapers and slashing jobs.
MNG Enterprises, better known as Digital First Media, made its unsolicited bid of $12 per share last month.
Gannett Co. said Monday that its board determined the offer undervalued the company and it isn’t in the best interests of the company or its shareholders. It was a unanimous vote.
The newspa...Tags: New York, News, Buzzfeed, Ap, Usa Today, Gannett, Pew Research Center, Denver Post, Boston Herald, McLean VA, McClatchy, Gannett Co, Digital First Media, Digital First, Summer Concepcion, MNG Enterprises 2020 will be the least white election everJanuary 31, 2019 at 7:32 PM In the 2020 election, white voters will make up less than 67% of all eligible voters, according to projections made by the Pew Research Center and released this week. It marks the first time in American political history that white voters are less than seven in 10 of all eligible voters in a presidential election.Tags: Cnn, Pew Research Center 42 people like this. Like The Point: 2020 will be the least white election everJanuary 31, 2019 at 7:32 PM In the 2020 election, white voters will make up less than 67% of all eligible voters, according to projections made by the Pew Research Center and released this week. It marks the first time in American political history that white voters are less than seven in 10 of all eligible voters in a presidential election.Tags: News, Stories, Pew Research Center 46 people like this. Like Analysis: 2020 will be the least white election everJanuary 31, 2019 at 7:32 PM In the 2020 election, white voters will make up less than 67% of all eligible voters, according to projections made by the Pew Research Center and released this week. It marks the first time in American political history that white voters are less than seven in 10 of all eligible voters in a presidential election.Tags: News, Stories, Pew Research Center 6 people like this. Like Schools Are Locking Students' Phones Away to Help With ConcentrationJanuary 30, 2019 at 1:24 PM  Tags: California, Tech, Pew Research Center, Yondr, San Lorenzo High School, Graham Dugoni, CNBC Students 105 people like this. Like Trump doubts negotiators will strike budget deal he’d acceptJanuary 28, 2019 at 1:14 PM By DEB RIECHMANN
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said the odds congressional negotiators will craft a deal to end his border wall standoff with Congress are “less than 50-50.”
As hundreds of thousands of furloughed federal workers prepared to return to work, Trump told The Wall Street Journal that he doesn’t think the negotiators will strike a deal that he’d accept. He pledged to build a wall anyway using his executive powers to declare a national emergency if necessary.
“I personally think ...Tags: Business, New York, News, Congress, California, Washington, Mexico, Senate, White House, Immigration, Uncategorized, Sport, Soccer, Democrats, House, Capitol Hill 37 people like this. Like Trump: Odds Of Lawmakers Making Funding Deal I’d Accept ‘Less Than 50-50’January 28, 2019 at 7:30 AM WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said the odds congressional negotiators will craft a deal to end his border wall standoff with Congress are “less than 50-50.”
As hundreds of thousands of furloughed federal workers prepared to return to work, Trump told The Wall Street Journal that he doesn’t think the negotiators will strike a deal that he’d accept. He pledged to build a wall anyway using his executive powers to declare a national emergency if necessary.
“I personally think it’s less...Tags: New York, News, Congress, California, Washington, Mexico, Senate, White House, Ap, Democrats, House, Capitol Hill, Nancy Pelosi, Donald Trump, Hakeem Jeffries, Wall Street Journal 47 people like this. Like Reeling From Shutdown Loss, Trump Spews Misinformation About Immigrants On TwitterJanuary 27, 2019 at 2:30 PM On the heels of caving to Democrats over his demands for border wall money — which did not bear fruit, aside from a record-breaking 36-day partial government shutdown — Donald Trump bombarded Twitter on Sunday with waves of presidential misinformation.
At 8:22 a.m. ET, while Trump allies and White House staff prepared to appear on Sunday morning TV shows to defend Trump’s agenda, the President sent out his first blatantly false tweet of the day.
58,000 non-citizens voted in Texas, with 95,00...Tags: Texas, News, California, White House, United States, Cbs, Donald Trump, Department Of Homeland Security, Pew Research Center, Trump, State, Donald J Trump, Texas Tribune, Mick Mulvaney, Margaret Brennan, Matt Shuham 9 people like this. Like Young Voters Keep Moving to the Left on Social Issues, Republicans IncludedJanuary 23, 2019 at 8:39 AM According to a new study, members of Generation Z are more open to social change than older generations, findings that could substantially reshape the nation’s political landscape.Tags: News, Millennial Generation, United States, Pew Research Center, Baby Boomers, Generation Z, Polls and Public Opinion 45 people like this. Like Politiscope, an app to track Congressional voting records and bills, launches on android devicesJanuary 21, 2019 at 6:39 PM Last September, two former National Football League players launched an app called Politiscope to track the voting records of members of Congress and the bills that they were introducing — and provide non-partisan information about what those bills and votes would mean to voters.
The pro-football-playing brothers, Walter Powell Jr. and Brandon Williams, launched the app to provide an accurate accounting of what Congressional leadership was doing — something the two felt was necessary given the p...Tags: Android, TC, Politics, Congress, Government, Senate, Office, Tech, United States, House Of Representatives, National Football League, Library Of Congress, Pew Research Center, Electronic Voting, Powell, Congressional 'On Press' Shows That Journalism Has Survived Tough Times BeforeJanuary 21, 2019 at 11:00 AM  Tags: Feature, Music, Washington, White House, America, Journalism, Newspapers, Netflix, United States, New York Times, John F Kennedy, Times, Los Angeles Times, Pew Research Center, Mccarthy, Dallas Morning News 114 people like this. Like New Research Raises Concerns About the Dangers of Marijuana UseJanuary 20, 2019 at 4:40 PM Whatever your personal position on the subject of marijuana legalization, whether for medical or recreational use, a growing body of research reveals concerns over the potential harms caused by cannabis.
The concerns are more than academic. With increasing public support (varying by demographic cohorts) for legalized marijuana, and 10 states legalizing recreational marijuana and 33 states where medical marijuana use is legal , the cannabis movement is just gaining steam.
A new Pew R...Tags: Psychology, California, Marijuana, Research, Cannabis, Substance Abuse, United States, Michigan, Pew Research Center, Mental Health And Wellness, Drug Use, Memory And Perception, Baby Boomers, Liu, Lancaster, Johns Hopkins University 28 people like this. Like Why are women more religious than men? Because men are more willing to take risks.January 18, 2019 at 3:01 PM  Tags: Psychology, Gender, Religion, Sociology, Innovation, Pew Research Center, Brigham Young University, Hoffman, Hoffmann, Catholic University of America, Blaise Pascal, John P Hoffmann, Pascal s Wager, PsyPost Hoffman, Omar Lizardo, Jessica L Collett 97 people like this. Like Episode 24: What Does the Federal Government Shutdown Mean for Legal Information?January 17, 2019 at 6:44 PM  Tags: Security, Podcast, Florida, Law, Uncategorized, US, Aaron Swartz, Pew Research Center, Forbes, Moss, Joel, Greg, Aaron, OMB, Law Librarians, American Association of Law Libraries AALL 116 people like this. Like Most Facebook users don't know that the site uses their interests for targeted ads, a new Pew survey says (FB)January 17, 2019 at 1:16 PM  Tags: Google, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, New York, Congress, Trends, Airbnb, Pew Research Center 58 people like this. Like Facebook advertising profiles are a mystery to most users, survey saysJanuary 17, 2019 at 7:55 AM  Tags: Facebook, Business, Technology, News, Pew Research Center 52 people like this. Like Most Facebook Users Still Unclear About How the Hell Targeted Ads Work: Pew SurveyJanuary 16, 2019 at 8:50 PM  Tags: Facebook, Science, Pew Research Center, delete Facebook 117 people like this. Like Three quarters of US Facebook users unaware their online behavior gets trackedJanuary 16, 2019 at 9:08 PM You mean they are collecting our opinions to sell ads? Who would have guessed it?
Most Facebook users have no idea that the ad biz compiles data profiles of their online activities and interests, according to research conducted by the non-profit Pew Research Center.…Tags: Software, Pew Research Center, US Facebook 22 people like this. Like |
