Eric Lieberman Two of the biggest executives at Twitter said they are planning on introducing new tools to help prevent users from saying hateful things on the platform. “Making Twitter a safer place is our primary focus and we are now moving with more urgency than ever,” said Ed Ho, the company’s vice president of…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By 1776 In response to President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration, Democrats, liberals, and progressives across the world have blocked roads, gummed up airports, and urged people to delete Uber, because nothing says solidarity with immigrants and refugees like haphazard acts of civil disobedience and misdirected outrage. Here are some…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kevin Daley Senate Democrats will attempt to block President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, regardless of who the president selects to fill the vacancy. Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley told Politico he will filibuster any nominee Trump puts forward, unless the nominee is Judge Merrick Garland of the U.S. Court of Appeals…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Phillip Stucky Duke University faculty and leadership vowed to help protect international students from President Donald Trump, according to a Monday report from the Charlotte Observer. The decision came after Trump signed the executive order temporarily banning travel from seven Muslim-majority nations, including Iraq and Iran. A recent industry study revealed that over…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield As tension rise over the newly started Presidency of Donald Trump, conflicts between protesters, supporters, and property seem to be following suit. The violence and contention was seen all over Washington DC over the last couple weeks, and it has now spread across the nation, as protesters organized…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Andrew Follet Academia needs to be a lot more humble if it wants to keep the trust of society, according to a British physicist. The physicist believes that the ever-increasing complexity of science has become difficult to explain to the general public, meaning that scientists have to be trustworthy enough for the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: by Micah J. Fleck The most interesting man in movies has finally found his kryptonite: Donald Trump winning the presidency. According to a new story from The Hill: James Franco, who stripped down in an eyebrow-raising video supporting Hillary Clinton, says he’s “spiraled into a depression” following the Democratic presidential…
by Josh Guckert Recently, President Trump signed an executive order attempting to pull funding from so-called sanctuary cities which protect immigrants from deportation. Although libertarians of course wish for federal funding to be withheld from all areas of life, this suspect targeting is not to be celebrated as some expansion of liberty. While these areas…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: by Micah J. Fleck Author and Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg recently spoke out about President Trump’s “abortion policy” (what she actually means is the defunding of foreign Planned Parenthoods) and how she feels it negatively impacts women and takes away their “rights.” According to the report: Facebook executive and Lean In author…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: by Micah J. Fleck I initially covered this story for The College Fix, and then had the story picked up by Fox News, The Blaze, etc. until the featured video went viral. My original report was as follows: What started as a meeting between progressive and conservative student groups to…