By Amber Randall The media was very concerned about a white man taking over a prime time spot on Fox News after reports came out of Tucker Carlson’s new time slot. Carlson’s show, “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” got bumped up to the 9 p.m. EST slot after Megyn Kelly announced that she would be moving to…
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By Saagar Enjeti The U.K. government-run BBC produced a “Real Housewives of ISIS” parody Jan. 3 that caused significant controversy on social media. WATCH: The parody skit features burqa-clad women taking selfies in suicide vests, trading clever jihadi-inspired Instagram captions, and scrubbing down a bombed-out house in Syria. The skit is part of a BBC2 sketch…
By Ryan Pickrell South Korea appointed a Twitter officer to monitor President-elect Donald Trump’s tweets. The South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ North American Affairs Bureau assigned an officer to keep an eye on Trump’s tweets, particularly those related to Northeast Asia and the Korean Peninsula, reports the Korea JoongAng Daily. “The Korean government is…
By Kitty Testa Dan Nainan is a comedian who tells people he’s 35 years old, and he’s getting a lot of heat for it. Numerous publications have written stories about him, referring to him as a millennial. Long story short, Nainan was an engineer at Intel who decided to leave the tech world behind and…
By Michael Bastasch Fox News host Tucker Carlson stumped a California college professor, who claimed that “98 percent” of the world’s scientists believe in global warming, when he asked the academic how he reached his number. California State University, Sacramento, professor Joseph Palermo went on Carlson’s show to defend a Huffington Post op-ed where he argued that…
By Kody Fairfield Last week, the world was shocked during the UFC’s bantamweight championship fight between challenger and crowd favorite Ronda Rousey and reigning champion Amanda Nunes TKO’d , when Rousey was 48 seconds in the match. The firebrand Rousey went down in a flurry of punches from Nunes, a similar fashion to her first loss at the fists of Holly Holm…
By Phillip Stucky President-elect Donald Trump doesn’t consult with his new press secretary before he tweets, according to a Wednesday report from The Wall Street Journal. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer doesn’t get advance warning or even a memo whenever the incoming president decides to make an announcement over his expansive social media network,…
Blue Lives Matter, But Not More Than Everyone Else By 1776 The emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement has resulted in some uncomfortable discussions concerning the appropriate use of force within America’s law enforcement agencies. These discussions have often centered around the historical relationship between said agencies and the ethnic minority neighborhoods they’re charged…
By Amber Randall A feminist fled Twitter after declaring it had become a place that legitimized neo-Nazis and other groups. Lindy West, a feminist and body image activist, announced that she was leaving Twitter in an op-ed for The Guardian. West complained about the amount of “unpaid work” she did on Twitter only to be…
By Robert Donachie Sales of a new, special edition of Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” are skyrocketing since a German publisher brought it to market last year. “Mein Kampf,” which translates in English to “my struggle,” is an autobiographical depiction of Hitler’s ideology that served as the bedrock for Nazism. It laid out his hatred for the…