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LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Eric Lieberman Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg called for a universal basic income Thursday during his commencement speech at Harvard’s graduation ceremony. “We should have a society that measures progress not just by economic metrics like GDP, but by how many of us have a role we find meaningful,” Zuckerberg said while…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jonah Bennett The former Navy SEAL who allegedly shot Osama bin Laden has called the reporter who was body slammed by Republican Representative-elect Greg Gianforte in Montana a “snowflake.” Robert O’Neill, the former SEAL also from Montana, appeared Thursday on the show “The Specialists” by Fox News to say that the incident…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Andrew Follett A top White House economic adviser said Thursday that keeping the Obama administration’s global warming pledge to the United Nations would be “highly crippling” to economic growth. “We know that the levels that were agreed to by the prior administration would be highly crippling to the US…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Phillip Stucky Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs thinks Republican Representative-elect Greg Gianforte’s apology for allegedly body-slamming him during an interview Wednesday is in some ways “far worse than the assault.” Gianforte originally published an explanation of the event that partially blamed the reporter for the exchange before publicly apologizing hours…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Phillip Stucky Democrat Rob Quist lost the Montana special election Thursday, but that didn’t stop Democrats nationwide from saying that the loss was actually a win. Vox Editor Matt Yglesias published an article Friday morning asserting that because Republican Greg Gianforte didn’t win by a large enough margin, the election was…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Saagar Enjeti U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson apologized to the United Kingdom Friday after details of the Manchester bombing were leaked to U.S. media outlets. “We take full responsibility for that and we regret that that happened,” Tillerson said in a joint appearance with U.K. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson. He continued, “This special…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Eric Lieberman The same hacker who released once-secret records from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) reportedly provided unique voter research to Aaron Nevins, a Republican political operative, according to an in-depth Thursday report from The Wall Street Journal. Nevins, who was working in Florida at the time, reached out to “Guccifer…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Will Racke The Department of Homeland Security under former President Barack Obama knowingly admitted teenage members of a vicious transnational gang into the U.S. during a flood of illegal immigration, a leading Republican senator said Wednesday. Sen. Ron Johnson, citing internal agency documents from a whistleblower, told the Senate…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Rob Shimshock Police arrested a former professor Wednesday who allegedly used a bike lock to assault a man at an April rally in Berkeley, Calif. After 4Chan identified Eric Clanton, a man who taught at Diablo Valley College in California, as the perpetrator behind an assault at an April 15…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Phillip Stucky Republican candidate Greg Gianforte won the Montana special election to replace former Rep. Ryan Zinke late Thursday, according to the Associated Press. The Republican earned 50.6 percent of the vote, with 82 percent of precincts reporting as of 1:00 AM. Democratic challenger Rob Quist came in a close…