LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Robert Donachie Nobel Prize winning economist and New York Times contributor Paul Krugman took shots at President Donald Trump on Twitter Tuesday, calling the mental health of the president into question. Krugman tweeted at 3:34 a.m. Monday morning that Americans are witnessing for the first time, “a president who was obviously mentally…
By Kody Fairfield During a Periscope press conference held on Monday, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange stated that the Obama Administration is currently engaged in destroying public records in the President’s final days of office. Assange stated, “We are told that destruction of records is occurring now in different parts of the Obama administration in different departments or agencies.”…
By Juliegrace Brufke Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer trolled Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Monday by sending him a modified 2009 letter originally sent to then-Majority Leader Harry Reid about confirmation hearings. The letter in question called on Reid to conduct a full ethics review of then-President-elect Barack Obama’s cabinet appointees before hearings take place. Our…
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 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 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,…
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 Brett Chandrasekhar Over the past year, social media platforms have arguably censored libertarian and conservative opinions. Most notoriously, Facebook came under fire for allegedly suppressing conservative news. On several occasions, they banned (and after pushback, unbanned) popular libertarian pages as well. Now fake news is the latest threat to free speech on social media….
DC Public Schools Spokeswoman Wants To ‘Get Rid Of’ All White Men By Blake Neff A spokeswoman for Washington, D.C.’s public school system tweeted Tuesday about her desire to “abolish” all white men. The declaration by Hilary Tone, who works a day job as communications director for D.C. Public Schools, was prompted by president-elect Donald…
by Jonah Bennett Twitter has initiated a major purge of accounts associated with the alt-right exactly a week after GOP President-elect Donald Trump’s stunning electoral victory. One of the first and most prominent accounts caught up in the deletion is Richard Spencer, president and director of the National Policy Institute, an alt-right think tank focused on…