So Bill Clinton is catching up with this social media stuff pretty quickly. After running into Bill Gates at the Clinton Global Initiative this week, the two posed for a perfect selfie. A @billclinton selfie from #CGI2013 as we sat down to talk for an upcoming @WIRED story. http://t.co/0P4YjZa6vY — Bill Gates (@BillGates) September 24,…Continue Reading ›
Allan Brauer, the communications chair for Sacramento Democratic Party, loves to make highly offensive and misogynistic comments on his favorite public forum — Twitter. While many of his tweets have been ignored in the past it’s hard to ignore him when he starts wishing death to his opponents children and calling women by highly offensive…Continue Reading ›
If you visit Twitter today and check out Twitter trends you’ll see the hashtag #SenateMustAct. That hashtag is being used to attack ObamaCare and talk about defunding the program before it goes live in 2014. While Republican leaders created the hashtag to reach their constituency it quickly turned into yet another example of useless internet…Continue Reading ›
A House vote for SNAP cuts was lambasted by many Twitter users today, many of whom tweeted under the hashtag #SaveSNAP to protest an initiative that will plunge millions of Americans into food insecurity. The hashtag #SNAP was also trending in support of preserving the program fully called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, but often…Continue Reading ›
Something interesting is happening on reddit right now (no, not Pirate Day). At r/explainlikeimfive, redditors have been trying to figure out Obamacare for the last six hours. Members are debating both persuasively and germanely, and to be honest, they’re conducting themselves with far more honor than those knuckleheads up on Capitol Hill ever do. With…Continue Reading ›
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg took part in a question and answers session for a Newseum crowd on Wednesday. The billionaire social network investor talked to the crowd about national security, immigration issues, and even about his “super-grounded” wife Priscilla Chen, Speaking for an hour with interviewer James Bennet of The Atlantic Zuckerberg opened…Continue Reading ›
Jason James Richter, the actor who played Jesse in the hit movie Free Willy is not happy. The actors movie poster was recently used for a GOP attack campaign against ObamaCare. Earlier this week Republican Congressman Tim Griffin of Arkansas posted a remixed version of the poster with the words “Free America From ObamaCare.” At…Continue Reading ›
Over on Twitter, the Ebony “We Are Trayvon” series of covers sparked intense discussion — and like much of the case, it was pretty firmly divided on party lines. As such, a hashtag suggesting the “Tea Party” was “boycotting” Ebony magazine (a title I think we can all admit anyone affiliated with the Tea Party…Continue Reading ›
Actress Jenna Fischer wants Texas lawmakers to fully read the abortion bill that they will vote on tomorrow. The abortion legislation passed through the states House of Representatives early this week and now it’s going in front of the Texas Senate. Without getting into the meat and bones of bill H.B. 2 it would ban…Continue Reading ›
The U.S. Supreme Court overturned the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) on Wednesday with a final vote of a 5-4. The courts decision is a historical victory for gay rights activists. In the majority decision Justice Anthony Kennedy says DOMA violates a gay persons Fifth Amendment rights for due processo. Kennedy decides: “DOMA singles out…Continue Reading ›
