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https://twitter.com/franktbh/status/933712342319288320Trump recommends reading this insane website
Source: Think Progress
In a Saturday night tweet, Trump attacked CNN, saying the network’s international division “represent our Nation to the WORLD very poorly.” A few minutes later, Trump tweeted an alternative: MagaPill.com.
Wow, even I didn’t realize we did so much. Wish the Fake News would report! Thank you. https://t.co/ApVbu2b0Jd
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 25, 2017
The name MagaPill is a riff on “red pill,” a term popular with white nationalists and others on the far right. A metaphor based on a plot line from The Matrix, it refers to the process of normalizing extreme views. MagaPill is also active on Gab, a social network favored by white nationalist and banned from the Google app store violating its hate speech policy.
But while Trump presents MagaPill as the antidote to “fake news,” the site regularly traffics in unhinged conspiracy theories. Just a few hours before being endorsed by Trump, MagaPill posted a video from Liz Cronkin, a fringe figure best known for pushing the Pizzagate conspiracy. In the video, Cronkin claims there is a sex tape of Hillary Clinton with an underage girl on Anthony Weiner’s laptop.
Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/what-is-magapill-1fb18b6f2ed0/
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/934563828834164739
IKEA came up with an ingenious way to raise money for Syrian refugees (vid. tweet)
https://twitter.com/mashable/status/934457417835757568Thank you to IKEA and to the Norwegian Red Cross. Brilliant.
15+ Genius People Who Found A Way To Protect Their Christmas Trees From Asshole Cats And Dogs
More: https://www.boredpanda.com/protecting-christmas-tree-from-dogs-cats-pets/
Woman raises more than $60K for homeless man who helped her
Source: AP
Kate McClure, 27, started the Gofundme.com campaign earlier this month after she said she ran out of gas on Interstate 95 and a homeless man, Johnny Bobbitt Jr., walked a few blocks and bought her some with his last $20.
McClure said she didn’t have any money to repay him at the time but returned to the road several times to give him cash, clothes and food.
After a few visits, she started the fundraiser with the hopes of using the money toward housing and other expenses for the 34-year-old Bobbitt.
More: https://apnews.com/4b7d14f6ac704e8bb78f5de7857a9d82?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP_Oddities
A nice story for this day.
Whoa... Mike Cernovich (NSFW/trigger warning).
https://twitter.com/AynRandPaulRyan/status/933052067991535616https://twitter.com/VicBergerIV/status/933013953537552385
Trump lashes out at Ball, says he is a 'Ungrateful fool!'
Source: The Hill
President Trump early Wednesday morning lashed out at the father of one of three UCLA basketball players arrested for shoplifting earlier this month, referring to LaVar Ball a "poor man's version of Don King" and an "Ungrateful fool!"
"It wasn’t the White House, it wasn’t the State Department, it wasn’t father LaVar’s so-called people on the ground in China that got his son out of a long term prison sentence - IT WAS ME. Too bad! LaVar is just a poor man’s version of Don King, but without the hair. Just think..," the president tweeted.
"...LaVar, you could have spent the next 5 to 10 years during Thanksgiving with your son in China, but no NBA contract to support you," Trump added. "But remember LaVar, shoplifting is NOT a little thing. It’s a really big deal, especially in China. Ungrateful fool!"
It wasn’t the White House, it wasn’t the State Department, it wasn’t father LaVar’s so-called people on the ground in China that got his son out of a long term prison sentence - IT WAS ME. Too bad! LaVar is just a poor man’s version of Don King, but without the hair. Just think..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 22, 2017
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/361487-trump-calls-ball-ungrateful-fool
Well, the Twit was up early this morning whining about LaVar Ball/NFL.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/933280234220134401It wasn’t the White House, it wasn’t the State Department, it wasn’t father LaVar’s so-called people on the ground in China that got his son out of a long term prison sentence - IT WAS ME. Too bad! LaVar is just a poor man’s version of Don King, but without the hair. Just think..
5:25 AM - 22 Nov 2017
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/933282274937733126
...LaVar, you could have spent the next 5 to 10 years during Thanksgiving with your son in China, but no NBA contract to support you. But remember LaVar, shoplifting is NOT a little thing. It’s a really big deal, especially in China. Ungrateful fool!
5:33 AM - 22 Nov 2017
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/933285973277868032
The NFL is now thinking about a new idea - keeping teams in the Locker Room during the National Anthem next season. That’s almost as bad as kneeling! When will the highly paid Commissioner finally get tough and smart? This issue is killing your league!.....
5:48 AM - 22 Nov 2017
Lee Mokobe: A powerful poem about what it feels like to be transgender
Exclusive: NYT White House correspondent Glenn Thrush's history of bad judgement around young women
Source: Vox
Sexual harassment claims against yet another powerful man in media inspired New York Times White House correspondent Glenn Thrush to post an impassioned note on his Facebook page in October, calling on his fellow journalists to stand by women entering the field.
In the post, which linked to an article about the latest accusations against political journalist Mark Halperin, Thrush wrote, “Young people who come into a newsroom deserve to be taught our trade, given our support and enlisted in our calling — not betrayed by little men who believe they are bigger than the mission.”
It was a noble statement — but some Washington journalists I spoke to say it rings hollow, given Thrush’s own behavior with young women in the industry.
“He kept saying he’s an advocate for women and women journalists,” a 23-year-old woman told me, recounting an incident with Thrush from this past June. “That’s how he presented himself to me. He tried to make himself seem like an ally and a mentor.”
Read more: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/11/20/16678094/glenn-thrush-new-york-times-sexual-harassment?utm_campaign=vox&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
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