We continue our conversation with the directors of “The Great Hack,” Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer, as well as former Cambridge Analytica employee Brittany Kaiser and propaganda researcher Emma Briant, about Cambridge Analytica’s parent company SCL Group’s history as a defense contractor. “We’re in a state of global information warfare now,” Briant says. “How … Read the rest
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran’s only female Olympic medalist said she defected from the Islamic Republic in a blistering online letter that describes herself as “one of the millions of oppressed women in Iran.”
Taekwondo athlete Kimia Alizadeh posted the letter on Instagram as Iran’s semiofficial ISNA news agency said she had fled to … Read the rest
Just a collection of tweets to exemplify the media’s bias against Bernie Sanders. No big, just invert the poll numbers and change one of them:. Misquoting? Misquoting. Sure. Or just not mentioning his name in any headline.
… Read the restClassic media bit. This is the narrative they’ve been preparing for weeks. No, Bernie support is not shifting
Mississippi became the latest state this week to add a medical marijuana question to its 2020 ballot.
Voters there will have the opportunity to decide on Ballot Initiative 65, which, if approved, will grant access to medical cannabis for patients suffering from various conditions like cancer and epilepsy.
Mississippians for Compassionate Care, the group that … Read the rest
In an effort to save money on logistical costs, a cannabis company has announced its plans to deliver product to Seattle businesses with drones. The high-flying partnership was publicized last month by GRN Holding Corporation, which is carrying out the plan by purchasing the aggressively-named Bellevue, Washington company Squad Drone.
The drones could be hoisting … Read the rest
At the height of World War II, four months after the first artificially created nuclear reaction was released in a pile of uranium ore in Chicago, an accidentally absorbed trace of a seminatural rye fungus product quietly exploded in the brain of a 37-year-old Swiss chemist working at the Sandoz research laboratories in Basel. He … Read the rest
Illinois’ new era of legal weed means travelers passing through Chicago airports don’t need to worry about TSA if they’re holding. But if you don’t feel like taking your pot on the plane, well, that’s cool, too.
Local officials announced this week that so-called “cannabis amnesty boxes” have been installed at O’Hare International Airport and … Read the rest
Talk about an amazing Christmas gift! Hip-hop artist Cardi B and her husband, the rapper Offset, gave each other a lavish Atlanta mansion, TMZ reported, and gave the world a tour on Instagram.
Cardi B and Offset’s new Atlanta mansionrealtor.com
And if anything was ever a sure bet for social media, the stars … Read the rest
But the RXR Realty CEO is one of dozens of real estate powerhouses who have raised big money for the former vice president’s 2020 presidential campaign.In a Friday news dump on Dec. 27, Biden’s team released a list of 259 “volunteer fundraisers” — individuals who had raised at least $25,000 for the campaign. In addition … Read the rest
2019 has become known as a year of protest. But this year does not exist in isolation: Protests have been emblematic of the entire past decade.
The 2010s began with the Arab Spring and Occupy protests, and are ending with a swell of anti-government demonstrations in India, Iraq, Lebanon, Hong Kong, Latin America, parts of … Read the rest