The 2020 democratic presidential candidate belonged to one of America’s oldest hacking group called “Cult of the Dead Cow” in the 80’s. O’Rourke wrote essays and poems for the group under the handle “Psychedelic Warlord.” Read more…
More about Mashable Video, Hacker, Democrats, Congressman, and Beto O Rourke
View More Presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke’s teenage hacker lifeMichael Cohen’s public testimony before Congress took place on Wednesday, but everyone’s still talking about one badass photo of Democratic representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib.
The testimony included everythin…
Donald Trump is back at it again with the extremely un-presidential tweets.
On Friday afternoon, hours after he held a press conference outside the White House to announce he was declaring a national emergency (even though he didn’t need to) the president tweeted a parody State of the Union video in an effort to mock Democrats.
The video, originally created by @carpedonktum, shows clips of Democratic members of Congress at Trump’s State of the Union address set to that super emo R.E.M. song, “Everybody Hurts.”
The 2:20 video was posted to YouTube earlier this month and received more than 50,000 views, but it seems Trump just noticed — and it must have really spoken to him. Read more…
More about Politics, Donald Trump, Democrats, R.E.M., and State Of The Union
On Thursday, Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee released a massive new trove of Russian government-funded Facebook political ads targeted at American voters. While we’d seen a cross section of the ads before through prior releases from the committee, the breadth of ideological manipulation is on full display across the more than 3,500 newly released […]
View More What we can learn from the 3,500 Russian Facebook ads meant to stir up U.S. politics/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F670080%2F493836b3-7971-4c91-b441-8274fa408281.jpg)
After weeks of murmurs on Capitol Hill about Sen. Al Franken’s future in politics amid allegations of sexual misconduct, several senators have made their message loud and clear— Franken must go.
Politico reported Wednesday morning that a former congressional aide says Franken tried to forcibly kiss her after a taping of his radio show in 2006, adding to the six existing allegations against the current Minnesota senator.
Although Franken denied this new allegation, many Democratic senators took to Twitter to call for his resignation. And as with many other recent efforts to call out inappropriate male behavior, the women led the way. Read more…
More about Politics, Sexual Assault, Senate, Democrats, and Al Franken
View More Female senators lead the way in calling for Al Franken’s resignation on Twitter