The online gaming community is responding to the mass-shooting that occurred at a Madden 19 competition in Jacksonville, Florida, as reports identify the shooter involved in the attack and his victims. Mass shooting at Madden Championship Series event in Florida leaves several dead The shooter was identified by police as a 24-year-old white male, believed […]
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7 things Marco Rubio should be more worried about than the ‘F word’
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For fuck’s sake.
We’re not even 24 hours removed from the latest mass shooting in the U.S. where a man stormed a newsroom in Maryland and killed five people in cold blood, and Sen. Marco Rubio is more concerned about a naughty word used in a news report.
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During an emotional interview with CNN, Capital Gazette reporter Selene San Felice — who was in the newsroom when the shooting happened and who saw her colleagues get killed — told Anderson Cooper on the subject of “thoughts and prayers”: “I’m going to need more than a couple days of news coverage and some thoughts and prayers, because it’s our whole lives have been shattered. And so thanks for your prayers, but I couldn’t give a fuck about them if there’s nothing else.” Read more…
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View More 7 things Marco Rubio should be more worried about than the ‘F word’Marjory Stoneman Douglas seniors attended prom, and the photos are beautiful
Prom is an important night in every teen’s life, but for seniors at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the event served as an immensely hopeful celebration and a night to remember those lost.
On Saturday, months after a mass shooting killed 17 mem…
Donald Trump asks Mar-a-Lago guests what he should do about guns
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In the wake of the most recent mass shooting, President Donald Trump sought advice on gun control from a trusted source: rich people staying at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida.
According to the Washington Post, Trump spent the weekend at his resort watching cable news, complaining about the Russia investigation, and asking “Mar-a-Lago Club members about whether he ought to champion gun control measures in the wake of last week’s school massacre in nearby Parkland.”
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He also took time to exploit the tragedy on Twitter, insinuating that the FBI was too distracted by its Russia investigation to stop the 19-year-old shooter, who legally purchased the semi-automatic AR-15 rifle used in the massacre at a local gun shop. Read more…
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View More Donald Trump asks Mar-a-Lago guests what he should do about gunsAfter Florida shooting, gun control becomes a global conversation
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When you move to America from a country with more effective gun control laws, one of the first things you learn is how hard it is to talk to Americans — on either side of the political divide — about the gun issue.
It was particularly difficult when I arrived on these shores in 1996, direct from living in Scotland during its (and Britain’s) worst-ever school shooting. In the tiny town of Dunblane, a 43-year old former shopkeeper and scoutmaster brought four handguns to a school gymnasium full of five-year-olds. He shot and killed 16 of them and their teacher, then turned his handgun on himself. Read more…
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View More After Florida shooting, gun control becomes a global conversationRussian trolls and bots take to Twitter following Florida school shooting
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Tragedy struck in Parkland, Florida, on Wednesday, and Russian bots weren’t far behind.
As people took to Twitter in search of any scrap of information to emerge out of the school shooting that left 17 dead, they were likely confronted with what has become a troubling online reality: trolls and bots swarming a conversation for reasons unknown.
And according to Alliance for Securing Democracy, a group that claims to track “Russia-linked influence networks on Twitter,” a chunk of said trolls and bots attempting to shape the narrative surrounding the attack had ties to Russia. Read more…
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View More Russian trolls and bots take to Twitter following Florida school shootingWhen school shootings are broadcast on Snapchat, the effects reverberate
On Wednesday afternoon, some of the terrified teenagers of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, used social media to bear witness to the recurring tragedy of our time: a mass shooting.
These children, who’ve grown up with smartp…
Not even President Trump can keep all of America’s mass shootings straight
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President Trump is back on American soil and it didn’t take long for him to start screwing up on the Twitter machines.
His very first tweet on his return from his extended Asia trip was this head-scratcher.
The tweet, which was up for nearly 10 hours before being deleted on Wednesday morning, was confusing because the shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas happened 11 days before, on Sunday, November 5, 2017 and Trump tweeted almost the exact same thing at the time.
May God be w/ the people of Sutherland Springs, Texas. The FBI & law enforcement are on the scene. I am monitoring the situation from Japan.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 5, 2017 Read more…
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