Wednesday, November 29, 2023
Relatives of the three college students say the media is focusing on the mental health of the gunman rather than a motive of hate. Source: Huffingtonpost feed
Monday, November 27, 2023
Police have not declared it a hate crime, but the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee wants it investigated as one. Source: Huffingtonpost feed
Monday, November 27, 2023
Author Omid Scobie indicated he’s spared almost no one in his second book about the British royal family, “Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy’s Fight for Survival,” out this week. Scobie asserted the “bar is lower” for Catherine, the princess of Wales, because “we infantilize her massively.” He describes King Charles as “a flawed father” who is being waited out by his eldest son and the family as one that, in “an almost Trumpian twist, leans on patriotism” to “shore up its purpose.” The charges against the royal family were many and varied, but appeared to almost entirely…
Sunday, November 26, 2023
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee is calling on the police and the FBI to investigate it as a hate crime. Source: Huffingtonpost feed
Saturday, November 25, 2023
This article contains spoilers for the “Promise You Won’t Write” episode of “Fellow Travelers” So much happens in Episode 5 of Showtime’s “Fellow Travelers”: In the 1950s timeline: Hawk (Matt Bomer) must undergo a lie-detector test after being accused of being a “deviant”and he and Tim (Jonathan Bailey) mutually decide to end their tumultuous relationship as the real-life McCarthy-Army hearings take place. We also see the awkward reunion between the two former lovers in the ’80s. TheWrap recently spoke with the episode’s co-writer, Robbie Rogers, who led a closeted life in the sports world before becoming the first openly gay…
Thursday, November 23, 2023
New abuse allegations have been filed against New York Mayor Eric Adams and entertainer Bill Cosby, among a string of others, before the Friday deadline. Source: Huffingtonpost feed
Wednesday, November 22, 2023
Razma Mohammad-Ibrahim and Samim Azizi are accused of murder in the California stabbing death. Source: Huffingtonpost feed
Wednesday, November 22, 2023
The weirdest story in the tech industry just got weirder. 4 days after being fired, Sam Altman is returning to OpenAI and has been reinstated as CEO, the company announced Tuesday. In addition, former president Greg Brockman, who quit the company in protest after Altman’s ouster, announced he will also be returning. “We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return to OpenAI as CEO with a new initial board of Bret Taylor (Chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D’Angelo. We are collaborating to figure out the details. Thank you so much for your patience through this,” OpenAI…
Tuesday, November 21, 2023
Harrison Floyd, a Black Voices for Trump leader, was accused of writing a number of threatening social media posts. Source: Huffingtonpost feed
Tuesday, November 21, 2023
The former president of Univision condemned its recent interview with Donald Trump, telling MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow that it was “a real insult to the Hispanic community” that “deviates in a very drastic way” from the the Spanish-language network’s original mission. Joaquin Blaya not only criticized the interview itself, which he dismissed as “a one-hour propaganda open space,” meaning, an interview created with total cooperation between the journalist and the subject. He also laid blame squarely on Univision’s owners, telling Maddow “there is no doubt that in doing what they did, had to be a corporate decision.” Blaya, who created Univision…