Tag: Donald Trump

Everyone’s been talking about FaceApp, the new photo filter app lets users modify pictures of themselves to appear older, younger, with a different hairstyle, as a different gender, and so on, often to very creepy results. It was all fun and games until people realized that the app was owned by the Russian company Wireless Lab and that it was farming their private data. Given how Russia used people’s data to meddle in the 2016 election, soon people started freaking out. In...

On the “Fox and Friends” morning program, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) defended Donald Trump’s recent toxic tweet that members of “the Squad” — composed of four first-term progressive Democratic Congress women of color – should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.” And, he added, “You can’t leave fast enough.” “The Squad” to whom Trump refers includes Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York (born to a New York-Puerto Rican family), Ayanna Pressley of...

A man won $1.5 million dollars in a discrimination suit against the former governor of Iowa. A jury found that former state official Chris Godfrey was illegally discriminated against by then-Governor Terry Branstad (R) for being gay. “This is a win for me and it’s a win for the entire gay community in Iowa,” Godfrey said after the verdict. “It shows that we have sexual orientation in the Civil Rights Act in Iowa for a reason and nobody, not even Terry...

FaceApp is one of the most popular apps in the world right now, but privacy advocates are raising concerns about the information that it’s collecting. The app, which was developed by the Russian company Wireless Lab, lets users modify pictures of their faces to make them seem older, younger, as another gender, or hotter. But the data stored in the app isn’t as private as some people could think. The app uses a Facebook login, giving it access to users’ pictures,...

Women’s soccer star Megan Rapinoe continues her run of riling up Trump supporters, this time by sharing what she would tell Trump-supporting soccer fans. In an interview with Meet The Press, Rapinoe addressed a controversy-filled week without apology for her criticisms of Donald Trump. She also asserted that her elevated celebrity gives her the platform to bring attention to much-neglected issues, like Trump policies on racial equality, equal pay and LGBTQ rights. When host Chuck Todd pressed her on what she would...

Donald Trump, the sitting President of the United States, insisted in another toxic tweet that members of “the Squad” — composed of four first-term progressive Democratic women of color in the U.S. House Representatives – should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.” And, he added, “You can’t leave fast enough.” “The Squad” to whom Trump refers includes Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York (born to a New York-Puerto Rican family), Ayanna Pressley...

Peter Thiel, the gay billionaire who supports Donald Trump, continued his habit of saying ridiculous things, but, for once, he may be correct on at least one point. A stopped clock is right twice a day, after all. Speaking at the National Conservatism Conference, Thiel, who also spoke at the Republican National Convention, called on the FBI and CIA to investigate Google for treason. Thiel alleged that the tech company aided the Chinese military. He called on the intelligence agencies to...

Gay billionaire and Trump devotee Peter Thiel met up with FOX News’s resident homophobe Tucker Carlson last night to discuss one of the 58,740 things he believes himself to be an expert on: politics. During the sit down, 51-year-old Thiel, who offered a full-throated endorsement of Donald Trump in 2016, labeled Elizabeth Warren is the most “dangerous” of the 2020 Democratic candidates. “I’m most scared by Elizabeth Warren,” said the venture capitalist. “I think she’s the one who’s actually talking about the...

Rosie O’Donnell is calling on former Vice President Joe Biden to drop his bid for the White House. “I think Joe Biden should say, ’I’m going to sit this one out; I’m going to be an elder statesman and I’m going to advise’,” O’Donnell told Chris Cuomo during an appearance on CNN. “And then whoever is the nominee, I think, should think about how to best use somebody with the experience that Joe Biden has, and all these years of...

A new video game lets you help a Pride parade stay on rhythm and face opponents of equality in one-on-one dance-offs. Pride Run, from Green Man Gaming, is a colorful, retro-style PC game where players can choose to march with Pride in 16 different cities. Players tap to the beat of the game’s original disco soundtrack to keep the parade moving forward. Spectators will join the parade if the player does well and leave if they miss the beat. At the end...

Posters of soccer star Megan Rapinoe were defaced in New York City with homophobic slurs. The posters in the NYC subway showed Rapinoe in her U.S. Soccer Women’s National Team uniform with the phrase “Dream with us,” meant to celebrate the team’s World Cup victory. Police said that eight posters around the Bryant Park subway station in Manhattan were defaced with homophobic messages on Monday, just days before Rapinoe and her teammates came to New York for a ticker tape parade. “Hate...

Fresh of her win at the Women’s World Cup and the newfound megastardom that followed, out-lesbian soccer player Megan Rapinoe has slammed Donald Trump for his administration’s treatment of queer people. Rapinoe appeared on Anderson Cooper 360 to discuss her big win at the World Cup, and to address the already brewing controversy over her taking a knee during the National Anthem. She had previously said she would kneel as a sign of solidarity with football player Colin Kaepernick, who knelt...

Soccer star Megan Rapinoe would beat Donald Trump in the 2020 election, according to a new poll. Saying it was responding to “popular demand,” the political research firm Public Policy Polling (PPP) asked registered voters if they would vote for the captain of the U.S. Soccer Women’s National Team or the former host of The Apprentice. Rapinoe won, 42% to 41%. Not only did she lead her team to victory in the Women’s World Cup, but Rapinoe also won among Democratic voters,...

Toward the end of the Democratic presidential primaries in 2016, a false conspiracy theory that a data analyst was murdered by Hillary Clinton was spread around the internet and promoted by Fox News, despite being denied by law enforcement officials and reputable media outlets. Now a Yahoo! News investigation found the origins of the conspiracy theory: a Russian intelligence agency. On July 10, 2016, Seth Rich, the Voter Expansion Data Director for the Democratic National Committee (DNC), was murdered in D.C....