Tumblr — home of the blogger and land of the .GIF — is planning a unique, true-to-style approach to covering the upcoming presidential debates: it’s live-GIFing them. That’s right: As potentially viral moments happen on stage, Tumblr’s team — along with a reporter from The Guardian — will be turning debate video into GIFs at…
MPs are linking their work emails to Apple devices. UPDATE: attorney general George Brandis de-links email from work account. Software engineer Justin Simon discovered that it was possible to send an iMessage to Australia’s attorney general George Brandis on Sunday. brandis has iMessage — wordsonaplatfrm (@justin s) Simon appeared to enter in Brandis’ publicly available…
The Supreme Court announced its decision on acontroversial case about immigration on Thursday. Its decision was no decision. With just eight justices in the court, it came out in a tie. The announcement was one full sentence long: The Supreme Court has only hadeight justices since Antonin Scalia died in February. With a Supreme Court…
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Boko Haram, a terrorist organization based in Nigeria, kidnapped 276 girls from a boarding school in April. Many escaped, but over 200 are apparently still missing. This incident brought the violent group to the forefront of the world’s attention, but it has been plaguing Nigeria for years. A little over a decade ago, Boko Haram…
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On Monday, Donald Trump’s campaign released its first TV ad, and boy, oh boy, is it a doozy. In the 30-second spot, Trump declares all terror attacks as “radical Islamic terrorism,” calls for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the US, promises to “cut the head off ISIS” and, of course, discusses his plan to…
My family brought me to America when I was just 3 years old. My dad moved us here for the same reason as most immigrants, in search of a better life. I learned how to walk here and how to drive. I had my first kiss and my first heartbreak all on American soil. I went…
I know you don’t like talking about nature stuff, but all I need is three minutes. This video is the clearest explanation of what will happen to the Great Barrier Reef if people don’t learn about it. There’s this company called Adani that has pretty bad business practices. At 1:00, the video explains exactly how…
Though ABC’s Roseanne reboot is a bona fide ratings success, the show has become a lightning rod for controversy, with Roseanne Barr’s right-wing beliefs drawing ire from the left and praise from conservatives in equal measure. Now, the primetime network is taking major steps to make sure the show caters to viewers on both ends…
While America and other Western countries are hyper focused on the debate over same sex marriage legislation, many people overlook the fact that 76 countries in the world still criminalize people of the LGBT community. Around the globe in 2013, gays are still treated as second class citizens, with some even facing the death penalty. UN HUMAN…
Saturday Night Livepoked fun at all of the front runners in this spoof video. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1hEyiE2q-w] Read more: http://www.viralviralvideos.com/2016/03/06/snl-parodies/
If youre anything like me, this election (combined with the first week of your period) has you feeling powerless and ashamed. Ive known America for a long time, and I cant believe I never really saw or understood how disappointing he was. America got to me when I was young and naive. He told me…
If you’ve been keeping up with the election, your faith in humanity is probably long gone by now. And mine is, too. It flew right out the window and told me it’s never coming back, so see you never, hopes and dreams. While this batch of politicians is blessed with a unique brand of crazy,…
State Sen. LeAnna Washington experienced hellish abuse, and she is not alone; it is unacceptably common. According to the World Health Organization, “on average, 30% of women who have been in a relationship report that they have experienced some form of physical or sexual violence by their partner.” Listen as she tells the harrowing tale…
Will Barack Obama win another four years in the Oval Office or will Mitt Romney be the country’s next president? You can make your predictions with the “You Decide 2012 Map,” a new iPad app from Fox News. The app lets you make your own election forecasts based on the electoral college — just tap…
US President Barack Obama holds a press conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, DC, August 28, 2014. Image: SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images President Obama, likely knowing full well that stricter fashion rules go into place following Labor Day, wore a tan suit to a press conference on Thursday. The…
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s Twitter account saw two sudden and massive spikes in new followers over the weekend. The spikes were first noticed by Zach Green of 140elect.com, a blog which monitors Twitter trends relating to the 2012 presidential election. According to Green’s data, Romney “was gaining around 3000-4000 new followers per day for…
It’s kind of obvious that no matter who the Republican presidential nominee ends up being, the last person 2008 Republican presidential candidate John McCain would endorse is now sitting President Barack Obama. But in South Carolina with Mitt Romney and Governor Nikki Haley at his side, John McCain gave a speech where he was about to…
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