Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms appeared on both CNN’s State of the Union and CBS News’ Face the Nation this Sunday morning. In both appearances, the mayor urged Donald Trump to “just stop” talking. The mayor compared Trump’s tweets about mass protests to his comments on Charlottesville, adding that “he speaks and he makes it worse.”…
On May 21, Timothy Klausutis wrote a letter to Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter. In it, Klausutis pleaded with Dorsey to excise a conspiracy-laden, fact-free tweet the president of the United States sent out over Memorial Day weekend, a tweet that implied Klausutis’ deceased wife, Lori, was secretly murdered by then-Congressman Joe Scarborough. Klausutis explained that there was no one with…
Paging former president Barack Obama: You are cordially invited to the class of 2020 commencement. Thousands of students throughout the country took to Twitter to express their desire to have Obama deliver a nationwide commencement speech after one high school senior from Los Angeles posted a tweet asking the former president to speak. Within five…
As one might expect, the Sunday shows are filled with talk about Donald Trump’s bizarre and dangerous suggestion about injecting disinfectant as a possible treatment for the novel coronavirus. He has since said his comment, originally made on Thursday, was “sarcastic.” On CNN’s State of the Union, for example, host Jake Tapper and House Speaker Nancy…
As small groups of protesters gathered in a handful of states across the country, right-wing economist Stephen Moore compared their actions to none other than civil rights icon Rosa Parks, as reported by The Washington Post. What were these protesters doing in groups that almost certainly don’t fit the guidelines for social distancing during a…