Category: Politics
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Super Tuesday

This will be a short post. The New York Times has the best simple summary of Super Tuesday’s election results I’ve seen (see charts below), including these two (2) headlines: Trump Overwhelms G.O.P. Rivals on Super Tuesday (full article) Minority Voters Push Hillary Clinton to Victories (full article) Meanwhile, searches for “how to move to…
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Apple vs. FBI

The FBI ordered Apple to create a “backdoor” so it can break into the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone 5c. Apple basically said no, challenging the FBI on encryption. https://twitter.com/brialys_/status/699915889127325696 Surely Apple saw this coming which is why CEO Tim Cooke started his appeal months ago. I’m 100% convinced that if we were not living in a post-Snowden world, Apple would have never had…
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2 Senate Race for Black Women

Here’s a case where Facebook is not so bad… This morning one of my friends posted about two (2) black women running for the United States Senate. Maybe I’ve been in a vacuum (I don’t watch traditional news outlets); but, I hadn’t heard about their campaigns – I do know who they are. No, they are not…
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#FeelTheBern

This is why I believe @BernieSanders should be our next President. https://t.co/MvbPC54OIE — Cornel West (@CornelWest) January 27, 2016
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The World in 2016

(blogging while sick) Each year The Economist produces its “The World” series, a publication designed to focus on themes, trends and influential people/events for the upcoming year. If you never really spend time thinking about international policies, this is a good opportunity to get some perspective for the new year (before it arrives). You ca buy…