Healthcare Meets the Breadline
As healthcare frays and political abuse further breaks down the system, these scenes become a lot more recognizable.
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Mooch and Other Dramas: Our Weekly Social Media Roundup
Scaramucci's showboating and belligerence culminated in his going postal on Wednesday night. And that was only a fraction of the drama this week.
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Feeling Alt-Right: Hate and Shame In Online Right-Wing Imagery
How meme-makers use *humor* to exploit the grey-zone in social media guidelines meant to distinguish hate speech from legitimate political expression.
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Portrait Week: Our Social Media Roundup
From DC to Antarctica, Russia-gate to Iraq, it was a week for political portraits.
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On that Creepy Don Jr. Elevator Photo
The photo can be seen as a premonition. It mirrors the surreptitiousness of the Russia meeting and the fact Don Jr. isn't so swaggery anymore.
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Putin, G20 & Other Bodies: Our Social Media Roundup
Our roundup this week is all about posturing. Trump-Putin scored the most attention, but physical acts were striking everywhere we looked.
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Timely Paintings: World Leaders as Refugees
I'm fully on board with the focus on power -- especially star power.
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Importance of Seeing the Trauma: The Video of Diamond Reynolds and Daughter in Back of a Police Car
Analyzing the video of Diamond Reynolds and her daughter detained in the back of a police car after an officer shot and killed her boyfriend, Philando Castile.
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