Donald Trump’s media empire may actually be happening
Published: Salon (October 17, 2016) Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner reportedly approached a major media investor about setting up a Trump television network after the presidential election. Over the past couple of months, Kushner, who is married to Ivanka Trump, has met with Aryeh Bourkoff, the CEO of a boutique investment bank known as LionTree, theFinancial Times reported Monday....
Donald Trump severs ties with Ohio GOP chair, then attacks him in letter to press
Published: Salon (October 17, 2016) Donald Trump has severed ties with the chairman of the Ohio Republican Party, deepening his rift with the party organization in a state he desperately needs, at a time he can ill afford to lose it. In a letter announcing the decision to disassociate with Ohio GOP chair Matt Borges, the Trump campaign said that Borges was conducting “a self-promotional” media...
Colorado teen kills self as sign of Nazi allegiance: “I have crippling depression but I shall cure it by killing Jews”
Published: Salon (October 17, 2016) The suicide of a Colorado teenager has been linked to a Nazi-themed Facebook group that the young man apparently led. The teenager apparently believed that killing himself would “show his allegiance to the Nazi Party and the killing of Jewish people,” according to local law enforcement officials. The theory stems from a message he wrote shortly...
Two responses to tragedy: Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton respond to North Carolina firebombing
Published: Salon (October 17, 2016) Democrats raised more than $13,000 in less than four hours to help rebuild the headquarters of the local Republican Party chapter in Hillsborough, North Carolina, which was firebombed on Sunday night in what is being investigated as a possible terrorist incident. As news of the firebombing spread, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton condemned the...
Nobel Prize for Literature winner Bob Dylan is too cool to respond to the committee
The internet may have gone crazy when Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature, but it seems like Dylan himself can’t be bothered to return the Nobel Prize committee’s calls.
At least, that’s what the Swedish Academy, the organization responsible for awarding Dylan the prize, is currently claiming. As The Guardian reports, there have been multiple efforts to contact Dylan to formally notify him of his victory, but the famously individualistic singer has been chronically unavailable.... Read Original Article
Two more women say Donald Trump sexually assaulted them: “It was very random, very nonchalant”
Published: Salon (October 14, 2016) On Friday, two more women accused Donald Trump of sexually assaulting them, joining a list that has grown and grown since he told Anderson Cooper that he never sexually assaulted any woman during Sunday’s debate. Photographer Kristin Anderson claimed that, when she was a model in the early 1990s, Trump sat next to her on a red velvet couch at a Manhattan...
Armed Donald Trump supporters caught menacing Democratic campaign office
Published: Salon (October 14, 2016) Donald Trump supporters have talked about violence if the Republican candidate loses to Hillary Clinton next month. And now, some of them are starting to put their money where their mouths are. A pro-Donald Trump protester has attracted attention for standing alone outside a Virginia Democratic campaign office with his gun. On Thursday, Daniel Parks stood...
Donald Trump’s Utah nightmare: Why Evan McMullin could give the deep red state to Hillary Clinton
Published: Salon (October 14, 2016) Thanks to Donald Trump’s recent spiral into insanity, as well as little-known third-party candidate Evan McMullin, Utah — a firmly Republican state once thought to be a lock for the Republican nominee — may be closer than once thought. It might not even be a safe state for the GOP. Although it’s still possible that Trump will squeak through with a win in Utah,...
Donald Trump: Sexual assault allegations are part of a Mexican billionaire’s conspiracy with The New York Times
Published: Salon (October 14, 2016) Donald Trump is now attacking The New York Times for covering sexual assault allegations against him by bringing up the name of the “foreigner” who “rescued” the newspaper: a Mexican billionaire. Carlos Slim is one of the world’s richest men. Last December he was ranked fifth on Forbes’ list. Slim became the largest single investor in the Times in January...
WATCH: Mike Pence avoids 11-year-old girl’s question about body image in the age of Donald Trump by pointing to ISIS
Published: Salon (October 14, 2016) When confronted with an 11-year-old girl’s question about her body image and self-esteem issues, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence responded with a seemingly tangential reply about foreign policy. During a Thursday interview, WBNS-TV in Columbus, Ohio, asked Pence to respond to a statement initially written by an 11-year-old girl. Citing Donald Trump’s sexist rhetoric,...
Donald Trump didn’t apologize for Bill Clinton’s Serbian intervention after all
Published: Salon (October 14, 2016) This time, Donald Trump may be the victim. So may be a Serbian magazine that was obscure to U.S. audiences until Thursday, when it published a fake interview with the GOP presidential nominee. The alleged interview, in which Donald Trump supposedly apologized for America’s bombing of Serbia in 1999, was likely a hoax that someone played on the publication. The...
Donald Trump’s accusers are all coming forward with their sexual assault allegations
Published: Salon (October 13, 2016) Even before he was caught on tape bragging that his fame allowed him to grab women “by the pussy,” a number of sexual assault and rape allegations had been made against Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. Here is a list of some notable women who have come forward, organized by when their allegations were made public: Five teen beauty queens, Oct....
Rudy Giuliani apologizes after saying Hillary Clinton wasn’t in New York on 9/11 (she was there the next day)
Published: Salon (October 13, 2016) Rudy Giuliani, former New York mayor and Trump super-surrogate, has apologized for saying that Hillary Clinton wasn’t in the city after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks — even though she was right next to him the next day. “I made a mistake. I’m wrong and I apologize,” Giuliani told the Associated Press on Wednesday night, later adding that he “probably...
Here are all the defenses Donald Trump’s surrogates have used to explain his sexual assault claims
Published: Salon (October 13, 2016) As more and more sexual assault allegations pile up against him, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s political team is in full damage control mode. Their approaches have been diverse, but the aim is clear: deflect attention from Trump’s allegedly sordid history. We can start with some recent tweets by Trump himself: Follow Donald J. Trump...
Rudy Giuliani apologizes after saying Hillary Clinton wasn’t in New York on 9/11 (she was there the next day)
Rudy Giuliani, former New York mayor and Trump super-surrogate, has apologized for saying that Hillary Clinton wasn’t in the city after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks — even though she was right next to him the next day.
“I made a mistake. I’m wrong and I apologize,” Giuliani told the Associated Press on Wednesday night, later adding that he “probably deserve[s]” all the heat he’s getting.... Read Original Article
Gender stereotypes have made us horrible at recognizing autism in women and girls
Published: Quartz (October 12, 2016) In August, the National Autistic Society called on medical professionals to change the way they diagnose women and girls with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Ever since the term autism was first coined by Hans Asperger in 1944, it has remained predominantly, if anecdotally, associated with men and boys. As a result, women with the condition may be being...
“Seeing Is Believing” – An interview about women as film directors.
Published: The Good Men Project (October 11, 2016) While Cady McClain and I first met as potential (and then actual) collaborators, I’m happy to say that I now consider her to be a good friend. With that disclaimer out of the way, I have to also say that I was genuinely thrilled to hear about the new documentary she has coming out, “Seeing Is Believer: Women Direct.” My interview with her makes...