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AOC: From Resolutions To Red Lipstick
A few weeks ago, I was sitting at the counter of a small kitchen in the Bronx while Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) made black bean soup in an Instant Pot and told me about her transition into office. Well, it didn’t exactly happen like that. But Rep. Ocasio-Cortez did go on Instagram Live to talk…
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The Rhetoric of Dehumanization
On the evening of April 19, 2013, crowds in Boston cheered, waved American flags, and shouted, “USA! USA! We got him!” as Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was taken into custody. Mayor Thomas M. Menino was recorded saying that he hoped the court system “throws the book at [Tsarnaev]” by giving him the harshest sentence…
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Deconstructing the Harvey Experience
I’ll start with a few statistics. Over the course of six days from August 24th to the 30th, Hurricane Harvey dumped an estimated 27 trillion gallons of water onto the area from the tip of Texas to Louisiana. As observed by Vox, that’s approximately 1 million gallons of water for every inhabitant of the state…
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The Twitter Round-Up: Brian Williamsing, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Jetpacks
Twitter as a medium is, in some ways, a miracle. It is, after all, the reason we get to ask the question “Were politicians, reporters and people this incomprehensibly incapable of grasping reality before the Internet, or is it a new fad to be crazy?” I’m afraid that I’m not here to answer that question (though…
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Virginia Tech, Unfiltered
Shortly after noon today, a police officer was shot dead on the Virginia Tech campus. Minutes later, police discovered another body in a parking garage. The campus was locked down, cutting it off from the outside world. Information trickled out via Twitter, but the tag #VirginiaTech was soon flooded by outsiders eager to voice their…
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Astroturf Campaigning
The internet has been a powerful organizing tool for political movements. It has been used to organize revolutions in the Middle East and protests around the world. Understandably, politicians have good reason to closely monitor sentiment online. However, powerful interests can use the the internet to support their agendas by creating the false impression of…
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Yet Another Feminist Friday
Romney If you think Romney’s economic plan is complicated (I’m looking at you, Herman Cain), just wait until you get to female anatomy. Romney recently emphasized that he would fully support a Constitutional amendment defining conception as the beginning of life. However, the distinction between conception (i.e. sperm meets egg) and implantation (zygote attaches to…
