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This Week’s Best New Comics Are About All About Spiritual and Political Demons

Everyone’s felt it at one time or another: a compulsion that drives you to single-mindedly pursue a specific goal you know is a part of your destiny. For some people, these compulsions are big and grandiose—while for others, they’re much smaller. The heroes—if that’s what you want to call them—of this week’s best new comics…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

Marvel Comics Is Doubling Down on Its Misguided Crusade to Remain ‘Apolitical,’ and It’s Using Captain America to Do It [Updated]

Marvel Comics continues to drum up controversy. The Hollywood Reporter revealed today that early preview copies sent to retailers of the 80th-anniversary collection, Marvel Comics #1000, included an essay by Mark Waid that accompanied an image of Captain America by John Cassaday and Laura Martin. However, in the issue set to hit stands tomorrow, the…

Books & Comics Beth Elderkin

DNC Votes 222-137 Against Allowing Candidates to Participate in Climate Debate

Democratic National Committee delegates in San Francisco voted against allowing candidates to participate in a primary debate focused on climate change, per the Mercury News, in a contentious 222-137 vote that comes amid ongoing devastation in the Amazon rainforest and growing evidence that scientists have underestimated the pace at which the world is warming. Top…

Earther Tom McKay

Damn, No Greenland

President Deals is up to it again! Over the past week, word got out that the White House has been exploring some kind of arrangement to buy the autonomous Danish territory of Greenland—which in addition to giving the U.S. more military access to a strategic point of the globe, would enable American exploitation of its…

Earther Tom McKay

Facebook Yanks Another Trump Ad for a Laughably Obvious Policy Violation

Facebook has pulled another Donald Trump campaign ad for blatantly violating its advertising policies, but it only did so after being reached by the progressive Popular Info newsletter for comment, according to a Monday report by the newsletter. The ad in question, below, featured an image of a crowd of women accompanied by the caption,…

Social Media Tom McKay

The Hunt’s Director Says the Movie Was Never Meant to Divide Audiences

In the wake of three back-to-back mass shootings and criticism from Donald Trump, Universal ultimately decided to shelve Craig Zobel’s The Hunt. The film was obviously meant to provoke audiences by tapping into our current political climate, but in a new interview, Zobel explained how he never meant for the film to be anything other…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore

China’s Biggest Propaganda Agency Buys Ads on Facebook and Twitter to Smear Protesters in Hong Kong

China’s largest state-run news agency, Xinhua News, is buying ads on Facebook and Twitter to smear protesters in Hong Kong, a new tactic being used to influence how the rest of the world perceives the pro-democracy demonstrators. An estimated 1.7 million people in Hong Kong, roughly a quarter of its population, took to the streets…

Social Media Matt Novak

List of Former Googlers Claiming Google Hates Conservatives Just Keeps Getting Dumber

In 2017, the world was introduced to James Damore, a Google engineer who published a document to the company’s internal message boards claiming (inaccurately) that genetic differences between men and women explain disparate representation in the engineering profession and that the company’s diversity initiatives had created bias in its hiring processes. After Google fired Damore,…

Tech News Tom McKay

Russia Demands Google Cease Sending YouTube Push Notifications for Protest Livestreams

Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology, and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor) has demanded that Google cease promoting livestreams of demonstrations with push notifications, a day after “tens of thousands” of Russians “staged what observers called the country’s biggest political protest for eight years on Saturday,” Reuters reported. In a statement, Roskomnadzor warned Google…

Tech News Tom McKay

Campaign Aides Let the UAE Screen Trump’s ‘America First’ Energy Speech, Made Changes at Their Request

Aides to now-President Donald Trump let senior United Arab Emirates officials look at and edit a 2016 campaign trail speech in which he laid out his “America First” energy policy, ABC News reported on Monday. According to ABC News, House Oversight Committee officials found during an investigation that Thomas Barrack, a “California investment tycoon with…

Energy Tom McKay

Juul Is Staring Down Yet Another Investigation Into Whether It Marketed to Kids

E-cigarette giant Juul is looking at a fresh investigation into whether the company “actively” marketed its products to children, an allegation that has dogged the company even as it now says it’s working to cut off kids’ access to its products. This newest investigation from a House subcommittee—which follows a separate investigation into Juul announced…

Tech News Catie Keck

New York Will No Longer Allow Vaccine Exemptions for Religious Reasons Amid Ongoing Measles Outbreaks

New York lawmakers voted on Thursday to repeal vaccine exemptions for religious reasons in school-age children as the state continues to battle ongoing measles outbreaks. Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the legislation to bar the non-medical exemptions “minutes” after it was approved by the state legislature, the Associated Press reported Thursday, and it will go into…

Tech News Catie Keck

Disney’s Falcon & Winter Soldier Has to Explore Race and Captain America’s Legacy

Now that they’ve done their part to save the universe in Avengers: Endgame, Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes are packing up their gear and jetting off to Disney+ to star in their own miniseries. Falcon & Winter Soldier is sure to give the duo an interesting space to define themselves as Avengers in a post-Endgame…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

Trump’s Misguided Ban on Federal Fetal-Tissue Research Can Only Hurt Science

The Trump administration is halting fetal tissue research by government scientists and placing new restrictions on how the National Institutes of Health issues grants to academic researchers. The move is meant to appease the president’s anti-choice political base, but the measures are a serious blow to medical science. On Wednesday, the Trump administration announced that…

Health George Dvorsky

Trump Both Sides-es Climate Change

There are many things where there are two (or more!) sides to the story. Nazis is not one of them. Neither is climate change. And yet, here we are. On Wednesday, noted Donald Trump butt muncher Piers Morgan interviewed, well, Donald Trump. To Morgan’s credit, he asked Trump once again about his climate change views.…

Climate Change Brian Kahn

President Trump Tells Americans to Boycott AT&T During Unhinged Twitter Rant

President Donald Trump sent a barrage of strange tweets during his flight to the UK overnight, but one of the weirdest tweets instructed Americans to stop using and subscribing to AT&T’s services. CNN, which the president hates because the network will sometimes accurately describe his crimes, is owned by AT&T. “I believe that if people…

Tech News Matt Novak

Neil Gaiman Wishes Good Omens Didn’t Feel Quite So Close to Our Reality

In Amazon’s new adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s Good Omens, the actual impending Armageddon kind of takes a back seat to other elements of the apocalyptic story, in part because of the show’s understanding that we’ve all grown rather weary of the genre at a time when the world often feels as if…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

Beto O’Rourke’s First Policy Proposal Is a $5 Trillion Plan to Tackle Climate Change

If you want further proof the 2020 presidential election will be the first presidential election where climate change is treated like it really matters, let me direct you to Beto O’Rourke. The former member of Congress’ biggest climate moment to date has been refusing to sign a pledge eschewing donations from fossil fuel executives. But…

Climate Change Brian Kahn

Senator Kamala Harris Invokes Avengers: Infinity War to Defend Net Neutrality

Democratic Senator and Presidential hopeful Kamala Harris is a fan of superhero films, and has been known to use them to illustrate ideas related to her various political platforms. Following Congressman Michael Doyle Jr.’s (D, Pa.) Save the Internet Act making it through the House in a 232-190 vote, Harris took to Twitter with an…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore

The First Meeting of the House ‘Climate Crisis’ Committee Did Not Go So Well

After months of build up, the new House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis held its first hearing on Thursday. The witnesses were all young adults who will live with the choices members of Congress, and indeed policymakers around the world, make today for the rest of their lives. Their opening testimonies appealed strongly to…

Climate Change Brian Kahn

This Week’s Best New Comics Are About All About Spiritual and Political Demons

Marvel Comics Is Doubling Down on Its Misguided Crusade to Remain ‘Apolitical,’ and It’s Using Captain America to Do It [Updated]

DNC Votes 222-137 Against Allowing Candidates to Participate in Climate Debate

Damn, No Greenland

Facebook Yanks Another Trump Ad for a Laughably Obvious Policy Violation

The Hunt’s Director Says the Movie Was Never Meant to Divide Audiences

China’s Biggest Propaganda Agency Buys Ads on Facebook and Twitter to Smear Protesters in Hong Kong

List of Former Googlers Claiming Google Hates Conservatives Just Keeps Getting Dumber

Russia Demands Google Cease Sending YouTube Push Notifications for Protest Livestreams

Campaign Aides Let the UAE Screen Trump’s ‘America First’ Energy Speech, Made Changes at Their Request

Juul Is Staring Down Yet Another Investigation Into Whether It Marketed to Kids

New York Will No Longer Allow Vaccine Exemptions for Religious Reasons Amid Ongoing Measles Outbreaks

Disney’s Falcon & Winter Soldier Has to Explore Race and Captain America’s Legacy

Trump’s Misguided Ban on Federal Fetal-Tissue Research Can Only Hurt Science

Trump Both Sides-es Climate Change

President Trump Tells Americans to Boycott AT&T During Unhinged Twitter Rant

Neil Gaiman Wishes Good Omens Didn’t Feel Quite So Close to Our Reality

Beto O’Rourke’s First Policy Proposal Is a $5 Trillion Plan to Tackle Climate Change

Senator Kamala Harris Invokes Avengers: Infinity War to Defend Net Neutrality

The First Meeting of the House ‘Climate Crisis’ Committee Did Not Go So Well

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