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    What is Elite TikTok and what has it got to do with Donald Trump?

    Matilda, help! I have come across something called Elite/Alt TikTok. Have Elon Musk and Grimes renamed their baby? Ha, no. So, to understand Alt and Elite TikTok you first need to understand how TikTok started. In the beginning, the platform was essentially a bunch of genetically blessed teenagers lip-syncing to popular songs and repeating the […] More

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    Trump adviser Navarro blasts John Bolton's 'silly' China claim

    John Bolton Judge allows publication of tell-all but slams author’s behaviour Aide: ‘That guy should turn in his seersucker suit for a jumpsuit’ The Room Where It Happened: a broadside to sink Trump? John Bolton – wearing a seersucker suit – waits in the Oval Office in July 2019. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA White House […] More

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    The Room Where It Happened review: John Bolton fires broadside that could sink Trump

    The Room Where It Happened review: John Bolton fires broadside that could sink Trump The ex-national security adviser is no hero or martyr and certainly no prose stylist either. What counts is how damaging his memoir will be Donald Trump speaks as John Bolton, national security adviser, listens in August 2019. Photograph: Andrew Harrer/EPA John […] More

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    John Bolton: judge declines to block tell-all Trump book

    Trump says Bolton ‘must pay a very big price for this’ Former national security adviser’s memoir due out Tuesday Donald Trump, left, flanked by national security advisor John Bolton, right, speaks at the White House in April 2018. Photograph: The Washington Post/Getty Images A federal judge has declined to block the publication of a tell-all […] More

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    White House defends Bolton hiring as Trump administration tries to block book

    Kayleigh McEnany said president ‘likes to have countervailing viewpoints’ amid fallout over ex-national security adviser’s book The Room Where It Happened, by former national security adviser John Bolton. Photograph: Alex Brandon/AP As a federal judge considered the Trump administration’s attempt to block a book by John Bolton which has held the president up to global […] More

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    Gone With the Wind: On the Pitfalls of Symbolic Politics

    A few days ago, Quaker Oats announced it would retire its 130-year-old brand of pancake syrup and breakfast foods, Aunt Jemima. The company acknowledged that the Aunt Jemima character was based on a racial stereotype. In the aftermath of the decision, other companies, among them Mars Food, followed suit announcing that it was time to […] More

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    It’s Time for #MeToo to Address Structural Racism

    The impact of the #MeToo movement has no doubt been useful in getting us to speak about the traumas we experience in various spaces. But there is more to be done. Every institution, ranging from private to public, which includes professional, religious, political, educational and social organizations, is not exempt from its reach. However, when […] More