#Twitch’s PogChamp ban highlights the platform’s growing role in politics

#Twitch’s PogChamp ban highlights the platform’s growing role in politics

“#Twitch’s PogChamp ban highlights the platform’s growing role in politics” Twitch has banned the popular PogChamp emote after the person it portrays posted incendiary tweets about the deadly riots at the US Capitol. In the wake of the police shooting of a female protestor, Ryan “Gootecks” Gutierrez, a professional Street Fighter player who’s depicted in the…

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#Joe Biden is set to pull America’s schools far to the left

#Joe Biden is set to pull America’s schools far to the left

“#Joe Biden is set to pull America’s schools far to the left” Education reformers breathed a sigh of relief when it became clear that President-elect Joe Biden wouldn’t tap a teachers-union leader as his secretary of education, contrary to the post-election rumor mill. Instead, Biden nominated Connecticut Education Commissioner Miguel Cardona. Compared to teachers-union leaders,…

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#Eliminating official use of ‘mother’ isn’t inclusive — it’s waging war on women

#Eliminating official use of ‘mother’ isn’t inclusive — it’s waging war on women

“#Eliminating official use of ‘mother’ isn’t inclusive — it’s waging war on women” One of the first acts of our new House of Representatives might be to cancel Mom. On Sunday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Democratic majority proposed to eliminate “father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister” and all other language deemed insufficiently “gender-inclusive” from House rules….

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#One last disaster in 2020: ‘Wonder Woman 1984’

#One last disaster in 2020: ‘Wonder Woman 1984’

“#One last disaster in 2020: ‘Wonder Woman 1984’” It’s the single question that haunts all Americans as they turn the page on a dreadful year: Why is “Wonder Woman 1984” so bad? Why did this eagerly anticipated follow-up to the delightful 1917 “Wonder Woman” — starring the same stunning Gal Gadot and ­directed by the…

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#A populist wish-list as we head into 2021

#A populist wish-list as we head into 2021

“#A populist wish-list as we head into 2021” At long last, 2020 is about to end. It was a terrible year, marked by a once-a-lifetime pandemic that brought to heel our economy and put an abrupt halt to hundreds of millions of law-abiding Americans’ way of life. We also endured a once-a-generation national “dialogue” about…

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