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When an employee of GitHub was fired after alluding to the fact that Nazis were out and about in Washington, D.C. on Slack on the day of the assault on the U.S. Capitol building, as Business Insider reported on Tuesday, coworkers rallied to his defense, appealing to the Microsoft-owned company. The decision was reversed with…

America is finally waking up to the problems caused by its polarising politics.

The question is no longer whether Trumpian politics are on the rise in Australia, it's now a question of how severe the damage will be. The post Will Trumpism rise in Australia? Yes, we’re already standing in it appeared first on Crikey.

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While some fans want them to stick to gossip and jokes, Bravo meme pages are going off script after the Capitol riot.

Summary List PlacementThe New York Times' Cooking product is ramping up its investment in video and borrowing from rival Bon Appétit's playbook as it seeks to win over the coveted home chef audience. NYT Cooking has invested in a new kitchen studio and is expanding the team to produce more videos and grow its library…

The chairman of the Hong Kong Federation of Civil Service Unions, Leung Chau-ting, said on Friday that more clarity was needed on what exactly would constitute a breach of the new declaration required of public servants. The city’s 180,000 civil servants were told earlier on Friday that they will be given four weeks to sign…

Tandav, the eagerly awaited web-series on Amazon Prime, has dared to venture into dangerous territory. The violence on the Jawaharwal Nehru University in 2019 has been raked up, with actor Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub playing Kanhaiya incarnate goading his fellow-students into an uprising against political tyranny. Clearly taking the students' side, the series shows the cops…

Actress Richa Chadha will next star in Madam Chief Minister which is being helmed by director Subhash Kapoor. The first poster was unveiled recently but it received a lot of criticism from netizens over casual casteism. The makers received backlash over a Savarna, an upper-class woman playing the role of an untouchable. Many expressed their…

Welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited. sarahf (Sarah Frostenson, politics editor): Last Wednesday, the U.S. Capitol was attacked by a mob of President Trump’s supporters, many of whom had very explicit and not so explicit ties to right-wing extremism in the U.S. There are reports now, too, that there…