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President Donald Trump tweet followers got a video message from the Commander-in-Tweet to start off the Sunday communications: “We’re building the wall.” Trump presented a short video detailing construction of the wall along the southern border, blaming (once again) the Democrats in Congress for stalling earlier…

The formal launch of long-rumored antitrust investigations into the activities of Google and Facebook are set to start next week, according to a Wall St. Journal report. The probe will look at whether the tech giants stifle competition in their spaces, specifically focusing on digital advertising and information…

President Donald Trump was in a mostly good mood for his early Saturday tweetstorm, with one notable exception. Like the old vaudeville routine on Niagara Falls, his upbeat messages were spoiled when someone brought up the Washington Post. The Commander-in-Tweet saluted NBA logo and former Lakers great Jerry West…

What does the Lynyrd Skynyrd song Sweet Home Alabama and Hurricane Dorian have in common? Both “miss ‘ole’ ‘bamy once again.” Before this week, those were the most famous Alabama misses. Then along came President Trump, who made a now-famous call on Hurricane Dorian’s potential storm path, wherein he warned the major…

Facebook, already under scrutiny for its data practices and vulnerability to malevolent global forces intent on weaponizing its networks, is now facing antitrust investigations in eight states and the District of Columbia. Among the areas the states will investigate are Facebook’s impact on advertising prices, data…

President Donald Trump insists that Hurricane Dorian had Alabama in danger. The Late Show host Stephen Colbert insists that it was not. That was the showdown on tonight’s show, with Colbert insisting Trump stayed “laser-focused” on the hurricane’s path, using maps “from a week ago” to prove his point that Alabama was…

President Donald Trump escalated a feud with Will & Grace star Debra Messing by claiming that she was trying to create a “blacklist” of his supporters and labeling her as a “racist.” In two tweets, Trump wrote, “Bad ‘actress’ Debra The Mess Messing is in hot water. She wants to create a ‘Blacklist’ of Trump…

UPDATED with more details: Google will pay $170 million to settle claims by the Federal Trade Commission anda New York Attorney General Letitia James that YouTube illegally collected personal information from children without their parent's consent. The record fine, which had been anticipated after news reports that…

Leslie Jones addressed her departure from “second home” Saturday Night Live today, tweeting her thanks and devotion to the show’s cast, writers, fans, and most of all creator Lorne Michaels. “Thank you for being my mentor and confidant and for always having my back,” she writes to Michaels. “You not only have my…

President Trump continued today with a tweet and retweet storm, touching on issues ranging from Hollywood’s Debra Messing to the encroaching Hurricane Dorian to China trade and the case against former FBI director James Comey. Trump has been unusually active on Twitter during this holiday weekend. He returned this…

UPDATE:  Debra Messing has responded via Twitter to President Trump and others who accuse her of Joseph McCarthy style tactics in her call for identifying and shaming donors to Trump’s re-election. Using her own tweetstorm, Messing addressed Trump’s earlier comment that he hasn’t forgotten her obsequious behavior when…

There’s a major storm on the loose. No, not the one bearing down on Florida. President Donald Trump has unleashed the granddaddy of all tweetstorms this morning, a combination of new posts and retweets that dwarfs anything he’s done before. The Commander-in-Tweet naturally focused on the preparations in Florida for…