March 21, 2018

Stephen Colbert - Monologue and Opening - 3/20/18

Mark Zuckerberg Is Silent Amid Facebook's Privacy Scandal



Faced with the prospect of users deleting their Facebook apps over the Cambridge Analytica scandal, co-founder Mark Zuckerberg issued a powerful statement.




Trump Shuffles His Legal Counsel To Fend Off Mueller



Donald Trump has assembled an 'A Team' to take on Special Counsel Robert Mueller. And this definition of 'A Team' means... it's 'a team.'




Trump Congratulates Putin For Electing Himself



Donald Trump used his 'Phone-a-Friend' to congratulate Vladimir Putin on winning a fixed election in Russia.




Tom From Myspace Says Leave Facebook



With Facebook's stock value dropping $37 billion, one former social media magnate sees an opportunity for resurgence.

March 21, 2018

The Daily Show: Trump Takes on the Opioid Crisis; Cars Don't Drive Themselves

Donald Trump announces his plans to combat the opioid crisis, including instituting the death penalty for drug traffickers and creating commercials to deter kids from using drugs.



Between the Scenes - Cars Don't Drive Themselves



Trevor wonders why self-driving cars, not their human technicians, get blamed for mishaps.

March 21, 2018

Seth Meyers - The Check In: U.S. Cybersecurity

Seth takes a break from breaking news to check in on the United States' cybersecurity and how worried the country should be about a foreign power meddling in its elections again.

March 21, 2018

Seth Meyers - Putin Wins Russia's Election, Cynthia Nixon 2018 - Monologue - 3/19/18

March 20, 2018

Stephen Colbert - Monologue and Opening - 3/19/18

Let The Robert Mueller Tweets Begin!



There's no one Trump won't attempt to disparage on Twitter: Robert Mueller... Andrew McCabe... Cher...



Stephen Analyticizes Cambridge Analytica



Data firm Cambridge Analytica exploited Facebook to gather information of millions of potential voters. Oh, and prostitutes!



Guess Who Won Russia's Presidential Election



Want to know who won this weekend's presidential election in Russia? Click to find out! (This is a cliffhanger for the one internet user who doesn't understand Russia's politics.)



Rex Tillerson Gets Fired On The Toilet



Trump's former Secretary of State supposedly learned he was fired by John Kelly while on the John.

March 20, 2018

Lawmakers want Mark Zuckerberg to testify about the Facebook data breach

Policymakers want answers on what happened with Cambridge Analytica’s harvesting operation.

Lawmakers and regulators across the US and Europe are calling for investigations into Facebook amid revelations that personal data from 50 million of the social media giant’s users was secretly harvested by a data analytics firm that worked on the Trump campaign.

The public outcry over the data breach, which includes demands that Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testify before Congress, could spark new calls for the government to monitor privacy rules and political advertising on the social media network. The company’s shares, meanwhile, are in free fall, with the company losing $40 billion in market value since Friday and wiping away billions of dollars of Zuckerberg’s personal fortune.

https://twitter.com/TheStalwart/status/975763416651587584

US lawmakers in both parties are calling for investigations, and Democrats appear to be homing in aggressively on Zuckerberg in their criticism.

“They say ‘trust us,’ but Mark Zuckerberg needs to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee about what Facebook knew about misusing data from 50 million Americans in order to target political advertising and manipulate voters,” Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) said in a statement.

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) sent a letter to Zuckerberg on Monday demanding that Facebook list every instance in the past 10 years in which a third-party company violated Facebook’s privacy rules while collecting data on users.


More: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/19/17138784/facebook-cambridge-analytica-trump-data-breach#ampshare=https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/19/17138784/facebook-cambridge-analytica-trump-data-breach

March 20, 2018

States fight Trump drill plan with local bans

Some coastal states opposed to President Donald Trump's plan to allow oil and gas drilling off most of the nation's coastline are fighting back with proposed state laws designed to thwart the proposal.

The drilling Trump proposes would take place in federal waters offshore in an area called the Outer Continental Shelf. But states control the 3 miles of ocean closest to shore and are proposing laws designed to make it difficult, or impossible, to bring the oil or gas ashore in their areas.

A look at the issue:

What states are doing

States including New Jersey, New York, California, South Carolina and Rhode Island have introduced bills prohibiting any infrastructure related to offshore oil or gas production from being built in or crossing their state waters. Washington state is threatening such a bill. Maryland has introduced a bill imposing strict liability on anyone who causes a spill while engaged in offshore drilling or oil or gas extraction.

"We started thinking about how we control the first three miles of ocean, and there are state rights that we have," said New Jersey state Sen. Jeff Van Drew, a Democrat who represents the state's southern coast. "Even if we don't succeed in banning it outright, we can still make it a lot more expensive to do it in this area. It's a back-door, ingenious way to block this."


Much more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/ct-states-oil-drill-bans-20180319-story.html



People hold signs protesting President Donald Trump's plan to allow offshore oil and gas drilling along most of the nation's coastline at a hearing Feb. 14, 2018, in Hamilton, N.J. Some coastal states including New Jersey that oppose Trump's plan to allow offshore drilling along most of the nation's coastline are using state-level laws to try to make it difficult or impossible to conduct drilling in their areas. (Wayne Parry / AP)

March 20, 2018

The Daily Show: Trump Sacks Andrew McCabe, Takes Aim at Robert Mueller

President Trump fires former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe days before his retirement in an alleged attempt to discredit the Mueller investigation.

March 20, 2018

The Daily Show: Tucker Carlson's Bad Take on Teen Activists & Trump's White House Purge

Fox News's Tucker Carlson lashes out at the students who participated in a walkout to protest gun violence, and President Trump goes on a wild and unpredictable firing spree.

March 20, 2018

Seth Meyers - Trump Attacks Mueller and McCabe; Facebook Suspends Cambridge Analytica: A Closer Look

Seth takes a closer look at Trump directly attacking the special counsel in the Russia investigation and Facebook's massive data breach.