Episode 21- Zucker Punch

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Today’s show is jam-packed: we have quick hits on Rex Tillerson and Elon Musk, terrible takes about global warming and Donald Trump Jr.’s divorce, and we’re talking about The Young Karl Marx and some rare sports coverage in the pop culture corner. Our main story is the Facebook Cambridge Analytica revelations in the Guardian. So sit back and bask in the content. This is The Plunge.

Notez:

Tillerson Fired While Expelling Feces
https://www.thedailybeast.com/john-kelly-rex-tillerson-was-on-the-toilet-when-i-told-him-hed-be-getting-fired

Elon Musk poaches comedy writers from the Onion for mysterious project
http://splitsider.com/2018/03/elon-musk-vs-the-onion/
http://www.clickhole.com/blogpost/i-did-everything-i-could-buy-clickhole-their-edito-7569
https://www.theonion.com/elon-musk-embarrassed-after-realizing-he-proposing-idea-1823804914

Neil Young vs NRA “Why Doesnt She Just Shoot Me?”
https://pitchfork.com/news/neil-young-on-nras-dana-loesch-hating-his-music-why-doesnt-she-just-shoot-me/

Nazi infidelity drama
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7x75vg/the-most-prominent-hate-group-in-america-may-collapse-because-of-an-affair-vgtrn?utm_source=vicefbus

Don Jr Divorcing...WONDER WHY?
https://pagesix.com/2018/03/14/donald-trump-jr-and-wife-headed-for-divorce-friends-say/?utm

Suggestive drunk texts
https://www.thecut.com/2018/03/donald-trump-jr-sent-suggestive-twitter-dms-while-married.html

Gross Trump Jr Ballad
https://splinternews.com/imagine-writing-this-sex-n-love-ballad-about-donald-t-1823917005

RIP Stephen Hawking
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/stephen-hawking-capitalism-robots_us_5616c20ce4b0dbb8000d9f15

Bizarre article arguing that Albert Einstein would have been a climate denier
https://www.denverpost.com/2018/03/16/would-albert-einstein-be-a-global-warming-skeptic-yes/

Christopher Wylie news drop
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump

Inside Facebook’s 2 years
https://www.wired.com/story/inside-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-2-years-of-hell/

Facebook Groups used to Spread Misinformation
https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/how-facebook-groups-are-being-exploited-to-spread?utm_term=.oy6XEgpM6&bftwnews#.hw6YKb2wB

Facebook will show you child pornography
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/16/facebook-apologises-child-sexual-abuse-offensive-autocomplete-terms

Zuckerberg can serve in gov’t “indefinitely” without it counting as Voluntary Resignation
https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/04/connector-in-chief/

Zuck also wants you to know he eats white toast with no jam or butter
https://twitter.com/Meg_u_min/status/910768888094236672

Facebook’s heinous corporate tax lobbying
https://jacobinmag.com/2017/10/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-president-taxes-lobbying

Tech giants are monopolies
http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/246822/facebook-google-amazon-monopolies

The Rise of The Facebook Graveyard
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160313-the-unstoppable-rise-of-the-facebook-dead

David Mitchell on nationalizing Facebook: “When you're getting something free, you're not the customer, you're the product.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/sep/25/facebook-monopoly-david-mitchell

Young Karl Marx Interview
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/2/23/the_young_karl_marx_raoul_peck

OJ Rips Kap for Kneeling
http://www.tmz.com/2018/03/16/oj-simpson-kaepernick-flag-protest-trump/

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