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The Daily Beast is following a growing rift among the Young Republicans after their vice president Audra Sigler Shay appeared to respond positively to a racist comment left on her Facebook page. On Wednesday, Shay—a 38-year-old Army veteran, mother, and event planner from Louisiana who has been endorsed by her governor, Bobby Jindal—was holding court on her Facebook page, initiating …

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Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) says she has gotten death threats since yesterday’s House hate crimes debate during which she called the murder of Matthew Shepard a hoax. Foxx is now backing off her statement. A spokesperson for the congresswoman said Foxx’s office has received hate mail over the past 24 hours, including death threats. Foxx later said her comments didn’t …

OK, I gave it a few days. Really not liking the new Facebook. Really a lot. Upside: wasting much less time there!

In another one of those items that Gawker always derides as “trend pieces”, TIME Magazine’s Claire Suddath takes on the latest Facebook meme, that “25 Things About Me” bit that so many of you have done. And she hates it. Facebook’s “25 Things About Me” meme seems harmless enough; people write 25 facts about themselves and post them on their …

Facebook has stepped in and deleted Burger King’s Whopper promotion because it violated their rule about notifying people when you unfriend them. While many trivial actions do prompt Facebook to post an alert to all your friends — adding a photo, changing your relationship status, using Fandango to buy tickets to “Paul Blart: Mall Cop” — striking someone off your …

Via Facebook… -Ggreg Taylor is proud Aretha is supporting renewable energy by wearing a wind turbine on her head.-Andrew Fox would like his civil rights, but might settle for Aretha’s hat.-John Whiteside is marveling at Aretha’s giant ribbon hat.-Jeremy Hooper is OMG, Aretha’s hat!-John Farley what does Aretha have on her head?-Bruce Trevithick is feeling Aretha’s headgear!!!!-Christopher Hurst loves Ms …

Man, you really gotta hand it to Burger King’s ad people for finding all these innovative ways to get folks talking. First there was the creepily hilarious Subservient Chicken, then the hamburger-scented body spray, and now, probably best of all, this. It’s a common problem for anyone who joined Facebook some time ago. You look at your friend list and …

Another of my New Year’s resolutions for JMG was to update my Facebook status and Twitter feed more frequently, particularly when there’s a big news story involving LGBT folks. Y’all feel free to follow along. I’m also publishing my complete posts via RSS if you use a reader to follow your favorites.

“A couple of boys were calling my best friend a faggot one unhappy day at summer camp. Courses of action seemed slim to my adolescent mind. I could stand up for Jack branding myself a fag as well and insuring myself a miserable summer, or I could join in with the name callers, lose my closest friend, but assure my …

That’s Barack Obama’s head speechwriter on the left, groping a standee of Hillary Clinton, his new co-worker. Via WaPo: Question No. 58 in the transition team vetting document for the Obama White House asks that applicants: “Please provide the URL address of any websites that feature you in either a personal or professional capacity (e.g. Facebook, My Space, etc.)” Question …

The NY Daily News reports today that the Spanish-language newspaper El Diario/La Prensa has called out NY Sen. Ruben Diaz (D-Bronx) for blocking progress on marriage equality. El Diario: “Rev. Diaz and others are supposedly not for denying rights to gays and lesbians but believe that marriage should be between a man and woman. Yet, it’s this very discriminatory position …

And we thought the power of Facebook could only be used for good. Mollygood reports: Apparently this anti-Obama Facebook phenomenon is really getting out of control and, luckily, some ignorant crazies are being forced to pay the consequences. Meet Buck Burnette, a football player for the University of Texas and blatant racist. Shortly after the election, his status read: “all …

From London: A man has been jailed for life for stabbing his wife to death over a posting she made on the social networking site Facebook. Wayne Forrester, 34, told police he was devastated that his wife Emma, also 34, had changed her online profile to “single” days after he had moved out. The Old Bailey heard Forrester drove to …

From my Facebook status page. “Joey S. went from being ‘married’ to ‘single’.” Joey explains to his Facebook friends: “I was married to myself. Now, I’m not. I think I was just not in the right place for me.” Yeah, I’ve gotten totally over myself at times.