Students ask wealthy celebs to take the #PayMyTuitionChallenge

http://twitter.com/#!/naelyn_mills/status/502575732699459584 You’ve probably heard of the ALS “Ice Bucket Challenge,” but that’s been taken a step further as #PayMyTuitionChallenge is trending in the U.S.: Whether some are totally serious, half serious or ridiculing the concept, the hashtag has been going strong since it started yesterday. Here’s a sampling: http://twitter.com/#!/David_Leavitt/status/502568410803617793 http://twitter.com/#!/yanelylara/status/502578709866758147 http://twitter.com/#!/ElizabethND04/status/502558496295239681 http://twitter.com/#!/BradshawReport/status/502559192503578625 http://twitter.com/#!/Gh0stP0litics/status/502548573989638146 http://twitter.com/#!/Shaughn_A/status/502539882011824128 http://twitter.com/#!/LolAriel/status/502492435671687168 […]

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Tommy Lee Jones being Tommy Lee Jones at the Golden Globes goes viral

http://twitter.com/#!/HitFixDaniel/status/290682789806866432 Tommy Lee Jones didn’t think much of the Golden Globes award show jokes. But viewers thought the world of the actor’s reaction to the spectacle. The Tommy Lee Jones-meets-McKayla Maroney-meets-Grumpy Cat moments have already been memed, hashtagged, and trended. Forever. I knew Tommy Lee Jones reminded me of someone! #goldenglobes twitter.com/RichardCrouse/… — Richard Crouse […]

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Unity or else: DNC Chair Tom Perez demands ‘ideological purity’ on abortion from candidates

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Sen. Bernie Sanders and DNC Chair Tom Perez have been crossingthe country this week as part of the “Come Together and Fight Back” tour,with Sanders soaking up most of the cheers and Perez hopingsome of that energy and enthusiasm rubs off on Democrats who decided they preferred the independent from Vermont to the DNC’s choice […]

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‘You lose, again’: Shannon Watts’ attempt to lecture NRA about #Oscars security backfires

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Last night’s Academy Awards, like many before it, was protected by heavily armed security. The NRA spotted some irony given the fact that many in attendance are among those who believe that guns don’t make people safer: Shannon Watts of the Michael Bloomberg-funded Moms Demand Action group tried to school the NRA: And the point […]

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