Episode 21- Zucker Punch

Don’t forget to follow plunge_podcast on Twitter, rate and review the show on iTunes, and send it to your friends, colleagues, family members, enemies, prominent politicians, studio executives, anyone who could benefit from having our dank insights broadcasted directly to their favorite device. 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/