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Russia started their anti-US campaign in 2014, LONG before I announced that I would run for President. The results of the election were not impacted. The Trump campaign did nothing wrong -- NO COLLUSION!!!! 🇺🇸👱🚫💕👱🇷🇺

The playboy who got away with $242m – using ‘black magic’

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You Up? College in the Age of Tinder

Frankly, dating apps can also just make things incredibly awkward. My freshman year I swiped through hundreds of people. At one of the last tailgates of the year, a random man walked by me and yelled: “Hey! We matched on Tinder! You are Tinder girl!”

I was mortified. Suddenly everyone around me knew that I was on Tinder. And I had swiped through so many people, I had no idea who this guy was. He was just another nameless “match” that I would never get to know. Because, needless to say, I walked away and never spoke to that guy again.

[...] The same Snap asking to “hang out” sent at 2 p.m. can have a completely different meaning when sent at 2 a.m.

[...] You don’t want to be mid-makeout while the jewel-encrusted crab from “Moana” is singing about how shiny he is.

Folks, this month is very special. Because I've proclaimed what I call National African American History Month.

Let me tell you, last February I toured our National Museum of African-American History and Culture. And they had a stone there. The slaves would stand on it. And get auctioned off. And I said to myself, "boy, that is just not good, that is not good.” They had little metal things, like handcuffs, that they put on the little slave children. And I said to myself, "that is really bad!" Sometimes handcuffs are fun. Trust me, it's not fun to put them on children. It's very sick, or bad.

So now I'm saying to all Americans, let's COME TOGETHER. 💕 As One Team, One People, One American Family! To celebrate the extraordinary contributions of African-Americans to our nation. Let's turn our thoughts to the heroes of the civil rights movement whose courage and sacrifice have inspired us all. Frederick Douglass, he's done an amazing job. Rev. King is being recognized more and more. We've got so many great people. Proclamation: 45.wh.gov/c9Gvt9 pic.twitter.com/Nx0AEKZy5p

Meet the Writer the New York Times Hired and Fired In Just Six Hours

After a Twitter Storm, The Times and a New Hire Part Ways

I’m a 29-Year-Old Pregnant Virgin

"This is me giving a middle finger to the people who told me I couldn’t do it because I’m not married yet."

Thoughts and prayers with the families of the 71 Saratov Airlines passengers & crew who died. ✈️💥 No survivors.⚰️⚰️⚰️

And with the survivors, and the families of the victims, of the firey helicopter crash in the Grand Canyon. 🚁🔥

Very sad for me personally. Since taking office I have been very strict on Commercial Aviation. So there were Zero deaths in 2017, the best and safest year on record. 2018, not so great. We must work much harder and get very, very tough on the airlines. Jimmy Carter, President Carter, was a DISASTER for our airlines! Our airlines have been in the shitter since he signed the Airline Deregulation Act.🚽 pic.twitter.com/y8vikN1akP

Today, I was greeted with this FS...

The House That Spied on Me

...which contained the following error...

Both are observable by the companies they report too to

...as I stared at this, I thought, "I should let them know"... then I realized there was no conveniently associated way to let anyone know without posting a message in the actual comments, a message that really didn't belong there, other than, well, that was the easiest thing to do.

So I suggest that at the end of each FS, there be a small link such as...

Tip the Editor(s)

...which, when clicked, would give you a form to report whatever it is that they missed, fouled up, or otherwise need to know. The form would provide the person who clicked with a copy of TFS to work with, and when submitted, the editors with the link to TFS automatically, a copy of the content, raw, ready for editing in another form field, and the remarks from the submitter.

The user of this link would copy the text, click the link, paste, make the appropriate remark(s), and submit. Easy.

I submit that it is better for the site in general if we all have the opportunity to improve it, and if that process is as painless as possible. Readers, and that includes new readers, that are not stabbed in the eye with obvious grammar, spelling and other errors, will both be more engaged with the actual story and less inclined to think poorly of the site.

Russians are mocking their space program after the SpaceX launch

Some dove head-first into Russia's rising inequality and the excessive wealth among the country's billionaire elite. One user noted the millions of dollars and years of effort Musk has plowed into pioneering space technology, and lamented the comparison with the kinds of things Russia’s notorious 96 billionaires tend to spend their own money on.

His example: Roman Abramovich, the Russian oil-and-metals magnate who spent some $233 million buying the U.K. soccer team Chelsea.

Abramovich, who’s worth $11 billion according to Forbes magazine, also splashed out some $400 million for the world's second-largest yacht in 2010, which he named Eclipse, ironically enough.

Others used the SpaceX craze to poke fun at Moscow’s standard tit-for-tat diplomatic approach to disputes with Washington, with one user photoshopping a mobile missile launcher flying through the cosmos as Russia’s “symmetrical response.”

How Elon Musk Beat Russia's Space Program

The Soviet Union tried something similar in the 1960s and early 1970s. Sergei Korolev, the rocket designer who launched the first satellite and the first man into space, began the development of what came to be known as the N-1, a 30-engine superheavy rocket capable of taking a 75-ton space station to orbit and perhaps to the Moon, Mars and Venus. Finished after Korolev’s death in 1966, the N-1 was test-launched four times. Each of the launches failed, largely because of the difficulty of running so many engines at the same time.

Now SpaceX has pulled off a similar task, and even though it’s not clear yet who will contract for the Falcon Heavy’s services, SpaceX founder Elon Musk now has the most capable missile in the world: It can deliver up to 64 tons into orbit. Russia’s plans to build such a rocket, capable of flying to the Moon or to Mars, aren’t even complete yet, and certainly not fully funded, though Igor Komarov, head of Roskosmos, the Russian space agency, has promised a first launch in 2028. Even China is likely to have a superheavy launch vehicle before Russia. But it’s the success of upstart Musk that smarts. Roskosmos has the full power of the state behind it, after all. And yet here’s this boyish-looking showman launching his roadster into space, David Bowie blasting from the car’s speakers and “Don’t Panic” -- a quote from Douglas Adams’ “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” -- lit up on the central console.