Each of the Maffick Media-run Facebook pages — Soapbox, Waste-Ed, Backthen and In The Now — includes a disclaimer about Maffick's ties to RT. "'Soapbox' is a political opinion brand of Maffick, which is owned and operated by Anissa Naouai and Ruptly GmbH, a subsidiary of RT," the Soapbox "about" section read as of Monday afternoon.
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Someone get him a soapbox and a megaphone already. Yeesh!
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I need to climb up on my soapbox for this.
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Twitter became my soapbox, and tweets became screams for attention.
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Reining in the giants requires the scalpel, not the soapbox.
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So she again turned to the universal soapbox of Facebook.
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This is their soapbox, and they're speechifying with their seams.
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Vidyard and Wistia's Soapbox are already pushing into the space.
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" Mr. Comey struck back on the president's preferred digital soapbox. "Mr.
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Bullock delivers his stump speech at the Iowa State Fair Political Soapbox.
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Because its platform apparently gets more engagement by giving trolls a soapbox.
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I'm not going to be on my soapbox any more than that.
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From his congressional soapbox, Jordan has proclaimed that the allegations are false.
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This is done without getting on a soapbox or offending the host.
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I'm going to jump up on a soapbox here for a second.
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"We're not on a soapbox saying who's right and who's wrong," insists Ferrera.
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One of its primary advocates was not a soapbox socialist but a Republican.
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As a result, instead of a soapbox, it felt like an echo chamber.
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"This emphasizes the soapbox and echo chamber qualities of Twitter," says the artist.
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Before getting on the IRL or social media soapbox, do a few integrity checks.
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And then we climb up onto our soapbox and we make our voices heard.
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Conner's soapbox proposes that there is no gap, and art and life are connected.
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It's his sincerity, it seems to me, that makes the subway soapbox moments work.
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I don't think either Josh or I ever want to stand on a soapbox.
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Sociopaths relish having a soapbox so unsurprisingly these people find a wonderful home on Facebook.
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Instead a watermark for "Soapbox," an online media company, sits in the right-hand corner.
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Lily will keep getting on her soapbox, even when there's no one around to listen.
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Eight years ago Al Jazeera, the Qatari satellite television network, was the Arab spring's soapbox.
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He said that some writers have used Superman as a soapbox to lecture the audience.
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" Sandon Preston, a waiter, told the newspaper that Santormauro was just "looking for a soapbox.
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No serious spymaster would ever give the kind of soapbox performances Flynn gave in 2016.
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The poet speaks in unadorned verses like an orator with a soapbox under his feet.
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I'll get off my soapbox, or maybe you'll give me another opportunity to get on it.
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With his soapbox more firmly established, Esmail says it's time to take on the encryption debate.
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The rest of the crowded Democratic field will take the soapbox over the next few days.
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We just provide the world's over-13s with a soapbox to express their unvarnished selves, globally.
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As citizens, we get two chips—one for the ballot box, the other for the soapbox.
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Everyone needs a photo op on the state fair soapbox or next to the Butter Cow.
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"Sex is in everybody's relationships with everybody," Ms. Field said, hopping good-naturedly onto her soapbox.
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You don't need a giant soapbox to impact your friends, your neighbors, and your local community.
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If I lost them I'd still be on my soapbox but it would be pretty lonely.
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"We're just going to stand there at the soapbox for 20 minutes?" he asked his aides.
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Where was Kimmel's soapbox then when regular Americans either lost coverage or saw their premiums soar?
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What's not to love about an hour on a soapbox, fully revved up and feeling superior?
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When she preaches from her soapbox, I typically respond with a hallelujah-esque, I hear ya, sistah.
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His voice often extended beyond the comic panel, as well, notably in his monthly "Stan's Soapbox" column.
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This is another thing going back to media, as I'm on my soapbox subsequent to the election.
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Shout in the streets, speak from a soapbox, ramble on the radio or trumpet on the television.
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We're wary about using Stranger Things, popular as it is, as some kind of soapbox or pulpit.
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"Yannick Bellon knows how to make her points without mounting a soapbox," Ms. Bunke wrote in 1980.
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I'm up on my soapbox now, but it's like muscles—if you don't use them, they atrophy.
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Barack Obama famously skipped the soapbox in 2007, opting to take his daughters on the bumper cars.
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"If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win," he added.
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I didn't feel like I needed to get on a soapbox or be real ideological about it.
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And she was not one to use her decisions as a soapbox even when they set precedents.
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"They are not crazy," he says, as if madness were the sole reason for withholding a soapbox.
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This isn't your place to soapbox or to just try to poke holes in the other side.
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I don't want to get soapbox-y, but I've always wanted to work on a show like this.
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I don't talk about this stuff because I'm here standing on a soapbox, trying to get agendas across.
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For example: during the three days we spent together, they don't shy away from stepping on the soapbox.
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But by playing that part, you actually can say more sometimes than by getting up on your soapbox.
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McBride was previously an account representative at Soapbox Consulting and Rockwell was previously a legislative correspondent to Sen.
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I'm not much of a soapbox sort of dude—maybe that's a self-confidence thing, I don't know.
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And stay off the soapbox if you don't know how to handle the responsibility of the soap box.
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At times Mr Coe delivers hammer-blows instead of his trademark satirical swipes, and soapbox speechifying instead of dialogue.
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Get even more details by watching the video, produced by Soapbox Films for Illumination Entertainment and Universal Pictures, above.
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Eventually, Tyrion gets Jaime to see his point of view (sans soapbox), and the two say their final goodbyes.
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Fairgoers listen to Bill Weld at the Des Moines Register Political Soapbox at the Iowa State Fair on Aug.
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" – to Tavis Smiley On letting the music speak for itself"I don't want to get up on a soapbox.
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My hope would be they do it fairly speedily, and that the prosecutors make decisions that minimize his soapbox.
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When Yeezy dropped his casting-call graphic on Twitter, his favorite soapbox these days, it kicked up a backlash.
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"The mayor used his time on the soapbox to misinform the public about our Medicaid reforms," Mr. Mujica said.
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And to some extent, it is a genuine setback that he doesn't use his soapbox in such a way.
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Do you miss having that soapbox in a year filled with as much fascinating news as 2016 has had?
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It would be hard for Mr Murdoch to make Sky into a right-wing soapbox, even if he wanted to.
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Kanye West once again hopped onto Twitter, his digital soapbox, to voice concerns about an issue close to his heart.
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The star of its commercial is a young girl who wins a soapbox derby racing against a bunch of boys.
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"People are driving their cars into the ground," Diallo told The Verge after climbing down from his soapbox of slush.
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Do these atypical circumstances give entertainers the green light to stand atop their soapbox to inform and mobilize their following?
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This gives Mahathir and the opposition a powerful soapbox from which to rain scathing blows against Najib and Barisan Nasional.
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It was a soapbox for policy debates—about prison privatization, solitary confinement, mental illness—but it was allergic to pedantry.
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Each year, the event pulls in more than 100 million views per minute, so it's the best type of soapbox.
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I imagine he'll lay low for the near future, but I hope he climbs back up on the soapbox eventually.
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It also hasn't been reluctant to use it as a soapbox where China's relationship with the United States is concerned.
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In all these cases, the president used his position and his Twitter soapbox to threaten political opponents, his critics argued.
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Many of my lectures and soapbox speeches aim at addressing this stigma by representing the many diverse faces of addiction.
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Loom will have to stay ahead of competitors like Vidyard's GoVideo and Wistia's Soapbox that have cropped up since its launch.
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In his latest column, Farhad Manjoo examined why the tech activism trend hasn't caught on at Twitter, President Trump's favorite soapbox.
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Social media platforms have since become the modern-day soapbox, providing new channels through which candidates and parties engage with voters.
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The Duggan-Tierneys may not have a soapbox as large as Mr. Howard's, but they have over 59,000 followers on Instagram.
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I've clambered onto this soapbox before, but we ought to be more appreciative of the food culture that is our own.
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Steve Bullock will be at the fair on Friday, speaking from the Political Soapbox (it's just a raised platform in the middle of one of the fair's thoroughfares; it's also the site of Mitt Romney's "corporations are people too" comment in 2012.) Every candidate will find a way onto that soapbox before the campaign is over.
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Instead we wanted to provide a few less-notorious examples of soapbox orators who've altered history in both big and small ways.
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Using the courtroom as a soapbox, Assange's defense would be rooted in the First Amendment's protection of the freedom of the press.
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Audi's "Daughter" In Audi's spot, a father ponders the gender inequalities her soapbox car-racing daughter might face as she grows up.
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What he craved more than anything was the spotlight, the nightly soapbox to let fly with his views about politics and culture.
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Paul Boswell, a research scientist in Minnesota, built his son a toy he could drive recently, except this is no soapbox car.
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Miracle in Lane 2: A boy in a wheelchair takes up soapbox racing with the help of his family and athletic brother.
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The First Amendment is quite plainly a restriction on the government, not a mandate to guarantee a soapbox or impose a muzzle.
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Le Pen did appear on various Quebec media outlets, using the soapbox to warn viewers about the "dangers" of Canada's immigration policies.
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His kitchen, where he was famous for holding free-flowing lunch and dinner gatherings, for which he often cooked, was his soapbox.
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CW: There's a whole — from what I can see — this is a fundamental sort of soapbox that the far-right gets on.
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Corporate leaders aren't given their power, prestige, responsibility and nine-figure pay packages to use the corner office as their personal soapbox.
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Yes, because he was the protagonist and because he was played by Tim Allen, he got the most time on the soapbox.
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Taylor Swift is back on election day soapbox, and this time she's got a new message -- start voting now ... if you can.
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For every bad idea, there's a crowdsourcing campaign with a soapbox and a big-ass megaphone, ready to make it even worse. Interested?
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The melodies Phillips strummed on his lyre-like instrument mellow the prophetic condemnations, like a soapbox preacher standing next to a carousel ride.
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The soapbox has been replaced by an advertising system — one that rewards our least dignified impulses and empowers anyone willing to embrace them.
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"Everyone wants to jump on a soapbox when law enforcement engages a person and a civilian ends up getting killed," he tells PEOPLE.
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It also allowed him to spend less on political advertising, while giving him a larger soapbox to express his views to his supporters.
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For every baby picture posted and every soapbox rant you see on Facebook, the social platform is raking the dough in, big time.
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Patriots' Soapbox, a YouTube channel created by a 4chan moderator who helped launch Qanon to prominence, also claims to have contributed a chapter.
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The soapbox is a generous gift from Sierra to Gates, but there's a better one: The former Chief is actually in Open Season.
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The United Nations has for too long been a soapbox for Western nations, and right now is the opportunity to diversify its voice.
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Dean is a sinewy, energy-efficient man with a long, narrow face, deep-set eyes and an earnest, soapbox-derby sort of enthusiasm.
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On my soapbox: Millions of homes get their water through pipes made of toxic lead that can leach out and poison our families.
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Finally, Leno climbs intense inclines in a top secret prototype and competes against race car driver Bryce Menzies in a wacky soapbox race.
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"Are you using City Hall as merely a soapbox for a run for the 2020 national Democratic ticket?" she asked in a statement.
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In some places, Haley urges him to pull back on the soapbox pronouncements or to tone down the fierce denunciations of white people.
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Legend and Common didn't get on a soapbox; they used music and art to make their point, which is what art is all about.
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Mike only balks when the soapbox speaker rails against Masons (Mike himself is one), but he is quickly talked down by the Hungarian refugee.
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Ilhan Omar Klein, who previously refused to apologize for using the term "filthy arab," also spent his moments on the soapbox railing against Omar.
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But in 2018, YouTuber culture feels more like a soapbox for people who think they have way more to say than they actually do.
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"I'd like to punch him in the face," Trump said of a rally protester in February 2016 from his soapbox during the presidential campaign.
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Instead, strap on a camera or a notebook and break some meaningful news that illuminates what is wrong without tainting it with the soapbox.
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Her husband, a circuit preacher, used to set up a soapbox on the stairs of the county courthouse and preach about the end times.
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After discovering a love of engineering by building soapbox derby racing cars as kids, the brothers have launched a few different companies in Atlanta.
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Those who develop a big following on Twitter typically have some level of offline fame, or an online soapbox like writing for a news publication.
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Tony Wyche is president of Soapbox, a public relations and political consulting company based in Missouri that still lists McCaskill as its top political client .
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On screen, in the forum, on the soapbox: Meryl Streep's speech simply shone light on a small, recent mutation in the ancient genome of speechifying.
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Wilson shies away from any sort of grand statement about her role in the music industry, preferring not to be on a soapbox of sorts.
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But threat intelligence firm Flashpoint tells Codebook there is little credible chatter from activists looking to use the Russian games as a soapbox this year.
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This sensitive and judicious book "is neither an outraged sermon delivered from a populist soapbox nor a pinched, professorial lecture," our critic Jennifer Szalai writes.
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By the way, speaking of 17-Across … [Climbs up on ramshackle but still sturdy soapbox] Please be sure your voter registration is up-to-date.
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They allow a person with an Internet connection to 'become a town crier with a voice that resonates farther than it could from any soapbox.
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It didn't help that his soapbox speech took place during the rainiest part of the day as a small crowd huddled under ponchos to watch him.
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At one point, he met the activist liberal billionaire Tom Steyer, who is running for president as a Democrat and spoke at the soapbox after him.
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Bill Weld, who is running against President Donald Trump in the GOP primary, will have his turn atop the soapbox at the state fair on Sunday.
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Leading a major committee comes with enormous clout: agenda-setting power, the ear of the speaker and majority leader and a soapbox for the national press.
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So there is that, but also, people telling me and other brown people how to feel about this by getting on a soapbox on social media.
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Like so many social media platforms, it provides a soapbox for people to air half-baked opinions that no one asked to hear in the first place.
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A notorious daredevil among his millionaire set, he once did 92 mph at Daytona in a machine that had the structural integrity of a soapbox derby car.
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The piece is Creed's largest public sculpture to date, a colossal neon soapbox for a message of compassion that is at once explicit and open to interpretation.
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The commercial depicts a girl racing against boys in a soapbox derby while the voiceover makes an uncomplicated case that men and women should be valued equally.
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Toronto is already home to a number of successful venture-backed businesses, such as Shopify, KIK, FreshBooks, 500px, Assurex Health, Influitive, Wattpad, SoapBox, Figure 1 and Vidyard.
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Practically speaking, this hearing could end up being largely a soapbox for Blackburn, Hardaway, and Richardson, all of whom have complained of being censored by social networks.
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Cover: Democratic presidential candidate and businessman Tom Steyer waits to speak at the Des Moines Register Soapbox during a visit to the Iowa State Fair, Sunday, Aug.
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Tom Steyer, who announced his presidential bid one month ago today, makes his Iowa debut as a candidate atop the Des Moines Register Soapbox at the fair.
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He skipped the soapbox and arrived in a $7 million helicopter, later offering rides to children and unnerving Hillary Clinton's aides by circling low over the fair.
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But whenever it seems like he's leaning too heavily on the soapbox moralizing, he lightens the mood with a hilariously weird turn of phrase or oddball cultural reference.
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The whole thing looked potentially like a soapbox for vloggers Lynnette "Diamond" Hardaway and Rochelle "Silk" Richardson, who were invited to the hearing alongside a few policy experts.
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People live better with a metaphor than they do when someone is standing on a soapbox, so we started to realize we could get away with basically anything.
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Plame Wilson petitioned other Twitter users to help her buy a controlling share of the social media company to remove the president from his favorite social network soapbox.
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This avian quality is particularly exciting to me because it validates one of my most time-honored soapbox rants, to which I've subjected many unwitting friends and readers.
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On Tuesday, Carlos Monje, a representative from Twitter, the president's preferred digital soapbox, said the platform worked hard to "create a safe environment" for people 13 and older.
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She was not one to use her decisions as a soapbox to make high-sounding political points or to wax poetic, even when her rulings were precedent-setting.
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Cover: Democratic presidential candidate New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks at the Des Moines Register Soapbox during a visit to the Iowa State Fair, Sunday, Aug.
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Public spectacle came in with the next generation, who "took it to the streets," with street corner soapbox speakers and parades, which appalled more conservative members of the movement.
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Throughout the weekend, some 20 candidates will also take turns appearing at the Iowa State Fair, ascending the infamous "soapbox" to deliver their pitch to voters and take questions.
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Besides, Biden spent most of his time at the fair with the reporters who swarmed him before and after his half hour at the Des Moines Register Political Soapbox.
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In fact, I dare you to try and find the one character who didn't step back and end a scene atop a soapbox mouthing a monologue about contemporary history.
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"I have no interest in, like, getting on a soapbox and making decisions about what should make other women feel beautiful or feel healthy or feel strong," said Dunham.
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Stan Lee wrote short editorial pieces that would appear in Marvel Comics called Stan's Soapbox in which he condemns racism and xenophobia and paints himself as a great ally.
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Instead, people took to the president's favorite social media soapbox -- Twitter -- to attempt to define "local milk people" by meme-ifying it in the way the internet knows how.
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As soon as it feels like someone is giving you talking points or like a manifesto on a soapbox, I think it loses a little bit of the luster.
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Walking past them, you might reasonably worry that you're about to be harangued, dourly, from the stage, where Ms. Oh stands on a soapbox as the crowd filters in.
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On the Soapbox schedule, Bullock's name is listed along with two dozen other local and national candidates, each with a word under their name to signal which office they're chasing.
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That's why, in his Soapbox speech, he makes his most reliable joke: "A lot of people show up here and try to make some attenuated connection to Iowa," he says.
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From time to time, there may be a moment on the show that deals with current politics, but it doesn't feel like a soapbox for any particular point of view.
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Twitter has primarily been her soapbox, from which she has rallied women and men to take a stand against Weinstein and anyone who has sexually assaulted, abused, and harassed people.
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A number of prominent executives from top tech companies have also begun to use their soapbox to address — and largely admonish — the policies that have led to this humanitarian crisis.
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It was atop the soapbox that Mitt Romney made his famous comment that corporations are people (my friend) in 2012 -- something that dogged him for the rest of the campaign.
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Maffick runs three Facebook pages, Soapbox, which focuses on current affairs, Waste-Ed, an environmental channel, and Backthen, a history channel whose focus includes what it views as western imperialism.
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The red carpet is now a prime soapbox to speak out about harassment, sexism, racism, industry practices — as well as Hollywood success — and we want to continue to cover that.
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It's easy—but problematic—to get on your soapbox and say, "just do what's right" when you've got nothing to lose personally, and that's what this episode demonstrates so well.
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Cooper and Dinerman also found that the students saw the man on the soapbox as a "lamebrain," someone whom smart Americans knew to be a fraud and not worth their time.
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Each White House hopeful gets 20 minutes on the soapbox to speak and take questions, and all take a stroll through the fairgrounds to prove their person-of-the-people bonafides.
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She has no problem getting in arguments at school, or online in the comments of a Facebook post; she's developed a bit of a social reputation for standing on her soapbox.
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Legendary sportscaster Brent Musburger said Thursday that former ESPN anchor and current GQ political commentator Keith Olbermann needs to get off "that soapbox of his" and stick to talking sports instead.
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" Diaz worked with the husband and wife team of Coleman Rogers and Christina Urso, who created "the Patriots' Soapbox, a round-the-clock livestreamed YouTube channel for QAnon study and discussion.
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The company operates three pages on Facebook: Soapbox, which discusses current affairs, the environmental channel Waste-Ed and Backthen, a history channel that often discusses what it describes as western imperialism.
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He also spent time at the Iowa State Fair, where he delivered remarks at the Des Moines Register Soapbox and later attended a town hall with the Asian and Latino coalition.
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Stan's Soapbox allowed Stan Lee to show you what a great guy he was similarly to how The Apprentice allowed Donald Trump to present himself as a great businessman and leader.
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Well, yes, but here on the ground (as opposed to up on the soapbox), the way to do that is not to draw attention to why — or what — one is refusing.
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Her sensitive and judicious new book, "Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America," is neither an outraged sermon delivered from a populist soapbox nor a pinched, professorial lecture.
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When he arrived at the fair 20 minutes early and his staff was trying to move him toward the soapbox, the former vice president glanced at his watch and looked perplexed.
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Over on Twitter, meanwhile — Trump's go-to social media soapbox for skewering opponents and deflecting criticism, via his preferred medium of the early morning attack tweet — the president has ~65.6M followers.
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They watch "Patriots' Soapbox," a YouTube call-in show devoted to coverage of QAnon, and other niche media projects that have popped up to fill the demand for Q-related content.
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Schultz has often turned these yearly gatherings of shareholders into — among other things — a soapbox for his lofty moralizing on issues of the day like same-sex marriage, race and wealth distribution.
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I can get on my soapbox and use it to get attention and the fact that I've become someone somewhat recognizable in America; it allows me to draw attention to this disease.
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Then everything we worked for for years and years and years is going to be taken away from us ... So I think, if you have a soapbox, stand on it, and scream.
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Trump is that uncle, except instead of an annual opportunity for a Thanksgiving tirade, he has the biggest soapbox on the planet and the power to put his abhorrent views into action.
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Instead, SoapBox Labs has created its own unique children's speech dataset (consisting of thousands of hours of children's speech data), and combined this with the team's understanding of children's voice and behaviours.
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He was an activist who, in the wake of his parents' deaths in the Holocaust, began using his soap's label as a, well, soapbox for proselytizing his "All-One!" thoughts and ideas.
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And they all spent 43 minutes standing between hay bales on the Des Moines Register's Political Soapbox to deliver their stump speeches and field questions from the crowds that gathered around them.
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The soapbox has been pulled out, step on up and voice your thoughts, concerns, gripes, major complaints or anything other that you feel you just have to get out of your system.
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My Twitter feed during his victory speech in New Hampshire lit up with people saying that they felt like they were listening to someone railing from a soapbox on Delancey Street in 1928.
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Two years and a little over a million Instagram followers later, not much has changed from our POV — and he's still using his growing digital soapbox to propel his love of colorful experimentation.
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Some saw Audi's ad as anti-male, but the truth is, the commercial, which features a group of kids participating in a soapbox derby, illustrates that men and women should be valued equally.
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According to CNN, the pages included Soapbox, a current-affairs page, the environmental channel Waste-Ed, and historical channel Backthen—collectively having over 30 million video views in a short period of time.
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But there is little argument expected on one crucial point: the next radical effort to overhaul health care in America will be coming to a soapbox near you from the left -- and soon.
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Art Bell, an apostle of the paranormal whose disembodied voice drew millions to his late-night radio soapbox beamed from the Mojave Desert, died on April 13 at his home in Pahrump, Nev.
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Three months ago, Democratic Party leaders took a stand: Fox News, President Trump's favorite channel, and a reliable soapbox for attacks on liberals, was barred from participating in the party's 2020 presidential debates.
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" And we're not giving you a soapbox, so you don't get to have a quote in here, this is "I'm going to go make my work, you're going to like it or not.
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Yeah. We did an election video in 2016 to lend our voices in the best way we knew how, which was through this show, instead of tweeting or standing on a soapbox or whatever.
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"A story without a message, however subliminal, is like a man without a soul," Lee wrote in a 1970 edition of "Stan's Soapbox," the column he awarded himself that ran in every Marvel book.
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His answers had a hortatory, soapbox quality, as if he were still trying to be heard over waterfalls, or not quite comfortable in the give-and-take of a televised interview conducted via satellite.
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"It's just sort of in the water, it's just understood that none of these artists are trying to use this as a soapbox," Mr. Albert said of the songs he writes for other musicians.
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I returned to the 7,300-capacity gym in a (slightly) better outfit, and found that it still served its purpose as a rowdy meeting place and local soapbox, just on a much larger scale.
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With more than 1 million attendees every year - and the impossible-to-miss Des Moines Register's Political Soapbox, this Iowa mainstay is a must-visit stop on the trail for candidates of all political stripes.
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Lee, who died at 95, condemned racism and bigotry in Stan's Soapbox — his monthly column for Marvel Comics — in a 1968 column — the same year Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated.
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He's not the first candidate to stand on a soapbox shouting about getting the money out of politics, but something about his candidacy has caught on in a way that, say, Howard Dean's never did.
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Irish startup SoapBox Labs is on a mission to create what it calls "the world's most accurate and accessible speech technology for children", tech it plans to offer to third-party hardware and app developers.
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While the fair gives candidates a chance to push their message at the soapbox, their visits are most important as a way for voters to test their relatability, veteran Republican Iowa strategist Dave Kochel said.
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Sansone began her commitment to social activism as an 8-year-old: Her father placed her atop a soapbox in Manhattan's Union Square as he addressed potential recruits to the Industrial Workers of the World.
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As part of his storied comics career, Lee spent almost four decades writing regular installments of "Stan's Soapbox" on the backs of comics, in which he frequently fought for his heroes' values of tolerance and equality.
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So we came out with Midas, based on this 2,700-year-old recipe that gave us a soapbox to say that long before the Reinheitsgebot people were brewing with things like grapes and honey and saffron.
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"It seems like every not-so-carefully-worded public misstep must be punished to the fullest extent, replete with soapbox lectures and demands for apologies," Dan Crenshaw, a Republican congressman-elect, writes in The Washington Post.
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Added to the mix is a heightened political climate in which issues of race and identity are front and center, raising the question of whether the music industry will use this year's Grammys as a soapbox.
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"I am a private citizen and I have a right to believe in my own political point of view, but I try not to get up on a soapbox and tell people how to think," he said.
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"People recognize the need to move forward and have conversations about how to make a bill better, but to do so less from a soapbox and more from a position of working together and collaboration," Gardner said.
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For Republicans like Mr. Madden, the former Romney adviser, Mr. Trump's recent behavior is confirming suspicion that the candidate sees the campaign for the highest office in the country as an advertising soapbox for the Trump brand.
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In a call, Scanlon explained that when she and the SoapBox Labs team began working on this problem in 2013, they had to disregard a lot of what they already understood about how to build speech technology.
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This has seen SoapBox Labs release a version of its English language children's speech recognition API for use by third parties, whilst I'm told a number of partnerships are to be announced as early as next month.
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Of course, the irony isn't lost that Maloney's soapbox includes no tolerance for intolerance from employees who didn't vote the same way he did, as evidenced by his quoting of Hillary Clinton at the end of his memo.
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The first to climb the soapbox is Chief Byrnes, who is livid after learning that his dogsbody Captain Connor — excuse me, ex-Captain Connor — murdered Willem Van Bergen, the filthy-rich predator he had been assigned to protect.
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Starting with his turn atop the Political Soapbox on Tuesday, South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who received a very positive reception at the Wing Ding Dinner, will be on his own three-day tour of the state.
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"Now that word of mouth and social are playing such a large role, and more and more consumers have figured out how to use social, they can get on their soapbox," said Allen Adamson, a brand strategy consultant.
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Michael Avenatti, Stormy Daniels's lawyer, said he was considering a presidential bid as he wandered the fairgrounds with a CNN crew; John Delaney, a Democrat who declared his candidacy last year, stumped from the Des Moines Register's soapbox.
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The situation in the Wyrd forums reached a boiling point in July 2015 when Malifaux's co-creator, Nathan Caroland, created a "Soapbox Thread" to discuss the new characters and other issues that had created conflict in the community.
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Over the course of the film, we watch Pic transform from pockmarked underling in a cavernous underworld into a deceitful caped soapbox-shouter (think Milo Yiannopoulos in gold and blue silks) whose only interest is lying to his followers.
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When Pinterest finally went public, Silbermann did not include a founder's letter in the S-1 filing, a soapbox many new tech titans use to sing the praises of how their firm is changing the world for the better.
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The concern, shared by many Austrians, is that the fraternities' deep roots in the party run the risk of mainstreaming the radical right into national life, giving extremists a powerful soapbox to address their politics to a broader audience.
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Despite the cautionary tale of Western Europe's tragic experiences with terrorists who have exploited the refugee vetting process, the usual suspects here in the U.S. are on their soapbox bemoaning President Trump's move as a "betrayal" of our values.
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WALK past the north-east corner of Hyde Park, a short stroll from The Economist's offices in west London, and you might see someone standing on a soapbox, pink in the face, making an impassioned speech to the world at large.
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The producers also highlight Nancy Grace's histrionics during the story, which included using her TV soapbox -- then with Court TV -- to serve as a de facto prosecutor, judge and jury -- a role she played in a number of similar situations.
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The push towards discount health plans that don't cover basic health services can't reasonably be called freedom in health care any more than a push towards licensing soapbox cars for use on the expressway could be called freedom to commute.
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While celebrities have always used Facebook as a soapbox to push the brands that sponsor them, the company's rules had technically banned profiles from such practices in an attempt to curb aggressive marketing and keep ads within its own sales arm.
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But Trump, despite initially saying he might quit Twitter altogether after assuming the presidency, has instead shown every sign of using the platform as his unofficial microphone, his direct access to the public and a kind of ongoing press soapbox.
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I feel I've got to a point in my life where I'm a bit older and I'm a bit more experienced in the world, and I'm not really afraid to get on my soapbox and state how I feel about things.
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As Mercury enters your communication sector on Thursday, you come up with some schemes to organize all of the seemingly discordant information into a beautiful masterpiece that can be synthesized and eventually shared from your soapbox as something powerful and special.
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Patron saint of flannel shirts and craft beer, Father John Misty has stepped up on the post-Presidential election soapbox via a new song called "Holy Hell" shared via Soundcloud, and, yeah, the title pretty much sums up his views.
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These are not action comics, despite Valley's many visual references to early superhero culture; his characters are more aesthetically aligned with R. Crumb's psychedelia and MTV's Oddities, using the sequential-frame soapbox to deliver scathing monologues, like politically energized sock puppets.
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I will now descend from my soapbox with the disclaimer that obviously not all people on social media who like the royal family, especially Meghan and/or Kate, are like this — but there are certainly a lot of people who are.
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Mr. Attenborough has never been one to hector; he has said that he hopes his many fine nature programs have helped people appreciate the variety and fragility of the natural world, but he has eschewed the soapbox in favor of subtlety.
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"We're not on a soapbox saying who's right and who's wrong" By the end of its first season, Superstore had already taken on several Big Issues within the context of the workers' lives, including teen pregnancy, racial stereotypes, and, in the finale, unions.
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Careful to not shout too loudly from our artisan soapbox, we still cared enough to make the point when people would come in and look at items we were selling and then say aloud, Let's see if we can find something similar online.
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There are one or two soapbox moments, including a self-justifying speech by the principal villain, that could have been left out, but to say as much is really just to note how tight and coherent the movie otherwise succeeds in being.
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Ryan, an Ohio Democrat who unsuccessfully challenged Pelosi as leader, has spent the aftermath of 2016 on a soapbox talking about what Democrats need to do to win back the white, working-class voters that make up a large portion of this district.
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"There are few workplaces in the world as diverse as the kitchens and dining rooms of many of these restaurants," Kostow, who is white, wrote in the caption, paired with a photo of a man wearing Tevas and standing atop a literal soapbox.
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On the one hand, it's terrific to have an unobstructed view of the road – it's as pure as driving experience as rolling down the track in the soapbox derby car of your youth, and it leaves you feeling connected to the road itself.
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We launched our social program a few years ago, and really that was because we were in such a nascent industry that there was no certification: anybody could get on a soapbox and say they were a social media expert or guru.
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Seen from this angle, Serrano's well-intentioned exhibition is a bully pulpit for the disaffected one percent, a soapbox of privilege for the elite New Yorkers who may have antagonized Trump toward the president, flattering him with business deals and televised syndication.
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That sort of reaction is what Bullock's attempting to re-create the next day at the Soapbox, an Iowa Fair tradition where local and national candidates deliver the best version of their stump speech to a modest crowd on the side of the thoroughfare.
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The results are visible in videos embedded in the scholarly article: Wheelchair-bound participants, with wires affixed to their skull via a soapbox-sized metal device, use their minds to type answers questions, copy phrases, and complete visual video-game-like tasks on nearby screens.
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Anyone who associates the band with uplift will find the new Everything Now, out since July, an enervating thing: a sniveling black hole of negativity, littered with ostensible protest songs aiming to critique societal problems from a soapbox ten million miles above their fanbase.
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The conversation remained polite, but Garland said that ever since she posted in the soapbox thread, she'd been the target of ongoing harassment by fellow Malifaux players — which included a death threat sent anonymously through Tumblr but signed as though it came from Caroland.
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And, certainly, we have seen enough leaders come to power in the rubble of their country (and then confused a spot on a soapbox with constitutional compliance) to blindly credit a man elevated to power with little more mandate than approval from the crowds in Caracas.
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The researchers attribute it to the fact that while Don't Be a Sucker takes pains to show the extent of the Nazis' cruelty, it only shows one parallel to 1947 America: a man on a soapbox in a square, ranting about foreigners and "negroes" to a skeptical crowd.
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There's a great photo of her in which she is standing on a soapbox in the snow in front of the Supreme Court, wearing a miniskirt and knee-high boots as she addresses a crowd during the 2014 arguments over the mandate for contraception in the Affordable Care Act.
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If it can happen to me, the son of the president, with millions of followers on social media, just think about how bad it must be for conservatives with smaller followings and those who don't have the soapbox or media reach to push back when they're being targeted?
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In a column titled, "Stan's Soapbox"—a Bullpen Bulletin installment appearing monthly in Marvel Comics from 1965 to 2001—Lee lectured his readers, saying that while they may not all get along with each other and every person they meet, that didn't make it permissible to blindly hate a single person.
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Sanders waited until Monday night—weeks after forfeiting his presidential campaign soapbox, and weeks after it could have made a difference, anyway—to release the following statement on Brazil's slow-moving crisis of democracy: I am deeply concerned by the current effort to remove Brazil's democratically elected president, Dilma Rousseff.
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"People recognize the need to move forward and have conversations about how to make a bill better, but to do so less from a soapbox but more from a position of working together and collaboration," said Gardner, who signed a letter to McConnell in March criticizing the House bill's Medicaid provisions.
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At the Iowa State Fair on Thursday as Biden made his way to the soapbox to deliver his speech, he stopped to enfold a grieving grandmother from Carroll, Iowa, in a hug after reading on her T-shirt that she was trying to get her grandson out of foster care.
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Now, as vice chairman of the new Advisory Commission on Election Integrity announced by the White House on Thursday (Vice President Mike Pence is the titular chairman), Mr. Kobach has a far bigger soapbox for his views on voter fraud — which Republicans, including President Trump, call a cancer on democracy.
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There is a kind of silver-tongued orator who can persuade in any situation, who like Caesar's Mark Antony can find a crowd leaning one way and leave them stirred up for the opposite cause, who is legitimately dangerous when given a rostrum or a soapbox or a prime-time speech.
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The characters of Susie and Ros get totally shafted in 'Chilling Adventures of Sabrina' Using feminism as aesthetic rather than meaning, its declarative wokeness amounts to little more than nauseating soapbox Moments of Intersectional Feminism that are like a bad after-school special that only makes you want to do more drugs.
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Far from Apple's troubles in emerging markets and China, the company is attracting the ire of what should really be a core supporter demographic naturally aligned with the pro-privacy stance CEO Tim Cook has made into his public soapbox in recent years — but which is instead crying foul over perceived hypocrisy.
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The airless, lightless confines of these networks has a worrying tendency to amplify the most extreme content that takes root, namely that of racists, xenophobes, and conspiracists (which, ironically, includes anti-vaxxers.) There is no bigger audience, no soapbox that gets a better bang for the buck, whether you're Coca Cola or ISIS.
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Despite the vitriol that shows up in her replies, Heard is making the most of her digital soapbox — where she collectively has 22018 million followers across Instagram and Twitter — by drawing attention to causes about which she is passionate, including LGBTQ rights, aid for Syrian refugees, and the plight of migrants at the U.S. border.
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I've noticed though, in interviews with comedians, they tend to downplay that aspect of it – they'll say, "I was just trying to be funny" or "we just wanted to make people laugh," without acknowledging -Well, yeah, because they don't want to seem like they're on a soapbox, they don't want to seem polemical or whatever.
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Since then, he's recorded lots of Hackintosh-related content (along with theories as to what the long-promised Mac Pro reboot should look like), with one particular highlight coming a few months ago, when Chato used his soapbox to discuss the way that Hackintosh brings him joy—in part because of all the problem-solving and tweaking involved.
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He'll also have a soapbox in the Oval Office where he can tell an army of true believers who butt-chug his every lie and misdirection—while his Cabinet grows more cannibalistic and racist and adds billions to its net worth—about how great a fight between a 49-0 veteran and a 0-0 novice will be.
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It's a bit of a mixed blessing in terms of a vehicle interface: On the one hand, it's terrific to have an unobstructed view of the road – it's as pure as driving experience as rolling down the track in the soapbox derby car of your youth, and it really leaves you feeling connected to the road itself.
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They stopped by all the usual haunts: a speech at the soapbox, voting in a presidential "poll" by placing a corn kernel in a Mason jar, a visit to the Butter Cow (a 600-pound cow made of butter), flipping pork chops on a grill and engaging in every politician's least favorite pastime — eating on camera.
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They stopped by all the usual haunts: a speech at the soapbox, voting in a presidential "poll" by placing a corn kernel in a Mason jar, a visit to the Butter Cow (a 600-pound cow made of butter), flipping pork chops on a grill and engaging in every politician's least favorite pastime — eating on camera.
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Last Black Man is populated with minor characters who don't really figure into the plot — a real estate agent who grew up in San Francisco, an older couple who've been there a long time, a preacher who stands on a literal soapbox and rails against the changes, Jimmie's mostly estranged parents — and the film treats all of them with affection, even love.
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During a gaggle after his speech at the Des Moines Register Political Soapbox, a reporter asked what he planned to eat at the fair; I expected Weld to mention Iowa State Fair staples like pork chops on a stick or corn dogs, but instead he said that he generally wanted to eat "something fried," and asked if the fair had fried dough.
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While Jones has the right to shout whatever he wants from a soapbox in free speech alley (or a back alley, or into a tin can) — and while he can't be prosecuted for anything that he says (no matter how offensive, absurd or insane) — he doesn't have the right to have his opinions automatically amplified by every social media platform.
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"The Ones Who Stay and Fight," which she describes as "pastiche of and reaction to [Ursula] Le Guin's 'The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas,'" takes an already preachy story as its springboard — let no one pretend that the genre isn't soapbox-prone — to argue with both the past master and the rabble of reactionaries who have harried efforts to diversify science fiction.
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President-elect Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE's tweet in support of L.L. Bean is far from the first time he's used his virtual soapbox to promote a specific company.
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Among the likely reasons for the decline: Black viewers, upset about a second straight year of all-white acting nominees, may have tuned their TVs elsewhere; Mr. Rock has lately been relatively absent from big and small screens; many of the nominated films were not widely seen by mainstream audiences; and soapbox moments to espouse causes — and there were plenty on Sunday — have historically turned off viewers.
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In 2004, she staged a soapbox-speech performance in Havana's Revolution Square to challenge stringent censorship laws; several years ago, she founded the Queens-based initiative Immigrant Movement International to empower undocumented families; and this summer, she designed a bright-blue flag that reimagines the planet as a sort of united, Pangea-like land mass to draw attention to the mutability of our borders.
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"I don't care if you are a gun owner or not, we can unite as Americans and say it is outrageous that we now still live in a country where someone who wants to do harm, who seeks to do terrorist acts can go on the internet or to a gun show and buy a weapon," Booker said Saturday at the "political soapbox" event sponsored by the Des Moines Register.
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In June, British designers began to publicly declare their anti-"Brexit" stance using the London men's wear shows as their soapbox, with one designer, Daniel W. Fletcher, not only staging a sit-in outside the official show site but also dressing his protesters in "stay" hoodies and T-shirts, and the Sibling designers Sid Bryan and Cozette McCreery likewise donning slogan tees to take their post-collection bows.
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As his Twitter feed and the many entries in the Soapbox blog section of his website illustrate, his America is the same one my 79-year-old grandfather grew up in and still holds close to his barrel chest; one where "all lives matter," where every policeman is a hero, where the "safe spaces" set up by liberal colleges are an abomination, and where—most crucially—Hillary Clinton will destroy us all.
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Jay Inslee, governor of Washington John Hickenlooper, former governor of Colorado Michael Bloomberg, former mayor of New York Hillary Clinton, former senator and presidential candidate Eric Holder, former attorney general Sherrod Brown, senator from Ohio Jeff Merkley, senator from Oregon Beto O'Rourke, former congressman from Texas Joe Biden, former vice president Michael Bennet, senator from Colorado Steve Bullock, governor of Montana Stacey Abrams, former Georgia state represenatative ____________________ This is The Soapbox, a forum for you to share your thoughts with us and your fellow On Politics readers.
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Smerconish: One last point if I may Mr. Cosby, I did mean that would be my final question but now you've said something that provokes a thought on my part, when you speak of your desire to be out there and talking about change that's necessary on the home front and so forth, the way you just put it, it reminds me of that decision in this case, and again maybe perhaps counsel won't allow you to answer this, you're in the position that you're in today because a deposition that you gave a decade ago in a case that was settled came back to haunt you, and it came back to haunt you because a federal judge said I'm paraphrasing, if Bill Cosby is going to be out there on his soapbox, speaking about moral virtue, then it's fair for this deposition to be used against him.
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