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The best Maxine Waters moments of 2017

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2017 was the year Congresswoman Maxine Waters was elected president of All in With Chris Hayes.

From the moment she declared that the director of the FBI had "no legitimacy" and then death dropped in front of a gaggle of shellshocked reporters, 79-year-old Auntie Maxine has had our blood loyalty. Every floor she walked on in 2017, whether it was in the Capitol or at the MTV Movie Awards, became her stage and ultimately, a property in her empire.

More so than any other "deplorable" president with a Ziploc bag of fleas for a brain, Maxine Waters was the de facto leader of the free world/MSNBC in 2017.

SEE ALSO: Interview: Maxine Waters thinks millennials can change politics for everyone (yes, everyone)

Congresswoman Waters gave us so many viral gifts in 2017. Here are just a few of them.

1. The time she accused James Comey of having no credibility and then just walked on out

2. When she revealed that she was "never going to go" to Trump's Inauguration because, "I don't honor him, I don't respect him and I don't want to be involved with him."

3. The time she was asked what she would do once she was done impeaching Trump, and she replied: "Impeach Pence."

4. When she delivered MTV's first ever "Best Fight Against the System" award, did a plié, and got a standing ovation.

5. When she tweeted that it was time for our "racist throwback" Attorney General to go back "to the plantation"

Sessions doesn't remember what he said, when he said it, & where he was when he said it. Don't blame him. Time to go back to the plantation.
— Maxine Waters (@RepMaxineWaters) November 3, 2017(opens in a new tab)

6. Her "Bye, Felicia" moment

Tillerson's plans are backfiring. Russia sanctions still in place, State is in shambles, & he discovered his boss is a moron. Bye Felicia!
— Maxine Waters (@RepMaxineWaters) October 6, 2017(opens in a new tab)

7. When she busted out this stunner of jean jacket, rose pants ensemble at the Tax March

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8. When she started railing against Trump and told a room full of supporters, "We've got to stop his ass"

9. The moment she just said it:

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Maxine Waters on Trump: "I think he's the most deplorable person I've ever met in my life" https://t.co/25utCvqtAh(opens in a new tab) pic.twitter.com/pLADTiE9l1(opens in a new tab)
— The Hill (@thehill) August 4, 2017(opens in a new tab)

10. And the tweet that did it too:

Trump asked what Blacks had to lose. It was apparently healthcare, housing, college admission, & freedom after Sessions locks everyone up
— Maxine Waters (@RepMaxineWaters) August 2, 2017(opens in a new tab)

11. That day Bill O'Reilly tried to humiliate Auntie Maxine and just ... lol, sorry bro. She can't be intimidated.

12. When she "reclaimed her time" from Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin

13. So the internet did too

14. And the Women's March made "Reclaiming my time" the theme of a whole convention

Credit: rachel woolf/The Washington Post/Getty Images

15. When Congresswoman Maxine Waters finally passed on her torch to the generation that needs it the most.

These kids dressed up as Maxine Waters for Halloween to #ReclaimTheirCandy(opens in a new tab)https://t.co/BbSP1haf5c(opens in a new tab) pic.twitter.com/8jI1fHSw6W(opens in a new tab)
— Mashable (@mashable) October 31, 2017(opens in a new tab)

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"Think about muscle fatigue — if you work out too hard, your muscles might simply give out. In the same way, compassion fatigue means your ability to offer compassion to others is dramatically impacted."
- Kelli Collins

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Lynne Hughes, who founded Comfort Zone in 1999 and is now serves as CEO(Opens in a new tab), lost both her parents as a child, experiencing first-hand the lack of resources and support for grieving children. Hughes expresses similar sentiments about the challenge of compassion fatigue, stressing the importance of looking inward.
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"Suffering from compassion fatigue does not mean you’re bad at helping or caring, it only means the scale between caring for others and caring for yourself is no longer balanced."
- Lynne Hughes

But both Hughes and Collins emphasize that it's not only traditional caregivers who experience compassion fatigue. "It is applicable to anyone in a caring role," says Hughes, while Collins believes it is a uniquely human condition, occupational or not.
"When you see someone on the street who lacks basic resources, when you get an alert that your local animal shelter has become overcrowded, when you read a news article about war and suffering in another country, you feel the pain of others, and whether you mean to or not, whether you can help or not, you have the strong desire to act."
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Our capacity for empathy means the probability of experiencing some sort of compassion fatigue — even from absorbing the daily news cycle(Opens in a new tab) — is high for many. A constant barrage of ominous headlines and doomscrolling has contributed to this effect. Feelings of anxiety and uncertainty at the state of the world, such as attacks on reproductive rights, racial justice, and the effects of climate change are real concerns for anyone consuming media or simply existing today, highlighting the importance of recognizing compassion fatigue for what it is — and knowing how to find support. And while some may choose to channel their concern into empowerment and activism, it's crucial support your own wellbeing throughout the process to avoid exacerbating compassion fatigue.
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Battling compassion fatigue requires replenishing your own supply of compassion, as Collins says, as it's a "valuable resource," one that requires "accepting and honoring limits." The therapist recommends asking for help to personalise your experience and support strategy: turning to support groups and resources online, or requesting the support of a mental health professional.
Meanwhile, the act of setting personal and professional boundaries was overwhelmingly suggested by the caregivers and therapists we talked to, including Kessler, who deems this practice vital to preventing or recovering from compassion fatigue. "Take some time for yourself where you can find some quiet. Even if it's cutting back on sound of all kinds, allow yourself space to simply be," agrees Cook. Hughes suggests practicing routes of self-care: journaling, meditating, or adopting a non-related work hobby.
"It’s the same way the flight attendant tells us to put the oxygen mask on ourselves before assisting others during takeoff," Hughes says. "Put the oxygen mask on yourself first."
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Why we like it
The Ecovacs Deebot X1 Omni(Opens in a new tab) is an exorbitant purchase at $1,549 — one we couldn't justify with some of the annoying issues we came across when reviewing it. But at $550 off, its biggest discount to date, we might just consider it. Reviewer Leah Stodart liked a handful of features: it's quieter than most robot vacuums, the auto-empty bags last months, it washes and dries its own mopping pads, it doesn't get stuck on furniture, and its built-in camera doubles as a pet cam. Just be warned: it's not as hands-off as you may think.
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Our pick: Ninja BL770AMZ Mega Kitchen System (opens in a new tab) (Opens in a new tab)
$119.99 at Amazon (save $80)
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Why we like it
While it's not quite its lowest price ever (that would be $99.99, which it hit during Black Friday season), snagging the Ninja Mega Kitchen System(Opens in a new tab) at $119.99 is still a great deal. You'll save 40% on a 1500-watt motor base, 72-ounce pitcher, eight-cup food processor bowl, 16-ounce Nutri Ninja Cup with a to-go lid, a stacked blade assembly, dough blade assembly, and chopping blade assembly, plus an inspiration guide for all the concoctions in your future.
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How to optimize your Instagram profile for search
How to optimize your Instagram profile for search
Trying to get your Instagram profile out there a little more? One thing you might want to think about doing is making it more search-friendly.
In other words, you want to edit your profile in ways that make it more likely to appear as a suggestion under the search bar.
There are a number of things you can do to make yourself more discoverable on Instagram. Whether you have a brand profile you're trying to promote or you just want to snag a few more followers, here are some tips on how to optimize your profile for search.
Put keywords in your display name and handle
One of the first things you should do, as the marketing platform Hubspot suggests(Opens in a new tab), is to think about the keywords you want your profile to market. Ask yourself, "What are people going to type into the search bar to find the things I'm marketing?" For example, if your profile is for a tattoo shop (or if you're an individual tattoo artist), you would want to have "tattoo" somewhere in both your display name and your "handle" (your username beginning with @).
When I type "tattoo shop" into the Instagram search bar, all of the top account results have "tattoo" in their display name, and most of them have "tattoo" (or some variation of it) somewhere in their handle. @livebytheswordtattoo(Opens in a new tab) appears as a high-ranking result partly because their account is optimized, but also, to be clear, because someone I follow also follows them, which may play a hand in which accounts appear in searches by networks of people.

The account results when I search "tattoo shop" on Instagram Credit: screenshot: instagram

Having keywords in the most important places on your Insta page is a useful first step in optimizing it for search.
Hashtag your posts
If you have any hope of somebody stumbling across your profile, you gotta (gotta gotta gotta) hashtag your posts. Hashtags are one of the primary ways Instagram gears its search results and allows people to follow and discover the things they're interested in.
Continuing with our tattoo example, if you're a shop or an artist trying to get your work out there, you'd want to hashtag your posts with #tattoo. Keep in mind, the broader the hashtag, the broader the audience searching for it will be — and therefore, the more search results you'll be competing with.
Broad hashtags are still good! You'll reach a huge audience that way. The problem is, you might get buried in other posts with the same hashtag, which is why we recommend using multiple hashtags of varying levels of specificity.
Let's say you have a tattoo of a flower you want to show off. Consider hashtagging your post with #tattoo (to reach a wide audience) and #flowertattoo (to reach a more specific audience).

The top results when I search "flower tattoo" on Instagram Credit: screenshot: instagram

When I search "flower tattoo" on Instagram, the first nine out of the 12 top results have #flowertattoo in their posts. The other three have flower emoji in their captions, which may hint at the role emoji play in driving up post interactions. We'll get to that in the next tip.
Captions
Your post captions are another key area where you can optimize your profile. In a 2019 study from the social analytics platform Quintly(Opens in a new tab) reported on by Social Media Today(Opens in a new tab), researchers looked at how things like caption length, hashtag usage, and even emoji usage affected post interactions among Instagram users big and small.
Length
The study found that for bigger profiles, with more than a million followers, posts with no captions received the highest engagement. For smaller profiles (between 1,000 and 10,000 followers), caption lengths between one and 50 characters saw the highest amount of interactions. So if you're a smaller profile, caption your posts, but keep it short and sweet. For even smaller accounts, with 1,000 followers or less, interactions were about even between small captions (between one and 50 characters) and large captions (300 or more characters).
Emoji usage
Now, let's talk emoji. The Quintly study found that whether your profile has over 10 million followers or less than 1,000 followers, captions with zero emoji tended to receive the least amount of interactions.
For small accounts, with less than 1,000 followers, captions using 10 emoji or more resulted in the highest number of interactions on average, although captions containing anywhere between one and 10 emoji were not far behind.
For larger accounts, with between 10,000 and 100,000 followers, captions with four to 10 emoji saw the highest average interactions, though emoji usage outside that range also saw a high level of interactions — except captions with zero emoji.
The takeaway? Whether you're a big or small profile, use emoji in your captions, dammit. And if you're a small account with less than a 1,000 followers, maybe go crazy and use 10 or more emoji?
Hashtag usage
When looking at hashtag usage, the study found that larger profiles tended to get their highest engagement when their posts included zero hashtags. Why? We don't know for sure. But we imagine that if you're Ariana Grande, you probably don't need to use hashtags to get high levels of engagement with your posts. If you're Ariana Grande and you have the specific goal of getting the highest Insta engagement you can, it's probably best to not use any hashtags.
We can also probably safely assume that most of you reading this are, in fact, not Ariana Grande. In that case, if you have less than 1,000 followers, use hashtags and use a lot of 'em. The study found that these smaller accounts saw their highest level of engagement when they used 10 or more hashtags in their posts.
The data does get a little peculiar in the mid-range-sized accounts. Accounts with between 10,000 and 100,000 followers also saw their highest level of engagement when using 10+ hashtags. However, small (but not the smallest) accounts, with between 1,000 and 10,000 followers, saw their highest engagement when they used a modest one to three hashtags. Accounts with 100,000 followers or more saw their highest engagement when using zero hashtags.
The best advice we can offer is to consider the size of your account and determine your hashtag usage based on that.
If you want to look at the full study in more detail, you can check it out here(Opens in a new tab)!
Use your bio
Don't leave it blank! Hubspot also suggests using "secondary keywords" in your bio(Opens in a new tab). Think about what else people will be searching for that goes along with what you're trying to market.
What else would people be searching that relates to tattoos? "Piercings," perhaps? "Shops" to schedule appointments at? Maybe including your city/region will help capture the audience closest to you! Let's look at @livebytheswordtattoo(Opens in a new tab) again.

@livebytheswordtattoo Instagram bio Credit: @livebytheswordtattoo via instagram

Looking at their bio, we can see that they include "tattoo," "piercing," and "shop," utilizing both primary and secondary keywords to help drive their search optimization.
They also include NYC in their display name, and they put both Williamsburg and Brooklyn in their bio. This, of course, tells users where they do their business, but it also outlines a broad area as well as a specific neighborhood where they're most likely to capture the audience they're after.
Post content! Then check your "likes" and "views"
The best way we learn is by practicing, right? So if you're unsure about what's working and what's not, how about some trial and error?
Post your content using different techniques. Play around with the length of your captions. Try adding another keyword to your profile. Use more emoji. Use less emoji. Use more hashtags. Use less hashtags. And then see what happens!
Which pictures get more likes and comments? Which videos get more views? What do your posts with the highest number of likes have in common?
We can learn a lot about what works by just giving it the ol' college try and seeing what happens next. It's kind of like running your own personal "study" to help you learn which things are optimizing your Instagram.
And, if you have a "creator" or "business" Instagram account, you can access "insights" to see more detailed info about your post interactions and metrics(Opens in a new tab).
You have a good set of tools to help you optimize your account and track the results. So get out there and build those profiles and get those interactions! We'll be here rooting for you.
USWNTs historic win has Twitter asking why theyre paid less than men
USWNTs historic win has Twitter asking why theyre paid less than men
The U.S. women's national team won 13-0 against Thailand in their first match in the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup on Tuesday. In light of their incredible victory -- it was a record win in both men's and women's World Cup history -- people want to know why they're paid so much less than the men's national team.
Player Alex Morgan alone managed to score a record five times during the match. To put the team's 13 goals into perspective, the U.S. men's national team scored 12 in their last three World Cup attempts combined.
So yeah, this is pretty freaking impressive.
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The USWNT actively wins more than the men's team, but they're still fighting for equal pay. In 2016, they were given raises after filing a complaint(Opens in a new tab) with the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission, but despite the collective bargaining, they still weren't paid as much as the men's team.
The complaint noted that the women's team generated almost $20 million more in revenue than the men's team did in 2015, but the women's team was paid(Opens in a new tab) a quarter of what the men's salary was.
The women's team escalated(Opens in a new tab) the fight for equal pay this year and sued the U.S. Soccer Federation — on International Women's Day, to really drive in the point — for "institutional gender discrimination." The Federation argued that the two teams are paid differently because they're "performing different work ... that require different obligations and responsibilities."
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Ticketmaster issues formal apology to Taylor Swift and her fans for Eras Tour fiasco
Ticketmaster issues formal apology to Taylor Swift and her fans for Eras Tour fiasco
Look what you made Ticketmaster do.
The ticketing service has released a statement addressing the bungled sale of tickets to Taylor Swift's Eras Tour saying, "we want to apologize to Taylor and all of her fans – especially those who had a terrible experience trying to purchase tickets."
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For those who haven't been following the chaos, here's a brief rundown. Ticketmaster canceled the general sale of tickets to Swift's first tour since 2018 this past Thursday after rescheduling the Capital One cardholder sale. On top of that, the service was unprepared to deal with the volume of fans trying to purchase tickets through the Verified Fan presale this past Monday. The Ticketmaster website crashed ahead of the Verified Fan presale and fans endured hours-long queues with some getting an error message when they finally reached the front of the line.
"We estimate about 15% of interactions across the site experienced issues, and that’s 15% too many, including passcode validation errors that caused fans to lose tickets they had carted," the press release reads.
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Ticketmaster blamed "unprecedented traffic" on the site due to bots and fans without presale codes for the issues with the site during the Verified Fan presale.
In their lengthy statement, Ticketmaster runs through the numbers that informed their approach to the Eras Tour. It reports that 3.5 million people registered for the Verified Fan presale — the largest registration in its history. Around 1.5 million fans received presale codes and 2 million tickets were sold during the Verified Fan presale breaking their record for the most tickets sold in a day.
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Yesterday, Swift broke her silence on the debacle in a statement on her Instagram story. The Midnights singer wrote, "we asked them, multiple times, if they could handle this kind of demand and we were assured they would."
Hopefully, the story of Swift and Ticketmaster might be ending soon.