Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Reading archive 2017-08-29

Ted Cruz’s claim that two-thirds of the Hurricane Sandy bill ‘had nothing to do with Sandy’

A diverse (and glittering) crowd invades Wrigley for Lady Gaga - "at one point Gaga asked those who were a part of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community to make noise. A good portion of the crowd did. 'Well isn’t that a blessing,' she said."

Saturday, August 19, 2017

Reading archive 2017-08-19

Everything Is So Bad - "I don’t think Donald Trump really is a Nazi, in the same way and for the same basic reasons I don’t think he’s really a Confederate apologist, or a Republican, or a Russian operative, or anything. Honestly, even his white supremacism is a second-order thing, an artifact of the coincidence that he, himself, is white, and cannot tolerate less than personal supremacy. He likes the things in the world that gratify him, and those things happen to be good for preserving the power of white people, men in particular, literally any of whom he’d run over with a combine harvester in a moment if it got the New York Times to treat him like a True New York Big Shot."

Sarah Huckabee Sanders's Kid-Politics Is Cringeworthy - (ed. note: remember when people thought kids were being put through Obama brainwashing?)

Tina Fey ate cake on SNL and it became a whole thing

Inside the call where CEOs found their moral compass and steered away from Trump

This French mayor saw a truck plow through crowds in Nice. After Barcelona, he seeks to make European streets safer.

Think what you want about Steve Bannon, but he’s got a good point on China

The Trump administration’s most prominent Jews disgrace themselves

What Steve Bannon gets right about Democrats — and wrong about Trump: Bannon’s uncensored interview includes a plan for political success Trump can’t follow.

Dismantling Dixie: The Summer the Confederate Monuments Came Crashing Down

Why LeBron James and Kevin Durant Speaking Out Against Trump Matters: The two best players in the NBA using their platform for issues outside of sports shows the new mandate of the modern athletic superstar

Sunday, August 13, 2017

Reading archive 2017-08-13

UNR Student Talks After Marching in Charlottesville White Nationalist Rally

Hayes: Why Won't Trump Denounce White Supremacists? Why won't President Trump be as specifically and unequivocally critical of white supremacists as he is of the media?

Mother Of Charlottesville Victim Heather Heyer: ‘I’m Proud Of What She Did’ “I want her death to be a rallying cry for justice,” Susan Bro told HuffPost.

The photo from Charlottesville that will define this moment in American history

After Charlottesville: End the denial about Trump

White House: Trump’s condemnation includes ‘white supremacists, KKK, neo-Nazi and all extremist groups’

Trump lit the torches of white supremacy in Charlottesville. We must extinguish them.

There are only two sides to Charlottesville. Trump is on the wrong one.

After Charlottesville, will white pastors finally take racism seriously?

Enough of the Confederate statues, the alt-right heroes and Trump’s moral idiocy

Alleged driver of car that plowed into Charlottesville crowd was a Nazi sympathizer, former teacher says

In the wake of Charlottesville protests, a Kentucky mayor wants to remove Confederate statues

Trump didn’t call out white supremacists. He was rebuked by members of his own party.

One group loved Trump’s remarks about Charlottesville: White supremacists

The Charlottesville driver isn’t the only one who should lawyer up

What would Jefferson say about white supremacists descending upon his university?

'Chilling,' cried Fox News when one of its reporters was targeted in a leak case. Where’s the outrage now?

Wednesday, August 2, 2017

Reading archive 2017-08-02

Frustrated Senators seek path forward for new FBI headquarters

Of Course Abortion Should Be a Litmus Test for Democrats - Democratic candidates are perfectly welcome to refrain from terminating their own pregnancies. But to be anti-choice on a policy level is absolutely indefensible from an economic justice, racial justice, gender justice and human rights standpoint. And if the Democratic Party does not stand for any of those things, then what on earth is it?

The Trump administration takes up the cause of oppressed white people

White Trump voters think they face more discrimination than blacks. The Trump administration is listening.

Justice Dept. to Take On Affirmative Action in College Admissions