Protests in sports aren’t new at all
Lexicon: The Political “Dog Whistle” Is Obsolete
‘I don’t have an ounce of guilt,’ says teen accused of trying to kill infant with poisoned milk
Friday, September 29, 2017
Thursday, September 28, 2017
Reading archive 2017-09-25 through 2017-09-28
Obama tried to give Zuckerberg a wake-up call over fake news on Facebook
NBC’s Megyn Kelly experiment unveils its latest creation, a morning-show Bride of Frankenstein
Department of Wackadoodle: The DOJ’s new anti-gay legal posture just got shut down in federal court.
Tom Price trades in his private plane for the underside of a bus
Football is life in Texas. Then along came Trump vs. the NFL
Paul Horner, Fake News Writer Who Took Credit for Trump Victory, Dies at 38
NBC’s Megyn Kelly experiment unveils its latest creation, a morning-show Bride of Frankenstein
Department of Wackadoodle: The DOJ’s new anti-gay legal posture just got shut down in federal court.
Tom Price trades in his private plane for the underside of a bus
Football is life in Texas. Then along came Trump vs. the NFL
Paul Horner, Fake News Writer Who Took Credit for Trump Victory, Dies at 38
Thursday, September 21, 2017
Reading archive 2017-09-21
Obergefell Is Already Under Attack Trump is laying the groundwork to overturn marriage equality.
Price’s private-jet travel breaks precedent: HHS secretary took chartered aircraft on five flights last week, while his predecessors would fly commercial.
A fifth of Americans still think that gay relations should be illegal
The Strange Authenticity of Hillary Clinton: Read her book, and you realize she might have been the most authentic candidate out there—and maybe that was the problem. - "Even for someone who saw her as a deeply flawed candidate, to read What Happened is to feel a genuine pang of regret that a person with Hillary Clinton’s impressive set of policy skills will never get to use them in the Oval Office. But it is also to recognize that if she is looking at the forces that kept her from the job she was well prepared to do, she is also looking into a mirror."
Price’s private-jet travel breaks precedent: HHS secretary took chartered aircraft on five flights last week, while his predecessors would fly commercial.
A fifth of Americans still think that gay relations should be illegal
The Strange Authenticity of Hillary Clinton: Read her book, and you realize she might have been the most authentic candidate out there—and maybe that was the problem. - "Even for someone who saw her as a deeply flawed candidate, to read What Happened is to feel a genuine pang of regret that a person with Hillary Clinton’s impressive set of policy skills will never get to use them in the Oval Office. But it is also to recognize that if she is looking at the forces that kept her from the job she was well prepared to do, she is also looking into a mirror."
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Reading archive 2017-09-19
Ohio firefighter: ‘One dog is more important than a million’ African Americans
Libertarians have more in common with the alt-right than they want you to think - "It shouldn’t come as a great surprise that enshrining self-interest as the core of morality would lead to a cynical worldview that takes all action to be struggle or manipulation. The 'liberty' of libertarianism is merely negative; and a mind guided with the mere concept of its own interest can be led to anything or to nothing. For this reason, the intellectual wasteland of libertarianism continues to provide a safe space for fascists: It simply has philosophical room for them, and no particular injunctions to turn them away."
Libertarians have more in common with the alt-right than they want you to think - "It shouldn’t come as a great surprise that enshrining self-interest as the core of morality would lead to a cynical worldview that takes all action to be struggle or manipulation. The 'liberty' of libertarianism is merely negative; and a mind guided with the mere concept of its own interest can be led to anything or to nothing. For this reason, the intellectual wasteland of libertarianism continues to provide a safe space for fascists: It simply has philosophical room for them, and no particular injunctions to turn them away."
Monday, September 18, 2017
Reading archive 2017-09-18
Trump Lawyers Clash Over How Much to Cooperate With Russia Inquiry
The global crackdown on parents who refuse vaccines for their kids has begun: Countries like Italy and Australia are tired of measles outbreaks — so they're moving to fine anti-vaccine parents.
Hillary Clinton’s “coal gaffe” is a microcosm of her twisted treatment by the media
Why not all forms of artificial intelligence are equally scary
How worried should we be about artificial intelligence? I asked 17 experts.
America’s huge problem with opioid prescribing, in one quote: You have to double the amount of opioids Japan consumes five times to come close to the US.
Bengals players reportedly want team to consider bringing in Colin Kaepernick
LaDainian Tomlinson rips Ezekiel Elliott, saying the Cowboys RB ‘quit on his team’
A 50-year effort to raise endangered whooping cranes comes to an end
Whooping cranes are pretty terrible parents. Are humans to blame?
The global crackdown on parents who refuse vaccines for their kids has begun: Countries like Italy and Australia are tired of measles outbreaks — so they're moving to fine anti-vaccine parents.
Hillary Clinton’s “coal gaffe” is a microcosm of her twisted treatment by the media
Why not all forms of artificial intelligence are equally scary
How worried should we be about artificial intelligence? I asked 17 experts.
America’s huge problem with opioid prescribing, in one quote: You have to double the amount of opioids Japan consumes five times to come close to the US.
Bengals players reportedly want team to consider bringing in Colin Kaepernick
LaDainian Tomlinson rips Ezekiel Elliott, saying the Cowboys RB ‘quit on his team’
A 50-year effort to raise endangered whooping cranes comes to an end
Whooping cranes are pretty terrible parents. Are humans to blame?
Thursday, September 14, 2017
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
Reading archive 2017-09-13
PewDiePie said the n-word on YouTube. The Internet’s most famous gamer is out of excuses.
Deep Six: Jemele Hill and the Fight for the Future of ESPN
A downside to D.C.’s population growth? The growing number of rats.
Steve Bannon is a Swiss-cheese philosopher - "Later in the interview, Bannon evoked his grand theory to justify deportation of the 'dreamers,' and called on Alexander Hamilton and Henry Clay’s 'American system' to back him up. But Hamilton (an immigrant) was the opposite of a populist, and Clay was the archenemy of populism’s high priest, Andrew Jackson. Clay and his disciple Abraham Lincoln — another Bannon name-check — were strong supporters of virtually unchecked immigration."
‘Shut up, slave!’: A spilled Starbucks drink leads to sidewalk fight — and hate-crime charges
Deep Six: Jemele Hill and the Fight for the Future of ESPN
A downside to D.C.’s population growth? The growing number of rats.
Steve Bannon is a Swiss-cheese philosopher - "Later in the interview, Bannon evoked his grand theory to justify deportation of the 'dreamers,' and called on Alexander Hamilton and Henry Clay’s 'American system' to back him up. But Hamilton (an immigrant) was the opposite of a populist, and Clay was the archenemy of populism’s high priest, Andrew Jackson. Clay and his disciple Abraham Lincoln — another Bannon name-check — were strong supporters of virtually unchecked immigration."
‘Shut up, slave!’: A spilled Starbucks drink leads to sidewalk fight — and hate-crime charges
Tuesday, September 12, 2017
Monday, September 11, 2017
Sunday, September 10, 2017
Friday, September 8, 2017
Reading archive 2017-09-08
Millennials are filling their homes — and the void in their hearts — with houseplants
Tomi Lahren, Meet The Great Great Grandfather Prosecuted For Forging His Citizenship Papers!
Andrew Sullivan: The Religious Right’s Suicidal Gay Obsession, also with thoughts on Confederate statues
The case for Trump-Russia collusion: We’re getting very, very close
On gay rights, conservatives — and the Trump administration — are in full retreat
Did lesbians cause Hurricanes Irma and Harvey? God knows.
The Fake Americans Russia Created to Influence the Election - "On Twitter, as on Facebook, Russian fingerprints are on hundreds or thousands of fake accounts that regularly posted anti-Clinton messages. Many were automated Twitter accounts, called bots, that sometimes fired off identical messages seconds apart — and in the exact alphabetical order of their made-up names, according to the FireEye researchers. On Election Day, for instance, they found that one group of Twitter bots sent out the hashtag #WarAgainstDemocrats more than 1,700 times."
Tomi Lahren, Meet The Great Great Grandfather Prosecuted For Forging His Citizenship Papers!
Andrew Sullivan: The Religious Right’s Suicidal Gay Obsession, also with thoughts on Confederate statues
The case for Trump-Russia collusion: We’re getting very, very close
On gay rights, conservatives — and the Trump administration — are in full retreat
Did lesbians cause Hurricanes Irma and Harvey? God knows.
The Fake Americans Russia Created to Influence the Election - "On Twitter, as on Facebook, Russian fingerprints are on hundreds or thousands of fake accounts that regularly posted anti-Clinton messages. Many were automated Twitter accounts, called bots, that sometimes fired off identical messages seconds apart — and in the exact alphabetical order of their made-up names, according to the FireEye researchers. On Election Day, for instance, they found that one group of Twitter bots sent out the hashtag #WarAgainstDemocrats more than 1,700 times."
Thursday, September 7, 2017
Reading archive 2017-09-07
TRUMP SHOCKS REPUBLICANS, UNEXPECTEDLY CAVES TO DEMOCRATS: “The president of the United States just handed a loaded gun to Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer.”
President Trump is now holding the Republican Party hostage
Trump won by championing alienated white and Christian voters. But will that ever work again?
Trump offers us a glimpse behind the curtain. There’s nothing there.
Gingrich or Santorum as speaker? House conservatives plot mischief for the fall.
In major Supreme Court case, Justice Dept. sides with baker who refused to make wedding cake for gay couple
Impossible Environmentalism: Green groups promote utopian fantasies
President Trump is now holding the Republican Party hostage
Trump won by championing alienated white and Christian voters. But will that ever work again?
Trump offers us a glimpse behind the curtain. There’s nothing there.
Gingrich or Santorum as speaker? House conservatives plot mischief for the fall.
In major Supreme Court case, Justice Dept. sides with baker who refused to make wedding cake for gay couple
Impossible Environmentalism: Green groups promote utopian fantasies
Wednesday, September 6, 2017
Reading archive 2017-09-06
When a red state gets the blues
Police Shot Brendan Hester Because That’s What Police Do
Trump and Republicans face ‘a defining moment’ on immigration
Rush Limbaugh’s dangerous suggestion that Hurricane Irma is fake news
No, the shark picture isn’t real: A running list of Harvey’s viral hoaxes
OP leaders 'visibly annoyed' over Ivanka visit to Oval Office: reports
The Ivanka Trump Guarantee - "Ivanka Trump is never going to come through. Coming through isn’t her function. She is more a logo than a person, a scarecrow stuffed with branding, an heiress-turned-model-turned-multimillionaire’s-wife playacting as an authority on the challenges facing working women so that she can sell more pastel sheath dresses."
Police Shot Brendan Hester Because That’s What Police Do
Trump and Republicans face ‘a defining moment’ on immigration
Rush Limbaugh’s dangerous suggestion that Hurricane Irma is fake news
No, the shark picture isn’t real: A running list of Harvey’s viral hoaxes
OP leaders 'visibly annoyed' over Ivanka visit to Oval Office: reports
The Ivanka Trump Guarantee - "Ivanka Trump is never going to come through. Coming through isn’t her function. She is more a logo than a person, a scarecrow stuffed with branding, an heiress-turned-model-turned-multimillionaire’s-wife playacting as an authority on the challenges facing working women so that she can sell more pastel sheath dresses."
Tuesday, September 5, 2017
Reading archive 2017-09-05
Why the Works of Visionary Artist Jacob Lawrence Still Resonate a Century After His Birth: His vibrant and bold paintings tell stories of liberation, resistance and resilience
Obama calls President Trump’s decision to end DACA ‘wrong,’ ‘self-defeating’ and ‘cruel’
Officer shoots Ohio newspaper photographer after confusing his tripod and camera for a gun
The biggest beneficiaries of the government safety net: Working-class whites
Is Anybody Home at HUD? A long-harbored conservative dream — the “dismantling of the administrative state” — is taking place under Secretary Ben Carson. - "HUD has emerged as the perfect distillation of the right’s antipathy to governing. If the great radical-conservative dream was, in Grover Norquist’s famous words, to 'drown government in a bathtub,' then this was what the final gasps of one department might look like."
Disabled, or just desperate?: Rural Americans turn to disability as jobs dry up
Generations, disabled: A family on the fringes prays for the “right diagnoses”
The Upwards Failing of Colin Trevorrow and Why It Matters
The Art of Failing Upward
When the Rich Said No to Getting Richer
Our Broken Economy, in One Simple Chart
Democrats should take the class warfare message to upscale suburbs: It worked for Jeremy Corbyn, and the opposite failed for Jon Ossoff.
4 lies Jeff Sessions told to justify ending DACA
The Russian Company That Is a Danger to Our Security
Obama calls President Trump’s decision to end DACA ‘wrong,’ ‘self-defeating’ and ‘cruel’
Officer shoots Ohio newspaper photographer after confusing his tripod and camera for a gun
The biggest beneficiaries of the government safety net: Working-class whites
Is Anybody Home at HUD? A long-harbored conservative dream — the “dismantling of the administrative state” — is taking place under Secretary Ben Carson. - "HUD has emerged as the perfect distillation of the right’s antipathy to governing. If the great radical-conservative dream was, in Grover Norquist’s famous words, to 'drown government in a bathtub,' then this was what the final gasps of one department might look like."
Disabled, or just desperate?: Rural Americans turn to disability as jobs dry up
Generations, disabled: A family on the fringes prays for the “right diagnoses”
The Upwards Failing of Colin Trevorrow and Why It Matters
The Art of Failing Upward
When the Rich Said No to Getting Richer
Our Broken Economy, in One Simple Chart
Democrats should take the class warfare message to upscale suburbs: It worked for Jeremy Corbyn, and the opposite failed for Jon Ossoff.
4 lies Jeff Sessions told to justify ending DACA
The Russian Company That Is a Danger to Our Security
Monday, September 4, 2017
Reading archive 2017-09-04
Focus On Infants During Childbirth Leaves U.S. Moms In Danger - "In recent decades, under the assumption that it had conquered maternal mortality, the American medical system has focused more on fetal and infant safety and survival than on the mother's health and well-being."
Here’s the best thing the media can do when reporting on ‘antifa’
What is the "alt-left" Trump was talking about?
What Trump Gets Wrong About Antifa: If the president is concerned about violence on the left, he can start by fighting the white supremacist movements whose growth has fueled its rise.
Here’s the best thing the media can do when reporting on ‘antifa’
What is the "alt-left" Trump was talking about?
What Trump Gets Wrong About Antifa: If the president is concerned about violence on the left, he can start by fighting the white supremacist movements whose growth has fueled its rise.
Saturday, September 2, 2017
Friday, September 1, 2017
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