Reading archive 2018-03-30

Inside the Dark World of Trolling: What kind of person tells a player to hang himself, to shoot himself in the head, to "die in a fire"? SI explores what makes a troll tick

How Bill Self — after months of trying — finally got through to KU's Malik Newman

Reading archive 2018-03-29

‘You’re a mother’: Laura Ingraham savaged for taunting Parkland activist over college rejections

Cracked it! Experts find answer to the knuckle-popping puzzle

Beware of Economists Crying 'Entitlement Explosion': Our inability to speak frankly about the nation's fiscal situation has real consequences.

Trump’s Lawyer Raised Prospect of Pardons for Flynn and Manafort

Reading archive 2018-03-28

Brother of slain DNC staffer Seth Rich sues right-wing activists, newspaper over conspiracy theories

Eleven years later, Wall Street bonuses are back to pre-crisis levels - "Across the US, the median household income in was $59,039 in 2016, the highest on record."

Trump Is ‘Obsessed’ With Amazon Because He Wants to Crush the Washington Post

I Tried to Befriend Nikolas Cruz. He Still Killed My Friends.

Reading archive 2018-03-27

Her son, facing murder charges, is being called an ‘alt-right killer.’ This mother blames herself.

Reading archive 2018-03-26

How evangelical support of Trump helped to bring pornography into the mainstream

Reading archive 2018-03-25

A fake photo of Emma González went viral on the far right, where Parkland teens are villains

Reading archive 2018-03-24

Andrew McCabe: Not in my worst nightmares did I dream my FBI career would end this way

Americans need to know the truth about Andrew McCabe

Scoop. Denial. Scoop confirmed. That’s business as usual for writers covering the Trump White House.

Reading archive 2018-03-23

Mozilla pulls ads off Facebook over data access concerns

America Takes the Next Step Toward Tyranny

‘You Will Not Destroy America’: A Trump Battle Is No Longer One-Sided

“MUELLER IS GOING TO GET WHAT HE WANTS”: INSIDE THE TRUMP-MUELLER CAT-AND-MOUSE GAME: While Trump’s lawyers are working to limit Trump’s legal risk, experts say it may be impossible for the president to avoid a perjury trap. “That is a problem for the Trump lawyers, not the special counsel,” says one former White House counsel. “One way or the other, the lawyers have to figure out how to prepare the president to give testimony.”

“NOW I’M F---ING DOING IT MY WAY”: JUBILANT AND SELF-LIBERATED, THE PRESIDENT PREPARES FOR WAR WITH MUELLER: With John Dowd out, John Kelly and Ty Cobb marginalized, Joseph diGenova on board, and Marc Kasowitz possibly returning, the next battle comes into focus.

“THEIR NAMES ARE THEIR DOWNFALL”: AFTER A YEAR IN WASHINGTON, IVANKA AND JARED ARE ISOLATED ON KUSHNER ISLAND Embattled in the West Wing, Ivanka is losing friends in Manhattan as her husband and father confront a legal nightmare. What’s an heiress to do?

Yes, John Bolton Really Is That Dangerous (NYT Editorial Board)

‘Oh my God…It’s fake’: Far right falls for hoax about Broward County sheriff

Reading archive 2018-03-22

Pa. Republican state legislator moves to impeach four state Supreme Court justices

Jeffrey Toobin to his former professor Alan Dershowitz: ‘What’s happened to you?

Plastic within the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is ‘increasing exponentially,’ scientists find

Even after Brexit, the U.K. will rely on Europe to print its passports

The scary truth that Cambridge Analytica understands

Federal prosecutors dismiss assault charges against 11 Turkish guards in D.C. brawl

Pope Francis Is Beloved. His Papacy Might Be a Disaster.

In a U.S.-China trade war, Trump voters likely get hurt the most

China threatens to raise tariffs on about $3 billion of U.S. imports

D.C. voters to decide in June if tipped workers should get same minimum wage

‘Lone DNC Hacker’ Guccifer 2.0 Slipped Up and Revealed He Was a Russian Intelligence Officer: Robert Mueller’s team has taken over the investigation of Guccifer 2.0, who communicated with (and was defended by) longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone.

Reading archive 2018-03-21

Outsiders can’t fix Washington. They’re the ones who spent the past 40 years wrecking it.

In Nafta Talks, U.S. Tries to Limit Junk Food Warning Labels

EXCLUSIVE: Fired FBI official authorized criminal probe of Sessions, sources say

SAUDI CROWN PRINCE BOASTED THAT JARED KUSHNER WAS “IN HIS POCKET”

Reading archive 2018-03-20

Package bound for Austin explodes at Texas FedEx facility, police say

‘Grandma’s food’: How changing tastes are killing German restaurants

NFL sets new definition for controversial catch rule

Trump has emasculated the Republican Party

Chief Justice Roberts Is Reshaping The First Amendment

Kobach Exposed at Trial

Fox News contributor quits, slams network as 'propaganda machine' for Trump

Fox News commentator exits with a searing attack on Fox News

This book is racist damaging rewritten: Keira Drake’s debut was slammed for using racial stereotypes for her characters. Unlike other authors, she rewrote the book.

Trump’s national security advisers warned him not to congratulate Putin. He did it anyway.

Reading archive 2018-03-19

D.C. lawmaker says recent snowfall caused by ‘Rothschilds controlling the climate’

Stormy Daniels is correcting people on Twitter, proving that she knows how to handle trolls

Some millennials aren’t saving for retirement because they don’t think capitalism will exist by then: Despite what news media tells you, millennials do have plans for retirement — just not what you might think

This new report on Trump’s state of mind should alarm you

Reading archive 2018-03-18

The President Shouldn’t Talk to Dictators (If It’s Obama): Fox News HATED the idea of Obama talking to foreign dictators. Guess how they feel about Trump doing it???

Trump said Mueller’s team has ‘13 hardened Democrats.’ Here are the facts.

Reading archive 2018-03-16

Mueller Subpoenas Trump Organization, Demanding Documents About Russia

Reading archive 2018-03-15

Guards at National Gallery of Art complain of hostile environment

In China, a reporter’s dramatic eye-roll went viral. Then searches of it were censored.

Reading archive 2018-03-14

Republican Candidate Says He’s Sorry for Calling Parkland Student a ‘Skinhead Lesbian’

Britain to expel 23 Russian diplomats after ex-spy poisoning

Senate passes rollback of banking rules enacted after financial crisis

Senate Intelligence Leaders Say House G.O.P. Leaked a Senator’s Texts

Reading archive 2018-03-13

The Republican coverup for Trump just got much worse

Trump ousts Tillerson, will replace him as secretary of state with CIA chief Pompeo

Republican on House intelligence panel: ‘We’ve lost all credibility’ on Russia probe

Video of Stillwater bail agent fatally shooting client released by DA's office

Rex Tillerson has been fired. Experts say he did damage that could last “a generation.”: Tillerson was “one of the worst secretaries of state” in modern history, according to experts from across the political spectrum.

Reading archive 2018-03-12

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos stumbles during pointed ‘60 Minutes’ interview

Theresa May: ‘Highly likely’ Russia responsible for spy’s poisoning by nerve agent

What a brave Russian scientist told me about Novichok, the nerve agent identified in the spy attack

Florida’s solution to its invasive iguana problem: Smash their skulls in

Betsy DeVos’s disastrous interview shows the limitations of being rich

In fundraising speech, Trump says he made up trade claim in meeting with Justin Trudeau

Reading archive 2018-03-11

Are home renovations necessary?: Renovations have become a national pastime, but there is nothing wrong with your house

Putin condemned for saying Jews may have manipulated U.S. election

The Putin Generation Young Russians are Vladimir Putin’s biggest fans

Black politics 2.0: The post-Obama generation is so done with the Democratic Party’s old ways

Trump White House quietly issues report vindicating Obama regulations: It was easy to miss, but OMB demolishes the GOP’s deregulatory claims.

Reading archive 2018-03-10

In Winston Churchill, Hollywood rewards a mass murderer

Reading archive 2018-03-09

Damage control at White House to reverse Trump’s stunning blunder

Reading archive 2018-03-08

What swamp? Lobbyists get ethics waivers to work for Trump

Bernie Sanders tells Democrats to back off primary attacks

I Can't Even, Followed by More Cantevening (ed. note: Bernie Sanders and his cadre of bros are fuckbags and I hate them)

Reading archive 2018-03-07

Stock buybacks are soaring to record levels — and Cory Booker wants to stop it: A new bill would require companies to pay workers alongside shareholders.

Reading archive 2018-03-06

Why Europe and Canada may retaliate against bourbon, Harleys and Levi jeans

White House: Trump did not have call with N. Koreans (ed. note: Jesus fucking Christ, Trump was on the phone with the South Koreans but thought it was the North Koreans)

Reading archive 2018-03-05

State Dept. Was Granted $120 Million to Fight Russian Meddling. It Has Spent $0.

Former Trump aide Sam Nunberg called before grand jury, says he will refuse to go

Nunes echoes Trump’s authoritarian view on press, says Stephen Colbert’s skit about him is a ‘danger’ to the country

Christopher Steele, the Man Behind the Trump Dossier: How the ex-spy tried to warn the world about Trump’s ties to Russia. - "'The problem with the Russia story is that people just weren’t buying it. Today, it’s, like, ‘Of course!’ But back then people thought that we were just desperately peddling conspiracy theories.' After the D.N.C.’s e-mails were hacked, Mook went on TV talk shows and pointed the finger at Russia, but, he says, his comments were often dismissed as 'spin.' On Jake Tapper’s 'State of the Union,' he declared, 'What’s disturbing to us is that experts are telling us that Russian state actors broke into the D.N.C., stole these e-mails, and other experts are now saying that the Russians are releasing these e-mails for the purpose of actually helping Donald Trump.' Tapper then interviewed Donald Trump, Jr., who ridiculed Mook’s accusation as 'disgusting' and 'phony'—even though it’s now known that, just a few weeks earlier, he had met at Trump Tower with a Russian offering dirt on Clinton."

A middle school teacher led a double life as a white nationalist podcaster

Secret NYPD Files: Officers Can Lie And Brutally Beat People — And Still Keep Their Jobs: Internal NYPD files show that hundreds of officers who committed the most serious offenses — from lying to grand juries to physically attacking innocent people — got to keep their jobs, their pensions, and their tremendous power over New Yorkers' lives.

BEN CARSON, RETIRED BRAIN SURGEON, HAS LOBOTOMIZED HUD: After a year of overseeing the anti-poverty department, Carson is realizing he may be in over his head.

Ben Carson on His Vexing Reign at HUD: Brain Surgery Was Easier Than This

Reading archive 2018-03-04

Never have we seen such chaos and corruption

Trump says American workers are hurt by immigration. But after ICE raided this Texas town, they never showed up.

Theresa May: ‘Life is going to be different’ after Brexit

Reading archive 2018-03-03

No Sign of Newborn North Atlantic Whales This Breeding Season