Saturday, October 24, 2020

Reading archive 2020-10-23

This New Project Imagines What the Tidal Basin Could Look Like in 100 Years: The Tidal Basin Ideas Lab asked five architecture firms to come up with new ideas for the area.

The Marcus Goodwin Flip-Flop Tracker Different opinions on the streetcar, congestion pricing, eviction moratorium, tipped wages, and other pressing issues!

I Spoke to a Scholar of Conspiracy Theories and I’m Scared for Us: The big lesson of 2020 is that everything keeps getting more dishonest. - "To people who have been 'Q-pilled,' QAnon plays a much deeper role in their lives; it has elements of a support group, a political party, a lifestyle brand, a collective delusion, a religion, a cult, a huge multiplayer game and an extremist network."

Why New Zealand rejected populist ideas other nations have embraced: Labour’s historic win delivered Ardern a second term while voters punished politicians who embraced populism

A 19-year-old with a van full of guns and explosives plotted to assassinate Biden, feds say

How politically damaging were Biden’s comments about closing down the oil industry?: Biden said at the debate he would transition away from oil, then later clarified that he would stop giving federal subsidies to the industry.

Black moderates fear losing power in D.C. with younger, Whiter electorate

A GOP state Senate candidate was expelled from high school for wearing a KKK outfit on Halloween

The town that built back green: After a tornado demolished Greensburg, Kan., it rebuilt without carbon emissions. Can its lessons help communities and economies rebound from fires, hurricanes and covid-19?

A Wall Street Journal columnist said Joe Biden was part of Hunter’s business deal. Hours later, its news reporters said the opposite.

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