Reading archive 2025-10-03

The Neighbor From Hell: Israel and the United States delivered a blow to Iran. But it could come back stronger.

The Trouble With Bad Bunny’s Puerto Rico Takeover: The artist invited fans to his home island for a tricky mix of music and tourism.

Clarence Thomas Has Laid Out the Conservative Plan to Take Away Marriage Equality and Birth Control: If the Supreme Court justice pulls this off, it would be the crowning triumph of his vengeance-fueled career.

One victim in Yom Kippur synagogue attack in England was shot dead by police: The police identified two people killed in an attack at a synagogue in Manchester, England, and said they were still trying to learn more about the assailant’s motives.

How Spinoza Overcame 17th-Century Cancel Culture: The great thinker never let his emotions get the better of him. Instead, he used reason to get the better of his detractors.

Reading archive 2024-10-27

 Russian economy overheating, but still powering the war against Ukraine: Putin’s massive spending on the war is overheating the economy, but he has the resources to keep doing it. - "The failure of sanctions is closely watched by autocrats, he said.

"'The big message it sends to the Kremlin and to Beijing and any other autocratic potential troublemaker is that the West isn’t serious. The West is more interested in making money in the short term than in confronting autocrats. That’s the number one message, and that is deeply harmful,' he said."

Anti-Puerto Rico comments at Trump rally spur outrage as Bad Bunny supports Harris: The artist’s gesture of support came as a number of speakers at a Trump event in New York made racist and disparaging comments about Puerto Ricans and other Latinos.

Inside the fight for every vote in Montana

Trump says domestic foes worse than Kim Jong Un during meandering Joe Rogan interview: “We have a bigger problem, in my opinion, with the enemy from within,” Trump said after mentioning the oppressive North Korean leader, reprising a phrase that has drawn criticism.

Elon Musk, enemy of ‘open borders,’ launched his career working illegally: Investors in Musk’s first company worried about “our founder being deported” and gave him a deadline for obtaining a work visa.

Elon Musk claims student visa permitted him to work in U.S.: After a Washington Post report and remarks from President Joe Biden, Musk denied working in the U.S. illegally.

Reading archive 2017-10-20

John Kelly, Trump’s chief of staff whose son died in combat, defends president’s call to Gold Star widow - "The 67-year-old retired Marine Corps general also sought to claim the moral high ground by deploring the degradation of modern American society. When he was growing up, he said, women, religion and the dignity of life were sacred. Now, he said, they no longer are. There was evident irony in Kelly’s making that particular point in defense of Trump, whose presidential campaign last year was marked by name-calling, harsh rhetoric about Muslims, Mexicans and other minorities, and allegations of sexual misconduct by more than a dozen women." (ed. note: lol @ John Kelly and his hypocrisy)

George W. Bush comes out of retirement to deliver a veiled rebuke of Trump

Ed Gillespie’s lobbying career included work for firms with vast interests in Virginia

‘I’ve never had a year so bad’: How Modi’s big economic changes have hit India’s small businesses

Putin talks like Russia’s next president but stays silent on whether he’ll run

CIA director distorts intelligence community’s findings on Russian interference

Retired ‘Navy SEAL’ praising Trump on Fox News was a fake

Many Trump voters who got hurricane relief in Texas aren’t sure Puerto Ricans should

The Hearing World Must Stop Forcing Deaf Culture to Assimilate: Too many hearing people view deafness as a deficiency rather than a separate linguistic context, worldview and culture.

In attack on Frederica Wilson over Trump’s call to widow, John Kelly gets facts wrong (ed. note: lol @ John Kelly and his blatant lies)

Frederica Wilson 2015 video shows White House Chief of Staff John Kelly got it wrong

What John Kelly got wrong about Rep. Frederica Wilson and the Johnson family

Rep. Frederica Wilson didn’t flinch at Trump’s attacks. Her record explains why.

Reading archive 2017-10-03

Tom Petty’s Remarkable Stand Against the Confederate Flag: Remembering the anomalous rock ’n’ roll icon, who died late Monday following a heart attack at the age of 66.

UN resolution condemns death penalty for same-sex relations: The resolution asked countries that have not yet abolished the death penalty to ensure that it is not “applied arbitrarily or in a discriminatory manner” - The United States voted against the resolution.

Las Vegas Shooting: Gunman’s Rifle Had ‘Bump Stock’ to Make It Rapid-Fire Weapon

Puerto Ricans are going to flee if President Trump doesn’t fix hurricane relief

US votes against UN resolution condemning gay sex death penalty, joining Iraq and Saudi Arabia: America one of 13 countries on Human Rights Council to oppose historic vote

Mattis: In US national security interest to stay in Iran deal - Secretary of Defense James Mattis said Tuesday that he believes it is in US national security interest to remain in the Iran nuclear agreement despite repeated hints from President Donald Trump that he is inclined to scrap the deal.

I used to think gun control was the answer. My research told me otherwise.

New details emerge about Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock and girlfriend Marilou Danley