Trump has already been ‘played’
The Forces Were Perfectly in Balance at the White House Correspondents' Dinner: Sarah Huckabee Sanders' job is to embarrass the press. Michelle Wolf's job is to embarrass Sanders.
North Korea’s Phony Peace Ploy
The Government is Empty: Only half of key government agency positions are currently filled
Mueller Has Dozens of Inquiries for Trump in Broad Quest on Russia Ties and Obstruction
Monday, April 30, 2018
Saturday, April 28, 2018
Friday, April 27, 2018
Reading archive 2018-04-27
Rachel Dolezal’s Grotesque Idea of Identity: In a new Netflix documentary, ‘The Rachel Divide,’ the controversial “transracial” activist makes her case—and it still doesn’t make sense - "Dolezal talks about blackness as if it were reducible to two qualities, and only two qualities: scholarship and aesthetics. It cannot occur to her that blackness—a social construction, indeed—is a comprehensive and involuntary realm of experience. White power invented it, and white power enforces it, but, paradoxically, black people own blackness.
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"Ideally, a white person should be able to empathize with a black person, and enjoy black culture, without mistaking themselves for a black person. Ideally, Dolezal would see herself for who she truly is: a white woman with peculiar but nonetheless righteous interest in black culture and black liberation. Instead, Dolezal is a tourist with a fetish who must swear she’s a native."
Who (really) wants gaydar to be accurate anyway?
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"Ideally, a white person should be able to empathize with a black person, and enjoy black culture, without mistaking themselves for a black person. Ideally, Dolezal would see herself for who she truly is: a white woman with peculiar but nonetheless righteous interest in black culture and black liberation. Instead, Dolezal is a tourist with a fetish who must swear she’s a native."
Who (really) wants gaydar to be accurate anyway?
Monday, April 23, 2018
Sunday, April 22, 2018
Saturday, April 21, 2018
Reading archive 2018-04-21
From posh oligarchs to taxi drivers, Russians in London feel a chill
Sessions told White House that Rosenstein’s firing could prompt his departure, too
Vermont’s creative approach to its labor shortage: Hire the tourists
Shifting views on marijuana highlight just how differently people of color are impacted by drug laws
Police responding to dying student’s 911 call stayed in their patrol car, body cam videos show
‘Ain’t nobody got time for this’: 911 dispatcher sentenced to jail after hanging up on thousands of callers
Sessions told White House that Rosenstein’s firing could prompt his departure, too
Vermont’s creative approach to its labor shortage: Hire the tourists
Shifting views on marijuana highlight just how differently people of color are impacted by drug laws
Police responding to dying student’s 911 call stayed in their patrol car, body cam videos show
‘Ain’t nobody got time for this’: 911 dispatcher sentenced to jail after hanging up on thousands of callers
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