Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
In an ultra-rich-person moment at his latest forever-campaign rally in Tampa on Tuesday night, President Trump claimed you need photo ID to buy groceries in this country as part of a meandering argument for voter ID laws. Trump started by telling his crowd, where conspiracy theorists and Jim Acosta haters were unsurprisingly well represented, that…
The new iPhone 5S with fingerprint technology is displayed during an Apple product announcement at the Apple campus on September 10, 2013 in Cupertino, California Photo: Getty What started as a routine traffic stop has quickly escalated into a civil rights case in a Florida courtroom after a man was put behind bars this week…
Getty Over 130,000 adults combined in Florida and North Carolina are banned from reading The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander’s award-winning book about the effects of mass incarceration, according to a report by The New York Times. Earlier this month, the ACLU blasted New Jersey state prisons for what it said was an unconstitutional ban…
US Customs and Border Protection officer at the Miami International Airport on July 1, 2016 (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky) Back in September, I published a list of everything that had been seized in Florida over the summer by US Customs and Border Protection. There were plenty of things you’d expect, like drugs, Cuban cigars, and illegal…