Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
If you’re planning on getting buried in Colma, you might want to do something about it — soon. That’s because an all-new Bay Area housing crisis is just around the corner. There are 1.5 million dead people in Colma already — and room for thousands more. But no one knows exactly how many thousands. “We’re…
hearst/templates/premium/article/content/gallery.tpl e hearst/templates/premium/article/content/gallery.tpl It was the week before Dreamforce, the conference extravaganza organized by Salesforce, and the tech company’s design team was listening to a recording of animals chirping and cooing in the woods. “I’m wondering if we could tone down the woodpecker a little,” said Brigitte Donner, chairwoman of Dreamforce, which will fill…
Photo: Sean Gallup (Getty Images) The owner of Black Swan Books in Richmond, VA, called police on Saturday on a woman who confronted former White House strategist and Trump Muslim ban architect Steve Bannon while inside the store. The unidentified woman reportedly called Bannon a “piece of trash,” according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch. The store’s…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Immigrant children as young as 14 housed at a juvenile detention center in Virginia say they were beaten while handcuffed and locked up for long periods in solitary confinement, left nude and shivering in concrete cells. The abuse claims against the Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Center near Staunton, Virginia, are detailed in federal…
Tiki Brand said it’s “not associated” with torch-bearing protestors who chanted “white lives matter” at a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Aug. 11. Tiki Brand is distancing itself from white nationalists who used tiki torches in a protest march in Charlottesville, Virginia. “Tiki Brand is not associated in any way with the events that took…
“The Birth of a Nation” arrives amid a resurgence in movies about slavery. Credit Illustration by Keith Negley Barrier Status: ‘none’ In the summer of 1831, Nat Turner’s slave insurrection ripped through Southampton County, Virginia, leaving scores of white men, women, and children dead. The rebels were captured and tried in Jerusalem, a few…