Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
You may have heard of Hasna Ait Boulahcen, the woman who died in a raid carried about by French police in the days after the attacks in Paris. Or you might have seen her on the website of the Daily Mail, which said it obtained exclusive photos of her, or the New York Post, which…
Ben Carson’s campaign is walking back his support for Donald Trump’s controversial assertion that there was news footage showing “thousands of people” cheering the 9/11 attacks from New Jersey. Doug Watts, Carson’s communications director, said Carson confused protests in the Middle East after the 9/11 attacks, which were documented at the time, with the New…
Five people were shot at a Black Lives Matter protest in Minneapolis late Monday night. The Associated Press spoke with Minneapolis police who confirmed the shootings. Police spokesman John Elder told AP all five have injuries that are not life-threatening. The local newspaper The Star Tribune reported that the five people shot were protesters. Black…
Walmart is selling an Android smartphone for $9. Technically, the phone costs $9.82, but the important thing here is that it’s a functioning smartphone for less than ten American dollars. It’s terrible, but it’s also fantastic. Here’s how it can be both of those things at the same time. I’ll get straight to the point:…
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Heroes and villains join forces to become DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, beginning January 21 on The CW! SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/TheCWSubscribe About DC’s Legends of Tomorrow: Time-traveling rogue Rip Hunter must assemble a disparate group of both heroes and villains to confront an unstoppable threat to the planet…and to time itself. DC’s Legends of Tomorrow is coming…
We got the briefest of glimpses for Legends of Tomorrow earlier this year, when Oliver and Barry teamed up to recruit a team of time-travelling superheroes and villains. But now we’ve got our first offical look at the series, and it’s looking amazing. http://io9.com/arrow-and-flas… There’s a mix of old and new footage in…
“The Man In The High Castle.” (David Berg/Amazon) We have a Nazi analogy problem. “Nazi,” in an argument, doesn’t buy quite as much as it used to. We have Godwin’s Law (as an online discussion goes on, the probability of a Nazi comparison approaches 1) and its corollaries (the first person to make a Hitler…
The week before Thanksgiving saw some of the most overtly xenophobic, militaristic and fact-free media proclamations since the weeks in the lead up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq and Glen Greenwald appeared on CNN over the weekend to call out the cable news network for its role leading the beat of war drums. “Reliable…
London Blitz vs ISIS Blitz Sack cartoon: Contrasting responses to threats – StarTribune.com.