Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
When I was a kid, I always seemed to get in trouble for talking in class. I didn’t talk more than the average kid; I was just trying to stay engaged in the conversation. Other kids would talk, I would talk back. Crack a few jokes. Seemed the polite thing to do. But no matter…
Musical guest Kanye West performs “Ultralight Beam” with guests Chance the Rapper, Kelly Price, Kirk Franklin, The-Dream and El Debarge. [Season 41, 2016] Watch Kanye West: Ultralight Beam From Saturday Night Live – NBC.com. Source: Watch Kanye West: Ultralight Beam From Saturday Night Live – NBC.com
PostTV talked to the International Union of Police Associations and the National Press Photographers Association about civilians’ rights when it comes to filming law enforcement. Here’s what you should know. (The Washington Post) In recent years, lower federal courts have generally held that the First Amendment protects a right to videorecord (and photograph) in public…
Photo credit: Getty Images The wreckage of Jeb Bush’s foredoomed campaign has already inspired dozens of articles about the mistakes and miscalculations that led donors, consultants, and Bush himself to believe he had a shot at winning the 2016 race. This genre of journalism reliably offers revealing anecdotes and bitchy anonymous quotes about a campaign’s…
Peter Liang Was Justly Convicted- He’s Not A Victim, Says This Niece of Vincent Chin When I first heard about Akai Gurley’s killing, that a Chinese American police officer, Peter Liang, had shot Gurley to his death, I knew to be prepared for tough conversations around police brutality, Black lives, and the Asian American community….
Photo Protesters rallied in Brooklyn on Feb. 20 to support the former N.Y.P.D. officer Peter Liang. Credit Craig Ruttle/Associated Press Every public thing that happens to Asian-Americans — whether the unexpected ascent of a Harvard-educated basketball star, the premiere of a network family sitcom or the conviction of a 28-year-old rookie cop who shot and…
A naked woman stands across from a naked man as a museum patron walk between them. An orchestra plays a captivating piece as some of the musicians stand knee-deep in water. A cartoonist sketches a young boy and his mother walking through a graveyard after a funeral. These striking images appear in The New Yorker Presents, a…
People are almost always surprised when I tell them Stan Lee is 93. He doesn’t scan as a young man, exactly, but frozen in time a couple of decades younger than he is, embodying still the larger-than-life image he crafted for himself in the 1970s — silver hair, tinted shades, caterpillar mustache, jubilant grin, bouncing…
Credit Illustration by Tom Bachtell Barrier Status: ‘none’ Antonin Scalia, who died this month, after nearly three decades on the Supreme Court, devoted his professional life to making the United States a less fair, less tolerant, and less admirable democracy. Fortunately, he mostly failed. Belligerent with his colleagues, dismissive of his critics, nostalgic for a…
The last few times you’ve used Facebook, there’s a good chance you noticed something different. Lots of different publishers, including big names like the Washington Post, are now publishing full-length content directly to Facebook. The program, called Instant Articles, is designed for mobile users. It pushes full articles directly to Facebook, meaning that users…