Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Ally. Image via Getty. In the middle of a hot Tennessee summer, young Harry T. Burn was mulling the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. Congress had proposed the amendment a year prior and it looked like it might die since only 35 states saw fit to ratify and others refused to hold special sessions in…
Image via Getty. In an essay for Marie Claire, MSNBC/NBC reporter Katy Tur writes that, after Donald Trump launched a personal attack against her at a South Carolina rally, she had to be accompanied out by Secret Service agents. Tur, who’s been covering Trump for the networks for the last year, became the focus of…
Buy Photo Copies of the Rutland Herald on a newsstand in Middlebury, Saturday(Photo: CORY DAWSON/FREE PRESS)Buy Photo RUTLAND – A mix of apathy and melancholy struck people Saturday in Rutland as they reacted to news that the Rutland Herald and its sister paper, the Times Argus are in financial straits. • Employees, from reporters to…
The Olympic diving pool on August 8 (left) and the Olympic diving pool on August 9 (right) Image: AP As the women’s synchronized diving teams took to the pool in Rio de Janeiro today, they were greeted by a strange sight. The diving pool had turned green overnight, while the neighboring water polo pool remained…
Image: HBO Wikileaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange blatantly lied about publishing only the “last four digits” of credit card numbers from democratic donors during an appearance on the HBO show Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday. “We did not publish full credit card numbers of donors,” Assange said in response to a torrent of criticism…
Image: Getty The recent hack that targeted Democratic officials and led to the resignation of Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz was much bigger than initially suspected, according to a new report from the New York Times. Sources tell the paper that over 100 officials and groups had their private email accounts breached, and…
Photo: Heisenberg Media/Flickr Billionaire douchebag Peter Thiel has plenty of crazy ideas, but his commitment to radical life extension isn’t one of them. Without question, Thiel clings to some rather obnoxious ideas. An ardent libertopian and admirer of the pseudo-intellectual Ayn Rand, the tech mogul believes that freedom and democracy are incompatible, and he questions…
In 2015, then-Twitter CEO Dick Costolo secretly ordered employees to filter out abusive and hateful replies to President Barack Obama during a Q&A session, sources tell BuzzFeed News. According to these sources, the May 2015 #AskPOTUS town hall came out of Twitter senior leadership’s frustration with the fact that platforms like Reddit had become home…
Image: Pixabay The US Drug Enforcement Agency has announced that marijuana will remain a Schedule 1 drug, saying it has “no medical use or purpose.” The decision keeps weed on the same naughty list alongside drugs like LSD and heroin. The Obama Administration has turned down a request by two Democratic governors to change the…