Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
When RyMingTahn Daniels did her test, she was shocked to find out that 26% of her DNA is of British origin. She talks in her video about feeling like there were secrets in her family. “I was so confused,” she said. “DNA doesn’t lie, but people can.” Many people who identify as black express confusion…
“We have on schedule, and it’s a very hard schedule, all the U.S. election-related documents to come out before Nov. 8,” Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said in a video news conference on Oct. 4. (AP) LONDON — The expectations were breathless. For weeks, backers of Republican nominee Donald Trump have hyped the tantalizing possibility…
An eloquent, if unconvincing, defense of the Donald. I recently received a long email from an old friend, someone whose judgment I very much respect, making the case for Trump. I can’t say I’m convinced, but I thought his argument interesting and eloquent enough to ask him for permission to share it. Here are substantial…
close story-meta-footer Photo Credit Monica Ramos When I was 21, I underwent breast reduction surgery, reducing my embarrassingly large chest to something that could at least fit inside a cardigan. Although there was some medical rationale for the procedure, the overwhelming reason was that I was sick and tired of every man on the planet…
For most people I talk to, when I tell them I have an anxiety disorder, they nod their head and tell me it’ll be okay. When I tell them, “I’m sorry, I’m having a bad anxiety day, can we reschedule?” They smile and tell me there’s nothing to worry about and if I just get…
Imagine if somebody broke into your house and killed all of your roommates, but graciously spared your life … as long as you never left the bathtub. That’s basically what happened with Native American reservations. Even today, these reservations are still rife with poverty, unemployment, and crime — they’re essentially little third-world islands scattered all…
A black person fishing in a community pond, two black people jump-starting a car and ‘someone from the Middle East looking mean’ – these are all ‘suspicious’ scenes that have prompted members of the public to dial 911. These calls were revealed by serving and former police officers who took to the internet to air…
Claim: Hillary Clinton proposed assassinating Julian Assange via drone strike to silence WikiLeaks. unproven Example: [Collected via e-mail and Twitter, October 2016] To Silence Wikileaks, #HillaryClinton Proposed Drone Strike on Julian Assange — report https://t.co/S7tPrl2QCZ — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) October 3, 2016 Origin:On 2 October 2016, the web site True Pundit published an article reporting…
Shutterstock BLUE CIVIL WAR Despite Donald Trump, Many Bernie Sanders Supporters Won’t Forgive Hillary Clinton The Sanders campaign exposed long-simmering discord in the Democratic Party coalition, and the fracture, now exposed and widened, can’t be easily fixed or even papered over. Hillary Clinton was frequently on the offensive at her first face-off with Donald Trump,…
The haunting thing about the new policing documentary “Do Not Resist” is what it doesn’t show. There are no images of cops beating people. No viral videos of horrifying shootings. Sure, there are scenes from the Ferguson protests in which riot cops deploy tear gas. But there’s no blood, no Tasings, no death. Yet when…