Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
No it is not. It isn’t about your feelings. In case you were wondering and a lot of you were. Before I get all the way into this, let me welcome my new readers. Welcome new readers. I post intermittently about a bunch of things that range in subject matter from knitting and my cat…
Great. This is a necessary behavior in the face of the election of the most overtly racist, sexist, xenophobic, anti- gender and sexual minority candidate in the history of the modern United States. You know the rhetoric of his campaign was wrong. It was the very worst thing about America and you want to do…
Writer Ariana Lenarsky was scrolling through her Twitter feed at 6:08 P.M. last night when she says she came upon a tweet from new_order_1488, a Neo Nazi account. “‘New Article: The United States Was Founded as a White People’s Republic’ on NEW ORDER website,” it read. The hashtag #WhiteAmerica followed. Racist and white supremacist content…
Your Post Has Been Launched! Fabulous! Don’t forget to share with your friends on Twitter and Facebook. 1. President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday appointed Stephen Bannon, the controversial executive chairman of far-right website Breitbart, as his chief White House strategist and counselor. View this image › Evan Vucci / AP The appointment — Bannon first…
The Jew haters are celebrating. And Jews – from Jared Kushner to Sheldon Adelson –helped it happen. Screen grab of Donald Trump’s tweet of an image of Hillary Clinton with the words “Most Corrupt Candidate Ever” on a Star of David-like form. July 2, 2016.Twitter Tuesday’s election marked a stunning victory for Donald…
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There’s been much ado in media circles this past week about the prevalence of “fake” news on social networks and what, if any, effect that had on the outcome of the U.S. election. Stories from big players like InfoWars and The Blaze as well as cookie-cutter outlets like Occupy Democrats, WorldNetDaily, The Other 98% and…
Iowa Feature On a cold, clear night in January 2008, when Iowa Democrats selected Barack Obama over a white woman and a white man in the state’s first-in-the-nation caucus, the moment felt transformative. If voters in this overwhelmingly white, rural state could cast their ballots for a black man as president, then perhaps it was…
Hide CM floating unit Donald Trump’s First, Alarming Week as President-Elect Donald Trump’s motorcade and security staff outside the “21” Club, in New York City, after he told his press pool that he would not be leaving his residence but then went to the restaurant. Credit PHOTOGRAPH BY CAROLYN KASTER / AP Barrier Status: ‘none’…
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong.Noam Galai/Getty Images for TechCrunch AOL announced a sizeable round of layoffs on Thursday. Recode’s Kara Swisher reported 5% of its global workforce, or 500 employees, will be affected. In a memo sent to staff obtained by Business Insider (which you can read in full below), AOL CEO Tim Armstrong said the…