Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Unicorns and venture capital go hand in horn. Or so the story goes. Have a billion dollar idea, raise a little bit of money, show a little traction, raise a lot more money. Rinse and repeat. You can’t compete with out it! They say. You can’t scale without it! They say. Weaponized balance sheets have…
One scholar described Steve Bannon’s role in the administration as “pretty terrifying.” Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier listens at left as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with pharmaceutical industry leaders in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017. CREDIT: AP Photo/Evan Vucci Donald Trump has been president for…
In what an official said was the first military raid carried out under President Donald Trump, two Americans were killed in Yemen on Sunday — one a member of SEAL Team 6 and the other the 8-year-old daughter of Anwar al-Awlaki, the New Mexico-born al Qaeda leader who himself was killed in a U.S. strike…
January 31, 2017/in Drones /by emptywheel Back on December 5, 2015, Donald Trump said that if he were elected President, he would take out the families of terrorists. The other thing with the terrorists is you have to take out their families, when you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families. They…
Sen. Ron Wyden led Senate Democrats to boycott the committee confirmation votes for Steven Mnuchin and Tom Price. | Getty Senate Finance Democrats boycott Mnuchin, Price votes By Zachary Warmbrodt 01/31/17 10:55 AM EST Senate Democrats on Tuesday refused to show up to committee confirmation votes on Treasury nominee Steven Mnuchin and Health and Human…
Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Jan 30, 2017 https://www.patreon.com/moviebob1 Anyone can be a hero, and sometimes it’s more important than ever to say so – especially in ubiquitous pop-culture institutions like The Marvel Cinematic Universe. IN…
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has voiced out his thoughts about President Donald Trump’s immigration ban in an email to his employees. More U.S. President Donald Trump’s immigration ban is affecting Uber drivers, so co-founder and CEO Travis Kalanick is reaching out to those affected and is promising them with financial support trough pro bono compensation….
While I think this new situation might be a weak case to object to Uber on, I would still argue that they broke a union-run work stoppage in order to perform the work of that union. This would be enough to consider them scabs. Now, we can debate if it was a strike or not…
Sally Q. Yates, the acting attorney general, during a news conference in June. Credit Pete Marovich/Getty Images WASHINGTON — President Trump fired his acting attorney general on Monday after she defiantly refused to defend his immigration executive order, accusing the Democratic holdover of trying to obstruct his agenda for political reasons. Taking action in an…
JFK with no taxis, via NYTWA There’s a bigger lesson here than “Fuck Uber.” By now you may be familiar with the outlines of this story: On Saturday evening, after Trump’s Muslim ban was announced, thousands of protesters began to gather at New York’s JFK airport. The New York Taxi Workers Alliance—the union for an…