Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Another day at the Telegraph and another attack on Laurie Penny. — Nick Cohen, The Spectator, 2011 Do you think that red hair and makeup is used for anything other than attention? Her writing? Same. That bitch is a whore who needs to die choking on cocks. — 4chan, 2016 I think that nice Laurie…
Ingraham may have erred terribly in assailing a Parkland survivor, but she has the support of the man in charge of Fox News. ‘’Rupert has been annoyed by what he perceives as cowardly behavior by his executives,’’ says one person close to the mogul. react-text: 222 /react-text By Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images. When…
Gary Rinehart clearly remembers the summer day in 2002 when the stranger walked in and issued his threat. Rinehart was behind the counter of the Square Deal, his “old-time country store,” as he calls it, on the fading town square of Eagleville, Missouri, a tiny farm community 100 miles north of Kansas City. The Square…
The Washington Post published a personal essay by a woman who had two relationships with Jewish men fail and now no longer wants to date Jewish men, and a lot of people are very mad. The essay is rife with seemingly accidental anti-semitism, including a cocktail the writer is “determined” to create, named “A Jewish…
At my very first job in New York, a colleague jokingly informed me: “You came in a WASP, but you’re leaving a Jew.” That statement was in reference to the demographics of the office’s staff. Almost everyone who worked there was Jewish, and I, a recent college graduate who had spent my adolescence in a largely Christian…
A London-based lawyer was ordered to serve 30 days in prison after a federal judge Tuesday handed down the first sentence in special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Alex van der Zwaan, 33, a son-in-law of a prominent Russian-based banker, pleaded guilty Feb. 20 to lying to the…
A woman opened fire at YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, Calif., shooting three people with a handgun before taking her own life and causing widespread panic in the technology hub south of San Francisco. A law enforcement source identified the alleged shooter as Nasim Aghdam. Investigators initially believed the shooting was a domestic incident, with…
On Friday night, Roseanne Barr tweeted a bizarre message that no one seemed to understand. “President Trump has freed so many children held in bondage to pimps all over this world. Hundreds each month. He has broken up trafficking rings in high places everywhere,” she wrote, adding he gets the benefit of the doubt from…
On Twitter, New Yorker food writer Helen Rosner shared a secret for making roast chicken — a hair dryer. Stuck inside on a snow day, Rosner shared a photo of the process she uses to remove moisture from a chicken before roasting it: a bit of time under her hair dryer. It might seem unconventional,…
Photo: Getty It did not take long for America’s despicable conservative movement to lose its goddamn mind about the campaign by Parkland shooting survivors to, you know, not be shot in their classrooms. Laura Ingraham is just the tip of the vile iceberg; look in the fever swamps of right-wing Twitter and you’ll see that…