Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Illustration by Angelica Alzona In December 2015, readers at women’s site xoJane were enthralled and filled with all-caps rage by Rachel Brewson, a self-described “giant liberal” who boldly declared her love for a Republican named Todd. She described, in rapturous terms, how the couple’s political disagreements fueled an ecstatic third-date bipartisan fuck-fest that soon flowered…
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The New York attorney general has notified Donald Trump that his charitable foundation is violating state law — by soliciting donations without proper certification — and ordered Trump’s charity to stop its fundraising immediately, the attorney general’s office said Monday. James Sheehan, head of the attorney general’s charities bureau, sent the “notice of violation” to…
Real Estate | Renters The Serial Subletter By JOANNE KAUFMANSEPT. 30, 2016 close story-meta-footer close story-meta Photo Susannah Vila is forever on the move, apartment-wise. Credit Tony Cenicola/The New York Times Susannah Vila lives in a large studio on the parlor floor of a townhouse in the East Village, but who’s to say how long…
“T.H.C.R. is a casino and entertainment company,” the lawsuit, filed in 1999, said. “It is not in the business of loaning money. The company desperately needed (and needs) cash to shore up its deteriorating financial condition.” (The suit was dropped in 2000, shortly after Mr. Trump paid the company back.) Indeed, the company posted losses…
August 26, 2015, was, by all accounts, a stressful day at Blue Apron’s facility in Richmond, California. As the sun rose over what would be an unusually warm Wednesday, a 21-year-old employee made a phone call to a supervisor at the $2 billion food startup’s Bay Area fulfillment center, where tens of thousands of meal kits…
The demise of Blackberry’s handset making division follows efforts to compete with other smartphones. The Canadian company released its first Android smartphone last year, which was followed with the Dtek50 this summer, billed as “the world’s most secure Android smartphone”. However, it has failed to reverse a trend of falling revenues since 2010, when the company was at its…
cxenseparse_start Donald Trump’s foundation is under investigation by the New York state attorney general’s office. USA TODAY The New York state attorney general’s office is investigating whether the Donald J. Trump Foundation ever obtained the certification required by the state to solicit money from the general public, according to reports from The Washington Post and…
Trump holds a rally in Des Moines in January. (Charles Ommanney/The Washington Post) Donald Trump’s charitable foundation — which has been sustained for years by donors outside the Trump family — has never obtained the certification that New York requires before charities can solicit money from the public, according to the state attorney general’s office….
And so the No Man’s Sky saga continues. Beyond the hype, the promises, and the prolonged silence from developer Hello Games and head honcho Sean Murray, it appears the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA)—an independent regulator whose role is to “regulate the content of advertisements, sales promotions and direct marketing in the UK [by investigating]…