Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Getty Over 130,000 adults combined in Florida and North Carolina are banned from reading The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander’s award-winning book about the effects of mass incarceration, according to a report by The New York Times. Earlier this month, the ACLU blasted New Jersey state prisons for what it said was an unconstitutional ban…
An advertisement for a Black Friday sale is seen on the front page of the Los Angeles Times in November in downtown Los Angeles. PHOTO: ROBYN BECK/AFP/GETTY IMAGES By Benjamin Mullin Jan. 19, 2018 2:30 p.m. ET 0 COMMENTS Employees at the Los Angeles Times have voted to unionize, a historic shift for a publication long resistant to…
close story-meta Photo The newsroom of Página Siete, a Bolivian newspaper. Traffic to the publication’s website plunged by 20 percent after Facebook began testing a new version of its News Feed in Bolivia. Credit Gonzalo Pardo for The New York Times SAN FRANCISCO — One morning in October, the editors of Página Siete, Bolivia’s third-largest…
The UK’s freedom to determine its own rules on immigration, trade and fishing in a transition period after Brexit may be further restricted, according to revised EU guidelines on a transition. Draft EU documents would see full freedom of movement extended until the start of 2021. The UK would also need “authorisation” to stick with…
A pastor in Prince George’s County, Md., denounced Trump’s vulgar remarks towards Haiti and African countries during a service attended by Vice President Pence on Jan. 14. (WUSA9) Like many people, the Rev. Maurice Watson issued a stern and very public rebuke of President Trump’s Oval Office comments about immigrants from “shithole countries.” But Watson’s…
When The Globe and Mail asked if I would consider writing something about Liam Neeson’s latest action thriller, The Commuter, I eagerly agreed. Not since The Taking of Pelham 123 has Hollywood fare given public transit such a platform. I imagined a storyline that had Neeson’s daughter, stuck on a shuttle bus – or worse,…
President Donald Trump is considering a military strike against North Korea that his advisers hope, somehow, wouldn’t lead to war. It’s called the “bloody nose” strategy, and it’s based off of the idea that if America launched a limited military strike against North Korea — say, by attacking one of their facilities — that they could…
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced that beginning March 1, 2018 their pay-as-you-wish policy will undergo a change. From now, you can only pay-as-you-wish with a New York state ID, and if you don’t have one you can pay out your asshole for what’s supposed to be a free museum full of cultural artifacts….
Image via AP. New York State has launched a new “program” that would severely limit one of the few earthly pleasures permitted to prisoners during their time behind bars: Books. Directive 4911A, which is being piloted at three prisons around the state, limits the items available to inmates to just six vendors, ostensibly to “enhance…
Image: Screengrab via Twitter Товарищи, Terrible news. Project Gizmodnik, our brilliant plan to secretly infiltrate the U.S. tech media for the glorification of Matushka Rossiya’s Great Leader Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump and/or the destruction of global capitalism*, has been compromised by American “super spy” Eric Garland. Fellow deep cover Russian operatives, you may remember…