Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
For the first time in many decades, The New York Times has taken the rare step of running an editorial on its front page. Calling the availability of deadly weapons “a moral outrage” and “a national disgrace,” the editorial calls for an outright ban on some weapons: Certain kinds of weapons, like the slightly…
O Thursday afternoon, George Zimmerman, the Florida man who was charged in the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin, tweeted nude photos of a woman he claimed cheated on him “with a dirty Muslim.” In addition to posting a topless photo of the woman, who is identified in the tweet by her first name, Zimmerman also…
12:11 P.M. Fred Henning was holed up inside the paralegal’s office where he works with his wife, about a block from the scene of the San Bernadino shooting. Henning said they were standing outside as helicopters swooped over the area, but fled into the building as police flooded the area. “We just came inside because…
Click here to watch live video There were initial reports of at least 20 victims down amid an active shooter incident in San Bernardino late Wednesday morning, according to a police official. The San Bernardino Fire Department first tweeted around 11:15 a.m. that they were responding to a report of a “20-victim shooting.” San Bernardino…
As the old saying kind of goes, reports of the impending demise of CEO Marissa Mayer at Yahoo are greatly exaggerated. And so are rumors that the board of the Silicon Valley Internet giant is poised to sell off the entire core business. Consider the Wall Street Journal’s reporting last night that there is some…
Wasiullah Mohamed, executive director of the Islamic Center of Pittsburgh, sits Friday with a taxi driver who was shot by a passenger last week. The victim, who asked not to be identified, said he was shot in the back for being Muslim. (Dominique Hildebrand/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) It began as an ordinary cab ride. But by the…
A suspect is in police custody following an hours-long shooting standoff at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, where at least one police officer and two civilians were killed Friday. “The perpetrator is in custody,” Mayor John Suthers declared just after 5 p.m. Mountain time — more than five hours after an active shooter…
Five people were shot at a Black Lives Matter protest in Minneapolis late Monday night. The Associated Press spoke with Minneapolis police who confirmed the shootings. Police spokesman John Elder told AP all five have injuries that are not life-threatening. The local newspaper The Star Tribune reported that the five people shot were protesters. Black…
You could watch Amazon’s new series, Man in the High Castle, based on the Philip K. Dick novel about an alternate timeline where the Nazis won World War Two, or you could just read the news, where leading Republican presidential candidate and literal fascist Donald Trump continues to lie and lie with no apparent end…
Gunmen attacked the Radisson Blu Hotel in the Malian capital Bamako Friday morning, with some 150 hostages taken. View this image › Malian security forces evacuate two women from near the hotel, Nov. 20. Habibou Kouyate / AFP / Getty Images ID: 7392014 SECURITY MESSSAGE (1/4) The Embassy is aware of an ongoing active shooter…