Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Don’t stop your dog from barking at them. Don’t take their money. If you’re making coffee for them, make it wrong. Last week, Donald Trump was elected president by the United States. But he wasn’t elected by New Yorkers. In his hometown, Trump has for years been regarded as a clown—a tabloid regular, a Howard…
On the Friday after the US presidential election, Andrew Torba, CEO of Gab.ai, a social network favored by conservatives, was kicked out of Y Combinator, the influential Silicon Valley startup accelerator, for violating its harassment policy. Torba, a fervent Trump supporter, called members of the Y Combinator community “cucks” and told them to “fuck off”…
Photo via AP, helpful indicator by Jezebel. Here’s Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who wants to run the Department of Homeland Security, just carrying around sensitive internal documents where everyone can see, like a huge goober. There’s some speculation that Kobach did it on purpose, but that gives him a lot of credit, I…
I’m guessing Tucker Carlson has heard worse, but it’s alway nail-bitingly good to watch a brilliant woman demolish the turgid arguments of a smug Republican male. Even if his sense of moral and intellectual superiority inevitably remains unshaken. This is what happened when Teen Vogue writer Lauren Duca, whose essay about Donald Trump “gaslighting” America…
Fred Turner is a Stanford-based historian of 20th century media, who chronicled the emergence of what became the Internet from the ideals of 1960s Bay Area countercultural movements in his book “From Counterculture to Cyberculture.” He also happened to write a book called, “The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic…
When Chris Christie aligned himself with Donald Trump, he signed up for a series of humiliations. Like being publicly admonished for eating cookies, or losing leadership of Trump’s transition team to the same man who likely stole his VP nomination. It’s no less than he deserves, but the reason is a bit unexpected. Since Christie…
END CLASS=”STORY-META__ONE” END CLASS=”STORY-META__TWO” END ID=”STORY-META” CLASS=”STORY-META HAS-BYLINE” President-elect Donald Trump said he “intends to dissolve” the Donald J. Trump Foundation “to avoid even the appearance of any conflict” with his role as president. Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Images President-elect Donald Trump said he “intends to…
During his tenure as the director of national intelligence, James Clapper has maintained a classified blog. It’s called “Intercept,” and is only accessible to people within the intelligence community with clearance to access the government intelink site. It even offers a secret RSS feed so analysts will never miss a post. Clapper’s Intercept blog has no relationship to…
For OPEC, there are few enemies more fearsome than the tiny Oklahoma town of Cushing. With oil inventories at Cushing creeping near an all-time high, U.S. benchmark futures prices are struggling to advance despite the promised production cuts agreed to by OPEC, Russia and other producers. And the storage tanks are likely to stay full…
Russian hackers struck at the heart of the U.S. military in August 2015 by seizing the e-mail system used by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, CBS News has learned. Then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Martin Dempsey was alerted to the attack by an early-morning phone call from the Director of the National Security Agency, Admiral…