Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
According to a report from MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump asked a foreign policy advisor three times during a briefing why he couldn’t just use nuclear weapons to solve the nation’s problems. Scarborough shared the anecdote on Morning Joe Wednesday, speaking deliberately to avoid naming his source. “I’ll be very careful here. Several months ago,…
Trump boots baby from Virginia rally By Nick Gass 08/02/16 12:21 PM EDT Donald Trump asked a woman with a crying baby to leave his rally in Ashburn, Virginia on Tuesday. The GOP nominee initially suggested that he did not mind the disruption. Story Continued Below “Don’t worry about that baby. I love babies,” Trump…
Police say that the 19-year-old Washington man who shot and killed three former classmates at a house party in suburban Seattle on Saturday was motivated by jealousy over an ex-girlfriend, one of the victims, KOMO News reports. According to a probable cause statement, Allen Ivanov bought the AR-15 he used to kill the victims about…
The problematic history of the alt-right’s favorite new insult. If you’ve been on Twitter in the last few months, chances are you’ve come across “cuck,” a word that you’d previously only seen while your browser was in Incognito Mode. Its literal meaning references a submissive man sexually cuckolded by a woman. Now, it is a…
When Khizr Khan took the stage last week at the Democratic National Convention, proudly standing before a portrait of his Muslim American son, who died while fighting in Iraq for the U.S., he removed a pocket Constitution from his jacket, thrust it toward the camera, and demanded to know if Donald Trump, a proponent of…
But his Selective Service records, obtained from the National Archives, suggest otherwise. Mr. Trump had been medically exempted for more than a year when the draft lottery began in December 1969, well before he received what he has described as his “phenomenal” draft number. Because of his medical exemption, his lottery number would have been…
You’re looking at the face of resurgent mainstream white hatred in the United States—it listens to Slipknot*, daydreams about appearing on an MMA-based reality competition show, smells like cocktail made of Mountain Dew, cough syrup, and creatine, and thinks anyone who appears to be Mexican should “BUILD THAT FUCKIN’ WALL… FOR ME!” http://gawker.com/photographs-sh… It was…
So, I asked: “Thank you for sharing that. Tell me your story? I’d love to know how you came to this point of view.” She seemed surprised by my interest. “Why? It doesn’t matter. Your sign said Free Listening, so I gave you something to listen to.” “Give me more to listen to.” “They should be locked up! It’s…