Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
A family has been forced to flee their new $1.3 million home in Westfield, New Jersey, after repeatedly receiving threatening packages from a person who calls themselves “the Watcher,” according to a lawsuit filed against the previous owners of the home. CBS New York reports that the packages are from someone who claims the six-bedroom…
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images From denying racism to . . . actually making racist comments. Lindsey Graham took to the floor of the Senate on Wednesday to comment on the mass murder that took place on June 17 at a historically black church in Charleston. The suspect in the case is Dylann Roof, a 21-year-old white…
Over the past few weeks, a 25-year-old named Tyrelle Shaw allegedly struck at least four Asian women in Manhattan in the face with heavy objects concealed inside a bag, in what appeared to be random attacks, according to the NYPD. On Monday, Shaw was found dead in an elevator shaft on the Upper East Side, a hanging that…
Alexandra Staley, perhaps the most-wrong reporter in the New York Times’ rich, cosplay-filled history, is moving back to beat reporting from movie criticism, per a memo from editor-in-chief Dean Bacquet. Staley will move from writing about the film industry to “creating a new beat: an interdisciplinary look at the way the richest of the rich…
Circa, a news app, will cease publishing circa now, according to a post from its co-founder Matt Galligan on Medium titled “Farewell to Circa News.” This announcement follows days of drama surrounding the news app’s fate, which abruptly stopped updating on Monday, leaving at least one reader very confused. But now we have our answer:…
On her first campaign stop in Iowa in April, Hillary Clinton struck a decisively populist tone, declaring that “the deck is still stacked in favor of those at the top.” Later, she sharpened her rhetoric on income inequality by comparing the salaries of America’s richest hedge fund managers with kindergarten teachers. Clinton isn’t alone….
Of the richest venture capitalists, all are worth more than $1 billion, and all are men. The majority of these have invested in Groupon, LinkedIn, Skype, YouTube, Paypal, Facebook and others. Chances are, you are legally barred from joining their exclusive investors’ club. More than 97% of Americans cannot invest in the latest startups, nor…
Sitting in his surgical gown inside a large medical suite in Reston, Va., a Vienna man prepared for his colonoscopy by pressing record on his smartphone, to capture the instructions his doctor would give him after the procedure. But as soon as he pressed play on his way home, he was shocked out of his…
Farewell to Circa News It’s with great disappointment that we let you know that Circa News has been put on indefinite hiatus. Producing high-quality news can be a costly endeavor and without the capital necessary to support further production we are unable to continue. Our mission was always to create a news company where factual,…
★★★ The clearing where the children were waiting for soccer camp to start was still mild and shady, with a deep blue sky showing above the trees. Clover whitened the fenced-off lawn and plantain sent up its spikes. One or two dandelions, then one or two more, stood up compact and yellow. An evaporative breeze crossed…