Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
– ***************LINKS START HERE**************** SEN. SESSIONS TO ENDORSE TRUMP Sun Feb 28 2016 16:36:22 ET The conservative soul of the US Senate, Jeff Sessions, will endorse Trump this evening at a Huntsville, Alabama rally… This news will be delivered as a suprise to all 25k Alabamians in attendance at the Trump rally and all…
Questions surround USA Today columnist’s account of airplane “hacking” incident A technology journalist who recently published a column for USA Today claiming to be the victim of a computer intrusion during a recent American Airlines flight was likely not hacked because of a security flaw or lapse involving the plane’s on-board wireless Internet service, according…
“Luckily, I drank blood. If not, I’d be crazy, calling to prayer from the trees,” says Inong, a thin, old man in a knitted skull cap. “If you drink blood, you can do anything! Salty and sweet. Human blood.” The seventy-two-year-old is the former leader of a village death squad in The Look of Silence,…
Before Nathalie Miller decided to walk away from Instacart, the grocery delivery start-up now worth more than $2 billion, she made a spreadsheet to analyze how much money she was leaving on the table. She had been Instacart’s 20th employee, managing operations during a period of extremely rapid growth, and the sum could have been…
SARA and I met as office drones in 1999. We became friends in a period of our lives when the demands of our jobs were just heating up, when the roots we were putting down in the city were just getting deep. In each other, we found respite, recognition, a shared eagerness to relax, take…
Three people were stabbed and 13 others were arrested when a Ku Klux Klan rally in Anaheim erupted in violence Saturday, police said. A small group of people representing the Klan had announced that it would hold a rally at Pearson Park at 1:30 p.m., police said. By 11 a.m., several dozen protesters had shown…
Inglewood, CA — On Sunday, police responded to a call of a suspicious vehicle parked on Manchester Boulevard around 3:10 am. When police arrived, they engaged in a 45-minute long standoff before opening fire on the man and woman inside the vehicle, killing them both. In the news release on Monday, following the shooting, police…
The mayor of Inglewood was speaking out after a man and woman were shot and killed by police. Patrick Healy reports for the NBC4 News at 6 on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016. (Published Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016) Both the man and woman who were mortally wounded during an officer involved shooting were unconscious when Inglewood police…
Melissa Harris-Perry will not be back on MSNBC. On Sunday morning, two days after the host’s private fight with management went public, an MSNBC spokesman confirmed that the channel is “parting ways” with her. Earlier in the morning, Harris-Perry posted a photo on Twitter and said “Farewell #Nerdland,” a nickname for her weekend show, “Melissa…
Is Donald Trump a fascist? Experts, historians, and pundits have debated the question for months. One thing has been certain for a while now: He tweets like one. That’s why, last year, Gawker’s Ashley Feinberg created a Twitter bot that would post quotes from the writings and speeches of the Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini,…