Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Last month, we told you about a pair of lawsuits filed by someone named Katie Johnson, who claims that Donald Trump raped her when she was 13, at a party hosted by notorious celebrity pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. The claims, as we told you at the time, are being backed by a group of men who…
We all have the power to channel our anger and frustration into action. We must use our voices to contact the politicians and legislators in our districts and demand social and judicial changes. To contact your Congressman or woman click here. To voice protest for Alton Sterling, click here. To voice protest for Philando Castile,…
Hillary Clinton speaks during a town hall meeting on Dec. 4, 2015, in Fort Dodge, Iowa. She has not held a news conference since that day. (Charlie Neibergall/AP) The presumptive Democratic nominee for president in 2016 has not held a news conference in 2016. This has become a source of consternation to the media, as expressed by Washington…
On Wednesday night’s episode of Comedy Central’s The Nightly Show, host Larry Wilmore devoted a segment to talking about the death of Alton Sterling, a man police shot to death in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, this week. “Thank God for fucking cellphones,” Wilmore said. “Because we would never even hear about incidents like this this otherwise. In…
For some already skeptical members, the meeting–which had been billed as an opportunity to finally let the rank and file get comfortable with their sometimes bombastic nominee–left a lot to be desired. “It’s awkward. It’s really awkward,” Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) said when asked what it was like to sit in a meeting when the…
A Guide to Taking Action on Police Reform In the wake of the murders of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, I wanted to know how I, as a white person, can help without speaking over people of color. I was directed to a very helpful list of actions by Ijeoma Oluo, who graciously enumerated ways…
OVER the past several years, we have borne witness to grainy videos of what “protect and serve” looks like for black lives — Tamir Rice, Walter Scott, Eric Garner, Kajieme Powell, to name a few. I don’t think any of us could have imagined how tiny cameras would allow us to see, time and again,…
Philando Castile, Sandra Bland, Tamir Rice; Michael Brown, Alton Sterling, Tarika Wilson It’s becoming increasingly difficult to fight the sense that, for the rest of my life, I’ll be writing about black Americans who’ve been killed, in one way or another, by the police. Every generation likes to believe that they’ve made progress that distinguishes…
Whether because of contractual obligation or a mutual attraction—to what, I can’t say—Calvin Harris and Taylor Swift spent one magical year together as boyfriend and girlfriend, a legal term used to indicate two people making an agreed-upon minimum number of public appearances together. But now that their term of agreement is over, it seems Harris…
The family of a Brooklyn man shot dead by an off-duty cop during a road-rage incident demanded Tuesday that the officer be charged in the killing — or they’ll “hunt him down” themselves. Zoe Dempsey, the 23-year-old niece of slain dad Delrawn Small, said, “We will seek our justice’’ — and get violent if necessary….