Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Image: Getty This week, Facebook announced that it be would rolling out a new system to combat revenge porn and explicit photos being shared on the site, Messenger, or Instagram. And all the social media network needs to protect your nude photos is…for you to first submit your nude photos. Friends, please do not submit…
Image: Youtube If you were thinking that Spotify’s new “hate content and hateful conduct policy”—which was faulty to begin with—would stop other alleged abusers’ music from being promoted, think again. Only R. Kelly and rapper XXXTentacion (who was charged with battery of a pregnant woman) were initially singled out as part of the policy, which…
After making an ass of himself in an interview with the New York Times during which he defended costar Jeffrey Tambor’s history of verbal abuse toward Jessica Walter (who tearfully recounted Tambor’s behavior), Jason Bateman has released a multi-part (though strangely un-threaded) apology. A Big Fuck Off to the Men of Arrested Development There…
Drake Photo: Michael Loccisano (Getty Images for TNT) Drizzy Drake brought all the smoke to Pusha T and Kanye West, getting out a clapback to Pusha’s recently released diss track in record time but he also issued a six-figure invoice to the duo for “promotional assistance” and “career reviving.” Pusha, whose West-produced Daytona dropped on…
Photo: Getty The White House on Monday took its dehumanizing campaign to brand MS-13 gang members as “animals” to a new level. A 480-word “article” published on the White House press site Monday morning referred to MS-13 members as “animals” eight different times. The statement went on to list the most heinous crimes allegedly committed…
Photo: AP Speaking at New York’s Democratic Party convention on Thursday, Democratic National Committee Chair Tom Perez reportedly celebrated Gov. Andrew Cuomo securing the party’s nomination by taking thinly veiled shots at Cuomo’s progressive challenger Cynthia Nixon. As New York Daily News reporter Ken Lovett flagged, Perez called Cuomo and Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul, who…
Photo: Getty Mother Jones’ Kevin Drum, a “liberal” blogger who thinks you’d be “crazy” if you don’t have a “reflexive disgust of the homeless,” did a take today on liberals supposedly “defending” MS-13, the gang which Donald Trump is now calling full of “animals” every chance he gets. It was terrible. The impetus for Drum’s…
On Friday morning, a student at an Indiana middle school opened fire inside a classroom, sending two people—one teenager and one adult—to a local hospital with gunshot wounds. According to local police, the shooter is in custody. The attack, which occurred in the Indianapolis exurb of Noblesville, comes just a week after the mass shooting…
Photo: AP Here’s a lovely anecdote from the Washington Post about racist White House aide Stephen Miller and racist man-child Jared Kushner laughing at racist jokes told by the racist president of the United States in the racist Oval Office before his first racist address to Congress. Wheeee! From the Post: The night before Trump delivered…
Photo: Getty Jared Kushner and Jeff Sessions, the worst remake of Pinky and the Brain ever, are reportedly having a bit of a quarrel over prison reform right now. And according to the New York Times, it helped to force the resignation of the head of the federal prison system. Kushner and Sessions are of…