Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
A 53-year-old white supremacist will spend the rest of his life in prison after being found guilty of murdering Labour MP Jo Cox in what the trial judge called a vicious and premeditated attack “designed to advance the cause of violent white nationalism”. Thomas Mair, whose home was littered with Nazi literature and memorabilia as…
Federal appeals court judge Merrick Garland, right, walks out with President Obama and Vice President Biden as he is introduced as Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court during an announcement in the Rose Garden of the White House on March 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) Merrick Garland’s last, long-shot chance at being confirmed as a Supreme…
It’s been 232 days since Merrick Garland, chief judge of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, was nominated to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by Antonin Scalia’s death in February. Despite many high-profile issues on the court’s docket, the Republican-dominated Senate has refused to even consider Garland, arguing that the next president should choose…
CHARLOTTESVILLE — A federal court jury decided Friday that a Rolling Stone journalist defamed a former University of Virginia associate dean in a 2014 magazine article about sexual assault on campus that included a debunked account of a fraternity gang rape. The 10-member jury concluded that the Rolling Stone reporter, Sabrina Rubin Erdely, was responsible…
Blue Apron got approval to operate a food processing facility from the California Department of Public Health for the first time last month, despite having been packing and shipping boxes of fresh produce and raw fish, poultry, and meat in the state for over three years. The company’s Oct. 5 registration with the state health…
Donald Trump gives a fist-pump to the ground crew as he arrives on his plane in St. Augustine, Florida, on Oct. 24.Jonathan Ernst/Reuters The greatest miracle of the internet is that it exists—the second greatest is that it persists. Every so often we’re reminded that bad actors wield great skill and have little conscience…
Native American protesters are preparing to take a “last stand” against the Dakota Access pipeline after police raided their camps and arrested hundreds, paving the way for construction of the final stretch of the controversial oil project. The Standing Rock protesters in North Dakota have been fighting the $3.8bn pipeline since April but were dealt…
Updated | The disclosure by the Federal Bureau of Investigation late on Friday, October 28 that it had discovered potential new evidence in its inquiry into Hillary Clinton’s handling of her personal email when she was Secretary of State has virtually nothing to do with any actions taken by the Democratic nominee, according to government records…
Ammon and Ryan Bundy, the right-wing militants who last winter engaged in an armed takeover of a federally owned wildlife sanctuary in Oregon, were acquitted Thursday. The militants, along with five co-defendants, were all found not guilty of federal conspiracy and weapons charges in their trial. Team Bundy had insisted that they were merely protesting the federal…
At least 150 armed white men have seized control of a federal building outside of Burns, Oregon. They are led by a cadre which includes Ammon and Ryan Bundy. They are the sons of Cliven Bundy, the rancher who led a successful armed rebellion against federal law enforcement officers in Nevada last year. Since that…