Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
D.C. Council member LaRuby May (E-Ward 8). (J. Lawler Duggan/For The Washington Post) At a recent “safe communities” meeting in Southeast Washington, where some of the District’s most crime-ridden neighborhoods are located, D.C. Council member LaRuby May (D-Ward 8) offered a sobering take on her short time representing that part of the city. “I’ve been…
Michael Brown’s killing brought to light the horrific case of Henry Davis, who was beaten by Ferguson cops, then charged with bleeding on them. Now he’s finally allowed to sue them. The Ferguson cops charged Henry Davis with destruction of property because he bled on their uniforms when they beat him. Then, as if fearing…
He really is sorry for the unavoidable delay. Charlie Pellett, a Bloomberg Radio news anchor and reporter who is the voice behind the “Stand Clear of the Closing Doors” announcement, may send you into conniptions every time you hear his voice inside your subway train, but in real life, he seems impossible to get mad…
Carlo Allegri/Reuters A nail salon on New York’s Upper West Side, November 3, 2014 Rarely does a newspaper story get the kind of response that The New York Times front-page exposé of wage-theft at nail salons prompted this spring. Profiling at length the experiences of a woman named Jing Ren—a twenty-year-old recent immigrant who was…
If the online footprint of the Lafayette shooter identified by police as John Russell Houser, who killed two and injured nine others during a Thursday night showing of Amy Schumer’s Trainwreck before then killing himself, is any indication, Obama has really outdone himself in the false flag department this time. What did Houser hate? Pretty much…
It’s been at least a few days since we’ve spun you a tale of a nightmarish morning commute, so it seems appropriate to conclude this week with a subway horror story. An “earlier incident” at Court Square in Long Island City halted service on the E, F, and M trains this morning, which made things…
Photo Outside the Grand Theater in Lafayette, La., where a man fired on people at a screening of “Trainwreck.” The gunman was one of the dead. Credit Lee Celano/Reuters LAFAYETTE, La. — Three people were killed and seven were injured when a man opened fire in a movie theater here on Thursday night, officials said….
A gunman in Lafayette, Louisiana, who has been identified as a 58-year-old white man, killed three, including himself, and injured at least seven others during a shooting at a movie theater Thursday night. The shooter, whose name has not been disclosed, opened fire at a 7 p.m. screening of Trainwreck. Louisiana State Police spokesman Sgt. Brian…
Courtesy @laurenpainter’s Instagram Vice’s new Williamsburg offices were robbed of $16K worth of laptops this week, proving again that one should never build a home on top of an Indian burial ground. The Brooklyn Paper reports that the magazine’s headquarters at South 2nd Street and Kent Avenue—once home to venerable institutions like 285 Kent, Death…
I am a freak for the American road trip. And I’m not alone, as some of this country’s best writers have taken a shot at describing that quintessentially American experience. “There is no such knowledge of the nation as comes of traveling in it, of seeing eye to eye its vast extent, its various and teeming…