Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
In the three days since President Donald Trump’s Tuesday night address to the country, you’ve probably already forgotten the significance of his parroted talking points about a border wall, or all that weird nose breathing. If you live in Seattle and were watching it on your local Fox affiliate, however, you probably can’t stop thinking…
New York City and Northern Virginia will be the homes for Amazon.com Inc.’sAMZN +0.60% second and third headquarters, according to people familiar with the matter, ending a more than yearlong public contest that started with 238 candidates and ended with a surprise split of its so-called HQ2. The imminent announcement is expected as soon as Tuesday, according to the…
The Benjamin Bar & Lounge at the Trump Hotel in DC is one of the only places young Republicans can find a date. Photo: Trump Hotel In an article published yesterday by Fox News, Trump administration and Republican congressional staffers bemoan the difficulty of dating in DC. We’ve seen this kind of story before, but…
Photo: Getty This site’s stance on shaming extremely bad public figures is, by now, well known and also correct. So it is with heart aflutter that I must inform you: a lone, as-yet-unnamed hero confronted White House adviser Stephen Miller at a Mexican restaurant in DC to let him know he’s definitely a “fascist.” Sources…
Two months shy of its 10th anniversary in a glass-and-steel showpiece on Washington’s most prestigious thoroughfare, executives at the struggling Newseum will meet Thursday with a top real estate firm to explore options that include selling their building or moving to another location. The previously undisclosed talks with officials from the international firm Eastdil Secured —…
AP Amazon Go, the company’s new Seattle-based automated convenience store that opened up to the public on Monday, allows customers to zoom on in, grab whatever their hearts desire, and get out, all without having to deal with a checkout line or a human manning the register. It’s the latest innovation in convenience from the…
Ev Williams, the co-founder of Twitter, spent five years building Medium into one of the slickest publishing platforms on the web. Yet he found himself in traditional-publishing purgatory on Wednesday, cutting 50 employees and searching for a new business model. There could be no better proof that delivery methods matter little and content is king….
PART ONE: ‘This Is What Human Trafficking Looks Like’ With the death of his mother last summer, Sigurds Zitars, a retired accountant, was the only family member left in University Place, Washington. Since 2006 “Sig” had been the clan’s caregiver, after his mother developed dementia and his father and sister both took ill. In January,…
Justice Gun Dealers May Actually Have To Pay For Some Of The Carnage They Cause In Seattle by Ian Millhiser Dec 23, 2015 10:37 am CREDIT: AP Photo/Brennan Linsley A National Rifle Association lawsuit seeking to immunize gun dealers from a recently enacted tax was rejected by a state trial court on Tuesday. If…
The next full-margin rupture of the Cascadia subduction zone will spell the worst natural disaster in the history of the continent. Credit Illustration by Christoph Niemann; Map by Ziggymaj / Getty Barrier Status: ‘none’ When the 2011 earthquake and tsunami struck Tohoku, Japan, Chris Goldfinger was two hundred miles away, in the city of Kashiwa,…