Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
<br /> Remember the scene from A League of Their Own where Jimmy Dugan, played by Tom Hanks, proclaims, “There’s no crying in baseball!” This is basically all I have wanted to scream at my tender, fragile, weak journalism colleagues who couldn’t handle the mildest of pushback from Rand Paul during an interview with Savannah…
Feidin Santana, who filmed the police killing of Walter Scott, is interviewed on NBC Nightly News. Photograph: NBC Walter Scott and police officer Michael Slager were struggling on the ground in the seconds before Slager shot Scott dead, the man who recorded video footage of the killing in South Carolina said on Wednesday evening. In…
Just after 9pm each day, a long line of workers files out of 55 Savushkina Street, a modern four-storey office complex with a small sign outside that reads “Business centre”. Having spent 12 hours in the building, the workers are replaced by another large group, who will work through the night. The nondescript building has…
The New York Daily News is reporting tonight that Hillary Clinton will announce her candidacy for President on Sunday. Business Insider politics editor Hunter Walker, who ran a similar report earlier today, joins Hardball with the scoop. Reports: Clinton to announce on Sunday | MSNBC.
Negative comments on your social-media posts might just be the work of standard Internet trolls. But it could actually be a bit more sinister. An article recently published by The Guardian details the Russian troll house, a government agency that hires people to post pro-Russian and anti-Western blogs and comments. Though it may be surprising…
<![endif][if gt IE 9]>><![endif][if IE 9]>< ![endif][if IE 8]>< ![endif][if gt IE 8]>><![endif][if lt IE 9]>< ![endif][if lt IE 9]>< ![endif] USA TODAY investigation revealed that a secret program collecting phone call data for international calls started in 1992. USA TODAY Starting in 1992, the Justice Department amassed logs of virtually all telephone calls from…
Entry Text PHOENIX (AP) — Sen. John McCain announced Tuesday that he will run for re-election in 2016, making official a move that has been widely expected for the Republican as he looks to extend his nearly three-decade career in the Senate.McCain described his plans to run before an Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry…
And how much does it matter, anyway? A lot can happen between now and then, but barring something truly unprecedented and totally unforeseen — a meteorite, a Benghazi revelation, a health scare, or a Martin O’Malley groundswell — on July 28, 2016, Hillary Clinton will step onto a stage in Philadelphia. There, surrounded by red-white-and-blue…
There are very few government checks on what America’s sweeping surveillance programs are capable of doing. John Oliver sits down with Edward Snowden to discuss the NSA, the balance between privacy and security, and dick-pics. Connect with Last Week Tonight online… Subscribe to the Last Week Tonight YouTube channel for more almost news as it…
Apparently a crew of three “artists,” plus assistants, dragged a four-foot-tall plaster-like bust of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden up Fort Greene Park and on top of the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument last night (Sunday night), and adhered it to one of the top columns. They also adhered letters spelling his name to the bottom of…