Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
A same-sex couple holds hands. Spencer Platt / Getty Images, file LGBTQ advocacy groups are outraged after proposed questions regarding sexual orientation and gender identity were quickly removed Tuesday from a just-released draft of the 2020 U.S. Census. The U.S. Census Bureau, which is part of the Department of Commerce, is required to issue a…
Jeanine Pirro speaking at a Conservative Political Action Conference in February. She said on her Fox News show this weekend that House Speaker Paul D. Ryan should step down. Credit Mike Theiler/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Jeanine Pirro, a Fox News host, is a longtime friend of President Trump. So when Mr. Trump said on…
President Trump at the White House on Monday. Credit Stephen Crowley/The New York Times WASHINGTON — President Trump declared war on the conservatives of the House Freedom Caucus on Thursday, suggesting Republicans should “fight them” in the 2018 midterm elections if they do not back his agenda. “The Freedom Caucus will hurt the entire Republican…
Republicans in Congress just voted to reverse a landmark FCC privacy rule that opens the door for ISPs to sell customer data. Lawmakers provided no credible reason for this being in the interest of Americans, except for vague platitudes about “consumer choice” and “free markets,” as if consumers at the mercy of their local internet…
Over the weekend Maxim Shipenkov took a photograph of a woman being arrested at the protests in Moscow. The photograph is striking in composition, its tension and poses almost classical, almost a grotesque recasting of a pietà. A series of visual juxtapositions inhabit the tight space of the photographic frame: her flying hair versus the…
As an Arctic researcher, I’m used to gaps in data. Just over 1% of US Arctic waters have been surveyed to modern standards. In truth, some of the maps we use today haven’t been updated since the second world war. Navigating uncharted waters can prove difficult, but it comes with the territory of working in…
During an appearance on Fox and Friends this morning, professional cliché and loofah enthusiast Bill O’Reilly shared some surely necessary and not-at-all-racist insights on a speech Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) gave Monday on the House floor. While addressing the House, Waters spoke about resistance and patriotism, arguing that Black people have refused to “turn a…
Dr. William Happer, a retired Princeton physicist and trusted Breitbart expert, met with then president-elect Donald Trump in early January, reportedly to discuss the role of science advisor; he told The Guardian last month that if offered the post he would accept it. On inauguration day, in a colorful demonstration of his personal brand of…
Image via AP. When a fire broke out on the ninth floor of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York in 1911, 146 garment workers died—123 of whom were women. In the wake of one of the deadliest workplace tragedies in American history, it was the women of the International Ladies Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU)…
Hillary Clinton gave a notably political speech on Tuesday at the Professional Businesswomen of California’s annual conference in San Francisco. In addition to mentioning all our Chappaqua Woods memes, she stated, “There is no place I’d rather be than here with you, other than the White House.” While Clinton never mentioned Donald Trump by name,…