Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Your Post Has Been Launched! Fabulous! Don’t forget to share with your friends on Twitter and Facebook. 1. Kate McKinnon had people cracking up with her impressions of Hillary Clinton on Saturday Night Live during the election, but she took on the role of Attorney General Jeff Sessions in a Forrest Gump parody on…
“The system works!” So says Mayor de Blasio, and it’s working for him at least. Which is a local manifestation of a national problem. Let me explain: The mayor’s allies in the Working Families Party have been talking for years about building a “Tea Party of the Left,” and de Blasio has endlessly tried…
There is no such thing as the “alt-left.” But in a piece for Vanity Fair, James Wolcott pretends otherwise: Disillusionment with Obama’s presidency, loathing of Hillary Clinton, disgust with “identity politics,” and a craving for a climactic reckoning that will clear the stage for a bold tomorrow have created a kinship between the “alt-right” and an alt-left….
Aude Guerrucci-Pool/Getty Images There is an old African proverb that has been passed down from the ancestors through generations of black people that goes like this: “Never trust anyone who lets people put their feet on the couch.” After meeting with the Trump administration for two days and reviewing Cheddar Bob’s executive order on HBCUs,…
White House Exempts Keystone XL Pipeline From “Buy American” Mandate Image courtesy of Keystone-XL.com Despite recent declarations by the White House that new oil pipelines would be required to be made with steel and iron sourced from within the U.S., the administration has confirmed that the recently resurrected proposal for a pipeline running from Nebraska to…
I’m tired. From what I’ve seen on the internet, we’re all tired. And while normally I’d try to give some sort of insight into a problem or offer up some semblance of a solution, or at the very least talk about my balls, I don’t know what to do here. Maybe you can help me…
A Republican bill to replace Obamacare is reportedly hidden somewhere on Capitol Hill — and on Thursday morning, legislators and reporters ended up on a bipartisan wild goose chase to find it. Republicans have been hard at work drafting a plan to replace the Affordable Care Act. House Speaker Paul Ryan has repeatedly promised it…
Donald Trump has inherited the most powerful machine for spying ever devised. How this petty, vengeful man might wield and expand the sprawling American spy apparatus, already vulnerable to abuse, is disturbing enough on its own. But the outlook is even worse considering Trump’s vast preference for private sector expertise and new strategic friendship with Silicon…
There’s a little-known federal agency whose job is to ensure U.S. spy agencies protect privacy and other civil liberties even as they work to defeat terrorists and criminals, and to blow the whistle when that doesn’t happen. But the agency, known as the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, is down to just a single…
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is deploying a new intelligence system called Investigative Case Management (ICM), created by Palantir Technologies, that will assist in President Donald Trump’s efforts to deport millions of immigrants from the United States. In 2014, ICE awarded Palantir, the $20 billion data-mining firm founded by billionaire Trump advisor Peter Thiel, a $41 million…