Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Getty Today, Donald Trump took a break from screaming at random reporters to tour Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner. That’s despite the fact that he tweeted (as, regrettably, he so often does) about never flying on the plane. Well, okay, Trump wasn’t wrong about the Dreamliner having issues with lithium ion batteries. Strangely, however, none of that…
Nominally liberal comedian Bill Maher finally followed through on his irresistible urge to discuss the beauty of laughter with far-right troll Milo Yiannopoulos on his HBO show “Real Time” this Friday. It went just as poorly as people familiar with the work of Maher and Yiannopoulos expected it to. On Wednesday, journalist Jeremy Scahill of…
MOSCOW — A funny thing happened in Russia this past week: President Trump’s face, once ubiquitous on the talk shows and evening news programs that tack closely to the Kremlin’s political agenda, was suddenly absent. Gone. “Like they flipped a switch,” said Alexey Kovalev, a journalist at the Moscow Times who covers Russian state media. It’s not…
John McCain—the original Maverick, ol’ Walnuts, the brave teller of truths—is somehow once again positioning himself, to credulous journalists, as a renegade Republican who isn’t afraid to buck his party, despite his three-decade record of not ever actually bucking his party in any meaningful way. “John McCain just systematically dismantled Donald Trump’s entire worldview,” the…
Internet turns to @Sweden on Twitter after Trump appears to invent terror attack So, what’s going on in Sweden?Image: MORI/AP/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK/@Sweden composite By Ariel Bogle2017-02-19 05:03:40 UTC If you needed extra evidence the world’s quickly sliding into the Upside Down, here it is: People are turning to a country’s Twitter account for details about a terror…
/interesting times February 17, 2017 02/17/2017 7:00 a.m. The White House Mole By Andrew Sullivan Share Share Tweet Share Pin It Email Print Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images The question that remains, of course, is the motive. Why on Earth would any campaign for president be in constant, secret touch with the intelligence agents of a…
We have to just come out with it, those of us who are American Jews in the media. It’s time we made Trump bathe in his own batshit. U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at the White House in Washington, February 16, 2017. Evan Vucci/AP If you’re Jewish and you’re still…
An enemy of the American people came into my office Friday night to talk about a story he was working on. The story was about a 17-year-old kid involved in a controversy at his school. The enemy of the people was concerned because the kid is going through a difficult time. Telling the story could make…
US Ambassador to Somalia Stephen Schwarz presents the President of Somalia Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed with a hat that reads “Make Somalia Great Again” (Twitter) Donald Trump’s campaign hat, which reads “Make America Great Again” has become the icon of a movement. So much so, that the US Ambassador to Somalia just gave the President of…
President Donald Trump ramped up his criticism of the news coverage of his administration Friday, again taking to his favorite social media platform. “The FAKE NEWS media,” Trump wrote on Twitter, “is the enemy of the American People!” An initial tweet put only The New York Times, CNN and NBC News on his enemies list….