Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Roy Moore walking into his rally in Midland City, Alabama on December 11th. Photograph by Justin Bishop. It’s hard to do justice to the weirdness of Roy Moore. It’s so pronounced that he couldn’t even pretend to be normal, not even for 30 minutes, not even long enough to stop scaring people who might be…
Getty Donald Trump threw his first Hanukkah party as president on Thursday night, and by all accounts, it sounds like a pretty shitty affair. For starters, exactly zero Democratic congresspeople were invited to the event, despite the fact that 28 of the 30 Jewish House members are Democrats. Also not invited: representatives from Jewish groups…
George Frey/Getty Images This administration is nothing if not an abject lesson in doublespeak and pimp talk as Donald Trump and his little friends find creative ways to lie to and gaslight us, all in an attempt to make us believe that our eyes and ears are lying to us—and the only truth comes from…
Vox journalist Dylan Scott, you will get no argument here: that chart, showing the reported opinions of Trump voters on the NFL, is indeed pretty nuts! The data, compiled by an online survey company called Morning Consult and laid out at the New York Times’s Upshot blog, tells the story of how the opinions of…
Image credit: ESPN The NFL loves nothing more than a hollow branding opportunity. Just look at the self-satisfaction on the face of Cowboys owner Jerry Jones when he knelt, uselessly, with his team before the performance of last night’s national anthem. That’s the look of a man who knows he’s taken something that has nothing to…
Even though she’s been wiped clean from the web, I still found Nicole Mincey. The Nicole Mincey who was personally thanked by President Trump on Twitter over the weekend. The one everyone thinks is a bot. She’s a real person—with a slightly different name—living in Newark, New Jersey. The online phone number listed for the…
Photo: AP Oh my god, he really did it. President Trump really did the one thing you’re not supposed to do during a solar eclipse. According to Wall Street Journal reporter Ted Mann, an unidentified aide even shouted “don’t look” as the president turned to point and look at the big, dumb Sun without eye…
08/17/2017 11:11 am ET Updated 1 day ago Americans have probably had about enough of Confederate monuments this week, but the dual equestrian statue of Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson whisked away from its pedestal Wednesday morning in Baltimore is worth examining, especially in light of President Trump’s continued fixation on the issue….
Illustration by Sean McCabe Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, wants you to know that he was responsible for persuading President Trump to pull out of the Paris climate agreement. Pruitt has never said that explicitly, of course – he understands that if he wants to keep his job, he needs…
The Mooch may be gone, but he is not forgotten. Misty water-colored memories… From AP/REX/Shutterstock. On Friday, July 21, 2017, the Trump administration named Wall Street financier Anthony Scaramucci as the next White House communications director. On Monday, July 31, 2017, Scaramucci, a.k.a. “the Mooch,” was canned by newly sworn-in Chief of Staff John Kelly….