July 2019 Archives
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Camp ToB 2019
Week Eight: Trust Exercise
This week, we take a very unexpected turn as we enter the second half of Susan Choi’s Trust Exercise. And it’s time for you to tell us which of our two July books you want to see in our end-of-summer finale.
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Wednesday headlines: Let’s Sandman.
Winners from night one of the second Democratic debate: Warren, Delaney, and “Republican talking point.” For tonight’s round two, expect to see Harris and Biden square...
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Tuesday headlines: A y y y.
Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders face off tonight alongside eight other candidates in another round of Democratic debates. How to approach the Democratic presidential candidates like Marie Kondo. Hundreds...
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Saturday Headlines: Emmett Till would have been 78 this week.
Three University of Mississippi students are under investigation for posing with guns in front of a bullet-riddled sign honoring Emmett Till, the 14-year-old African American who was tortured and murdered...
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Friday headlines: Oh, we’re angry.
The United Kingdom, France, Germany, and the Netherlands all broke high-temperature records yesterday.Europe's hottest summers for the last 500 years have come in the...
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Thursday Headlines: Retweet regrets.
In Mueller's Congressional testimony yesterday, Republicans claimed bias, Democrats claimed obstruction, and no one paid attention to the former special counsel's repeated warning that Russia and other nations...
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Camp ToB 2019
Week Seven: Trust Exercise
We head into the latter half of Camp ToB with the second book in our July matchup, Susan Choi’s Trust Exercise.
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Wednesday headlines: Disaster displacement.
Members of the NAACP, the nation’s oldest civil rights organization, voted unanimously Tuesday to impeach President Trump. Former special counsel Robert Mueller testifies today before the House Judiciary...
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Tuesday Headlines: Dropping.
After winning the Tory leadership, Boris Johnson will succeed Theresa May as Britain's next prime minister. Amid Gov. Rosselló's refusal to resign, hundreds of thousands of Puerto...
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Saturday headlines: Dance into the white.
A slip of the tongue may best explain Trump's collective foreign policy: to align the United States with white nations. Secretary of State Pompeo calls China's large-scale detention...
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Friday Headlines: Face the strange.
Trump says the Navy shot down an Iranian drone that came within 1,000 yards of a US warship, a claim Iran denies, saying none of its drones have been lost, and...
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Thursday headlines: Bigger (not little) lies.
The White House’s immigration policies follow a model pioneered by the European Union and Australia. What the US-China trade war is really about: Huawei's communications technologies and...
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Camp ToB 2019
Week Six: Lost Children Archive
This week, we wrap up Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive, and we have so much to talk about.
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Wednesday headlines: Million Vlogger Baby.
Federal prosecutors won’t bring criminal charges against the New York City cop who choked Eric Garner to death. "Trump appeared in a live-action remake of racial comments," and...
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Tuesday headlines: Hero tolerance.
The White House projects the deficit to surpass $1 trillion for the first time in US history. A new Trump rule effectively kills asylum protections for most migrants at our southern...
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Saturday Headlines: The Vermont state flower.
Now 40 miles off the coast of Lafayette, La., Hurricane Barry is currently a Category 1, and is expected to make landfall sometime today. A Palantir user manual shows how the secretive...
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Headlinessssss edition
Friday headlines: The wild card.
Tropical Storm Barry presents New Orleans with an unprecedented problem: a Mississippi river cresting at 19 feet. Secretary of Labor R. Alexander Acosta steps down amid criticism of the Jeffrey Epstein...
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Thursday Headlines: The universal.
The ICE raids that were postponed a few weeks ago are now scheduled to begin on Sunday. Today's White House social media summit won't include anyone from Facebook...
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Wednesday headlines: Living in a dematerialized world. (Dematerial!)
Migrant arrests at the US-Mexico border fell 28% in June after reaching a 13-year high in May. Mexico's finance minister quit abruptly, saying the current administration's policymaking was not ...
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Camp ToB 2019
Week Five: Lost Children Archive
It’s a new month and a new matchup. This week, we’re discussing the first half of Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive.
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Tuesday Headlines: Sand, meet hourglass.
Billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein has been charged with running a sex-trafficking operation involving underage girls as young as 14. How Russian intelligence helped start and spread the Seth Rich conspiracy theory...
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Saturday headlines: The kid stays in the picture.
Another major earthquake rocks buildings and baseball stadiums across Southern California. The 7.1 magnitude quake, the second big tremblor in two days, caused damage, rockslides, and power outages in the...
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Friday Headlines: Let us plant trees.
One day following news that the 2020 US census was being printed without a citizenship question—adhering to the Supreme Court ruling against adding the question—Trump instructs the...
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Wednesday Headlines: Tanks for the memories.
The total taxpayer cost for Trump's Fourth of July extravaganza in DC tomorrow is unknown, but it's going to be expensive—and $2.5 million of the bill will...
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Tuesday headlines: Canceling Betsy Ross.
This month marks the longest US economic expansion on record, and the longest stretch of monthly job gains. Most of those jobs are in the service sector, doing little to...