Because he may have already decided on how many criminal offenses they’ll make. Kris Kobach, ineffective governor of Kansas, could be the next Secretary of Homeland Security. And he was photographed leaving a meeting carrying a “Plan for the First 365 Days” outside of its folder, allowing a discerning
Maryland’s Cowgirls of Color are fighting to prove they can excel in a sport long dominated by white men. / The Guardian “Goldman and Wade often tell each other they aren’t creating anything that’s not already there, that they’re simply fanning it, that readers know not to
“Do you see how there’s a difference between ‘cognitive bias that makes you unreasonably afraid’ versus ‘white supremacy?’” Tough read makes a go at untangling some of conceptual difficulties in talking about Trump, “who is going to be exactly as racist as every other American president. Maybe a bit
If you’ve shut down an intersection—a tactic often employed by Black Lives Matter protesters—this Washington state bill would punish you as an economic terrorist. / kiro7.com
The president-elect is planning a victory tour of the states he won. / Politico “In the seventies, eighties, and nineties... there was a baseline of facts that we could all work off of. And now we just don’t have that.” Obama talks constantly about the destabilizing effect of social
The 20 top hoax news stories on Facebook garnered 1.4 million more engagements than the top 20 pieces of journalism. / BuzzFeed In the 1800s, people believed newspaper stories about trips to the moon and monkeys picking cotton. Mark Twain and H.L. Mencken printed stories made from whole cloth.
A dispatch from Mt. Greenwood, the site of Chicago’s latest police shooting and the only neighborhood in the city to go for Trump, written by a native daughter. / South Side Weekly “The heartbreak of this election for Clinton supporters is not just the loss of a tough, smart, and
“Social media in the era of Trump is essentially Leningrad, 1979.” Gary Shteyngart on the difficulties of telling whether today’s Twitter trolls are amateurs in St. Petersburg, Florida, or professionals in St. Petersburg, Russia. / The New Yorker Detroit pitcher Michael Fulmer just won the AL Rookie of the Year,
A body-language expert analyzes Trump and Obama’s press conference. / dailymail.co.uk “More Americans need to see more of the United States. They need to shake hands with a Muslim, or talk soccer with a middle aged lesbian, or attend a lecture by a female business executive.” An
It’s illegal to be a “software architect” in the UK. / shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com “When we showed Facebook’s racial exclusion options to a prominent civil rights lawyer John Relman, he gasped and said, ‘This is horrifying. This is massively illegal. This is about as blatant a
