June 19, 2017
Gabe Fleisher’s annotated guide to the summer’s political calendar. / Wake Up to Politics
On Obama’s 2008 election night, one in every 100 Google searches paired “Obama” with “KKK” or the n-word. / Vox
“The brief disruption merely added a frisson of excitement to an excellent, already electric production, so, thanks for that, dudes.” What it was like to be in the audience during Friday’s production of Julius Caesar, when an alt-right blogger rushed the stage and a conspiracy theorist called everyone gerbils. / Rolling Stone
As Brexit talks resume, British businesses plead for the softest possible withdrawal from the EU. / The Guardian
Macron’s new party wins a commanding majority in yesterday’s (record low) vote in France. / Reuters
A fun journey into then and now New York City, from the nineteen-thirties and present day. / YouTube
A new group show at the Flag Art Foundation has 81 artists rework the New York Times. / VICE
Philadelphia’s next top prosecutor may be an attorney who has sued the city’s Police Department 75 times. / The New York Times
“As long as the public delights in seeing pompous winemakers and critics humbled, journalists will keep writing Schadenfreude-laden stories about the latest ‘Gotcha!’ study.” A write-up of a contest between Oxford and Cambridge wine-tasting teams ends with a thoughtful defense of wine aficionados, especially ones not from wealthy families. / 1843 Magazine
German supermarkets use cameras to scan customers’ faces in order to serve personalized ads offline. / Deutsche Welle
Famed physicist Richard Feynman clearly gets a lot of joy from explaining how fire is basically stored sunshine, and why trees come out of the air, not the ground. / YouTube
A new show by Madrid’s Rómulo Cedrán reduces large objects down to pixels, so to speak. / Rómulo Cedrán
Private donor gives Maine a national park, endorsed by Obama; governor wants to refuse it and pleads with Trump. / The Herald-Standard
Interview with the mother of Sasiwimon—jailed for 28 years after allegedly insulting Thailand’s king on Facebook. / BBC
We’re a little late to discovering the pretty great Guitar Moves with Matt Sweeney—e.g., with Dan Auerbach, with Scarface—but this desert footage suits our Monday armchair traveling lust. / YouTube