June 23, 2015

• Amazon and eBay are still selling the Confederate flag items you can no longer buy at Walmart.
• "People are starting to acknowledge the evil and pain we see when we see that flying at our state Capitol."
• A tour of a white supremacy subreddit: "a demagogic turd wrapped in a waffle of hate."
• Amazon reviews of the Confederate flag.
• "Buying Confederate flags to burn them kind of defeats the purpose."
• Haley's call to remove South Carolina's flag isn't courageous. It's politics.
• "It's not just the flag. The entire Capitol grounds are basically a tribute to white supremacy."
• Jeb's emails with angry Floridians after removing the Confederate flag when it was a political hot potato in 2000.
• "For decades, most Republicans muddled around the issue in a not-so-subtle nod to white Southern identity politics."
• Jon Stewart: A brief history of Fox News politicizing while attacking others for politicizing.
• Conservative reactions after racial attacks in 1963 and 2015 cling to the myth of white innocence.
• Diet study finds "conservatives tend to believe they had a greater control over their outcomes."
• If you ask Google who will be the next president, the answer is Hillary Clinton.
• With just 503 days left in the presidential race, Clinton leads Dems by 60 points, Bush by eight.
• "No society that regulates firearms suffers from the absence of any liberty at all, save the liberty of lunatics."
• The media reserves "tortured artist" for men. Women are "misfits" or worse.
• Authors' open letter to educators: Adverb pushing is killing creative writing.
• The taco emoji is finally here, and it's the hard-shell corporate taco no one wanted.
• Every New York subway station sign, in alphabetical order, on a poster, because it looks awesome.