A great quick video by Vanessa Hill and BrainCraft about the psychology of me vs. you, us vs. them, “ingroups, outgroups, and social identity theory.” Get ready to remember, in a nice way, that doing nice things for other people is good for you. As to social identity theory, aka
The offer from President Trump to “destroy” the career of an unnamed state senator in Texas was prompted by a county sheriff’s opposition to a bill of theirs that would prohibit civil asset forfeiture—which, as our stack shows, is a pretty normal position for a law enforcement official
The offer from President Trump to "destroy" the career of an unnamed state senator in Texas was prompted by a county sheriff's opposition to a bill of theirs that would prohibit civil asset forfeiture—which, as our stack shows, is a pretty normal position for a
Hawaii's lava "fire hose" has been turned back on, just as mesmerizing as ever. From an exposed tube in a sea cliff of a volcano near the island of Hawaii, hundreds of millions of gallons of lava have been streaming into the Pacific. The lava continues
White supremacists operate at ease in positions of authority within law enforcement and defense. After a 2009 report by the Department of Homeland Security identified right-wing terrorism as a growing threat, Tea Party backlash put the issue on the back burner. But the white terrorists didn’t go away.
“HOMER: ‘This guy’s a fruit, and a … no, wait, wait, wait: queer. Queer. Queer. That’s what you like to be called, right?’ JOHN: ‘That, or John.’” Oral history of the Simpsons’ 1997 episode where John Waters’ campy character breaks through Homer’s homophobia. / The Ringer “Portrait of Adele
Sen. Warren, please shut up. In case you missed it, after she read negative quotes from Sen. Ted Kennedy and Coretta Scott King about Jeff Sessions, Republicans in the Senate voted along party lines to officially block Elizabeth Warren from commenting at all during the rest of Sessions’ hearings (see
Fascinating stuff: Hackers were able to reverse-engineer the factors that went into slot machines’ pseudorandom algorithms by taping results on their phones. / Wired “One of the most attractive features of cats is that contentment is their default state. They are comfortable with themselves and their lives, and remain in
For your Wednesday morning escapist travel, a very quick trip through Rome from filmmaker Alex Soloviev. "Capturing moments of everyday life of locals mixed with inevitable tourist's streams I was really amazed how much Roman people are friendly and peaceful."
Vice co-founder and general piece of trash Gavin McInnes's latest career move is to found a DC-based neo-Nazi group called "Proud Boys," the activities of which seem to mostly consist of trying to get into fights with antifascist protesters, punching each other, recording
