Politics
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“Now, it’s a very InfoWars world… though it’s pure fiction, it’s sad to see Mulder and Scully get wrapped up in it.” theatlantic.com/entertainment/…
To help protect safe, accessible abortion services from anti-choice legislators, consider donating to @ReproRights. twitter.com/robweychert/st…
John Oliver takes on disingenuous laws designed to put abortion clinics out of business. Don’t miss this. youtu.be/DRauXXz6t0Y
The candidate illustrations @benkirchner did for @washingtonpost’s 2016 election coverage are pretty fantastic.
“It’s not compromising... to choose a candidate that can appeal to the broad middle of America—it’s democracy.” thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/…
Trump supporters: “…the populist mosh pit that has kept him from hitting the floor despite his verbal stage dives.” nytimes.com/2016/02/17/art…
Turd Cruz
Regulation “will stifle innovation,” say cable companies, whose services have not meaningfully improved in decades. nytimes.com/2016/02/08/opi…
Oh my god this is sublime. twitter.com/mashable/statu…
If Donald Trump wins the GOP nomination, he should resurrect Morton Downey, Jr. to be his running mate.
Links: January 2016
The Website Obesity Crisis
Everything we do to make it harder to create a website or edit a web page, and harder to learn to code by viewing source, promotes that consumerist vision of the web.
The 2015 ProPublica Year in Visual Storytelling
A nice roundup of ProPublica’s more visually and interactively rich stories from the past year.
Animated homage to The Wire
When I hear Blind Boys of Alabama’s cover of “Way Down in… See more →
This is about as perfect as analogies get. twitter.com/pattonoswalt/s…
How donor disparities intensify Congressional Republican dysfunction: “Sometimes self-interest can trump ideology.” propublica.org/article/campai…
People who scoff at grievances from marginalized voices believe we have already achieved meritocracy. Show them we’re not there yet.
A Muslim woman’s rational takeaways from attending a Trump rally. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
I’m gonna miss this dude. #SOTU
“What the market deems valuable is not necessarily aligned with what is ultimately good for us as a society.” medium.com/@girlziplocked…
Excellent analysis of the GOP’s inner turmoil by @davidfrum. If you want to understand Trump’s surge, it’s all here. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
Ben Carson’s perfect circle of a goatee is basically a mouth tonsure.
Mass shooting deaths in 2015 (under the broadest definition): 462.
Black men killed in gun homicides in 2013: 5,798.
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“They’re using violence and the fear of violence to accomplish a political goal. That’s terrorism.” propublica.org/article/for-ab…
“As horrific as [mass shootings] are, by most counts they represent less than 1 percent of all gun homicides.” propublica.org/article/how-th…
“This story [has] a long way to go before the government’s narrative can be accepted as true, or rejected as false.” nytimes.com/2015/10/18/mag…
For you compassion-challenged folks, here are three refugees’ stories of living under Islamic State rule in Syria. nytimes.com/2015/11/22/wor…
This is far and away the most informative article on ISIS I’ve seen. Absolutely essential reading. theatlantic.com/features/archi… via @instapaper
Continuing today’s reading on teens being horrible, here’s a fascinating analysis of the spread of school shootings. newyorker.com/magazine/2015/…
Can we just skip to the part where Killer Mike is president?
I feel bad for the many US conservatives who are even remotely reasonable people. At the federal level, there is no one to represent them.
“…plenty of people… believe that racism is another simple binary and that they dwell on the better side of it.” newyorker.com/magazine/2015/…
“There’s no way a new world can be born out of the old one without the midwifery of public policy.” vox.com/2015/8/27/9214…
“The End of Capitalism Has Begun” by @paulmasonnews is by far the most thought-provoking thing I’ve read this summer. theguardian.com/books/2015/jul…
Reminder for Confederate flag defenders: “States’ rights” was always a smokescreen. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
“…look up at the traitorous rag… that flaps outside the capitol as if to say, ‘Enact change at your own risk.’” rollingstone.com/politics/news/…
Donald Trump as Republican nominee would make my year, if only because it is the lone circumstance that would force my mom to vote Democrat.
“…what is politics but a way of enforcing ideological values over merely rational ones?” newyorker.com/news/daily-com…
Now is a good time to remind everyone that the death penalty is barbaric, and we should be ashamed of ourselves for allowing it to continue.
A sad, eloquent assessment of Baltimore as a microcosm of the USA. thenib.com/targeted-in-ba…
Compare the size of your home to Mitt Romney’s! wapo.st/1tsBsBJ Here’s mine (my apartment is in blue):
Killer Mike’s moving speech about Ferguson from last night’s Run the Jewels show: youtu.be/MQs7CWKHM9w
If you’re a white person who feels powerless in the fight against systemic racism, here are some things you can do. qz.com/250701/12-thin…
My misbehavior would need to be exponentially more severe for me to suffer the same fate as Michael Brown. If that’s not privilege, what is?
“…almost everyone probably knows someone who has had an abortion, and we all need to talk about it more honestly.” newrepublic.com/article/120167…
Yeah.
More than two months in, Gamergate is still, at its worst, unbridled misogyny; and at its best, a farcical conspiracy theory.
Circus journalism is overrun by “advocates” for better treatment of lions. We must protect the big top from corrosive LJW lies. #tamergate
Seinfeld STILL isn’t on Netflix. We as consumers demand the entertainment industry cater exclusively to our 20th century tastes. #kramergate
The Constitution was written by white men for white men. We mustn’t let others fraudulently claim rights by it. #framergate
If we’re forced to give women a voice in the Boy’s Club, then who’s next? The gays? We must stand against this tyranny. #flamergate
“Who did we bomb when I lived with Melissa?” — @drinkerthinker
Binders full of Juggalos.