Tag: Reading
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Inside India’s booming dark data economy – Rest of World
Inside India’s booming dark data economy Thanks to lax privacy laws and high consumer demand, details on everything from how you shop to who you date are all for sale. via Rest of World: https://restofworld.org/2020/all-the-data-fit-to-sell/ As the men settled in the living room, her husband said he had something he wanted them to hear. He…
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My Mommies and Me
My Mommies and Me Searching for the soul of America in Mormon mommy blogger Instagram via Jewish Currents: https://jewishcurrents.org/my-mommies-and-me/ On 9/11, a mommy posts a picture of two people jumping from the Twin Towers and captions it this photo right here is why I’m willing to speak out against the synagogue of Satan. Are the…
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The Journalist and the Pharma Bro
The Journalist and the Pharma Bro Why did Christie Smythe upend her life and stability for Martin Shkreli, one of the least-liked men in the world? via ELLE: https://www.elle.com/life-love/a35021224/martin-shkreli-christie-smythe-pharma-bro-journalist/ Soon after quitting Bloomberg, Smythe visited Shkreli again, fuming about the book industry’s rejection of him—and her. “I was so angry at the establishment, and people…
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How Ammon Bundy Helped Foment an Anti-Masker Rebellion in Idaho | The New Yorker
How Ammon Bundy Helped Foment an Anti-Masker Rebellion in Idaho The COVID-19 pandemic has pitted establishment Republicans, who defer to public-health officials’ expertise, against hard-right libertarians. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/us-journal/how-ammon-bundy-helped-foment-an-anti-masker-rebellion-in-idaho By the time of the August spectacle at the state capitol, Bundy and the health-freedom activists had spent four months staging increasingly bold protests.…
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Opinion | ‘I’m Haunted by What I Did’ as a Lawyer in the Trump Justice Department – The New York Times
Opinion | I’m Haunted by What I Did as a Lawyer in the Trump Justice Department (Published 2020) No matter our intentions, lawyers like me were complicit. We owe the country our honesty about what we saw — and should do in the future. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/20/opinion/trump-justice-department-lawyer.html The story of the Trump campaign’s attack on our elections…
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The ‘Red Slime’ Lawsuit That Could Sink Right-Wing Media – The New York Times
The ‘Red Slime’ Lawsuit That Could Sink Right-Wing Media (Published 2020) Voting machine companies threaten “highly dangerous” cases against Fox, Newsmax and OAN, says Floyd Abrams. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/20/business/media/smartmatic-lawsuit-fox-news-newsmax-oan.html “We’ve gotten to this point where there’s so much falsity that is being spread on certain platforms, and you may need an occasion where you send a…
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New York Times Says ‘Caliphate’ Podcast Fell Short of Standards – The New York Times
New York Times Says ‘Caliphate’ Podcast Fell Short of Standards (Published 2020) The Times cited an institutional failure and determined the “Caliphate” team gave too much credence to the claims of a supposed former terrorist. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/18/business/media/new-york-times-caliphate-podcast.html After an internal review that took more than two months, The New York Times has determined that “Caliphate,”…
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America’s War on Syrian Civilians | The New Yorker
America’s War on Syrian Civilians Bombs killed thousands of civilians in Raqqa, and the city was decimated. U.S. lawyers insist that war crimes weren’t committed, but it’s time to look honestly at the devastation that accompanies “targeted” air strikes. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/12/21/americas-war-on-syrian-civilians
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Emerald Fennell’s Dark, Jaded, Funny, Furious Fables of Female Revenge – The New York Times
Emerald Fennell’s Dark, Jaded, Funny, Furious Fables of Female Revenge (Published 2020) A brilliant young showrunner from “Killing Eve” unveils her first film, “Promising Young Woman,” bringing macabre feminist wit to experiences that no one wants to talk about. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/17/magazine/promising-young-woman-emerald-fennell.html Fennell started writing after thinking over all the conversations she’d participated in about alcohol…
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The Overlooked Hallmark of the Trump Administration—and Other Autocracies | The New Yorker
The Overlooked Hallmark of the Trump Administration—and Other Autocracies We generally understand the President’s failures as the products of cruelty and incompetence. But there is a third source: indifference. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-overlooked-hallmark-of-the-trump-administration-and-other-autocracies I have written a lot of articles and several books about Russia’s transformation under Vladimir Putin, but the experience I’ve always…
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The Word of God
The Word of God | By God Shammgod You’re not really from New York if you weren’t eating White Castle before elementary school. via The Players’ Tribune: https://www.theplayerstribune.com/posts/shammgod-streetball-new-york-nba This took place in the old Brooklyn. Don’t picture no smoothie shops or whatever. This was early ’80s Crown Heights, you know what I mean? They were…
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Wonder Women | Hazlitt
Wonder Women | Hazlitt The fight for female superheroes in Hollywood. via Hazlitt: https://hazlitt.net/longreads/wonder-women That would be Lynda Carter. In her starry trunks and scarlet bustier, both of which got skimpier as the seasons progressed, her Wonder Woman became the iconic female superhero. Despite the character’s activist origins, however, ABC didn’t take her particularly seriously.…
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A Journalist’s Murder in Malta | The New Yorker
Murder in Malta After a journalist was assassinated, her sons found clues in her unfinished work that cracked the case and brought down the government. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/12/21/murder-in-malta Daphne wrote her final sentences minutes before the explosion: “There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate.”
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FSB Team of Chemical Weapon Experts Implicated in Alexey Navalny Novichok Poisoning – bellingcat
FSB Team of Chemical Weapon Experts Implicated in Alexey Navalny Novichok Poisoning – bellingcat A joint investigation between Bellingcat and The Insider, in cooperation with Der Spiegel and CNN, has discovered voluminous telecom and travel data that implicates Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) in the poisoning of the prominent Russian oppositi via bellingcat: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2020/12/14/fsb-team-of-chemical-weapon-experts-implicated-in-alexey-navalny-novichok-poisoning/ This…
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Instagram’s Favorite New Yorker Cartoons of 2020 | The New Yorker
Link: As I’m sure you know, this kind of bliss does get a bit tedious as time goes on—too much of a good thing makes Johnny a dull boy. So sometimes I crave something different. In these moments, I grab my cell phone and begin to look at various social-media sites. Instagram is one that…
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She Stalked Her Daughter’s Killers Across Mexico, One by One – The New York Times
She Stalked Her Daughter’s Killers Across Mexico, One by One (Published 2020) Armed with a handgun, a fake ID card and disguises, Miriam Rodríguez was a one-woman detective squad, defying a system where criminal impunity often prevails. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/13/world/americas/miriam-rodriguez-san-fernando.html In three years, Mrs. Rodríguez captured nearly every living member of the crew that had abducted…
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College Sports Has Reported at Least 6,629 Virus Cases – The New York Times
College Sports Has Reported at Least 6,629 Virus Cases. There Are Many More. (Published 2020) The N.C.A.A. does not track coronavirus cases, but a New York Times analysis shows the pandemic’s toll across college athletics. Many universities have kept their case counts from the public. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/11/sports/coronavirus-college-sports-football.html The remaining schools, many of them public institutions,…
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My Life in Cars | The New Yorker
My Life in Cars I lucked into the romance of driving at its fervent peak. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/my-life-in-cars I lucked into the romance of driving at its fervent peak.
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‘An Indelible Stain’: How the G.O.P. Tried to Topple a Pillar of Democracy – The New York Times
‘An Indelible Stain’: How the G.O.P. Tried to Topple a Pillar of Democracy (Published 2020) The Supreme Court repudiation of President Trump was also a blunt rebuke to Republican leaders who had put their interests ahead of the country’s. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/12/us/politics/trump-lawsuits-electoral-college.html The Supreme Court repudiation of President Trump’s desperate bid for a second term not…
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Four State A.G.s Ask Supreme Court to Reject Texas Election Lawsuit – The New York Times
In Blistering Retort, 4 Battleground States Tell Texas to Butt Out of Election (Published 2020) The attorneys general of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Georgia asked the Supreme Court to reject a lawsuit from Texas seeking to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victories. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/10/us/trump-election-lawsuit-states.html The lawsuit, filed by the Republican attorney general of Texas and backed…