#BREAKING Photo: Looters steal billions of dollars, destroy businesses, leave thousands homeless: #FreddieGray pic.twitter.com/O7ogrFptng — Rs = 2GM/c^2 (@AnarchoPhysics) April 28, 2015 Via commentor Nominus, to whom many thanks.
Open Thread: #NerdpromHackprom Last Words
Let’s all plunge ourselves face first into the toilet and put our hands together for “Jacob Riis, Lincoln Steffens and Ida Tarbell Present: John Pierpont Morgan’s Nite of Laffs 2015.” — Jeb Lund, liveblogging for the Guardian Now that all the frantic primping and lavish self-congratulation is over, here’s Jay Rosen “On the deep grammar …
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Early Morning Open Thread: ICYMI
Here's Baltimore native @tanehisicoates on today's events http://t.co/wIVLglZVuk pic.twitter.com/JsMSCUHRRj — Adam Serwer (@AdamSerwer) April 28, 2015 Ta-Nehisi Coates, “Nonviolence As Compliance“: Rioting broke out on Monday in Baltimore—an angry response to the death of Freddie Gray, a death my native city seems powerless to explain. Gray did not die mysteriously in some back alley but …
Late Night Open Thread: Another Win for Private Enterprise
On the one hand, good riddance (we can hope) to an inhumane and thoroughly worthless “policy”… Families of American hostages who communicate with foreign kidnappers or raise money and pay ransoms will no longer have to fear prosecution for aiding terrorist groups, a White House-ordered advisory group on U.S. hostage policy is expected to recommend, …
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Monday Morning Open Thread: Iowa (Bad) Faith & FREEDUMB!!!
The worst thing about getting gay married is the social obligation to invite the entire 19-candidate Republican presidential primary field. — Josh Barro (@jbarro) April 21, 2015 Per Wikipedia, the Iowa Faith & Freedom Coalition was founded by Ralph Reed, Jr as “a bridge between the Tea Party movement and evangelical voters”, after his old …
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Actual Horrorshow Long Read: “How to Download a Genocide”
Brian Merchant, at Motherboard: My grandfather credits Dirhouie “Medsmir” Chorbajian with the fact that our family exists at all. She was the one who, after receiving word of the slaughter of tens of thousands of Armenians in Turkey between 1894 and 1896, in what would be named the Hamidian massacres after the sultan who ordered …
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Open Thread: Charles Koch Feels Himself Misunderstood
(Jack Ohman via GoComics.com) . Bring in the full orchestral section of tiny violins, as Charles (Happy in Baronial Kansas) Koch explains his woes to USAToday: WICHITA — Charles Koch and his industrial empire are mounting an aggressive new defense of his company and his political advocacy, with the billionaire insisting his work to help …
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