Entire island of Puerto Rico without power. https://t.co/5dk5T2BcaC pic.twitter.com/KGT3LJgVMk — Fox News (@FoxNews) September 21, 2017 Flooding possible for the ENTIRE island of Puerto Rico… https://t.co/Nzvu8lg6bX — Ed O'Keefe (@edatpost) September 20, 2017 These are some of the images coming out of Puerto Rico. This is the town of Utuado. The island is devastated. pic.twitter.com/2eXaU8i28L …
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Their Remarkable Patience
Every night when I go to sleep I listen to a documentary to put me down. There is something soothing about the sound of a narrator talking that just knocks me out. I also like AM radio voices, but they are all conspiracy nuts or shouty at that hour, so documentaries are my go to. …
The Stockely Verdict is In: Not Guilty
The verdict in the trial of ex-St. Louis police officer Jason Stockely for the killing of Anthony Lamar Smith is in: not guilty. ST. LOUIS • Former St. Louis police Officer Jason Stockley was found not guilty Friday of murdering a man while on duty. St. Louis Circuit Judge Timothy Wilson’s highly anticipated verdict found the …
Thursday Evening Open Thread: Most Boston Protest Since the Original Tea Party
Umpire Joe West got together with Boston police officials and park security to have the fans who held up this sign removed from Fenway pic.twitter.com/EZYo94WqMR — Marly Rivera (@MarlyRiveraESPN) September 14, 2017 Living in a college town means having an unending supply of earnest young “activists” looking for a project to mount on their social-media …
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Long Read: “What Heather Heyer Knew”
BuzzFeed: New York lawmaker is proposing a bill to rename Trump State Park for Heather Heyer. https://t.co/Pr6Yn9HpIz — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 6, 2017 Gail Sheehy, at NYMag‘s ladyblog The Cut: … Before Heather was even on the scene, blows were exchanged, people arrested. In the late morning, a state of emergency was declared and …
Open Thread: Defending the DREAMers
NEW: The Koch political network says it will back legislation to codify DACA and protect DREAMers https://t.co/lL9GtBhJ6D — Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) September 7, 2017 This meets my criteria for the epitome of ‘mixed feelings’. Anything involving the Kochs, of course, needs to be critically examined for hidden pitfalls. On the other hand, if even these …
Fear of a Black President
Speaking of good magazine writers, there’s this fellow named Ta-Nehisi Coates who has a helluva long read up today in the Atlantic: It is insufficient to state the obvious of Donald Trump: that he is a white man who would not be president were it not for this fact. With one immediate exception, Trump’s predecessors …