The grocery store apocalypse has begun.
“The defining fact of digital life is that the web was created in the libertarian frenzy of the 1990s. As we privatized the net, releasing it from the hands of the government agencies that cultivated it, we suspended our inherited civic instincts. Instead of treating the web like the financial system or aviation or agriculture, we refrained from creating the robust rules that would ensure safety and enforce our constitutional values.”
“Women are also rejected. Women also spend their teen years pining after dreamy boys who will never love them back. You don’t see us going around murdering people over it. You don’t see us setting up internet communities for the purpose of talking about how evil and shallow men are for not taking us to pound town.”
A deep look at Cambridge Analytica.
More streaming apps do not necessarily mean more and better options for TV watching.
“A second possibly criminal danger for Trump stems from his omission of any Stormy-related information on his 2017 financial disclosure forms.”
RIP, Linda Brown, girl at the center of the Brown v. Board of Education case.
“It’s worth noting something that seems to have been totally lost during the Trump Era: lying about people is wrong. Lying about people is not “free speech.” We actually do have laws that govern what you can say about somebody, and when you spread falsehoods, you can be held to account in a court of law.”
If it seems like everything on TV is a reboot these days, well, there’s a reason for that.
“That is a chilling pattern of behavior from a rich man, his legal team, and awful media organizations who are concealing the truth from the public. Legal bullying is bad enough. Media complicity is a true scandal. But the cherry on top is that Daniels — who notably avoids making any inflammatory statements (she downplayed the spanking story, insisted that her sex with Trump, disappointing though it was, was 100 percent consensual, and noted that he respected her boundaries when she didn’t want to have sex again) — says she was threatened in a parking lot in Las Vegas by a man who mentioned Trump by name. He allegedly said it’d be a shame if her infant was left motherless. This is not gossip.”
“The NRA said it did not receive foreign money in connection with the U.S. election. It does not say that foreign money was not used in a U.S. election.”
No one wants to be Donald Trump’s attorney.
RIP, Rusty Staub, “Le Grand Orange”, iconic baseball player and humanitarian for the Mets, Expos, Astros, and Tigers.
“It’s really not that complicated. If you or I appeared on Fox and Friends tomorrow and said that Trump’s golf swing was looking terrific, we would probably find ourselves getting appointed ambassador to the Seychelles or Martinique or secretary of the National Endowment for the Humanities sometime next spring.”
RIP, Johan van Hulst, Dutch schoolteacher who saved hundreds of Jewish children during the Holocaust.