“The Anti-Vax Movement’s Radical Shift From Crunchy Granola Purists to Far-Right Crusaders”.
How to read the polls like a pro.
“It might seem like a small scandal in the context of everything else Trump has done, but it’s actually a very serious crime. We need to learn the full truth about it.”
“By now you’ve probably heard the news that a Terminator has killed another innocent civilian just days after the last innocent civilian was killed by a Terminator. This unfortunate incident has led to renewed calls to divert funding from the Terminator program and reallocate it into other services that would prevent Terminators from being necessary in the first place. But just because a growing number of Terminators have ignored their AI programming and begun slaughtering humans left and right doesn’t mean we should take the dangerous and radical step of defunding the Terminator program.”
“Five Women Veterans Who Deserve to Have Army Bases Named After Them”.
“Okay I want to talk about the TikTok/K-pop stan let’s-troll-Trump operation and specifically about the data gathering aspect of it.”
“The most important COVID story right now is the age shift.”
“Remember that the original announcement was that Berman would be replaced on an acting basis, not by his current deputy, which is the lawful order of succession, but by the US Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Craig Carpenito. This is an entirely irregular, bordering on absurd plan – one US Attorney overseeing two offices at once. There was certainly some corrupt aim behind this whole plan. This is as sure as night follows day. Barr wanted Berman out of the way and was not content to leave key decisions in the hands of his respected deputy, Audrey Strauss. He was confident that he could leave those decisions in the hands of Craig Carpenito. Why?”
RIP, Joel Schumacher, versatile film director.
“And yet, for all the drama, the little matter of why Trump and Barr decided to get rid of Berman in the first place remains a mystery. There are a range of plausible explanations. Some are worse than others, though none represents what one would like to see from the Department of Justice.”
“Otherwise, the focus of the debate was less on the particular words marked for excision than the place of slurs in the game. Many argued that Scrabble would lose nothing by dropping words that obviously cause offense in real life. Such a move, some players said, might also make the game more attractive to sponsors or broadcasters, and could generate positive media and attract new players. More important, they said, it could be a fitting contribution from a cabal of word nerds to the swirling conversation about race and equality.”
That Shake Shack thing involving NYPD cops from a couple weeks ago was utter bullshit from the beginning.
How a freelance photographer got tagged as a lonely Trump supporter at the little Tulsa rally.
“After Nearly Two Bumpy Decades, The Original Segway Will Be Retired In July”.
“A judge has ruled that Rep. Devin Nunes has no right to sue Twitter over statements made by a fake Internet cow, someone parodying his mother and a Republican strategist.”
“What does it mean that the median age of new cases is dropping in some areas? I see three possible explanations, not all good. A thread on how to distinguish between them.”
“But recent data finally does suggest a more complete explanation: the age demographics of the outbreak have changed substantially.”
RIP, Milton Glaser, graphic designer who created the iconic “I ♥ NY” logo.
RIP, Blaine Kern, flamboyant New Orleans float builder known as “Mr. Mardi Gras”.
Actually, a full decade ago, there were as many antivaxxers in the conservative OC as in hippie Hollywood, at least by some estimates. Mother Jones is behind the times.
Hell, it was at least six years ago when Texas wingnuts attacked Tricky Ricky over Gardasil.