The New Yorker
The Cop
The New Yorker
20+ min read · · Darren Wilson says he wants to stop thinking about what happened in Ferguson. But the town isn’t done. · Shared by 41, including Mark Kaigwa, Rick Powell, Daniel Fritzsche
The Atlantic
I Debated Steve Bannon. It Didn't Turn Out the Way I Expected.
The Atlantic
10 min read · · I argued against the false promise of what Trump's former strategist bills as populism. Then events took a strange turn. · Shared by 51, including Jochen Burkhard, David Frum, Mark Kaigwa, Rick Powell, Oliver Reichenstein, slumos, Sam Harris
Aeon+Psyche
As the Ancient Greeks knew, frankness is an essential virtue
Aeon+Psyche
4 min read · · Who can speak truth to the leaders? The story of parrhesía, from classical Greece to Christian martyrs and beyond · Shared by 104, including Guy Longworth, Jason Silva, Scott Monty, Marylin Delgado (@marylindelgado@zirk.us), Barry C Smith, Rick Powell
Yes!
Psychology Today
Self-Love and Narcissists: A Correlation of Control
Psychology Today
4 min read · · Is there a relationship between low self-esteem and falling for a narcissist? · Shared by 71, including Rick Powell, Liv 😷
The Atlantic
Photos: The Works of Christo
The Atlantic
8 min read · · With the passing of artist Christo, yesterday, at the age of 84, a look back at some of the enormous installations created by Christo and his wife and partner Jeanne-Claude. · Shared by 75, including Rick Powell, Merkstatt@troet.cafe, Christian Surchi
The New York Times
Mass Extinctions Are Accelerating, Scientists Report
The New York Times
6 min read · · Five hundred species are likely to become extinct over the next two decades, according to a new study. · Shared by 104, including Katja Evertz, Carl Zimmer, Danielle Fong 💁🏻♀️, Alfie Kohn, Neil Hart 💙, Hiroko Tabuchi, Real Marsha Wright®, Rick Powell, Tim
The New York Times
Minneapolis Police Use Force Against Black People at 7 Times the Rate of Whites
The New York Times
8 min read · · When the officers use kicks, chokeholds, punches, takedowns, Mace spray, Tasers and the like, the person subject to that force is black about 60 percent of the time. · Shared by 133, including Jer Thorp, Judd Legum, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, Maggie Koerth, Christopher Groskopf, John Keefe, luis antónio santos, Rick Powell, Alexandra Sifferlin, Deborah Blum, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Marie-José Kolly, Patrick Neeman, Emily Badger, Rachael Dottle, Martina Pugliese, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, aubrey blanche (she/her), Rob Weinert-Kendt
The Guardian
Ghost, angel, martyr: the brutal brilliance of George Floyd murals from Syria to Belfast
The Guardian
~18 min read · · In Minneapolis, he’s an unforgiving ghost. In Naples, a saint weeping blood. In Nantes, a revolutionary. Our critic on how the killing has inflamed street artists worldwide · Shared by 43, including A C Grayling #FBPE #Reform #Rejoin #FBPR, Rick Powell, Neuropsychology
The Guardian
The toppling of Edward Colston's statue is not an attack on history. It is history
The Guardian
5 min read · · The slave trader’s figure loomed over Bristol for 125 years. Now a multiracial protest has achieved what past campaigns couldn’t, says historian and broadcaster David Olusoga · Shared by 140, including Dr Jim Walsh 🇪🇺🇺🇳, Rick Powell, Simon Hix, George Monbiot, Dorothy Bishop, Mariana Mazzucato, Dr Adam Rutherford, Deborah Blum, Chris Moran
Rolling Stone
Republican Larry Hogan, America's Most Popular Governor, Has Some Advice for Trump
Rolling Stone
9 min read · · A conversation with Maryland’s Larry Hogan, a GOPer who isn’t afraid to tell Trump what’s what · Shared by 9, including Rick Powell
New York Magazine
Is There Still Room for Debate?
New York Magazine
~11 min read · · America is in a revolutionary moment. Being able to question ideology is more important than ever. · Shared by 66, including Niall Ferguson, Rick Powell, Matt Goodwin, Paul Graham, @albertocairo@mastodon.social, Scott Galloway, Steven Pinker, Jonathan Haidt, luqven, Richard Dawkins, Christina Sommers, ⒿⒹⒽ
Quillette
Racist Police Violence Reconsidered
Quillette
6 min read · · Tony Timpa was 32 years old when he died at the hands of the Dallas police in August 2016. He suffered from mental health difficulties and was unarmed. He wasn’t resisting arrest. He had called the… · Shared by 10, including Rick Powell
copinthehood.com
"Are you done?"
copinthehood.com
~12 min read · · When Sandra Bland was asked by Officer Encinia if she, "was done," she actually was. Officer Encinia could have issued a ticket or a warning... · Shared by 5, including Rick Powell
Vox
How today’s protests compare to 1968, explained by a historian
Vox
8 min read · · Heather Ann Thompson explains what’s changed and what has stayed the same. · Shared by 86, including Trey Tweets Into the Void, Guy Kawasaki, Rick Powell, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Christian Surchi, Jason Stanley
Quillette
For Journalists, The New York Times’ Social-Justice Meltdown Is a Sign of Things to Come
Quillette
10 min read · · On Sunday, two weeks following the shocking killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, the city’s leaders pledged to overhaul their entire municipal police department. The move could… · Shared by 8, including Rick Powell
Quillette
COVID-19 Superspreader Events in 28 Countries: Critical Patterns and Lessons
Quillette
~18 min read · · In 1899, a German bacteriologist named Carl Flügge proved that microbes can be transmitted ballistically through large droplets that emit at high velocity from the mouth and nose. His method for… · Shared by 25, including Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, Rick Powell, Tom Connor
Boston Review
A Politics of the Future
Boston Review
~15 min read · · Despite the myth that deaths of the elderly are never untimely, the author mourns a friend, fifty years his senior, who succumbed to COVID-19 She taught him that a moral life entails wanting those… · Shared by 7, including Rick Powell
WIRED
Plastic Rain Is the New Acid Rain
WIRED
7 min read · · Researchers find that over 1,000 metric tons of microplastic fall on 11 protected areas in the US annually, equivalent to over 120 million plastic water bottles. · Shared by 180, including Steve Faulkner SteveFaulkner@mastodon.social, Katja Evertz, M. Serdar Kuzuloğlu, Ernie Smith is also @ernie@writing.exchange, Chris Isak , Marius Bleuer, Christian Fauteux, Jennifer Ouellette, Matthias Lampe, Damon Young, Rick Powell
Matt Taibbi
The American Press Is Destroying Itself
Matt Taibbi
~14 min read · · A flurry of newsroom revolts has transformed the American press · Shared by 271, including Kyle Chayka, Olivia Kühni, Richard Dawkins, Michael Arrington 🏴☠️, Benny Johnson, Hannes Grassegger, Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦, Massimo Pigliucci, Paul Graham, Nick Bilton, Patricia Churchland, Christina Sommers, Sam Altman, ♕Deborah Mayo♕, Steven Pinker, Jeff Jarvis, Niall Ferguson, Matt Goodwin, Steve Faktor
jewishcurrents.org
Stealing Away in America
jewishcurrents.org
10 min read · · Vicky Osterweil, author of the forthcoming book In Defense of Looting, discusses the ways that looting contests the racial capitalist logics at the heart of American empire. · Shared by 9, including Jason Stanley, Rick Powell
The Verge
20 years of space photos: an oral history of Astronomy Picture of the Day
The Verge
8 min read · · Try to name as many websites as you can that are more than 20 years old. It's not that easy, right? As someone who was around for the arrival of the World Wide Web, even I have trouble... · Shared by 6, including Rick Powell
filmsforaction.org
The White Man in That Photo
filmsforaction.org
· Sometimes photographs deceive. Take this one, for example. It represents John Carlos and Tommie Smith’s rebellious gesture the day they won medals for the 200 meters at the 1968 Summer Olympics... · Shared by 86, including Kate Nasser, Noely ⚡️🏐, Jennifer Ouellette, Felix M, Peter McCormack🏴☠️, Caroline Jarrett, Rick Powell, Mark Suster
New York Magazine
The Still-Vital Case for Liberalism in a Radical Age
New York Magazine
~12 min read · · Does the revolution need to involve quite so much canceling? · Shared by 140, including ❤️ Umair, Christina Sommers, Matt Goodwin, Jason Stanley, Rick Powell, Paul Graham, Jeffrey Flier, David Wallace-Wells, Chris Hanretty, Liam Bright, Niall Ferguson, LoriBeth
Tor.com
An Open Letter to J.K. Rowling
Tor.com
6 min read · · Dear J.K. Rowling, I hate writing this. · Shared by 5, including Rick Powell
48hills.org
The week ACT UP shut SF down
48hills.org
8 min read · · 25th anniversary events commemorate historic Sixth International Conference on AIDS protests -- and reunite seminal activists, Fri/19-Sun/21. By Marke B. · Shared by 4, including Rick Powell
Tablet Magazine
Transgendering Stonewall: Gay Rights Join the Victimhood Olympics
Tablet Magazine
· Was Anne Frank “bisexual?” Keen to claim her as one of their own, some queer activists are citing previously overlooked passages from the complete and unabridged second edition of Frank’s diary as… · Shared by 8, including Rick Powell
