What I read today - Nov 29
- What’s the worst that could happen under New Ed Secretary Betsy DeVos? Some scenarios, hechinger report
- Alex Wheatle: ‘I felt like the token black writer who talks about ghetto stuff’, The Guardian
- Making America White Again, The New Yorker
- J.D. Vance, the False Prophet of Blue America, The New Republic
- U.S. Abortion Rate Continues To Decline, The National Review
Interesting... but are greater restrictions the source of the decline? If it's a general decrease, then what's happening in states where there aren't as many restrictions? - Abortion Rates Dropped Sharply. What Caused It?, Think Progress
Obv biased the other way than the National Review, but a more comprehensive report than just a pat on the back. - New Clarity for the U.S. Abortion Debate: A Steep Drop in Unintended Pregnancy Is Driving Recent Abortion Declines, Guttmacher Institute
A comprehensive study of the situation looking at trends in pregnancy to understand the decline in abortion - Venezuela's currency now worth so little shopkeepers weigh vast piles of notes instead of counting them, The Independent
- If Trump Goes Hard on Immigration, Who Will Grow, Process, and Serve Our Food?, Civil Eats
- Who Will Be Donald Trump’s Agriculture Secretary?, Modern Farmer
- Trump’s Attorney General Could Smooth Way For Monsanto-Bayer Merger, Says Report, Modern Farmer
- The Pilgrims Had No Idea How to Farm Here. Luckily, They Had the Native Americans, Modern Farmer
- Are Semester Abroad Accents Real or Fake?, Atlas Obscura
What I read today - Nov 28
- Understanding Trump’s America, National Review
- Trump assails recount push, claims millions voted illegally, Washington Post
- “Money masters”, Vice
- Fidel Castro (1926–2016), Jacobian
- Portraits Of…70’s & 80’s CHOLAS Culture, cvlt nation
- 725 Fifth Avenue / Trump Tower, Privately Owned Public Space
- Cholo, Wikipedia
- The Folk Feminist Struggle Behind the Chola Fashion Trend, Vice
- Chola style – the latest cultural appropriation fashion crime?, The Guardian
Some of the comments are better than the article - Givenchy’s Victorian Chola Girl Gang—and the FKA twigs Connection, Vogue
- Madagascar Fashion Designers, kreol magazine
What I read today - Nov 25
- The 1915 Map That Helped All Women Get the Vote, Atlas Obscura
- Skeptics Say City’s Environmental Studies Understate Damage from Development, City Limits
- The War on the Poor Is Already Underway, Talk Poverty
- Agar, Wikipedia
I had a discussion last night at the hut about agar being used in place of jello for multi-color layers. It quickly went to exploring algae that lights up in beverages - After Two Wars, Standing Rock is the First Time I Served the American People, Common Dreams
What I read today - Nov 23
- Trump Says Any Conflicts Of Interest Were Priced Into Your Vote, Huffington Post
- The Other English Royals, Messy Nessy Chic
- 15,000 More Public Workers Are Fired in Turkey Crackdown, NY Times
- The 1920s ‘Circus Girl’ Who Fought Sexism—With Tigersm, Atlas Obscura
What I read today - Nov 22
- The Right Way to Resist Trump, NY Times
- The Trump-Climate Freakout , The National Review
- Feminism Makes Weak Women, The National Review
- What Is the Post-Hillary Feminism?, New Republic
- Welfare is a Women's Issue (1972), Ms Magazine
- The history of (not) shopping as a protest act, Timeline
- Donald Trump’s Business Dealings Test a Constitutional Limit, NY Times
- Devouring (and Drinking) American History, NY Times
- The Worst Paid Freelance Gig in History Was Being the Village Sin Eater, Atlas Obscura
- Craftivism: How women have reclaimed domesticity as a form of protest, Timeline
- How the Completed Bushwick Inlet Park Will Change Williamsburg, Brownstoner
- No Evidence of Aloe Vera Found in the Aloe Vera at Wal-Mart, CVS, Bloomberg
Makes more sense why I may get rashes from store bought aloe products
What I read today - Nov 21
- The Complicated History of the Beloved Composition Notebook, Eye on Design
- comp, Kickstarter
$19 for ONE! AND there's no squared grid. - The Composition Notebook Gets A Luxurious Redesign, Fast Co design
"'To me, the appeal of composition notebooks is they're not fussy,' Fay says." This notebook he's created IS FUSSY. Obvi, I've read too many articles about this now. - This Parisian man’s photos changed homicide investigations forever, Timeline
- What Women Used Before They Could Use the Law, n+1
My older friend from the nursery asked yesterday if I knew any Trump supporters. When I said my folks, she asked why and I cited that they didn't want to pay for abortions (while federal funds go to PP, they don't go directly to abortions. Rather, to general women's health and research, like finding a cure to Zika); health insurance premiums are too much; racism is a lie the Democrats have been perpetuating too long; and they hate Hilary. Her response was, sure, let's start back alley abortions up again saying she knew several women who came out alive from them. One woman was her brother's girlfriend (now wife) who had gotten pregnant while they were in school. They had no money so her and her other brother scraped together $500 to send her to a back alley doctor. - Investigating Surveillance Around Standing Rock, Just Security
- Nice, decent folks, Cold Takes
What I read today - Nov 16
- Why Won’t Liberals Talk about the Most Important Kind of ‘Privilege’ in America?, National Review
- Republicans are suddenly realizing the economy is actually in good shape, Vox
- Nakagin Capsule Tower, jordy meow
- How The ACLU Plans To Defend Rights After A Surge In Donations, Fast Company
- IN THE HEART OF TRUMP COUNTRY, The New Yorker
What I read today - Nov 14
- Life After Evangelicalism, Rachel Held Evans
- The People Behind Your Food Are More Vulnerable Than Ever, Civil Eats
What I read today - Nov 12
- Letter to my black daughter under a Trump presidency, Boing Boing
- S.1203 - 21st Century Veterans Benefits Delivery and Other Improvements Act, Congress
- Getting familiar with Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter
- Forget “Why?”, it’s time to get to work., medium
- The “Other Side” Is Not Dumb, Medium
- Short Answers to Hard Questions About Climate Change, New York Times
What I read today - Nov 10
- With a Stroke of His Pen President Obama Permanently Protects Planned Parenthood, politicus usa
- Cash-Strapped Towns Are Un-Paving Roads They Can’t Afford to Fix, Wired
- Can Senate Democrats Stop Donald Trump?, The New Republic
- What President Donald Trump Means for Muslims, The New Republic
- World Is About to Find Out What Donald Trump Really Believes, New York Times
- What the Trump Victory Means for Standing Rock, Resilience
- For Sale: Nonprofits, Urban Omnibus
What I read today - Nov 9
- Donald Trump Is Elected President in Stunning Repudiation of the Establishment, NY Times
- What Happened on Election Day , NY Times
- Donald Trump’s Victory Promises to Upend the International Order, NY Times
- News Media Yet Again Misreads America’s Complex Pulse, NY Times
- Cheering for the First Female President, Until They Weren’t, NY Times
- Global Markets Are Shaken, Then Stabilize, After Trump Victory, NY Times
- Why Trump Won: Working-Class Whites, NY Times
- Politics Is the Solution, Jacobian
- My Ancestors Did Not Die For This Shit: Thoughts on Whiteness and the Election, madwomen and muses
- Republicans Have Pulled the Country and the World Into the Abyss, The New Republic
- The “Deplorables” Got the Last Laugh, The New Republic
- What to Say to the Women in Your Life Today, Esquire
- Why the Electoral College is the absolute worst, explained, VOX
What I read today - Nov 3
- Barack Obama Is America’s Feminist-in-Chief, New Republic
- This Map of the World Just Won Japan’s Prestigious Design Award, Spoon & Tomaga
- The Women Who Made New York: Restoring the Rightful Ratio of Remembrance, Brain pickings
- Death by Wallpaper: The Alluring Arsenic Colors that Poisoned the Victorian Age, Hyperallergic
- Curing What Ails Us, from Urban Herbalism to Activism, Civil Eats
- How a Small Troop of Techies Led the US Syrian Refugee Surge, Webby Awards