What I read today - March 10
- Calling Bullshit
- Meet the Dodge La Femme, the bonkers car marketed only to women, Timeline
I'd drive this - Wikileaks' CIA document dump will cause a ripple effect, Al Jazeera
"With the CIA hacking tools, black sites, the NSA's mass surveillance programme and a recklessly unpredictable commander-in-chief, the US can no longer tout itself as an exceptional democracy." Ouch. - Now What, Pinch of Yum
- The Perils of the New, Shiny George W. Bush, Jacobian
- The science of why cats like getting into boxes then peering menacingly over the edge, Boing Boing
- The Soviet Communist Origins of International Women’s Day, Messy Nessy Chic
- What Just Happened?! A Review of President Trump’s Seventh Week., The New Republic
Check out the lines underneath hyperlinks, the decenders are cut out <3
What I read today - mar 8
- The debate over the Affordable Care Act is really a debate over wealth redistribution, Washington Post
- Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America
- The House That Hats Built, a Queen Anne Manse in Brooklyn Heights, Brownstoner
- Ben Carson Might Slash its Budget, but Some see Public Housing as a Work of Art, City Limits
- After death row: An unlikely love story, Al Jazeera
- Why the French elections will change the face of Europe, Al Jazeera
What I read today - Mar 7
- The natives of Easter Island found paradise, and then destroyed it, Timeline
- The Batcave, a Graffiti Landmark in Brooklyn, Grows Up, NY Times
- When Lemon-Shaped Juice Containers Set a British Legal Precedent, Atlas Obscura
- A Lesson Trump and the E.P.A. Should Heed, NY Times
- Total recall: the people who never forget, The Guardian
- The EPA’s Science Office Removed “Science” From Its Mission Statement, The New Republic
What I read today - Mar 6
- NYCHA Blocks Lawyer for Tenant Advisers on Development Project, City Limits
- De Blasio Homeless Plan Aims to Replace Hotels and Cluster Sites with New Shelters, City Limits
- The Montessori Bell Rattle -- Montessori Baby Week 14, the kavanaugh report
- ODA’s Eye-Popping Build With Green Roof for Rabsky and Rheingold Finally Rising in Bushwick. Brownstoner
- The Art—and Anger—of Japanese Internment Camp Silk Screeners, Atlas Obscura
- Tropical Cyclone Enawo threatens Madagascar, Al Jazeera
- The Myth of the Fiscal Conservative, Jacobian
- Stretch of Roman road unveiled beneath McDonald's restaurant, The Telegraph
- Inside Banksy’s Walled Off Hotel in Bethlehem - in pictures, The National
- Opulent Propaganda: The Subterranean Paradise of the Moscow Metro, hyperallergic
- The Third Reich Was Addicted to Drugs, The New Republic
- Documenting the Undocumented, Places Journal
- Leaving Aleppo, The New Yorker
What I read today - Mar 5
- Every time we take an Uber we’re spreading its social poison, The Guardian
Seriously, Uber is the worst and I refuse to use their service - Why Poor People Stay Poor, Slate
What I read today - Mar 3
- Three-Story Garage At 524 Halsey Street To Be Expanded Into Five-Story, 36-Unit Residential Building, Bedford-Stuyvesant, new york yimby
- A linguistic anthropologist explains why, um, “filler words” are OK to use, Quartz
- Queensway Organizers Scramble to Break Ground Before Alternative Uses Considered for Site, Untapped Cities
- What Is Montessori?, the kavanaugh report
- Georgia O’Keeffe: The Brand, The New Republic
- GM invented planned obsolescence during the Great Depression, and we’ve been buying it ever since, Timeline
- How Trump's wall is affecting those at the borders, Al Jazeera
- The Oral History of 'Daria', Vice
- The World in 2050: When the 5 Largest Economies Are the BRICs and Us, The Atlantic
- Now you’re just the cheese shop that I used to know, New Food Economy
- We’ll pay more for “all-natural” food, especially if someone tells us it is, New Food Economy
- European Parliament votes to end visa-free travel for Americans, The Independent
What I read today - Mar 2
- In small town America, sometimes prisons are the best bet, Timeline
- The Village Invaded by Flowers, Messy Nessy Chic
- Why Get Out Is the Best Movie Ever Made About American Slavery, Esquire
- First Prison, Then A Skadden Fellowship, The Am Law Daily
- George W. Bush explains his fondness for Michelle Obama, CNN
What I read today - mar 1
- Trump's Address To Joint Session Of Congress, Annotated, NPR
- The Provocateur Behind Beyoncé, Rihanna, and Issa Rae, The New Yorker
- Sean Spicer is wrong: Medical marijuana could help solve the opioid crisis, Vice News
- Montessori Baby Week 13 -- The Dancers Mobile, the kavanaugh report
- The Fight for Obamacare Has Turned, NY Times
- Combatting stereotypes: How to talk to your children, The Conversation
What I read today - Feb 28
- The Case for Becoming a Hermit, The New Republic
- Meet the 16-year-old Canadian girl who took down Milo Yiannopoulos, Vox
- Self-Righteous Devils: What Ozark Vigilantes of the 1880s Reveal About Modern America, Collectors Weekly
- 12 Household Items and How Often You Should Actually Clean Them, Man Repeller
We're all doomed. - Why Fearful Control Freaks Need Not Apply to Yale’s Graphic Design Department, Eye on Design
- Losing a Grocery Store Changes a Neighborhood, Civil Eats
- White House bars outlets from Sean Spicer media gaggle, Al Jazeera
what I read today - Feb 27
- Prince Charles Is Behind a Plan to Use Nutella to Help Sterilize a Lot of Squirrels, Atlas Obscura
- Six Stories of Stunning Passports From Countries That No Longer Exist, Atlas Obscura
- Are We Knitting Too Many Tiny Sweaters for Animals?, Atlas Obscura
- When High-Class Ladies Wore Masks That Made It Impossible to Speak, Atlas Obscura
- “We Are So Hated”: What It’s Like to Be a Ted Cruz Fan (and NeverTrumper) at CPAC, New Republic
- Today’s immigrants assimilate faster than the Europeans who came before them, Timeline
- The Internment Artist, The Paris Review
- The High Cost of Cheap Labor, Modern Farmer
- I'm an Arab actor who's been asked to audition for the role of terrorist more than 30 times. If La La Land cleans up at the Oscars, I'm done, The Independent
What I read today - Feb 23
- Keeping the Art of Knot Tying Alive, Atlas Obscura
- In 1914, Feminists Fought For the Right to Forget Childbirth, Atlas Obscura
- What Health Tracker Could Cost You, Bloomberg
- What It's Like To Be Kim Kardashian West's Personal Emoji Designer, Fast Co design
- America’s Monopolies Are Holding Back the Economy, The Atlantic
What I read today - Feb 22
- Why Art Matters to America, NY Times
- Teenagers Who Vandalized Historic Black Schoolhouse Are Ordered to Read Books, NY Times
- Discarded Troll Milo Yiannopoulos Is Now Useless to Conservatives, Slate
- Former BookCourt Home Slated for Development Is Historically Significant, Research Reveals, Brownstoner
- Found: Love Letters a WWII Soldier Wrote to His Boyfriend, Atlas Obscura
- Seattle's Jade Vine Is Almost as Cool as a Corpse Flower, Atlas Obscura
- What’s Happening In Sweden, national Review
- Discovering the Hand -- Montessori Baby Week 12, Kavanaugh Report
- The First 40 Days Without My Son, A Pinch of Yum
Just realized I haven't been adding baby-related posts
What I read today - Feb 20
- The Most Brilliant Raised Bed We've Seen, Rodales
- Pennsylvania confirms first fracking-related earthquakes, State Impact
- Trump's Border Wall Will Have Severe Ecological Consequences, Alternet
- World's Oldest Wild Bird Has Baby at 66, NatGeo
- ‘Regretful Mothers’ Misunderstand Both Motherhood and Love, National Review
- ‘It's the breaking of a taboo’: the parents who regret having children, The Guardian
- The bitter taste of Madagascar vanilla, Al Jazeera
- Madagascar's vanilla farmers face volatile times after poor harvest, the guardian
What I read today - Feb 17
- 40% of Wikipedia is under threat from deletionists, Boing Boing
- Why Does This One Couch From West Elm Suck So Much?, The Awl
- How Kate Middleton’s Wedding Gown Demonstrates Wikipedia’s Woman Problem, Slate
- Florence Nightingale: Of Myths and Maths, The New Inquiry
- Why are we still talking about the “naughty nurse”?, The New Inquiry
- U.S. Animal Abuse Records Deleted—What We Stand to Lose, National Geographic
- In 77 Chaotic Minutes, Trump Defends ‘Fine-Tuned Machine’, NY Times
- It Turns Out We Really Did Elect Donald Trump President of the United States, National Review
- Letters from Women Pleading for Abortion, Sent in 1917, Mirror Emails Sent Today, Broadly
What I read today - Feb 16
- Remembering Nüshu, the 19th-Century Chinese Script Only Women Could Write, Atlas Obscura
- A Philly Guy Filled a Crack in the Street With Sprinkles, Atlas Obscura
- Why can 12-year-olds still get married in the United States?, Washington Post
- Pope Francis Says Native People Have Rights Over Their Lands, NBC News
- What’s Killing America’s Black Infants?, The Nation
- Trump Signs Measure Blocking Obama-Era Rule to Protect Streams, Bloomberg
What I read today - Feb 15
- Singer Santigold Puts Striking Bed Stuy Brownstone on Market for $1.95 Million, Brownstoner
We'll no longer be seeing her husband walk his great dane by riding on his skateboard as the dog pulls him in the neighborhood! The house is fab - Meet the New (Little) Guy in Santigold's Life, Hollywood Reporter
- The Story of Squats, Urban Omnibus