In response to Trump's recent mind-boggling tweet accusing an old man who was assaulted by police in Buffalo as being part of an elaborate Antifa sting operation (I hate that… Read the rest of the article: What to do if you think your grandparents are Antifa
The Hard Times is a satire site in the vein of The Onion, but with content focused more on hipsters, punk rock, and video game culture. And it is a… Read the rest of the article: Howard Stern and the Village People both fell for a satire article about the cop from the Village People
JK Rowling's retroactive Harry Potter continuity additions have been a continuous source of pop cultural embarrassment. But her repeated allusions to trans-exclusionary radical feminism has been even worse. After a… Read the rest of the article: Annotating JK Rowling's bonkers anti-Trans rant
Writer Gerry Conway has been vocal for years about the misappropriation of the Punisher, a vigilante murderer superhero he created in 1974 when he wrote Amazing Spider-Man #129: It's disturbing whenever… Read the rest of the article: Creator of the Punisher is organizing a Black Lives Matter benefit to reclaim the skull symbol from police
In March of 2019 — about a year after the Parkland shooting at Marjory Stoneham Douglas High School — the ACLU released a report titled "Cops and No Counselors: How… Read the rest of the article: The ACLU analyzed the number of police in schools compared to social workers, and the results are staggering
From The Intercept: Documents obtained by The Intercept via the Freedom of Information Act reveal that a Pentagon war game, called the 2018 Joint Land, Air and Sea Strategic Special Program,… Read the rest of the article: The Pentagon developed a plan to stop a potential Gen Z rebellion in the 2020s.
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Australian Reptile Park (@australianreptilepark) Koalas are not functionally extinct, although their population has rapidly declined in recent decades; these numbers have… Read the rest of the article: The first known baby koala since the Australian wildfires has been born in a zoo
Last January, the BBC released the first episode of a true-crime style podcast called The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. Created by Julian Simpson, this story took a Serial-esque approach to a… Read the rest of the article: This true crime podcast is actually a cool modern adaptation of Lovecraft
Every year, the 5th graders at Wirtz Elementary School in Paramount, California get to have a big jam session concert with real musicians. It's the brainchild of teacher Eric Caruso,… Read the rest of the article: Watch a bunch of 5th graders sing a Minor Threat song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObIoilDur-o Director/writer Duncan Jones — whom you may know from his hyper-focused, small cast sci-fi films like Moon and Source Code, or the larger-scale Warcraft film that I admittedly never… Read the rest of the article: Duncan Jones is raising money for a great looking graphic novel follow-up to "Moon"
"New York Times Best-selling author" is a one of those highly treasured accolades to which most writers aspire. It's the kind of recognition that can make or break a writer's… Read the rest of the article: Number-crunching the New York Times' bestseller list is not a good look for diversity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6L6F24zXFuA ♫ Can you tell me how to get, how to get to a more equitable society where unconscious biases don't play such an overwhelming role in structural inequalities and… Read the rest of the article: Watch the full Sesame Street special on white privilege and racism
On Friday night, New York Police Commissioner Shea tweeted a photo of a bunch of bicycle repair gear and other commonly handy devices that had been confiscated from protestors, which… Read the rest of the article: In Portlandia, police confiscated chickpeas and White Claw
On March 5, 1770, militarized law enforcement officers committed a heinous act of state-sponsored violence in front of the Old Boston State House, shooting and murdering an innocent black man… Read the rest of the article: Military police un-ironically re-stage the Boston Massacre during anti-police protests
On Sunday, May 31st, 2020, President Donald Trump tweeted that Antifa would be officially designated as a terrorist organization by the US government. A message from the President: pic.twitter.com/BtDdfGL2nO —… Read the rest of the article: Trump's tweets about Antifa show his ignorance of US law
From the Denver Post: Colorado recorded a 40% decrease in suicides in March and April as social-distancing policies aimed at slowing the spread of the novel coronavirus kept residents home,… Read the rest of the article: The suicide rate in Colorado has dropped 40% during COVID quarantine
This is one of my personal favorite bits of Schadenfreude in the world. This photo was taken by Karen Reshkin at the 2016 Milwaukee Irish Fest, and depicts a somewhat… Read the rest of the article: A US cop made an Irish "Blue Lives Matter" shirt that accidentally said "Black Lives Matter"
Time is a flat circle, and between the quarantine and the never-ending mind-boggling madness of our ever-escalation geopolitical chaos, it's become increasingly difficult to understand our own temporal existence in… Read the rest of the article: Is 2020 over yet? This website will help you figure it out.
It's depressingly fitting that a nationwide spree of protests against racist policing would occur on the anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, what's been called the single worst incident… Read the rest of the article: It's the 99th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre that destroyed "Black Wall Street"
As anti-police protests raged across the country on Sunday, the official Twitter account of the Sergeants Benevolent Association of the NYPD spent most of the day whining about New York… Read the rest of the article: New York Police Union doxxed Mayor DiBlasio's daughter on Twitter
