https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/21/facebook-white-nationalists-ban-vdare-red-ice

White nationalists are openly operating on Facebook. The company won’t act

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/06/19/billionaire-changes-his-mind-about-school-reform-what-kids-really-need-barack-obama-has-surprising-reaction/

Interesting. Nick Hanauer decides charter schools aren’t the answer and a $15 minimum wage is. (And Obama agrees with him.)

«“There were zero charter schools when I began ‘helping’ our education system. Today, there are over 7,000,” he said. “But our country has never been more unequal, polarized and angry.”»

(This is what happens when you see a long article in The Atlantic and say to yourself, “Oof, I’ll read that later,” and then never get around to it.)

Oh, boy.

https://twitter.com/rudeftm/status/1197603942596857858?s=20

gemini trans (@rudeftm) Tweeted:
was not expecting this entire exchange to happen https://t.co/F4LG1JcRHf

https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/1197854677188173825?s=20

Facial recognition and our brave new world:

Caroline Orr (@RVAwonk) Tweeted:
We’ve already seen footage from protests in the US and in other countries used to target protesters. The interview below describes how the Assad regime monitored footage uploaded online after protests, then used it to ID, detain, & torture dissidents. 5/ https://t.co/Hib3u4LwR7 https://t.co/Vxjtwj7y1x

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/01/joe-biden-stutter-profile/602401/

Really good article that includes the phrase “intermittent disfluency”.

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-anonymous-white-house-insider-memory-1472661

Yeah, but the courts….

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/20/us/politics/obama-2020-candidates.html

I thought this was exactly what the Trump voters wanted: to burn down the system. The average American may not think that, but, apparently, the average American doesn’t vote.

«“The average American doesn’t think that we have to completely tear down the system and remake it,” said Mr. Obama»

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/11/prince-andrew-oblivious-jeffrey-epstein-interview/602179/

The very rich are not like you and me.

«Andrew’s sister, Anne, refused royal titles for her children, as she was determined to bring them up outside the royal bubble. Andrew did not: His daughters are princesses. At her wedding last year, the younger one, Eugenie, chose a reading from The Great Gatsby, which she said reminded her of her future husband. “He smiled understandingly—much more than understandingly,” observes the novel’s narrator, Nick Carraway, in the section of the novel read out by her sister, Beatrice. “It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.”

How delightful—except that the man Carraway is describing is Jay Gatsby, a con man who weasels his way into high society through flattery and charm. “They were careless people,” writes F. Scott Fitzgerald of two of The Great Gatsby’s other characters, Tom and Daisy. “They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”»

https://www.newsweek.com/gun-violence-children-killed-sandy-hook-military-soldiers-war-terror-911-848602

«Over 17 years of combat, the U.S. has lost 6,929 soldiers. Including Department of Defense civilians killed overseas, that number grows to 6,950.

In the five years and three months since the December 14, 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook in Newtown, Connecticut, when 20-year-old Adam Lanza killed 20 first graders and six adults with an AR-15-style rifle, about 7,000 children have died by gunfire. Though the exact figure is unclear, it rivals the tally of U.S. military deaths overseas—in 11 fewer years.»

https://twitter.com/MollyMcKew/status/1196429516501114880?s=20

Seems like this could be our future if we’re not careful.

At the risk of being called a clicktivist (accurately, I guess), I think I’ll make this my banner, too.