Posts Tagged 'Jason Chaffetz'
* People are figuring out that the "anthology" era of Star Wars was a bad idea. And a chilling report from the set of Han Solo: Ron Howard Once Defended Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Calling It "Truly Amazing."
* Behind the Scenes of Disney's Donald Trump 'Hall of Presidents' Drama.
* The Year of Octavia.
* In the same vein, the proliferating but ever meaningless distinctions between the "bad" Uber and the "good" Lyft have obscured how destructive the rise of ride-sharing has been for workers and the cities they live in. The predatory lawlessness that prevails inside Valley workplaces scales up and out. Both companies entered their markets illegally, without regard to prevailing wages, regulations, or taxes. Like Amazon, which found a way to sell books without sales tax, this turned out to be one of the many illegal boons.
* Democrats and the working class.
* Senate postpones health care vote as critical mass of Republicans defect. Keep calling! Tens of thousands per year. Trumpcare kills.
* This chart shows the stunning trade-off at the heart of the GOP health plan.
* Democrats Help Corporate Donors Block California Health Care Measure, and Progressives Lose Again.
* Destroying the university in Illinois.
* Chaffetz calls for $2,500 legislator/month housing stipend.
Buy fewer iPhones, Jason https://t.co/4Hr5OdLRl2
— Jenna Ruddock (@natlsciservice) June 27, 2017
* Sometimes ideology critique just writes itself.
* And Now Director Jon Watts Claims Peter Parker Was In Iron Man 2.
* Someone's Trying to Adapt Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series Again.
* I say teach the controversy.
* Communism — for kids!
* As Lake Chad vanishes, seven million people are on the brink of starvation.
* The inside story of how TMZ quietly became America's most potent pro-Trump media outlet.
* So what is lectureporn? It is the media spectacle of a lecture whose audience is the opponent of the lecture's intended target.
* Trinity Suspends Targeted Professor. And U Delaware. Why can't free speech advocates ever defend adjunct professors and people of color? Stop firing professors for having controversial views, says academic.
* But as the land enters its 120th year in the family, the Allens are struggling to hold on to it. Because of ambiguities surrounding the land's title, there is no primary owner of the property; all of the heirs of the original owners—and there are more than 100 known heirs—are legally co-owners. As such, the land is classified as "heirs' property," a designation that makes it vulnerable to being sold without the family's full consent. As the Allens attempt to overcome a stacked legal system—exacerbated by corrupt lawyers and predatory developers—they are at the center of a decades-long fight to retain black-owned land across the South.
* Social media won't let toxic grudges die.
* Trump's EPA won't let toxic pesticides die.
* Carbon in Atmosphere Is Rising, Even as Emissions Stabilize.
* Amazing the stories that don't even rate as scandals in this trainwreck administration.
* As predicted, the Super Nintendo Classic is on its way.
NINTENDO: We have announced the SNES Classic. It contains some of the best games ever made. We have made only one. May the odds be ever in y
— Mike Drucker (@MikeDrucker) June 26, 2017
* The Tory-DUP Deal Proves the Magic Money Tree Is Real.
* Lynching and the sick history of the death penalty.
In Sumterville, Florida, in 1902, a black man named Henry Wilson was convicted of murder in a trial that lasted just two hours and forty minutes. To mollify the mob of armed whites that filled the courtroom, the judge promised a death sentence that would be carried out by public hanging—despite state law prohibiting public executions. Even so, when the execution was set for a later date, the enraged mob threatened, "We'll hang him before sundown, governor or no governor." In response, Florida officials moved up the date, authorized Wilson to be hanged before the jeering mob, and congratulated themselves on having "avoided" a lynching.
* Huge Star Trek: Discovery scoop: the entire series is a Holodeck program Riker is running during a commercial break.
* When you don't want your hip retro soundtrack to be scooped.
* "Nuclear power plant faces backlash after choosing interns by way of a bikini competition." Photos at the link, of course; this is the Internet, after all…
* The 'i before e, except after c' rule is a giant lie.
* The weird logic of Facebook's hate speech algorithms.
* SF short of the night: They Will All Die in Space.
* An AI Generates the Inspirational Posters We Need Right Now.
* And because you demanded it, it's back up at An und für sich: Why remake The Handmaid's Tale now? Gilead as ISIS.
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