A land where everything felt possible. We were meant to be on the boat coming through Ellis Island. We should have gone there. We were meant to be there. | | | | Gena Rowlands protecting a young boy from the mob in GLORA. (1980)
(Columbia Pictures) | | | | |  | “A land where everything felt possible. We were meant to be on the boat coming through Ellis Island. We should have gone there. We were meant to be there.”
| - | the grandfather of MEN IN BLAZER's ROGER BENNETT on his love of America which passed down to his grandson., on HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel |
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| | rantnrave:// As DONALD GLOVER recently shared with us: THIS IS AMERICA. PRESIDENT TRUMP is punishing children as a deterrent. His swamp is thicker than molasses. Yesterday, I sat in front of my screen and couldn't believe my eyes and ears. Sort of the same whacked-out way I felt during 9/11. Our worst hours as a country have been things like slavery, internment of Japanese Americans, or turning Jewish refugees away as world war broke out. This can't be happening. This is not happening. But it is. This is America. I don't recognize it. One week back after six months off and I want to go and hide already. We need to have the will to let our defiance and voice be stronger than our sadness. It's a huge issue for me. What's going on is so overwhelmingly sad that we want to give up and crawl into a dark space. That's what he's counting on. Don't give up. A MUELLER investigation is not going to save us. No, the ICE director won't admit this is inhumane. I want GENA ROWLANDS as GLORIA to bust in and rescue those kids. But she's make-believe. Things will not just get better. SAM COOKE sang, "A Change Is Gonna Come." It's not coming. We have to make it come. Whether through elections, using your media, your pocketbook, marching, shame, writing your representatives, challenging sponsor or dare I say, like the '60s, civil unrest. An evil, more prepared faction is slowly taking our country, our brand and our morality and ethics over. It's a faction of mean and hate I never thought I'd see as the dominant voice in America. Every day is a new low. Racists, thieves, and shills set a new record of low every day. Many of us feel the outrage, anger, and sadness and have no idea how to contribute. That's what I need to understand and begin. I feel guilty when I turn off the news. Filter my newsfeed. Put my head in the sand. I feel like I'm turning away from a crime. And yet, those things are better for my mental health. I don't want to look back in 30 years and know I turned away. The burnout from what's going is debilitating for many. Especially, if you monitor for a living or you have a horrendous work-like balance. My friend ARIANNA HUFFINGTON discusses combatting this outrage for our own good. But I can't look away. History teaches us that's how bad happens. What will you do?... Fueling some of the lies, behavior, and conspiracies is FOX NEWS. Once a great business idea and representation of another point of view is now mostly propaganda. The RUPERT MURDOCH I knew was nothing like this. And watching people like TUCKER CARLSON get airtime is repulsive to me. I worked at FOX. I have many friends at Fox. Some of the smartest people I know run divisions at Fox. And they are disgusted to be in the same organization with that channel. And yet this is allowed to go on for the sake of money. Truly destroying a truth and decency fabric in our country. His legacy will not be COMCAST or DISNEY. It will be Fox News. I beg him to make it stop. The Rupert I knew is better than this. I was happy to see talent stand up and I hope there are more and they follow through. This is a big deal. The rest of 21CF is a wonderful company with fantastic leaders and creative voices. I know this kills them... What do I do for a break from the evil-doers? I watch SCHITTS CREEK and THE IN-LAWS (1979). Comedy does heal, at least temporarily. We need more comedy... You may have heard about the murder of 20-year-old artist XXXTENTACION. He had a very controversial career and short life. His murder is polarizing. MusicREDEF's MATTY KARAS discusses why some of the reactions are not ok... I give BORIS BECKER a 10 for creativity and a 0 for not owning his s***... Happy Birthday to BOB GARFIELD, CHRIS KANTROWITZ, LAUREN CORRAO, JENNA SHANIS, LISA CHU, BOB MORRISON, BRENDA SPOONEMORE, CLAUDIA CENICEROS, and STEVEN STARR. Belated to DJ NEIL ARMSTRONG, KELLY POSNER GERSTENHABER, ADAM WINNICK, KIERSTEN SKOG, MIKE BROWN, ROBERT FLAX, STACEY CIULLA SCHWADRON, DAVID HIRSCH, and SHANE STEELE. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | Vox |
| Only Congress can decide if the president is above the law. | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| “This is an organization that really preys on people’s weaknesses.” | | |
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 | Wired |
| Cryptomania isn't just a mad rush of scams and speculation. It's a utopian dream. And a living nightmare. | | |
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 | Forbes |
| Many people think of Airbnb as the poster child for disruption: leveraging the sharing economy to democratize participation in the travel & hospitality marketplace, turning those industries on their heads. Now, the $31 billion startup is building a similar business case for music. | | |
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 | The Atlantic |
| How the many-chambered heart of the internet turned the Trump administration’s family-separation policy into a different kind of scandal. | | |
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 | The Huffington Post |
| Gail O'Hara's fanzine, Chickfactor, has been publishing off and on since 1992. It has outlasted many of the bands that appeared on its cover. It has outlasted the bookstores that used to stock it next to long-dead zines like Rollerderby (R.I.P.) and Punk Planet (R.I.P.). | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| A P.R. company that worked with dictators and oligarchs deliberately inflamed racial tensions in South Africa-and destroyed itself in the process. | | |
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 | VentureBeat |
| "What it will be, what it can be, I think it's profound," says Tim Cook on augmented reality. What if the world's knowledge was not a click away, but at a glance? What if technology enabled your narrative to intersect and interact with the land around you? | | |
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 | Gizmodo |
| For 15 years, Erez Benari's struggle with his type 2 diabetes had been a losing one. A software engineer at Microsoft in Seattle, Washington, Benari had stuck to a restrictive diet that kept him off most carbs, along with regular insulin shots. But still, his high blood sugar levels never dropped, while his health continued to decline. | | |
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 | Dissent Magazine |
| Trump’s new zero-tolerance immigration policy, which separates parents from their children, is a cruel strategy to curb the flow of immigrants and asylum-seekers arriving in the United States. Here’s why it’s bound to fail. | | |
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 | Harvard Business Review |
| In a study, liberals preferred messages of uniqueness, while conservatives preferred superiority. | | |
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 | Noisey |
| Remembering Penelope Spheeris' 'Decline of Western Civilization Part II' 30 years after its release. | | |
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 | Fast Company |
| The aggressive bill passed in the Senate but is now in danger of being “amended to oblivion” in the Assembly, as one net neutrality proponent put it. | | |
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 | BBC |
| One US citizen warns of the consequences of a visit to a forbidden area in North Korea. | | |
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 | The Business of Fashion |
| Smart retailers are tapping into the power of the pop-up shop to study customers, test new business ideas and much more, writes Thomas S. Robertson. | | |
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 | BuzzFeed |
| It’s important to consider what kinds of stories we keep asking writers of color to tell, and that those stories go beyond performing suffering on the page. | | |
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 | Aeon Magazine |
| I was shaken and transfixed in the aftermath of the shootings at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Like most of those in the United States, prevention was on my mind. According to partial psychiatric records obtained by the Miami Herald, the shooter, Nikolas Cruz, confided 'gory fantasies' and dreams to a school therapist in 2014. The revelation set me to wondering: what else had Cruz revealed to all the therapists who, most likely, had interacted... | | |
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 | Medium |
| Six demands, from a citizen to Big Tech | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| Based on the photographic evidence, living conditions inside government-run detention centers for immigrant children separated from their parents in south Texas look reasonably orderly and clean. But there's a major catch: All of the photographs depicting life inside the facilities have been supplied by the government itself. | | |
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 | Digiday |
| The publisher grew registered users by 40 percent to 600,000 last year using machine learning and A/B testing. | | |
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