DeviantArt’s Downfall Is Devastating, Depressing, and Dumb ( slate.com )
How Originalism Ate the Law: America is captive to a legal theory that dictates our laws on guns, abortion, and so much more. We need to act. ( slate.com )
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240510115543/https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/05/originalism-ate-the-law-what-now.html
What Rubber Bullets Can Do to the Human Body - The “less lethal” weapons were used against student protesters at UCLA. ( slate.com )
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240507032256/https://slate.com/technology/2024/05/rubber-bullets-blind-kill-trama-ucla-protest.html
What Columbia Should Have Done Instead of Brutalizing Its Student Protesters ( slate.com )
One example, from just up the Ivy-garlanded I-95, at Brown University, was announced just hours before Shafik again called in the police. Brown’s governing body agreed to vote on a proposal that would divest the school’s endowment of companies affiliated with Israel in a meeting in October. The proposal is based on a 2020...
So, Fake Images of Trump With Black Voters Are a Thing Now ( slate.com )
Recently, Donald Trump fans in Florida and Michigan have been auto-generating and spreading around faked “pictures” of Trump surrounded by crowds of Black supporters—and earning significant traction for doing so. Coming at a time when President Joe Biden is worried about losing the Black voters who came out for his 2020...
The Political Divide Between Men and Women Is Getting Wild. One Party Is Primed to Take Advantage. ( slate.com )
It has long been the case that American women are generally more liberal than American men. But among young Americans, this gender gap has widened into an enormous rift: According to recent Gallup polling, there is a 30-point differencebetween the number of women age 18–30 who self-identify as liberal and the number of men in...
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Why Is the DOJ Prosecuting a Journalist While Pretending Otherwise? ( slate.com )
When President Joe Biden said “journalism is not a crime” last April, federal prosecutors in Tampa, Florida, apparently took that as a challenge. Not a crime yet....
A Capitol Rioter Has Become a Right-Wing Media Darling. She Just Got Arrested. ( slate.com )
Isabella DeLuca’s “persecution” is now a cause célèbre....
Dune Two Little – How can a movie be so big and, at the same time, so small? ( slate.com )
A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us. ( slate.com )
A State Supreme Court Just Issued Another Devastating Rebuke of the U.S. Supreme Court ( slate.com )
The Hawaii Supreme Court handed down a unanimous opinion on Wednesday declaring that its state constitution grants individuals absolutely no right to keep and bear arms outside the context of military service. Its decision rejected the U.S. Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Second Amendment, refusing to interpolate...
How Quora Died: The site used to be a thriving community that worked to answer our most specific questions. But users are fleeing. ( slate.com )
It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime Subscription ( slate.com )
The author canceled their Amazon Prime subscription on a whim and realized they didn't really need it....
GOP Governors Invoke the Confederate Theory of Secession to Justify Border Violations ( slate.com )
This week, Republican governors across the country escalated their conflict with the Biden administration over the southern border by invoking the same legal theory that slave states wielded to justify secession before the Civil War....
Republican Officials Openly Insult Women Nearly Killed by Abortion Bans ( slate.com )
Red states would rather let a patient die than let her terminate a dangerous pregnancy. And they’re barely pretending otherwise....
The Internet Enabled Mass Surveillance. A.I. Will Enable Mass Spying. ( slate.com )
Suppose They Threw a Cage Match Between Fascism and Democracy and Nobody Cared ( slate.com )
What if the media is actually covering the spectacle precisely because the stakes—casual brutality, violence, callousness, lawlessness, and the descent into anarchy—are perfectly visible, legible, and clear? It’s hard to read any other way the current threats by sitting senators who promise to beat up committee witnesses,...
Government Shutdown or Biden Impeachment? Why Not Both! ( slate.com )
On Tuesday morning, just as the House was returning from its generous late-summer recess, Speaker Kevin McCarthy kicked the fall session off by throwing a bone to conservatives: He was opening an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. This makes it more likely than not—to the extent it was ever unlikely—that House...
Tesla owners are expressing buyer’s remorse - if not by selling their Teslas, then at least with an apologetic bumper sticker. ( slate.com )
Pedestrians Are Dying in Record Numbers. There’s Nothing “Accidental” About It. - Slate ( slate.com )
I listened to the episode, and its genuinly horrifying how big auto’s pushing of bigger and bigger cars just keeps killing, and the majority of people seem to go “eh, thats just the way it is”