thread of articles i read every week
weeks of 07/27 and 08/03 (combined because of my surgery)
‘I’d Have These Extremely Graphic Dreams’: What It’s Like To Work On Ultra-Violent Games Like Mortal Kombat 11 - Joshua Rivera, Kotaku
The Intellectual We Deserve - Nathan J. Robinson, Current Affairs
The Death of Cop Propaganda - Allegra Hobbs, The Nation
Are True-Crime Podcasts Ready for the #DefundthePolice Era? - Marisa Meltzer, Vanity Fair
Big Bother Is Watching - Jacob Silverman, The Baffler
Medicine has been so whitewashed that we’ve forgotten vaccination is a part of Black history - Annabel Sowemimo, gal-dem
Bookmark this: are acronyms like BAME a nonsense? - Chanté Joseph, gal-dem
How teens on TikTok are perpetuating racist stereotypes - Brianna Holt, Quartz
The Myth of Police Reform - Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic
Beggar’s Opera - Matt Hanson, The Baffler
Meet Moon Man: The alt-right’s racist rap sensation, borrowed from 1980s McDonald’s ads - Matthew Sheffield, Salon
Bookmark this for the next time somebody asks you what political blackness is - Kemi Alemoru, gal-dem
The Prosecutorial Mentality - Nathan J. Robinson, Current Affairs
SVU and the Problem of Justice - Carissa M. Harris, Avidly
The Lost Art of Staying Put - Lucy Ellmann, The Baffler
The Resilient Fiction of the Two-State Solution - Joshua Leifer, Jewish Currents
The U.S. Military Has a Boogaloo Problem - Tess Owen, Vice
From Patriots to Proud Boys: Who Is – and Isn’t – Using Parler - Blyth Crawford, GNET
The Singularity Prophets - Benjamin Charles Germain Lee, Current Affairs
Airbnb Was Like a Family, Until the Layoffs Started - Erin Griffith, The New York Times
Why is Charles Murray Odious? - Nathan J. Robinson, Current Affairs
The curious rise of the ‘white left’ as a Chinese internet insult - Chenchen Zhang, openDemocracy
Stop Asking What Sexual Violence Victims Will Do without Police - Rayne Fisher-Quann, Bitch
Onward, Christian Cowboys - Matt Hanson, The Baffler
Oil Age - Samuel Miller McDonald, Current Affairs
The Day I Found His Secret Box - Evelyn Fogelman “Defendant Shall Not Attend Protests”: In Portland, Getting Out of Jail Requires Relinquishing Constitutional Rights - Dara Lind, ProPublica
“Crackhead” Is an Anti-Black Pejorative, Period - Sessi Kuwabara Blanchard, Filter
The Broken Mythologies of Silicon Valley - Wendy Liu, Tribune
Neo-Nazi Dreams of the Pacific Northwest Becoming Rhodesia - Charles Mudede, The Stranger
True Nonbelievers - Rob Horning, Real Life
The Hidden Faces of Apartheid - Bongani Kona, The Baffler
An Alternative History of Silicon Valley Disruption - Nitasha Tiku, Wired
J.K. Rowling and the Limits of Imagination - Nathan J. Robinson, Current Affairs
The “Cancel Culture” Con - Osita Nwanevu, New Republic
Against Mars-a-Lago: Why SpaceX’s Mars colonization plan should terrify you - Keith A. Spencer, Salon
The New Face of Union-Busting - Kim Kelly, The Baffler
Can Alt-Tech Help the Far Right Build an Alternate Internet? - Megan Squire, Fair Observer
Covid’s Corporate Welfare Kings - Dan Albert, The Baffler
Sorry, Olivia Benson is Canceled Too - EJ Dickson, Rolling Stone
How Ariana Grande uses “Black Cool” in her incremental appropriation game - Black Youth Project
What We Get Wrong About “People of Color” - Jason Parham, Wired
Race tick boxes and bad science mask the real reason why black people are at risk from Covid-19 - Annabel Sowemimo, gal-dem
The Fan Community of Popular True-Crime Podcast My Favorite Murder Is Out of Control. Have Its Hosts Done Enough to Fix It? - Kat Harding, IndyWeek
“Law & Order: SVU” Increased Stigma About Abortion Bans - Mallory McMaster, Bitch
On TV, Cops Are Always the Main Characters - Kathryn VanArendonk , Vulture
Automatic for the Bosses - David A. Banks, Real Life
The Hungry People - Robert Jago, The Walrus
In Defense of Litmus Tests - Briahna Joy Gray, Current Affairs
