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Thursday, March 2, 2017
Day 39
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Straddling the Great Digital Divide What I love most about being a true blue Gen X'er is our passage from analog to digital. There's something comforting in the shared experience of taking a flying leap together across a great technological chasm. From Etch-A-Sketch to iPad, from wall-tethered telephones to iPhones. Technology mo… Read More
Republicans Are Lying To You About Jobs And Also Literally Everything Else Former Republican congressional staff member Mike Lofgren wrote a truly brilliant piece that should be taught in schools when our democracy has been totally and completely obliterated by our wealthiest citizens, only it won't be because after they're done destroying jobs, they'll be coming afte… Read More
The Revolution Will Be Digitized (Because F**k This Guy) Every generation needs to find a way to come to terms with its dark years. Slavery, Chinese encampment, Japanese persecution. Here is what people have been asking themselves throughout the recorded history of humans: "If I were alive during [mass persecution of any one group] and saw what was h… Read More
Are Republicans Making Race-Centered Policy? Yesterday on Deadline Whitehouse on MSNBC, race relations leader Heather McGhee was speaking on the inhumane conditions and the utter disaster that is the Trump border "policy." Host Nicolle Wallace said, "Who is the person who argues in court 'they don't need toothbrushes, they weren't suppos… Read More
Where Is The Outrage? In sixth grade, Mrs. Signori asked us to define "freedom." What does it mean to be "a free country." "Yes, Suzanne?" Suzanne Bronsard lived across from my grandparents. We saw each other after school, but weren't what you'd call "friends." I liked her. "Um?" Suzanne started. "It means we… Read More