I've previously written about the Netflix show Ancient Apocalypse, and I'm back for more! This time, it's to share a terrific article published this week in The Nation titled "Apocalypse No! Pseudo-Archaeology, Ancient Tech-Lords, and Ordinary People: Why the Netflix series Ancient Apocalypse is worth taking seriously. — Read the rest

Related: I recently listened to the new Graphic Policy podcast about Peacemaker with Spencer Ackerman, Jamelle Bouie, and Cayden Mak, and listening to a bunch of intelligent people break the show apart made me love it even more.

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In a barefaced, spiteful opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal, Ted Cruz told corporations who support Georgia's anti-democratic election laws that he will no longer accept their bribes in exchange for ignoring their malfeasance:

This time, we won't look the other way on Coca-Cola's $12 billion in back taxes owed.

Jamelle Bouie (previously), has proposed an alternate Black Batman, with an accompanying background story that goes beyond race-switching Bruce Wayne and instead looks at the cultural and racial politics of America and finds exactly the right niche where a Black vigilante in a mask would fit.

Baraboo High School's class of 2019 threw Nazi salutes for a staged photo at their junior prom this year.

Even before the election of Donald Trump, America's pearl-clutching class has been invoking James Madison and his fear of "impetuous majorities" and his desire for "majority rule based on reason rather than passion," worried that the "adults" in the political halls were losing their grip and being forced into "extremism" by mob rule.

David French served as squadron judge advocate for the Second Squadron, Third Armored Cavalry Regiment, stationed at Forward Operating Base Caldwell in Diyala Province, Iraq; he walked patrol with other soldiers, during which he and his colleagues confronted routine armed aggression from insurgents out of uniform, who used IEDs as well as firearms in their fights with US soldiers.

As the highly controversial deaths of black people at the hands of American law enforcement officers has crept into our public discourse this decade, so too has the revelation that no federal agency maintains statistics on killings by police officers, prompting The Guardian — a UK-based newspaper — to launch The Counted, a project to piece together a national picture of death-by-cop from the fragmentary evidence of press reports and open records requests.

In the aftermath of the Ferguson uprising, much ink was spilled on the reliance of the predominantly black city on fines from its residents to pay its bills — and on the use of what amounted to debtors' prisons that locked up those who wouldn't or couldn't pay the constant stream of fines and scared the rest into begging and borrowing to pay their own fines.

"Netta" Elzie describes the first few traumatic nights in Ferguson following Brown's death—when the city saw massive police militarization—and the motivation she’s found to continue leading the movement.

The police department "routinely" blocks citizens from recording their activities under a bizarre rubric of "officer safety," according to the Justice Department's investigation.

Police turned violent at protests in Ferguson, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, where an unnamed police officer recently shot an unarmed black teen dead.

"The Phrenology of Barack Obama," a self-published book by Bensa Magos, is basically the best thing ever.

Watch out, white America! Dark people are buying houses again. [via Slate]

Update: The artwork (which does not include the text) was by Andres Guzman, who was born in Lima, Perú. [hat tip: Greg B.]

Did a cover for Businessweek about the current housing market boom.

In a piece for The Magazine, Jamelle Bouie argues that "an implicit network, not overt racism, keeps tech writing dominated by men." A long read worth reading. Also cross-posted to Bouie's blog.