Any health-care system that depends on employers or wages is going to privilege the people with the highest-paid jobs (men) and take away power from people who do the bulk… Read the rest of the article: ACA isn't enough: single-payer is a feminist issue
Risky play is good for kids: it lets them test their boundaries in an exhilarating, vivid way — and it's been all but entirely engineered out of contemporary child-rearing.
Designer, maker and writer Hillary Predko's "Kipple Field Notes" is five short essays on the nature of stuff in the 21st century, its relationship to justice, the environment, cities, intergenerational… Read the rest of the article: Material culture, considered (harmful?)
Yesterday, the DNC's Unity Reform Commission unanimously adopted a resolution that slashed the number of superdelegates — appointed officials who, in aggregate, hold the balance that determines the winner of… Read the rest of the article: DNC's new rules: cutting superdelegates from 715 to 315, making their votes reflect the wishes of their states
As the new Wired Guide to Digital Security points out, finding hidden cameras is really, really hard, so the fact that several Airbnb guests have discovered them suggests that there… Read the rest of the article: Airbnb guests repeatedly discover hidden cameras in the homes they rent
The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Erica Portnoy and Jeremy Gillula analyze a FCC's recent Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that served as precursor to the order to kill net neutrality and explain… Read the rest of the article: The FCC literally doesn't know how the internet works
Hang around libertarians long enough and eventually one of them will start talking about "public choice theory" (I last heard it raised by a prominent libertarian scholar to justify corporations… Read the rest of the article: The white supremacist origins of "public choice theory," the bedrock of contemporary libertarian thought
Albania's Shkëlqim Fusha likes to hide in the shadows, but his cousin, Tirana chief prosecutor Petrit Fusha, is implicated in a massive corruption scandal whose cover-up involved assassinating a 17-year-old… Read the rest of the article: A rogue's gallery of 17 of Eastern Europe's richest, most politically connected oligarchs
Kleptocrat is an Ios-only mobile game that challenges players to play as billionaire tax-dodgers, who construct ruses to hide their money from the tax authorities in the countries where the… Read the rest of the article: Simklept: Kleptocrat is a mobile game that uses real-world financial crimes to simulate being a tax-dodging one percenter
The theory behind Margaret Thatcher's sell-off of publicly funded council housing under the "right to buy" scheme was that poor people would buy their houses and then the structural factors… Read the rest of the article: Margaret Thatcher sold off public housing to create "the dignity of ownership" and today 40% of that housing is owned by gouging landlords
Chad Kroeger, a Youtuber whose persona is a kind of stoner party-bro, attended a City Council hearing to discuss a plan to prohibit house parties and gave a passionate speech… Read the rest of the article: Bros go to LA city council to speak for house parties
Corey Robin (previously) wants you to know four things about the Republican plan to add 1.5 trillion dollars to the US debt and transfer trillions more to the richest Americans.
Trump FCC Chairman Ajit Pai is a former top Verizon executive and now he's about to hand Verizon billions of dollars in public subsidy by striking down net neutrality rules,… Read the rest of the article: Ajit Pai made a funny: leaked video shows his presentation at the Telecom Prom where he "pretends" to be a Verizon shill
Wired's new Guide to Digital Security is an excellent addition to the genre of simple-to-follow how-tos for reducing the likelihood that you'll be victimized by computer-assisted crime and harassment, and… Read the rest of the article: Wired releases a surveillance self-defense guide
In 2015, Nick and Sarah Jensen publicly swore that their religious beliefs would force them to divorce in protest if Australia enacted marriage equality laws that allowed for same-sex marriage.… Read the rest of the article: Bigots who swore their religious beliefs would force them to divorce if Australia passed marriage equality renege on promise
The American savings crisis is a time-bomb, as multiple generations hurtle toward retirement with effectively no savings, and experts are now saying that having $1 million in the bank on… Read the rest of the article: Americans have no savings, with good reason: housing, education and health care costs are out of control, wages are stagnant, and the Fed has suppressed interest rates
Wonkette writer Robyn Pennacchia went on a brilliant Twitter rant about the strange history of square dancing, which is not an old American tradition, but rather a 20th century hoax… Read the rest of the article: Square dancing was a racist hoax funded by Henry Ford to get white people to stop dancing to black music
Trump's neutracidal FCC Chairman Ajit Pai says he wants to kill net neutrality and replace it with "disclosures," where ISPs tell you, somewhere in the fine print, how they're fucking… Read the rest of the article: Ajit Pai says an informed public (not Net Neutrality) will discipline ISPs (BTW, he's also killing the rules forcing ISPs to inform the public)
CropLife America (pesticide lobbyists); the Financial Services Roundtable (lobbyists for Citigroup, Jpmorgan, etc) and Lockheed Martin (largest arms-dealer in the world) are just some of the entities throwing lavish parties… Read the rest of the article: Here are some of the lavish, lobbyist-funded parties that Congress and the Trump administration will attend this month
This week's Patreon PR fumble (the company changed what kinds of support are permissible and the way fees are paid and then said it was good for creators, when it… Read the rest of the article: The point of Patreon isn't how many people earn a full-time living, it's how much of the money from art goes to artists
