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"It is often said that Trump has no real ideology, which is not true—his ideology is white supremacy, in all its truculent and sanctimonious power."

The latest way you'll be fucked by your credit.

Portland is Ricky's Perfect Breeder Hell.

                        
                            DIVISION

» "Any president can drop 25,000 bombs per year, just like Nobel Peace Prize laureate Obama did."

» God Goes Back to School.

» Amazon surpasses THE FUCKING VW GROUP in R&D spending.

» Bad Hombres.

» "Cipher finds totally plausible the report that Trump hired sex workers to pee all over a bed in a Moscow presidential suite where Barack and Michelle Obama once slept."

» "Node seems to be yet another tech community that harbors hostility toward diversity initiatives just under the surface."

» "Cosmonauts and astronauts have floated side-by-side in the International Space Station for so long that they speak a hybrid language called Runglish."

» The Big Protestant Study.

» "Whatever the reason, it’s getting so more people are taking jobs as independent contractors rather than employees."

» “We have to teach our kids to play a game that is set up against them from the beginning.”

» You're going to wonder whether or not your face is gay.

» "Facebook is the biggest surveillance-based enterprise in the history of mankind. It knows far, far more about you than the most intrusive government has ever known about its citizens."

                        
                            ART

» Sun-Fucked.

» Insects On Fleek.

» Bye bye, Kiruna.

» "In movie theatres, I sit in the dark and let worlds wash over me. Back in the light, I’m pulled toward screens inside of screens."

» STRAP GALLOP SHOOT HOWL KILL.

» Beautifully profound, unsettling.

» UNCOVERED: Vonnegut's "The Drone King."

» "He is not disengaged from his material, but his sense of a subject, and his sense of an audience’s reaction to that subject, seem to be fused."

» Miranda July on marriage, time, and cum bowls.

» WE LOOKED UP.

» Frank Ocean's masterpiece.

                        
                            MEDIA

» The Outline’s Adrienne Jeffries is now a certified partner of the alt-right - a conservative powerhouse. That was quick!

» "You need really talented people who are really well-trained in one area."

» "Find out how your story can serve readers and subjects alike beyond simply “inspiring” them."

» The Nonprofit Nannies.

» "Mainstream news coverage of indigenous people and communities, when it happens, is ever-rife with reference to antiquated stereotypes or just straight-up racist language."

» Loves: media meta, bad CMS. Hates: piñatas, bad CMS.

» "Fact-checkers don’t know how stories are affected by being flagged."

» "I think it's easy to call something fake if it's given to you in a way that seems insincere... almost silly."

» How to Cover Hurricanes.

» "The Atlantic is eyeing a future where a significant portion of its revenue continues to come directly from readers."

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