It’s heartening to see many new faces and hear many new voices who may in the past have not explicitly considered themselves “activists,” or who have felt a greater call to stand up against a political administration whose ideologies show every indication of running counter to a constitutional democratic framework. …

There’s something those of us in marginalized groups know instinctively, having lived lives long in opposition to a dizzying continuum of Absurd Moral Authority: from outright violence, to secretive “technical” manipulations of statutes designed to erode or remove rights, to vague and carefully unstated “wink wink nudge nudge” moments from…

Much hay was made this weekend over the fact that the staid global news outlet The New York Times had the audacity to put the story about Mike Pence’s well-timed stunt at Hamilton above the fold, while it relegated the story of Donald Trump’s hasty settlement of $25 million over…

Without the doing of some thing brand inappropriate Something unmonetizable Unclickable Untraceable Untradeable | If i don’t rend the cloth of this Culture Fit soon i will die Like the coral Like two-thirds of the wild Like the humans on the edge of a rising shoreline In a ceaseless world With iceless poles And icy proles | As the planet heats, Civilization chills; Swallowing our red…

are not merely empowered to separate us from discerning fact and fiction. They separate us from debate; civic discourse; meaningful conflict; From coalition-building; compromise; concession. They separate us from each other. Communities seem quaint Common ground, a shifting place Quicksand beneath one’s feet We are all swamp things now The eyes ogle, waiting for us to falter — for sport Our shelf lives grow ever shorter

It’s getting harder to tell anymore who is being paid to push pro-Russian messages, and who has just been sadly taken in by them. For all this braggadocio (braggadocious, even!) about “building a wall” to keep supposed Mexican rapists out (although net migration has been falling with our southern neighbor…

There is anger on the left — from would-be Bernie supporters to passionately anti-war Stein supporters — that is entirely understandable. Conflict wages around the world, as it has since the dawn of civilization. Often, the U.S. plays a role when it concerns our allies, or our enemies. Many times…

Second wave of massive DDoS attacks hitting the US following initial attack this morning on east coast servers. Krebs on Security implicates the flotilla of unsecured Internet of Things devices as a material culprit in the escalation of denial of service power.

Every political pundit (or even remotely connected cultural pundit) is tying themselves up in knots to find the reason(s) — we know it’s complex, yet cannot seem to stop ourselves from Finding The One True Reason behind all things — behind the sheer absurdity of this U.S. presidential election. …