Friday Links
Read until your eyes bleed all over the Mar-a-Lago table linen
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1 min readJun 30, 2017
- The horrifying story of a DIII football player’s kidnapping and torture by drug dealers also highlights the double standards and corruption at the heart of collegiate athletics. (ESPN)
- The exhaustive list of every public lie Trump has told as Maximum Leader. (The New York Times)
- New York’s classic diners are dying quickly. Enjoy your faux-rustic bacon-wrapped cast-iron seared everything, I guess. (Grub Street)
- Keep saying it. Never forget. Trump isn’t really that much of an aberration for the GOP. That the Dems don’t attack American conservatism as ideology and a unified practice is their own failing. (Fusion)
- American Christianity is often just as much about scolding the poor and teaching humble servitude to business as it is about Jesus or whatever he had to say about the poor. (Jacobin)
- Show up for the Kosciuszko Bridge demolition on July 11. There’s either going to be explosions or wolves. Either way, good times. (New York Daily News)
Dane A. Wisher is based in Brooklyn.