{"id":23291,"date":"2017-08-18T02:53:32","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T09:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=23291"},"modified":"2017-08-18T02:53:32","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T09:53:32","slug":"open-thread-and-link-farm-small-angry-dog-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=23291","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread and Link Farm, Small Angry Dog Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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  1. Woman Gives Up Teaching To Create Optical Illusions With Makeup, And It\u2019s Messing With Our Minds | Bored Panda<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Here\u2019s What Really Happened In Charlottesville<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Mama Cass didn’t die of choking on a ham sandwich; she died as a result of dieting<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  4. Trump’s Sensitivity to Being Laughed at Should Alarm Everyone – Rewire<\/a>
    \nGrace sent this link to me, saying that it reminded her of our conversation about toxic masculinity.<\/li>\n
  5. Medicare-for-All Isn\u2019t the Solution for Universal Health Care | The Nation<\/a>
    \nProgressives have to start sweating the details of universal health coverage.<\/li>\n
  6. Everything About Disney and ABC’s ‘Pink Slime’ Settlement Should Scare the Hell Out of You<\/a>
    \n“veggie libel” laws aren’t as sexy as discussing protesters on campus, but they’re much more dangerous to free speech.<\/li>\n
  7. Maryland City May Let Noncitizens Vote, a Proposal With Precedent – The New York Times<\/a><\/li>\n
  8. Voter Suppression in the Mirror and Looking Forward<\/a>
    \nA review of some of the voter suppression measures conservatives are pushing.<\/li>\n
  9. What Trump gets wrong about Confederate statues, in one chart – Vox<\/a>
    \n“Washington was a slave owner, yes, but the meaning of a Washington statue is not necessarily pro-slavery or pro-white supremacy \u2014 whereas that\u2019s exactly the point of the vast majority of Confederate memorials in the United States.”<\/li>\n
  10. Debate over civil rights center at UNC focuses on advocacy and academic freedom<\/a>
    \nRepublicans in North Carolina’s congress are shutting down a civil rights center at a law school. Academic freedom, everybody!<\/li>\n
  11. Officials say immigration agents showed up at labor dispute proceedings. California wants them out – LA Times<\/a><\/li>\n
  12. Students say Christian college turned a blind eye to serial\u00a0rapists \u2013 ThinkProgress<\/a><\/li>\n
  13. The Lost Cause Rides Again<\/a>
    \nTa-Nahisi Coates on HBO’s announced “Confederate” TV series. I’m withholding judgement to small degree – maybe the show itself will be so brilliant as to answer all of Coates’ concerns and change everyone’s minds – but I’m extremely skeptical that it will be that good.<\/li>\n
  14. An anti-immigrant group mistook empty bus seats for women wearing burqas – The Washington Post<\/a><\/li>\n
  15. Doxing isn’t about privacy\u2014it’s about abuse | The Daily Dot<\/a>
    \nAn interesting and, I think, useful way of redefining how we thing about doxing. “Doxing isn\u2019t about exposure. Instead, it\u2019s a form of weaponized attention. “<\/li>\n
  16. Why Trump Invokes \u2018Common Sense\u2019 – The Atlantic<\/a>
    \n“…for centuries, populist movements in particular have invoked common sense as a justification for policy goals and as an antidote to expert opinion.”<\/li>\n
  17. What Jeff Sessions Will Never Understand About Affirmative Action<\/a><\/li>\n
  18. Affirmative Action and the Myth of Reverse Racism – The Atlantic<\/a><\/li>\n
  19. “I lied to my wife about liking john mayer; my life now revolves around his music and I’m looking for clarity.”<\/a><\/li>\n
  20. In \u2018Death Wish,\u2019 Jews Gain From White Fascist Fantasies \u2013 The Forward<\/a>
    \nI don’t agree with everything Noah writes here, but I did find it interesting.<\/li>\n
  21. Octopus and squid evolution is officially weirder than we could have ever imagined – ScienceAlert<\/a>
    \n“… scientists have discovered that octopuses, along with some squid and cuttlefish species, routinely edit their RNA (ribonucleic acid) sequences to adapt to their environment.”<\/li>\n
  22. South Carolina town bans saggy pants: Can they do that? – CSMonitor.com<\/a>
    \nI hope they get sued and lose badly. And really, are we supposed to think it’s just a big coincidence that it’s a Black fashion they go after?<\/li>\n
  23. Could A Bus With Sleep Pods Replace Airplanes? | WBEZ<\/a>
    \nWell, maybe for short flights.<\/li>\n
  24. Is Jesse Singal a Bigot? | www.splicetoday.com<\/a>
    \nAn older controversy, about an academic who wrote an article that was widely criticized, and then widely defended.<\/li>\n
  25. Sizeism Is Harming Too Many of Us: Fat Shaming Must Stop | Psychology Today<\/a>
    \nFocuses on how anti-fat prejudice harms fat patients in the medical system.<\/li>\n
  26. Dear Men of The Breakfast Club: Trans Women Aren\u2019t a Joke, Ploy, or Sexual Predators | Allure<\/a>
    \nArticle by Janet Mock responding to a morning radio show.<\/li>\n
  27. In the key 2018 battlegrounds, Trump’s support is as high as ever – Vox<\/a>
    \nIf this holds up, Trump could win re-election in 2020 while losing the popular vote by an even larger margin.<\/li>\n
  28. …Or he could postpone the election, and if he does a lot of Republicans say they’d support him. Poll: Half of GOPers Open to Postponing of 2020 Elections<\/a><\/li>\n
  29. \u201cRapid Onset Gender Dysphoria\u201d Is Bad Science | Thing of Things<\/a>
    \nI found the end point especially interesting, because I hadn’t considered that before, but the whole thing is good.<\/li>\n
  30. Psychologists surveyed hundreds of alt-right supporters. The results are unsettling. – Vox<\/a><\/li>\n
  31. Cartoon below is by Irma Kniivila.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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