Jakarta Is Sinking.
Wired
Indonesia Has to Find a New Capital
Names and Locations of the Top 100 People Killing the Planet
The Decolonial Atlas
“The earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses.” – Utah Phillips
Ohio Congressional Map Tossed Out for Partisan Gerrymandering
Politico
It’s the second state in a week, after Michigan, in which judges said a GOP-drawn map violated voters’ constitutional rights.
Why Won’t Twitter Treat White Supremacy Like ISIS?
VICE
Because It Would Mean Banning Some Republican Politicians Too. A Twitter employee who works on machine learning believes that a proactive, algorithmic solution to white supremacy would also catch Republican politicians.
Trump Labor Board Postpones VW Vote
Labor Notes
Company Manufactures Climate of Fear
Extinction Rebellion Has Changed the Conversation - Other Activists Must Recognize That
OpenDemocracy
Extinction Rebellion has made mistakes, but passing judgment on their flaws isn't activism. After the XR protests, the U.K.’s Parliament declared a climate emergency and 54% of British adults polled said climate change threatens our extinction.
Why All the Arguments Against Impeachment Are B.S.
It'll divide the country, energize Trump's base — and anyway, he'll never be convicted in the Senate! Mehdi Hasan rebuts the arguments against impeachment.
Friday Nite Videos | May 3, 2019
Portside
William Barr's Master Class on Hair Splitting. For Pete at 100 | This Land Is Your Land. Elizabeth Warren: Time to Open Impeachment Proceedings. How Quantum Computers Break Encryption. Ady Barkan Testifies on Medicare for All.
William Barr's Master Class on Hair Splitting
Stephen attempts to capture the substance, nature, and context of William Barr's incredibly hard-to-watch testimony
For Pete at 100 | This Land Is Your Land
Studs Terkel does the introduction to the beloved Woody Guthrie song, sung by Judy Collins, Pete Seeger, Fred Hellerman and Arlo Guthrie in this 1976 broadcast from PBS studio in Chicago. Full appreciation of the radical life of Pete Seeger here.
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