“Libraries have become de facto homeless shelters”: Emilio Estevez on His New Movie “The Public”
The last time audiences saw actor Emilio Estevez in a library was in 1985 for a dance sequence in the brat pack classic, The Breakfast Club. Thirty-four years later in his new movie, The Public, Estevez is playing the librarian, caught in the middle of a police standoff with library patrons, most of whom are…
Barr: No Evidence That Trump Investigation Was Improper
Stefani Reynolds/CNP via ZUMA Here’s the headline that’s still on the New York Times front page: Via Axios, here’s the full exchange: Barr: I think spying on a political campaign is a big deal. … There were a lot of rules put in place to make sure that there’s an adequate basis before our law…
The Evolution of the Trump Twitter Feed
Today, the Trump Twitter feed contains: 3 retweets of Fox News 2 retweets of Judicial Watch 1 retweet of Breitbart And a partridge in a pear tree. Trump’s Twitter feed is becoming mostly a conduit for conservative media sycophants and conspiracy theory lunatics these days. Just makin’ America great again, I guess.
Lead in Topsoil Produces Kids With Cognitive Problems
A new study out of Carnegie-Mellon examines the effect of topsoil lead contamination on cognitive problems among toddlers. To start, the authors construct a map of large US counties showing which ones are above and below average in lead contamination: The green counties have a topsoil lead concentration of about 10 ppm, while the red…
House Democrats Just Passed a Bill to Revive Net Neutrality
Sarah Silbiger/CQ Roll Call On Wednesday morning, the House of Representatives passed a bill to restore Obama-era net neutrality protections—but the effort is likely to stop there, with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) saying his chamber won’t consider the measure and the White House threatening to veto the bill as well. The House passed…
Vigilantes Not Welcome: A Border Town Pushes Back on Anti-Immigrant Extremists
In late August last year, 39-year-old Michael Lewis Arthur Meyer exited La Gitana bar in Arivaca, Arizona, took out his phone, and started recording a video for his Facebook page: “So down here in Arivaca, if you like to traffic in children, if you like to make sure women and children have contraceptives before handing…