This May Be the Worst Town in California to Live In
Erick Madrid/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Wired and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Montecito is coming back to life this morning. The 9,000 person town to the east of Santa Barbara has been empty since Tuesday, when mandatory evacuations forced residents out of…
“This Is Change Coming”: A Las Vegas Survivor Marches for Gun Control
Royce Christensen, Las Vegas massacre survivor, attends his first gun safety rally.Mother Jones/Al Kamalizad Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. “Damn!” says Royce Christensen, 22, beaming at his mother, Darla, as they troop through Saturday’s March for Our Lives demonstration in Salt Lake City, Utah. They make their way along the…
This Teen’s Blistering Spoken Word Performance Calls Out America’s Hypocrisy Around Mass Shootings
Saida Dahir, junior in high school and refugee from Somalia who electrified the crowd with her spoken word performance.Mother Jones/Al Kamalizad Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Seventeen-year-old Saida Dahir’s blistering spoken word performance about her fear of school shootings and the political hypocrisy that follows electrified the crowd at Salt Lake City’s March…
Emma Gonzalez Is Responsible for the Loudest Silence in the History of US Social Protest
Emma Gonzalez speaks at the “March for Our Lives” rally in support of gun control in Washington, DC, March 24, 2018.Alex Brandon/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. “Six minutes and about 20 seconds. In a little over six minutes, 17 of our friends were taken from us.” That’s how Emma…
If Facebook Knows Your Friends, They Probably Already Know You Too
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Tyler Cowen links today to a paper suggesting that knowledge of a person’s social network is more important than specific knowledge about the person herself. For some reason I clicked. It turns out the paper is written by a bunch of math and physics types…
Stop Everything and Listen to this Knockout March for Our Lives Speech by an 11-Year-Old Girl
Naomi Wadler, 11, a student at George Mason Elementary School, speaks during the “March for Our Lives” rally.Andrew Harnik/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Naomi Wadler, an 11-year-old girl from Alexandria, Virginia, thrilled hundreds of thousands when she spoke out for “the African-American girls who don’t make the front page of…