Stable Genius Liberal

Obama’s Plan to Destroy America Has Failed Miserably

NYTimes: World Markets’ Plunge Signals Investors’ Doubts About Trump

World Markets’ Plunge Signals Investors’ Doubts About Trump

White nationalists plot Election Day show of force

Let’s see if this is covered as much as the two black panther guys in Philly.

Exclusive: The Democratic National Committee Has Told the FBI It Found Evidence Its HQ Was Bugged

Is Donald Trump’s Hair a $60,000 Weave? A Gawker Investigation [Updated]

I want to know how much time and effort gawker spent on this investigation.

The myth of self-control

The people who said they excel at self-control were hardly using it at all.

A New Movement in Liberal Economics That Could Shape Hillary Clinton’s Agenda – The New York Times

Redistribution from the rich to the poor isn’t on the table in Washington. But some liberal thinkers are drawn to another way to ease income inequality.

Worth reading.

U.S. economy added 161,000 jobs in October as unemployment rate dipped to 4.9 percent

The disconnect between the economic data and the media reporting is stunning. Why do people feel the economy is doing poorly when the numbers say it’s improving?

Observed Arctic sea-ice loss directly follows anthropogenic CO2 emission | Science

The comments about this story are worth reading for the unintended humor in the statements of the deniers. If your response to this is to insist that coloration isn’t causation then you simply do not understand what is being said here.

Yogurt is not white enough for these white nationalists

According to the New York Times, the company’s founder, Hamdi Ulukaya, a Turkish immigrant of Kurdish descent, “has stepped up his advocacy” for the rights of immigrants and refugees, by “employing more than 300 refugees in his factories, starting a foundation to help migrants, and traveling to the Greek island of Lesbos to witness the crisis firsthand.”

For his trouble, Ulukaya has inspired death threats…