The Confederate General Who Was Erased There’s a reason you won’t find many monuments in the South to one of Robert E. Lee’s most able deputies. cross-posted on Facebook

Is Anybody Home at HUD? A long-harbored conservative dream — the “dismantling of the administrative state” — is taking place under Secretary Ben Carson. cross-posted on Facebook

“We should always remember the past, but we do not necessarily need to revere it.” Really good perspective on the current debate around monuments. I definitely connect with the aim of preventing erasure of difficult history but often the full story of these monuments is overlooked. Keeping these monuments can be a different type of …

Trump Warns Removing Confederate Statues Could Be Slippery Slope To Eliminating Racism Entirely The Onion – America’s Finest News Source cross-posted on Facebook

CREDO Mobile “Confederacy was on the wrong side of history and humanity.” cross-posted on Facebook

Didn’t catch it live. Still get goosebumps every time I watch them plant the landing of the first stage.SpaceX Watch live as Falcon 9 delivers Dragon to the International Space Station cross-posted on Facebook

N.C. House Votes to Protect Drivers Who Hit Protesters The bill will give drivers a false sense of entitlement to run over activists, some critics fear. cross-posted on Facebook

Hate Map 917 Hate Groups are currently operating in the US. Track them below with our Hate Map. cross-posted on Facebook

Profoundly disturbing what is happening right now in Charlottesville.1 Dead When Car Plows Into Crowd After White Nationalist Protest In Virginia Nineteen people were reportedly injured in the crash. Earlier Saturday, the Virginia governor declared a state of emergency after white nationalists and counterprotesters clashed at a rally. cross-posted on Facebook

This is the response I have been waiting for.“I’m a woman in computer science. Let me ladysplain the Google memo to you.” Don’t be taken in by the memo’s faux-reasonable tone. cross-posted on Facebook

NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research Welcome to the Forest of the Weird! Like something out of a Dr. Seuss book, the Deep Discoverer remotely operated vehicle encountered this alien-like community composed almost exclusively of glass sponges with their concave sides directed towards the current while exploring “Ridge” Seamount within the Johnston Atoll Unit …

How did Morgan Freeman narrate your life? I will go to sleep after I watch this episode.|Although Weston said this, they did not believe it. cross-posted on Facebook

Republicans’ Obamacare repeal drive has revealed a political system where words have no meaning This is not normal, and it is not sustainable. cross-posted on Facebook

Women engineers get real about the worst sexism they’ve experienced at work Female coders shares horror stories of sexism they faced in the workplace. cross-posted on Facebook

Ava DuVernay’s A Wrinkle In Time: watch the first trailer Since it was announced that a new film adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle In Time would be helmed by none other than Selma’s Ava DuVernay, it’s been a treat trying to imagine what the… cross-posted on Facebook

#45 Making America Irrelevant Again #MAIA This is what the world is saying…Insiders ABC on Twitter “What did we learn about @realDonaldTrump at this #G20? @CUhlmann explains. #Insiders https://t.co/TGOXdiFWhB” cross-posted on Facebook

“When the heads of the most powerful countries in the world see zero value in talking to the POTUS” Making America Irrelevant… AgainSarah Silverman on Twitter “When the heads of the most powerful countries in the world see zero value in talking to the POTUS” cross-posted on Facebook

“Although using human names for hurricanes has been thought by meteorologists to enhance the clarity and recall of storm information, this practice also taps into well-developed and widely held gender stereotypes, with unanticipated and potentially deadly consequences,” the study says.Female-named hurricanes kill more than male hurricanes because people don’t respect them, study finds People don’t …

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I did not realize how much voice acting Alan Tudyk did. And he is really good at performing distinctive voices, several of the voices I would never have associated with him.20 Times Alan Tudyk Was Truly The Most Underrated Actor Ever Hey! It’s… that guy! In this episode of Next of Ken, we’re counting down …