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Wade Kwon 12:00 am on April 26, 2020 Permalink | Reply
#sundayread for April 26, 2020
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My picks for #sundayread for April 26, 2020:
- I listened to @CCriadoPerez’s “Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men”: Highly recommended, shows data gaps that should be bloody obvious.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/3cPMZCO
- Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free
  By @JustinElliott and @PaulKiel
  (h/t @Longreads)
- Miranda’s rebellion
  By Stephanie @McCrummenWaPo
- Ten years ago this week, what were our #sundayread recommendations?
  https://bit.ly/348d5Om
- Losing the News
  By @CunninghamBrent
  (h/t @Longreads)
- Stories About My Brother
  By @PrachiGu pta
  (h/t @Longreads)
- Flashback: Why I’ll always be a “high-maintenance” speaker
- The story of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder and how the world looked the other way
  By Evan Ratliff @ev_rat
  (h/t @Longreads)
- Land-grab universities: Expropriated indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system
  By Robert Lee @Bobby_L33 and Tristan Ahtone @Tahtone
- Flashback: Bouncing back from a layoff: More advice for job seekers
- The Weirdly Enduring Appeal of Weird @AlYankovic
  By Sam Anderson @shamblanderson
- How Black Girls Get Pushed Out of School
  By @EricaLG reen
- The sound of icebergs melting: My journey into the Antarctic
  By @JonathanWatts
  #climatechange
- Michael Vick’s dogs could have been euthanized. They became adoption ambassadors.
  By @EmilyGiam balvo
  (h/t @Longreads)
More posts from me this week:
- The Birmingham channel: Double sweet, double late
More #sundayread:
- All tweets for April 26 #sundayread
- The latest #sundayread tweets
- More #sundayread recommendations from me
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Wade Kwon 12:00 am on April 19, 2020 Permalink | Reply
#sundayread for April 19, 2020
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My picks for #sundayread for April 19, 2020:
- I listened to @D_Shariatmadari’s “Don’t Believe a Word: The Surprising Truth About Language.” It was OK, a little dry on a subject I usually find fascinating.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/3evTTyV
- State: More than half of Alabama #COVID19 deaths are among black people. By @byChipBrownlee.
  National: COVID-19 is disproportionately taking black lives. By @FabiolaCineas.
  (via @andreperryedu) #coronavirus
- Why hasn’t Alabama expanded Medicaid for the #coronavirus pandemic?
  @SarahWhitesK oditschek
  #COVID19
- Ten years ago this week, what were our #sundayread recommendations?
  https://bit.ly/39GXdnj
- What Happens to Inmates When They Leave the Most Intense Prison in America
  By @Keegan_Hamilton
  (h/t @Longreads)
- Did Venus Williams @Venuseswilliams Ever Get Her Due?
  By @LizWeil
  (h/t @Longreads)
- Flashback: Blogging fear: Topics worth reading
- Their Family Bought Land One Generation After Slavery. The Reels Brothers Spent 8 Years in Jail for Refusing to Leave It.
  By @LizziePresser
  (h/t @Longreads)
- What I Wish I’d Known About Sexual Assault in the Military
  By Sandra Sidi
  (h/t @Longreads)
- Flashback: 10 years ago, J.T.’s run on “Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains” comes to an end.
- Examining Tara Reade’s @ReadeAlexandra Sexual Assault Allegation Against @JoeBiden
  By Lisa Lerer @llerer and Sydney Ember @melbournecoal
  #MeToo
- .@FoxNews Set the Stage for America’s Poor #Coronavirus Response
  By Justin Peters @justintrevett
  #COVID19
- Behind Trump’s Failure on #Coronavirus
  By @EricLiptonNYT, David E. @SangerNYT, Maggie Haberman @maggieNYT, Michael D. Shear @shearm, @MarkMazzettiNYT and @JulianBarnes
  #COVID19
- Twelve Words
  Brian Trapp @btrapperkeeper
  (h/t @Longreads)
More posts from me this week:
- The Birmingham channel: The before times
More #sundayread:
- All tweets for April 19 #sundayread
- The latest #sundayread tweets
- More #sundayread recommendations from me
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Wade Kwon 12:00 am on April 12, 2020 Permalink | Reply
#sundayread for April 12, 2020
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My picks for #sundayread for April 12, 2020:
- I listened to Chris Voss’ “Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It,” a great primer on how to handle negotiations calmly and effectively.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/3a23MRo
- A pandemic makes us all excellent targets for misinformation.
  By Charlie Warzel @cwarzel
- Ten years ago this week, what were our #sundayread recommendations?
  https://bit.ly/3bNTohx
- The Immigration Court Judge Who Has Rejected Every Asylum Seeker
  By Gabriel Thompson @G_Thompson1
  (h/t @Longreads)
- Flashback: First, the anger. Then, the work begins.
- The Master Guide to Email Marketing for Bloggers
  By Rukham Khan
  (via @LSGreer)
- Fiona Apple’s Art of Radical Sensitivity
  By @EmilyNussbaum
- The United States will likely go down as the country supposedly best prepared to fight a pandemic but catastrophically overmatched by the novel coronavirus. It did not have to happen this way.
  By Ellen Nakashima @nakashimae
- The Attacker’s Other Victims in the Central Park Five Case
  By @SarahW einman
- What Happens When Two Strangers Trust the Rides of Their Lives to the Magic of the Universe
  By @KimHCross
More posts from me this week:
- The Birmingham channel: Swelter in place
More #sundayread:
- All tweets for April 12 #sundayread
- The latest #sundayread tweets
- More #sundayread recommendations from me
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Wade Kwon 12:00 am on April 5, 2020 Permalink | Reply
#sundayread for April 5, 2020
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My picks for #sundayread for April 5, 2020:
- I listened to Miguel de Cervantes’ “Don Quixote”: Overly long, but still fairly entertaining.
  https://buff.ly/2Rb5ZDL
- The missing 6 weeks: How Trump failed the biggest test of his life
  By @EdPilkington and Tom McCarthy @TeeMcSee
  (via @tonyschwartz) #coronavirus #COVID19
- The Birth-Tissue Profiteers
  By @CarolineYLChen
  (h/t @Longreads)
- Ten years ago this week, what were our #sundayread recommendations?
  https://bit.ly/3c27Frd
- America Punished Elizabeth Warren for Her Competence
  By @MeganGarber
- What Atlanta Can Teach Tech About Cultivating Black Talent
  By @LatoyaPeterson and Stephanie Dinkins @stephdink
- Flashback: Your secret bonus Twitter followers
- The Bitter Sibling Rivalry Burning Up an $800 Million Louisiana Oil Dynasty
  By @IanFrisch
  (h/t @Longreads)
- The Raisin Situation
  By Jonah Engel Bromwich @Jonesieman
  (h/t @Longreads)
- Flashback: Ten years ago, Wade’s 101: Haiku retrospective 16
- In the decade since “The Wire,” David Simon @AoDespair has produced TV that matters
  By @NoelMu rray
- Coronavirus stalls Birmingham’s rebound, cripples small businesses
  By @_AnnaBeahm
  #Bham
- Facebook moderators break their NDAs to expose a company in crisis
  By @CaseyNewton
  (h/t @Longreads)
- Great Hospitality Starts with Empathy: Thoughts from Birmingham restaurateur Pardis Stitt
  By Josh Miller @j_jmiller
  #Bham
More posts from me this week:
- The Birmingham channel: The oncoming storm
More #sundayread:
- All tweets for April 5 #sundayread
- The latest #sundayread tweets
- More #sundayread recommendations from me
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