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My picks for #sundayread for September 23, 2018:

• I read “21 Days to Resilience” by @Dr_Zelana_ Montminy, found it too broad to be helpful but maybe others can work the plan provided.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2I2XTqN
• Death on the Dakota Access Pipeline
  By @AntoniaJuhasz
  (via @sundaylongread)
• America Is Living James Madison’s Nightmare: Mob Rule
  By @RosenJeffrey
  (via @sundaylongread)
• Flashback: Building a community on the cheap with @GooglePlus
• Oral History of “Taxi” on its 40th anniversary
  Compiled by Marc Freeman @Loudon47
• The Age of Primal Rage: A Spreading Global Epidemic of Violence, Hate and Fear
  By @UmairH aque
  (via @sundaylongread)
• Flashback: 10 years ago, VP Cheney stumped for GOP candidates at a Huntsville fund-raiser
• How @MayaRudolph Became the Master of Impressions
  By @CaityWeaver
• The girls of summer: Talking with players on all-female baseball teams
  By Britni de la Cretaz @britnidlc
  (via @sundaylongread)
• Flashback: 5 years ago, @RubenStuddard began competing on a second reality TV show
  #bham
• Oral History of “Frasier” on its 25th anniversary
  Compiled by Marc Freeman @Loudon47
• Inside the “suicide belt” of mountain towns
  By @KateSiber
  (via @sundaylongread)
• Stripped: The Search for Human Rights in American Women’s Prisons
  By @AdamSkolnick
• Finally, a cure for insomnia?
  By @SimonParkin
  (via @sundaylongread)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Blazer film festival 2018

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for September 23 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for September 16, 2018:

• Listening to Anthony @Bourdain narrate his 2010 book “Medium Raw” was poignant and painful, enlightening and dark.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2xheyCM
• You’re mothering wrong.
  By Kim Brooks @KA_Brooks
  (via @Wes_Andrews)
• Our relationship with guns — it’s complicated
  By @ElainaPlott
  (via @bshelburne)
• Flashback: Communicating intent in customer service
• Vivienne Ming @neuraltheory: “The professional class is about to be blindsided by AI”
  By @RanaForoohar
  (via @FelixLecorre @EvyCoul)
• The Real Heroes Are Dead
  By @JamesStewartNYT
• Flashback: Start with your audience
• “Ex Libris: The New York Public Library,” a 3.5-hour doc on the ins and outs of a beloved institution
  By Frederick Wiseman @ZipporahFilms
• Cary Fukunaga Doesn’t Mind Taking Notes from Netflix’s Algorithm
  By @ZachBaron
  (via @emilynussbaum)
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – The story of a city continues
  #bham
• The 50 Saddest Songs of the 21st Century (So Far)
  By @JoshJackson and the @PasteMagazine staff
• The Teachers’ Strike and the Democratic Revival in Oklahoma
  By Rivka Galchen
  (via @SeanMcElwee)
• The Green Green Grass of Utah: The fight over water in the West
  By @SundeenMark
  (h/t @anthgarrett)
• Chart: A Writer’s Hierarchy of Needs
  By Grant Snider @grantdraws
  (h/t @susancain)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Bouncing off the walls

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for September 16 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for September 9, 2018:

• “Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body” by Roxane Gay @rgay broke my heart into a thousand pieces. A challenging but rewarding read.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2NYZGiN
• Crowdsourcing science and the new environmental resistance
  By @EmmalinaG linskis
  (via @participedia)
• Mississippi casinos reap huge rewards of legalized sports betting on SEC football
  By @RossDellenger
• Flashback: Exercises for keeping writing skills sharp
• Unlocking the ancient code: Advances in the study of prehistoric DNA
  By Peter Forbes
• Are CEOs Less Ethical Than in the Past?
  By Per-Ola Karlsson, @AguirreDeAnne and @KristinDRivera
  (via @TheBusinessTN)
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – Connecting with Deb Krier
• How India’s high-quality, low-cost model can save American health care
  By Vijay Govindarajan @vgovindarajan and Ravi Ramamurti
  (via @Padham_trust)
• How @BootsRiley Infiltrated Hollywood
  By @JonahWeiner
• Flashback: LinkedIn, how I have missed you (and misused you)
• Profile of “Atlanta” star Lakeith Stanfield @lakeithlakeith
  By Cara Buckley @caraNYT
• An Indian Trump: The Billionaire Yogi Behind Modi’s Rise
  By @RobertFWorth
  (via @VHSwaala)
• “Native women have long been considered invisible and disposable in society, and those vulnerabilities attract predators.”
  By Sharon Cohen
• New York Public Library @nypl publishes “Insta Novels” for Instagram readers
  By @Cara_Curtis
  (via @themediaisdying)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: All smiles on Labor Day
• Happy Labor Day!

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for September 9 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for September 2, 2018:

• I read the Pennsylvania grand jury report detailing decades of sexual abuses by Catholic priests and cover-ups. You should, too, though fair warning, it’s a stomach-churning indictment of a longtime holy criminal conspiracy.
  [PDF] https://buff.ly/2PXr3es
• Say, isn’t it time to merge our three regional power grids into one national grid?
  By David Roberts @drvox
  (via @StuckeyStop)
• How the Internet transformed into the Matrix
  By Thomas Lemaigre
• Flashback: Tweet tweet! Live-tweeting with style and substance
• An Alternative to Complaining on the Job
  By @PeterBregman
  (via @platyppines)
• Successful People Tell Themselves These 7 Things on a Daily Basis
  By @NicolasCole77
  (via @ZeamoFitness)
• Flashback: Slides from Y’all Connect 2017
• Why Netflix Dramas Sag Midseason — and How They’re Fixing It
  By Alan @Sepinwall
• The “Nanette” problem: Did comedian @HannahGadsby let the audience off the hook too easily?
  By Peter Moskowitz @ptrmsk
• Flashback: From a year ago, Wade’s 101: Haiku retrospective 43
• Oral history of the iconic “Living Single” on its 25th anniversary
  Compiled by Hannah Giorgis @ethiopienne
• An important political lesson: Why Has the Critique of Hypocrisy Run Out of Steam?
  By Christopher Douglas @crddouglas
  (via @C_Stroop)
• Where some black South Africans see a history of oppression, Nigerians see opportunity.
  By @ChibunduOnuzo
  (via @yorm_a)
• Buddy, the Library Isn’t a 7-Eleven: A running tally of items people have asked for at the circulation desk
  By @Kristen_Arnett

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Take to the sea lion!

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for September 2 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for August 26, 2018:

• Flashback: How to manage the Twitter fire hose of information and noise
• “Why Are Developers Only Building Luxury Housing?” … On the struggles for affordable housing
  By Daniel Herriges
  (via @ForgedByFusion)
• The need for ethics education integrated into technology training
  By @MikeLoukides, Hilary Mason @hmason and DJ Patil @dpatil
  (via @mikkoviitaila)
• Flashback: Birmingham election results from 5 years ago and 1 year ago.
  Note the ascendant Randall Woodfin …
  #bham #alpolitics
• What happens when a robot kills someone?
  By Zachary Crockett @zzcrockett
  (via @RajBhandariDFW)
• The only Indian in Cirque du Soleil’s new show “Bazzar” performs Mallakhamb, an aerial yoga practice
  By Tariq Engineer @TariqeMIRROR
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – The redundancy questionnaire
• India wrestles with skyrocketing lifestyle diseases. Will people change their eating habits for the better?
  By @SwetaDutta27 and Tariq Engineer @TariqeMIRROR
• Making the Grade: Why the Cheapest Maple Syrup Tastes Best
  By Yoni Appelbaum @YAppelbaum
  (via @LiekeMuller)
• Flashback: The digital revolutions
• The Genesis of a Perpetual Crisis in the Bollywood Film Industry
  By @AmitKhanna
• Why capitalism won’t survive without socialism: Q&A with economist @EricRWeinstein
  By @SeanIlling
  (via @SeanMackieSM)
• The Abortions We Don’t Talk About: Six @Slate Women Tell Their Stories.
  (via @LytleRuth)
• How the English language conquered Earth
  By Jacob Mikanowski @JMikanowski
  (via @talibambu)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Down home hospitality

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for August 26 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for August 19, 2018:

• Flashback: Why consistency matters most in successful communication
• .@Time Magazine’s special issue on the South
• The Guardians Con Game: How the Elderly Lose Their Rights
  By @RachelAviv
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – The post-conference high has passed
• Philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt on what freedom and revolution really mean
• The Mind of John McPhee
  By Sam Anderson @shamblanderson
• Flashback: 1 year ago, Alabama picks its nominees for an open Senate seat: Doug Jones and Roy Moore
  #alpolitics
• When Werner Herzog Was My Dad: Of Post-Natal Visions and Other Wonders
  By Rachel Yoder @yoderama
• Excerpt from “My Life As a Goddess: A Memoir Through (Un)Popular Culture” by @GuyBranum on pop culture’s destructive depictions of the humanity of fat people.
• Flashback: Auto-play videos are (still) ruining websites
• The Ringer’s 100 Best TV Episodes of This Century
• The female price of male pleasure
  By Lili Loofbourow @Millicentsomer
• How to Fight Voter Suppression in 2018
  By Edward Burmila @gin_and_tacos
• Roxane Gay @rgay on writing, her painful childhood and more, from PBS’ “Breaking Big”

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Muscles, motors and moves

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for August 19 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for August 12, 2018:

• I read “What Stands in a Storm” by my pal @KimHCross. Found myself traumatized by this still-raw Alabama catastrophe.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2MEnEiT
• The nouveau riche Chinese find a safe haven in Australia
  By Jane Cadzow
  (via @Wes_Andrews)
• How an Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald’s Monopoly Game and Stole Millions
  By @JeffMaysh
• Flashback: Alabamians in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing
  • https://itswa.de/2AZMh86
  • https://itswa.de/2AZMJTQ
  • http://itswa.de/1JF25Lu
  • https://itswa.de/2B3wjtN
• The ongoing debate over telecommuting
  By Jerry Useem
  (via @RogerCourville)
• To Lead Across Cultures, Focus on Hierarchy and Decision Making
  By @ErinMeyerINSEAD
  (via @TheBusinessTN)
• Flashback: Notes from a new conference organizer
• Dark is beautiful: The battle to end the world’s obsession with lighter skin
  By @MaryRoseAbraham
  (RT @Garigalicious)
• Ghana as a prime example of Western fast food and obesity
  By @DionneSearcey and Matt Richtel @mrichtel
  (via @kikiochieng)
• Flashback: Blogging for the blogger who doesn’t want to blog
• Home Sweet Homer: The Strange Saga of the Real-Life “Simpsons” House in Nevada
  By Jake Rossen
• How Breitbart and Milo Smuggled Nazi and White Nationalist Ideas into the Mainstream
  By Joe @Bernstein
• How Illinois bureaucracy robbed parents of a chance to save their children from a deadly disease, Krabbe
  By Patricia Callahan @SheInvestigates
  (via @katchicago)
• The Pilfering Polish Princess Behind Europe’s First Museum
  By Katarzyna Bik
  (via @culture_pl) #sundayread

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Let’s go to the mall

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for August 12 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for August 5, 2018:

• I found trudging through “Fathers and Sons” by Ivan Turgenev to be unfulfilling. But cross another classic off the list.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2nco5G4
• Sociologist Robin DiAngelo Examines the “White Fragility” That Prevents White Americans from Confronting Racism
  By Katy Waldman @xwaldie
• The most famous psychology study of all time, the Stanford Prison Experiment, was a sham.
  By @BenZBlum
• Flashback: Wade’s 101: Birmingham’s 2020 Summer Olympics
• Police responded to his 911 call for help. He died. What happened to Tony Timpa?
  By @CaryAspinwall
• Where have you gone, @DaleMurphy3?
  By Wright Thompson
• Flashback: Y’all Connect: Connecting with Lauri Rottmayer
• How @EricRoberts Went Big, Crashed Hard and Became the Hardest-Working Man in Hollywood
  By @SamKashner
• Stanley Kubrick: director, chess freak
  By Jeremy Bernstein
• Flashback: Is “17776” the future of storytelling?
• HGTV Is a Never-ending Fantasy Loop. Look Deeper, and It Gets Pretty Ugly.
  By Caitlin Flanagan @CaitlinPacific
• The mania for cryptocurrency/Bitcoin could build something much more important than wealth.
  By @StevenBJohnson
  (via @aarif_aarif)
• How One Syrian, Bassel Khartabil, Fought to the Death for a Free Internet
  By @AliceYSu
• A short history of the blues, which has no beginning, no ending
  By John Jeremiah Sullivan

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: I fleetly flee, I fly

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for August 5 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for June 19, 2018:

• I read the chilling “Guantánamo Diary” by Mohamedou Ould Slahi @MohamedouOuld on the torture and wrongful imprisonment of this detainee by U.S. military.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2LsqbA3
• The Kardashian Makeup Empire Is Only Getting Bigger
  By Zan Romanoff @zanopticon
• .@JustinHopwood_, the Male Model Who Lost His Hair
  By Lauren Larson @lrnlrsn
• Flashback: No excuses
• How Composer @NicholasBritell Became the Sound of Money in Hollywood
  By Katie Baker @katiebakes
• Interview with Pulitzer-winning critic and author Hilton Als
  By @EmmaBrockes
  (via @mayainbavaria @PenguinUKBooks)
• Flashback: Y’all Connect: The future of showrooming
• Super Awesome Sylvia was a role model to girls in science. Then he realized he is a boy.
  By @AviSelk
• The rise and fall of South Africa’s renewables program, once one of the world’s fastest growing markets
  By Paul Burkhardt @pburkhardt
• Flashback: From 2008: Wade’s 101: Haiku retrospective 10
  #haiku #poetry
• Oral history of 1980s cartoon “G.I. Joe” by the voice cast
  Compiled by @AaronCouch
• Even This Data Guru Is Creeped Out by What Anonymous Location Data Reveals About Us
  By @DJPangburn
• The History of Sears Predicts Nearly Everything Amazon Is Doing
  By Derek Thompson @DKThomp
• One of Anthony @Bourdain’s last interviews
  By @MariaBustillos

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Let your colors burst

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for July 29 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for July 22, 2018:

• I found “Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to be a great basic primer on putting feminism into practice at any age.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2LBfKGd
• We should have seen Trump coming
  By Ta-Nehisi Coates
• The Polar Expedition That Went Berserk
  By @BlairBraverman
• Flashback: Growing an organic following on Twitter
• Hunting the Con Queen of Hollywood: Who’s the “Crazy Evil Genius” Behind a Global Racket?
  By @Scott_C_Johnson
• Lots of #Bham books on @InstagramBham’s Amazon page
• Flashback: From 2008, Justice and Juveniles: Town halls on crime and education in Birmingham
• Why Do Bobbleheads Usually Look so Terrible?
  By @JoonLee
• Bolivia Tells President Evo Morales Ayma @evoespueblo His Time Is Up. He Isn’t Listening.
  By Nick Casey @caseysjournal
  (via @KayMContreras)
• Flashback: From 2008, fans grouse about a Birmingham music festival they can’t possibly understand. Pay attention, #slossfest.
• Johnny Depp seems … fun … to work with
  By @StephenRodrick
• This is how democracies die, not with a coup, but an internal whimper
  By Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt @dziblatt
  (via @LeftDemocrat)
• How Fake News Turned a Small Town in Idaho Upside Down
  By Caitlin Dickerson @itscaitlinhd
• Long live the group chat
  By @AaronMEdwards

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: A summer’s sojourn
• Vote 2018: Alabama primary election runoff results

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for July 22 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for July 15, 2018:

• Vote 2018: Sample ballots for Jefferson, Shelby County, Ala., primary runoffs
  #alpolitics
• Disposable America: A history of modern capitalism from the perspective of the straw
  By @AlexisMadrigal
  (h/t @Longreads)
• How to Never Run Out of Blog Post Ideas: 45 Experts Share Secrets
  Compiled by Janice Wald @MrsPaznanski
• Flashback: Hard questions about Facebook, from Facebook
• Why Everyone Missed the Most Mind-Blowing Feature of Cryptocurrency
  By @Dan_Jeffries1
  (via @unigol_me)
• Review: “Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul” by Jeremiah Moss @jeremoss
  By Ginia Bellafante @GiniaNYT
  (via @AndreaFaythe)
• Flashback: Y’all Connect: Don’t forget to include the Stinky Cow
• A look at @Robert_M_Shore’s “Beg, Steal and Borrow: Artists Against Originality”
  Interview with Charlotte Jansen @omfg_NOWAY and @EmilySteerAW
• Aunt Jemima’s Kitchens and a history of Southern nostalgia in Toronto
  By Cheryl Thompson @DrCherylT
  (RT @JohnLorinc)
• Flashback: From 2013, Wade’s 101: Haiku retrospective 28
  #haiku #poetry
• Bloody Slippers: The Fairy-Tale Come-up of Cardi B @iamcardib
  By @LindsayZoladz
• Are You Sure You’re Not Racist?
  By @JodiPicoult
• Inside China’s vast new experiment in social ranking
  By @MaraHvistendahl
  (via @participedia)
• How Liberian Refugee @CollinsWilmot Became a Montana Mayor
  By Corin Cates-Carney @clccarney
  (RT @kikiochieng)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Meat of the matter

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for July 15 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for July 8, 2018:

• Finished all seven books of “The Chronicles of Narnia” by C.S. Lewis, which can be summed up thusly: “Have you heard the Good Newsâ„¢ about Aslan?”
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2NyN9mh
• What Washington Post reporter Kevin Sieff @ksieff saw at one of the world’s largest refugee camps
  (via @kikiochieng)
• The Childhood Journeys That Made Them “Dreamers”
  By Caitlin Dickerson @itscaitlinhd
  (via @utsadreamers)
• Wade’s 101: Haiku retrospective 46
  #haiku #poetry
• Secrets of the Biggest Gate-Crashers in Sports
  By @LarsAnderson71
• How to Choose the Best Social Media Marketing Tool for Your Business
  By Spencer Lanoue @slanoue
  (via @QuickMarketing_)
• Flashback: The minimalist blog
• How the true Alberta folk tale of black cowboy John Ware is being brought to a wider audience
  By @KellyCryderman
• .@MagnumPhotos’ Photobooks of 2017
  Compiled by Elle Howard
  (via @ParrStudio)
• Flashback: Wade’s 6,000th on Birmingham, marking the 6,000th post
• A 30-Part Insider’s History of NBC’s Must-See TV
  By @MaskedScheduler
• .@GloriaAllred’s Crusade
  By @JiaTolentino
  (h/t @Longreads)
• The Arming and Disarming of Black America
  By Nicholas Johnson
  (RT @vsisson13)
• How Darrell Hammond, “Saturday Night Live’s” best impressionist ever, found life after Trump
  By @GeoffEdgers
  (via @gdanielholloway)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Human fireworks

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for July 8 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

Photo: Ștefan Jurcă (CC)

My picks for #sundayread for July 1, 2018:

• Just finished Michael Lewis’ “The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds,” a mind-blowing followup to “Moneyball.”
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2MDSRSR
• A Decomposing Body, 10 Duped Girlfriends and the Saga of the “Alien” Con Man in Hollywood’s Back Yard
  By @Scott_C_Johnson
• The surprising upsides of an accelerating world
  By Robert Colvile @rcolvile
  (RT @LiekeMuller)
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – The power of digital storytelling: Your story
• Green to Me
  By Helena Fitzgerald @helfitzgerald
• A reluctant new homeowner’ journey into the heart of darkness: Picking paint colors
  By @TaffyAkner
  (via @spacestation_hq)
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – The power of digital storytelling: Your storytelling style
• Women-Only Art Shows Stood Out In 2017. Let’s Leave Them There.
  By Priscilla Frank @badgirlpripri
  (via @18thStreetArts)
• North America’s Best Paddling Towns
  (h/t @CanoeKayakBC)
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – The power of digital storytelling: Your story monetized
• The World’s First Publicly Traded Human Goes NSFW
  By @Leah_Sottile
• The College Try: The very real struggle of poor students in California
  By @AshleyPowers
• Out-of-state real estate investors who destroy city housing communities
  By @RachMonroe
• .@ConanOBrien on the future of late night talk shows
  By @David_Marchese

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Kick up your heels

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Hello, summer!

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for July 1 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

Photo: Timothy Neesam (CC)

My picks for #sundayread for June 24, 2018:

• Flashback: The virtue of brevity in writing
• Studying opportunity in four fragile communities across America, including Birmingham
  By the Center for Advancing Opportunity @AdvancingOpps
  [PDF] https://buff.ly/2JJyzt6 #Bham
• Facebook’s war on free will
  By @FranklinFoer
  (RT @LiberMedia)
• Flashback: How to run promotional campaigns and build your list using WordPress
• Loyalty Nearly Killed My Beehive
  By John Knight @jmccknight
• How @ClayTravis rode the Trump wave from ordinary sports blogger to well-paid darling of the alt-right
  By @BenJStrauss
• Flashback: Y’all Connect: A prescription for powerful storytelling
• Trust Busting: The Case for Breaking Up Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google
  By Scott Galloway @profgalloway
  (via @sundaylongread)
• We had a great day at the park with our autistic son, until someone called the police.
  By @MayKCobb
  (RT @vsisson13)
• Flashback: 10 years ago, when Ruben Studdard got married with 20 groomsmen … #Bham
• .@TiffanyHaddish, Hollywood’s New Comedy Queen
  By @LaceyVRose
• Work and the Loneliness Epidemic
  By @Vivek_Murthy
• Iran and Saudis’ Latest Power Struggle: Expanding Rights for Women
  By Anne Barnard @ABarnardNYT and @ThomasErdbrink
  (RT @kikiochieng)
• Meet the Hands (and the Man Matt Maxey) that Bring @ChancetheRapper to the Deaf
  By @AshleyFetters

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Hello, summer!

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for June 24 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

Photo: Michael D. Beckwith

My picks for #sundayread for June 17, 2018:

• Flashback: The squeaky wheels of Facebook
• .@HillaryClinton Looks Back in Anger
  By David Remnick
  (via @ItsKev7)
• Why Are Middle Eastern Girls Crushing Boys in School?
  By @AmandaRipley
• Flashback: Y’all Connect: Explaining science through better storytelling
• The Lunar Sea: How the moon influences life in a surprising and subtle way
  By @FerrisJabr
  (via @JennyWoodman)
• What Ever Happened to Brendan Fraser?
  By @ZachBaron
• Flashback: Talents and blogging
• She killed 115 people before the 1988 Korean Olympics. Now she wonders: “Can my sins be pardoned?”
  By @ChicoHarlan
• Steve Ludwin, the man who became immune to snake venom
  By @theBrittCollins
  (via @EsmeWellbeing)
• Flashback: An ongoing dilemma: Facebook as a news source
• .@KenBurns’ “Vietnam War”: An Object Lesson in the Failures of the Objective Lens
  By Reed Richardson @reedfrich
• The battle for water: Why “hydro-politics” will shape the 21st century
  By @Bryan_Lufkin
  (RT @LiberMedia)
• Pioneering Practice Could Help California Reverse Groundwater Depletion
  By @MichelainaJ ohnson
• Rachel Carson on Writing and the Loneliness of Creative Work
  By Maria Popova @brainpicker
  (RT @oolipo)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Don’t hate, graduate

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for June 17 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me