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My picks for #sundayread for February 25, 2018:

• Y’all Connect: Behind the buzz: N2V marketing from Netflix
• Making a Crypto Utopia in Puerto Rico
  By @NellieBowles
  (RT @Martha_Engel)
• A look at the book “How Democracies Die” by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt @dziblatt
  By @EzraKlein
  (via @participedia)
• I highly recommend “Half the Sky” by @NickKristof and Sheryl @WuDunn. A thorough investigation of female oppression, plus steps we can take to stop it.
  [aff. link] http://amzn.to/2EL85G3
• Generational Chaos Ahead
  By @JohnFMauldin
• Next time you see the Mediterranean
  By @HayGuesmi
  (RT @danwibg)
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – Using Illustrator or InDesign for email marketing
• Is linguistics, the study of language, a science?
  By @ArikaOkrent
  (via @smartergerman)
• Why a paperless world still hasn’t happened
  By David J. Unger @dungerdunger
  (via @kikiochieng)
• Flashback: Black History Month: “Slavery by Another Name” by @DouglasBlackmon
• The 150 Greatest Albums Made by Women
• Inside Facebook’s 2 Years of Hell
  By Nicholas Thompson @nxthompson and Fred Vogelstein @fvogelstein
• Show your work: The new terms for trust in journalism
  By @JayRosen_nyu
  (via @ShapingYouth)
• The Mystery of L.A. Billboard Diva Angelyne’s Real Identity Is Finally Solved
  By @GaryMBaum

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Untold riches

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for February 25 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for February 18, 2018:

• Y’all Connect: Hungry for content, starving for stories
• School segregation didn’t go away. It just evolved. The case of Gardendale, Ala.’s fight for a district.
  By Alvin Chang @alv9n
• Assisted dying in religious facilities means tough choices for families
  By @KellyGrant1
• Found @MonteBurke’s “Saban: The Making of a Coach” to be pretty by the numbers. But I did love Nick’s favorite insult to players during practice: “You run like a broke-dick dog.”
  [aff. link] http://amzn.to/2ELyWRD
• I Don’t Know What to Do With Good White People
  By @BritRBennett
• The Most Awful Train Station in America Could Get Unimaginably Worse
  By @DevinLeonard
  (via @MichaelFabiano)
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – Holiday freebie: Magic City Sticker Pack
• Should endangered languages be preserved, and at what cost?
  By @Rebecca_Roache
  (via @smartergerman)
• A free Facebook group isn’t the magic bullet you think it is
  By @DianaTower
  (via @ramit)
• Flashback: Wade’s 101: Haiku retrospective 26
• The 150 Worst Albums Made By Men
  By Julianne Escobedo Shepherd @jawnita
• The Uninhabitable Earth: What climate change could wreak — sooner than you think.
  By David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells
• Threats, bullying, lawsuits: The tobacco industry’s dirty war for the African market
  By @SarahBoseley
  (RT @kikiochieng)
• How “I Do” Became Performance Art
  By @megangarber
  (via @molarawood)

More posts from Wade this week:

• Happy Valentine’s Day!
• The Birmingham channel: Bouncing back

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for Feb. 18 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for February 11, 2018:

• Y’all Connect: Nominate speakers for our 2018 event
• The Follower Factory: Buying popularity on Twitter
  By @NickConfessore, @GabrielDance, @Rich_Harris and @cocteau
• How robo-callers outwitted the government and completely wrecked the Do Not Call list
  By Simon van Zuylen-Wood @svzwood
• Michael Lewis’ “The Big Short” is a remarkable (if dense) look at 2008 financial crisis, plus those who bet on it … and won.
  [aff. link] http://amzn.to/2EvBkvD
• Hypnosis: Inside the science that could change your mind
  By @AdrianaBarton
  (via @treekarma)
• The 8 Hottest Tech Trends of 1776
  By @ShellyPalmer
  (RT @TheBusinessTN)
• Y’all Connect: More marketing, onscreen and beyond
• Does the Painted Portrait Stand a Chance In the Age of Social Media?
  By Elizabeth Holmes @EHolmes
  (via @erikmaza)
• What we mean when we talk about inclusion
  By Sarmishta Subramanian @Superhumian
  (via @TimDutton_)
• Flashback: Digging deeper into the words we all use differently
• Actress Kristin Scott Thomas has never been one to let anyone tell her she can’t
  By @HelenLOHara
  (RT @mumsontheverge)
• School segregation didn’t go away. It just evolved. The case of Gardendale, Ala.’s fight for a district.
  By Alvin Chang @alv9n
  #bham
• How India’s Gig Economy Traps its Workers in the Cycle of Poverty
  By Thomas Manuel and Satwik Gade
  (RT @PosNegOrg)
• Kids Books With Photoshopped Titles

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Making black history

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for Feb. 11 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for February 4, 2018:

• Y’all Connect: And 60 more reasons why guests love our event
• How statistics lost their power — and why we should fear what comes next
  By William Davies @davies_will
  (RT @LiekeMuller)
• What Russian Journalists Think of How American Reporters Cover Putin and Trump
  By Joshua Yaffa @yaffaesque
  (via @ARA_Network)
• Despite the full cast for “American Gods” audiobook by Neil Gaiman @neilhimself, I couldn’t get into it.
  [aff. link] http://amzn.to/2Ey4LdW
• The Lawyer, the Addict
  By Eilene Zimmerman @eilenez
  (RT @vsisson13)
• North Korea’s surprising, lucrative relationship with Africa
  By Kevin Sieff @ksieff
  (RT @kikiochieng)
• Flashback: This still stings: RIP Facebook interest lists
• @Nike Co-Founder Phil Knight on Innovation, Culture and Succession
  (via @stevehareCFO)
• Don’t Call Me Honey: In 2017, Women Confronted the Deep Roots of Rock’s Boys Club
  By @AnnKPowers
  (via @spotifyartists)
• Flashback: From 2008, Ginny recaps “The Biggest Loser” week 5 with Alabama’s @RogerShultz
• The Grunge Gold Rush of the Early ’90s
  By Steve Knopper @knopps
• The Body Trade: Cashing in on the Donated Dead
  A @Reuters seven-part series
• Rural medicine: How a gamble to bring in doctors is paying off
  By André Picard @picardonhealth
• How to Raise a Feminist Son
  By Claire Cain Miller @clairecm
  (RT @videovolunteers)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: When truckasauruses roamed the earth

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for Feb. 4 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for January 28, 2018:

• Y’all Connect: Fail more
• Police shoot more than twice as many Americans as previously thought
• Millions Are Hounded for Phantom Debt They Don’t Owe. Andrew Therrien @bopandrew Fought Back.
  By @ZekeFaux
  (RT @mandyjwatson)
• “The Sociopath Next Door” by Martha Stout: This was an interesting read learning about people without conscience who live among us.
  [aff. link] http://amzn.to/2GkEwsb
• Review: “The New Testament: A Translation” by David Bentley Hart
  By James Parker
  (via @nadaparatuitear)
• @GlobeandMail’s 5 most popular personal essays of 2016-17
  By Nina Dragicevic, @KevinSMcGowan, Ann Auld, Pamela Kent and Lori Bona Hunt
• Y’all Connect: Digital marketing in 2038
• The Eerie Underground World of Subterranean Sydney
  By @Megan_Palin
  (via @rgray_rachel)
• Andrea Bergström of Sweden’s ReTuna Recycling Galleria @ReTuna_Etuna, the world’s first recycling mall
  By Mary Schmidt
• Flashback: How social networks divide us
• @NickKyrgios, the Reluctant Rising Star of Tennis
  By @LouisaHThomas
  (via @TruBlu @marzoTennis)
• How a Georgia Town Thwarted a Plan to Dump Tons of Toxic Coal Ash
  By @Georgina_Gustin
  (via @100MilesGA)
• Rwanda is Africa’s future
  By @SimonAllison
  (via @kikiochieng)
• Cat Person by Kristen Roupenian @KRoupenian
  [Plus: author interviews 1. http://bit.ly/2CzcqYh / 2. http://nyti.ms/2CCF7mT]

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Holidays hangover

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• All tweets for Jan. 28 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for January 21, 2018:

• Y’all Connect: A look ahead to digital marketing in 2018
• How Misogynistic Male Reporters Shaped Coverage of the 2016 Election
  By Remy Carreiro @Remy_Anne
  (via @ShapingYouth)
• Working with the World’s Deadliest Pathogens Every Day
  By Virginia Chamlee @VChamlee
• I listened to Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Between the World and Me” twice because it was so powerful and moving.
  [aff. link] http://amzn.to/2FVkAf3
• Why Ageism Never Gets Old
  By @TadFriend
  (via @sageusa)
• Where Millennials Come From
  By @JiaTolentino
• The perfect scheduling assistant for busy bloggers
• Why Old Women Have Replaced Young Men as the Art World’s Darlings
  By @AnnaLouieSuss man
  (RT @18thStreetArts)
• The true story of the fake U.S. embassy in Ghana
  By Yepoka Yeebo
  (RT @kikiochieng)
• Flashback: The dark side of journalism
• Liz Phair @PhizLair talks with “Prozac Nation” author Elizabeth Wurtzel @LizzieWurtzel
  (h/t @Longreads) #sundayread
• Culling Voter Rolls: Battling Over Who Even Gets to Go to the Polls
  By Michael Wines @miwine
  (RT @IndivisibleWMD)
• What Is the Far Right’s Endgame? A Society That Suppresses the Majority.
  By @RebeccaOnion
  (via @ReaderAdrift)
• Wallace Stevens on Reality, Creativity, and Our Greatest Self-Protection from the Pressure of the News
  By Maria Popova‏ @brainpicker

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: The bowl unseen
• Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day!

The latest #sundayread tweets:

#sundayread Tweets

• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for January 14, 2018:

• Y’all Connect: Intent is everything
• Short Answers to Hard Questions About #ClimateChange
  By @JustinHGillis
  (RT @RubyCup)
• Can Reading Make You Happier?
  By Ceridwen Dovey
• Rethinking my life thanks to @IAmMarkManson’s “The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck”
  [aff. link] http://amzn.to/2FsuOmR
• Muxes, the third gender of Mexico
  By @LuisCobelo
  (RT @htgamal)
• Art as Resistance: Chicano Artists in the Time of Trump
  By Sarah Linn @shelikestowatch
  (RT @18thStreetArts)
• The 2017 index to posts on Birmingham Blogging Academy
• Have we been taught poetry all wrong? Looking at “Why Poetry” by @MatthewZapruder
  By @LizFlock
  (via @WritetheWave)
• How to Get Your Mind to Read
  By Daniel Willingham @DTWillingham
  (via @zmijutin)
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – Brad Bird tells stories, which happen to be fantastic. And animated.
• The 61 Best Documentaries of All Time
  By @VogueMagazine
• Armed, Anti-Racist “Rednecks” Take on White Supremacy
  By @Leigh_Ann_Smith
  (via @politicswcoffee)
• 180+ Women Report Sexual Assaults at @MassageEnvy
  By @KatieJMBaker
• A Penis on Every Page: The Rise and Fall of Playgirl
  By @MattRett enmund

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: We jazz January, too

The latest #sundayread tweets:

#sundayread Tweets

• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for January 7, 2018:

• A collection of weird things I accomplished in 2017
• Obesity: Can we stop the epidemic?
  By Madeline Drexler
• South Sudan’s battle for cattle is forcing schoolgirls to become teenage brides
  By Gethin Chamberlain @newsandpics
  (via @kikiochieng)
• I thoroughly enjoyed @RGay’s “Bad Feminist” on audiobook. Learned quite a bit and also ready to assume the mantle of “bad feminist.”
  [aff. link] http://amzn.to/2qouhiv
• “A poem … is when you are in love and have the sky in your mouth.”
  A wonderful picture book by Jean-Pierre Simeón.
  (RT @brainpicker)
• How to sell a country: The booming business of nation branding
  By @Samanth_S ubramanian
• Y’all Connect: The exciting tech ecosystem of Birmingham
• The 4 driving factors for millennials: sustainability, experientialism, wellness and minimalism
  By Maggie Montagna and @MortimerSinger
  (RT @ilovepero)
• Promoting Art and Craft. A bigger picture.
  By @MichaelJBudd
• The toughest step is the first one
• Why the Velvet Underground’s landmark debut album still resonates after 50 years
  By @EdVulliamy
  (RT @TicketSellers)
• The seductive, dangerous myth of the male bumbler
  By Lili Loofbourow @millicentsomer
  (RT @mandyjwatson)
• Your Phone Was Made By Slaves: A Primer on the Secret Economy
  Excerpt from “Blood and Earth: Modern Slavery, Ecocide and the Secret to Saving the World” by @Kevin_Bales
• The Hermione Books and The Ron Weasley Books
  By #Floccinaucinihilipilificationa

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: What’s cooler than being cool

The latest #sundayread tweets:

#sundayread Tweets

• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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Part 2: My picks for #sundayread for December 31, 2017, highlighting the year’s best reads:

• Wade Kwon’s resume … in 10 tweets
• “My Family’s Slave,” plus related pieces to the shocking Atlantic cover story
• How technology gets us hooked, by @AdamLeeAlter
• 17776: What football will look like in the future, by @Jon_Bois
• Nina Simone: Her Art and Life in 33 Songs
• Origin Stories, by Rachel Callahan @ObjectivityRach
• 61 ways I’ve used blogging
• Small Towns, Big Potential, by Morgan Mercer
• How to read and understand scientific papers: Guide for non-scientists, by @JenniferRaff
• How Resilience Works [PDF], by Diane Coutu
• @RollingStone’s 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time, compiled by Rob Sheffield @robsheff
• Following the Money of Mass Incarceration, by @PWpolicy and @BRabuy
• The painful truth about teeth, by @MaryCJordan and @sullivank
• Let’s ditch the dangerous idea that life is a story, by Galen Strawson

All my #sundayread picks for 2017. And visit Part 1 from Dec. 24.

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: The great Alabama whiteout

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#sundayread Tweets

• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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Part 1: My picks for #sundayread for December 24, 2017, highlighting the year’s best reads:

• Gov. Bentley resigns in disgrace
• A 20-year toll: 368 gymnasts allege sexual exploitation
• The immortal Harold Bloom, the greatest literary critic on the planet, by @andymartinink
• @NCRP Report: Rural Alabama/Mississippi struggles for philanthropic investment
• The Blood of the Horseshoe Crab, by Caren Chesler @TheDancingEgg
• Adventures of a cop in Bagaha, India, by Vikas Vaibhav @vaibhav_iitk
• Blue is the coldest color
• I’m an adult carer, and it’s jeopardizing my business, by @JaneBinnion
• The great nutrient collapse, by Helena Bottemiller Evich @hbottemiller
• Taming the Mammoth: Why You Should Stop Caring What Others Think, by @waitbutwhy
• The Rise of Roxane Gay, by Molly McArdle @mollitudo
• VA hides shoddy care, health workers’ errors by @DonovanSlack, @MikeSallah7
• The Twilight of the Indoor Mall, by Mike Nagel
• Swan, Late: The unexpected joys of adult beginner ballet, by Irina Dumitrescu @irinibus

All my #sundayread picks for 2017. And look for Part 2 on Dec. 31.

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: The toy brigade

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#sundayread Tweets

• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for December 17, 2017:

• Y’all Connect: Building a storytelling dream team
• To the Lady Who Mistook @PatrickRosal for the Help at the National Book Awards
• The war against Pope Francis
  By Andrew Brown @seatrout
• Vote 2017: Alabama Senate special election results
• The Big Squeeze: How Compression Threatens Old Industries
  By @OmarAbbosh, @PaulNunes, Vedrana Savic and Michael Moore
  (RT @AWSPeacey)
• What does “how you draw a circle” say about your culture and perspective?
  By @ThuHuongHa and Nikhil Sonnad @nkl
  (RT @narrative4)
• The little social network that couldn’t
• What Will Our Lives Be Like as Cyborgs?
  By @TimOReilly
  (via @BaxterSally)
• The Golden Age of Restaurants Is Stranger Than It Seems
  By Derek Thompson @DKThomp
• Wade’s 101: Haiku retrospective 44
• The Oral History of @RuPaul
  Compiled by @MarcSnetiker
• Harvey Weinstein and the Economics of Consent
  By @BritMarling
• Our problem isn’t “fake news.” Our problems are trust and manipulation.
  By @JeffJarvis
  (RT @kikiochieng)
• @Largeheartedboy’s Best of 2017 Book Lists

More posts from Wade this week:

• Vote 2017: Jones, Moore and a rapt nation awaits
• The Birmingham channel: Ballers and brawlers

The latest #sundayread tweets:

#sundayread Tweets

• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for December 10, 2017:

• How celebrities blog these days
• The Doctor Is In. Co-Pay? $40,000. By @NelsonSchwartz
• Prozac Nation Is Now the United States of Xanax, by @AlexWilliamsNYC (RT @HDuggalMD)
• Y’all Connect: If action movies can evolve, so can our corporate storytelling
• Is it unethical to cash in on women’s reproductive capacities? By Sharmila @Rudrappa (via @FCCBastrop)
• 88 days trapped in bed to save a pregnancy, by @Katherine_Heiny
• Flashback: Consistent communication is important. So is shaking things up.
• Park honors those who helped sick Irish in Toronto in 1847, by @MisterJohnDoyle
• The Invisibles: The cruel Catch-22 of being poor with no ID, by @PatrickMarion Bradley (RT @vsisson13)
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – How do you stand out in the digital world?
• Actress Rose Marie on Telling Off Sexual Harassers in the 1950s and Tweeting, by @RachSyme
• “Willing to Do Everything”: Mothers Defend Sons Accused of Sexual Assault, by @anemonanyc and @ReadChristina (via @LiekeMuller)
• Child Protective Services runaways in Houston caught in a troubling cycle, by @MonicaRhor
• My fashion nationalism, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie @AdichieSpeaks (via @kikiochieng)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Follow the bouncing balls

The latest #sundayread tweets:

#sundayread Tweets

• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for December 3, 2017:

• Y’all Connect: The days of set-and-forget ad buys are over
• Why We Lie: Science on Our Deceptive Ways, by @Yudhijit Bhattacharjee (via @f37nutcracker)
• Talking with Google CEO @SundarPichai, by @JemimaKiss (via @LiberMedia)
• Are we making enough time for writing?
• After 54 Years, We Fell in Love. After 5 Months, I Got Leukemia. By @DeliaEphron (via @LillyTrials)
• Hypnosis: Inside the science that could change your mind, by @AdrianaBarton
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – What do we need to build an online buyer persona?
• Phil Braun @playazball Covered Braves … for an Imaginary Newspaper (via @Longreads)
• On the road with Frank Lloyd Wright, by @PatrickCSisson (via @Getaround)
• Flashback: Mindful listening: Weird things to try
• Casting failures and damage to the Latinx community, by Desiree Rodriguez @BoricuaDesiree
• The Migration Machine, by Selam Gebrekidan @selamgkidan (via @Garigalicious)
• The Family That Built an Empire of Pain, by Patrick Radden Keefe @praddenkeefe
• Big Wolf and Little Wolf: A Tender Tale of Loneliness and Belonging, by @brainpicker (via @inplaneterms)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: A November to remember

The latest #sundayread tweets:

#sundayread Tweets

• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for November 26, 2017:

• Y’all Connect: When searching for answers goes awry
• A Place of Absorption and the Loss of Equilibrium, by Katherine Laidlaw @klaidlaw (via @Longreads)
• Excerpt from #Bham author @RobertMcCammon’s “The Listener” (via @groovymarmalade)
• Smart ways to use (up to) 280 characters on Twitter
• West Point Band at 200: From Fife and Drums to Live Streaming, by @CoreyKilgannon (RT @vsisson13)
• @JohnGrisham’s Do’s and Don’ts for Writing Popular Fiction (RT @shawnz)
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – The unnecessary perpetual motion of social media
• Ai Weiwei @aiww Explores “Human Flow” of Refugees, Finds an America That Lost Conscience by @ezruby
• Joni Mitchell: Fear of a Female Genius, by @LindsayZoladz
• Flashback: Clark Kent, mild-mannered blogger
• Sites We Like: The Lisa Simpson Book Club, by Scott Beauchamp @stb5g5
• FBI Quietly Investigates White Supremacist Infiltration of Law Enforcement by @AliceSperi
• The angry sea will kill us all: The fight to save Kiribati, by Charlie Mitchell @comingupcharlie
• A Catfishing With a Happy Ending, by @JeffMaysh

More posts from Wade this week:

• Happy Thanksgiving!
• The Birmingham channel: To 200 more years

The latest #sundayread tweets:

#sundayread Tweets

• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for November 19, 2017:

• Wade Kwon’s resume … in 10 tweets
• Even smart folks have a hard time detecting fake news, by @SamWineburg and Sarah McGrew
• Becoming Steelworker Liberated Her. Then Her Job Moved to Mexico. By @fstockman /via @nelson_aj
• Y’all Connect: Gender Avenger gives us its Stamp of Approval
• Running Free in Germany’s Outdoor Preschools, by Alice Gregory (via @kikiochieng)
• The Place Where Letters to @HillaryClinton Go, by @RubyCramer (RT @chrisgeidner)
• Flashback: Thankful for … Part 2
• Damage from fed funding cuts for Midwest public universities by @JonMarcusBoston /via @deborahblum
• Excerpt from “Big Chicken” by @MarynMcK enna (via @AustinLWilson_)
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – Two easy ways to test your site’s mobile design
• Below Deck: When working on a cruise ship goes wrong, by @LizziePresser (h/t @Longreads)
• AP analysis: FEMA rejects appeals worth $1.2B over a decade, by @DavidALieb and @RJFoley
• The Privatization Prophets: Dismantling public education, by @BisforBerkshire
• A Delightful Dictionary for Canadian English, by @JesseSheidlower (RT @EvyCoul)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Word on the street

The latest #sundayread tweets:

#sundayread Tweets

• More #sundayread recommendations from me