1. WATCH: Jon Stewart and ‘The Daily Show:’ 9 Essential Moments
The New York Times offers this great video retrospective from 16 years of Jon Stewart nailing it four nights a week. He will be missed. #JonVoyage
2. The Women of the Protest Line
Almost a year after Michael Brown’s death, Amy Pedersen writes on how the movement in Ferguson, Mo., and beyond is largely a movement of women. “When you watch this weekend from afar, know that you are watching the movement of women; that we are on the street because that is where God is moving. … We are women and because we are women, we know how to be brave.”
3. A Haunting Timelapse of the 2,058 Nuclear Detonations from 1945 to 1998
This week marks the 70th anniversary of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ushering in the Nuclear Age. Popular Mechanics provides this arresting visual of detonations since then. Note: Keep an eye on the tickers for Russia and the U.S.
4. The Disruptors: 13 Activists on the Front Lines of Change
CNN provides a great profile of 13 young people leading the #BlackLivesMatter movement, armed with social media influence and authentic on-the-ground credentials. Read their stories and hear straight from them on their hopes and goals for the movement.
5. White Americans Are the Biggest Terror Threat in the U.S.
According to a new report, white Americans are the biggest terror threat in the U.S. Since Sept. 11, 2001, nearly twice as many people have been killed by white supremacists and other non-Muslim extremists than by radical Muslims.
6. Homme de Plume: What I Learned Sending My Novel Out Under a Male Name
“Total data: ‘George’ sent out 50 queries, and had his manuscript requested 17 times. He is eight and a half times better than me at writing the same book.” [facepalm]
7. The Day the World Changed: Marking 70 Years Since Hiroshima
Read the full piece at the link.
8. How Dirty Is Your Air? This Map Shows You
From Grist, the map shows air pollution problem spots across the globe using the EPA’s Air Quality Index, broken down by region and by city. Check out your metro.
9. The Fight to Vote in 2015: Why Restoring the Voting Rights Act Matters
Thursday marked 50 years since the landmark Voting Rights Act passed. But a plethora of state-based voting restrictions, coupled with the 2013 Supreme Court decision to toss out Section 4 of the Act, means progress has halted. From The Grio: "If we insist on re-living the past, without adapting to the present and the future, we will never reach that day when the Fifteenth and Nineteenth Amendments of the Constitution, giving us all the right to vote, regardless of race and gender, will be enough to protect everyone’s right to vote.”
10. Dispatch from LiveTweeting #GOPDebate Last Night
If you were watching with us, you probably also caught the cringe-worthy terminology thrown around re: Immigration. Fox’s Chris Wallace and others repeatedly used “an illegal” to speak about human beings. Here are some of the reactions, echoing our own condemnation:
"Illegals" is an absurd, offensive term. I'm an immigrant, a human. I shouldn't be reduced to "an illegal." Nor should others. #GOPDebate
— Polly Mosendz (@polly) August 7, 2015 An illegal. This is disgusting they keep saying "an illegal". #GOPDebate
— Lizz Winstead (@lizzwinstead) August 7, 2015
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