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👓 Perspective | At U.S. Open, power of Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka is overshadowed by an umpire’s power play | Washington Post
Sally Jenkins (Washington Post)‘A career of pushing boundaries': How Serena Williams has rewritten rules for women in tennis
Chair umpire Carlos Ramos managed to rob not one but two players in the women’s U.S. Open final. Nobody has ever seen anything like it: An umpire so wrecked a big occasion that both players, Naomi Osaka and Serena Williams alike, wound up distraught with tears streaming down their faces during the trophy presentation and an incensed crowd screamed boos at the court. Ramos took what began as a minor infraction and turned it into one of the nastiest and most emotional controversies in the history of tennis, all because he couldn’t take a woman speaking sharply to him.
👓 The crisis isn’t Trump. It’s his Republican enablers. | Vox
Trump’s flaws lie in plain sight. It’s the GOP that pretends blindness.
👓 Caught mid-flow: the “Baldwin effect” | The Economist
While most side-blotched lizards living in the Mojave desert match the colour of its sand, those
👓 Sami Keijonen’s Foxland Themes and Plugins are Now Available for Free | WP Tavern
WordPress theme designer and developer Sami Keijonen has made all of his theme and plugin products at Foxland available for free. Keijonen’s WordPress.org-hosted themes are active on more tha…
👓 The debt metaphor in software development | Andy Sylvester
In a new post, Ward Cunningham shares his thoughts on the “debt metaphor” in software development. One of the points he brings out is that programming can be thought of as making decisions now on the functionality of the program and deferring others to a later time (debt), with the understanding...
👓 Papadopoulos sentenced to 14 days in jail for lying to FBI in Mueller probe | NBC
"The president of the United States hindered this investigation more than George Papadopoulos ever could," a lawyer for Papadopoulos said.
👓 Twitter’s redesigning its website, and it’s really, really white | Mashable
Twitter's new website is on the way.
👓 A message from President Daniels to students on the humanities | Johns Hopkins
President Daniels: 'Hopkins believes in the essential value of humanistic inquiry and its capacity to aid you in realizing your aspirations and building lives you want to live and of which you will be proud'
👓 Newly Released Emails Show Brett Kavanaugh May Have Perjured Himself at Least Four Times | The Daily Beast
Formerly confidential emails have been released that show the Supreme Court nominee contradicting statements he made under oath to the Senate.
👓 So No One’s Going to Ask Brett Kavanaugh How He Got Into Massive Debt by Allegedly Buying Baseball Tickets? | Slate
One big personal issue has been absent from the potential Supreme Court justice's confirmation hearing.
👓 I Wrote Some of the Memos That Brett Kavanaugh Lied to the Senate About. He Should Be Impeached, Not Elevated. | Slate
Brett Kavanaugh procured his own confirmation to the federal bench by committing perjury.
👓 Nike’s online sales jumped 31% after company unveiled Kaepernick campaign, data show | MarketWatch
Talk of Nike Inc. sales taking a hit from the company’s decision to put ex-NFL player Colin Kaepernick at the center of its latest “Just Do It” campaign is looking overblown, based on data from a Silicon Valley digital commerce research company.
👓 Thinking about a one-sentence pitch for Micro.blog | Dan Cohen
Dan Cohen (social.dancohen.org)After listening to @manton on @monday with @macgenie, I think Micro.blog could use a clearer one-sentence pitch about what it is for potential new users. This is my first attempt, but it would be interesting to hear from others: “Micro.blog is an easy way to host and share your posts, photos, and even a podcast in a way that maximizes what’s great about social networks and minimizes what’s troubling about them.”
👓 I Am the Anonymous NYT Op-Ed Writer from the White House | Matt Gross
At last, the senior administration official comes clean.
Hilarious Matt!