1. Shirtless Trump Saves Drowning Kitten
Facebook’s Fake-News Problem and the Rise of the Postmodern Right
"I have my own issues with the New York Times, but when your all-powerful social network accidentally replaces newspapers with a cartel of Macedonian teens generating fake pro-Trump stories for money, then friend, you have made a mistake. It is time to consider pivoting toward a new vertical in the contrition space."
2. Research Says There Are Ways to Reduce Racial Bias. Calling People Racist Isn’t One of Them.
So, research shows that having actual human conversations changes minds. Imagine that.
3. Grand Narrative Won’t Save Us This Time
It never really has.
4. Trump’s Vast Web of Conflicts: A User’s Guide
It’s … complicated.
5. Because I Was a Girl, I Was Told …
From “you can’t do the job” to “you’re not strong enough,” this is why feminism.
Your guide to getting through this with art.
7. This Is How Steve Bannon Sees the Entire World
He’s been named as Trump’s chief strategist and senior adviser — a move that has prompted multiple Change.org petitions and denouncement from many congressional Democrats. Here, read the transcript of a 2014 talk that lays out the then-head of Breitbart News’ opinions on racist elements in the alt-right, the decline of Judeo-Christian values in the West, and more.
8. Hillary Clinton Didn’t Shatter the Glass Ceiling. Here’s What Broke Instead.
“The fact that this country has never managed to elect a woman to the highest office in the land is one of the most embarrassingly backward, un-American facts about our purportedly representative democracy. So internalized is the normalcy of white-male presidential power that we barely notice that the factors in play in 2016, from groping controversies to voter suppression, are not quirks of this year’s cycle but extensions of the structural obstacles to political, economic, and cultural equality that have impeded women and people of color throughout our history.”
A brilliant map visualization of what it looks like living in Donald Trump’s or Hillary Clinton’s America.
10. Cities Pledge to Defy Trump on Immigration
From New York to San Francisco, cities across the country are re-upping their “sanctuary city” commitments.
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