1. Here Are Ways You Can Help People Affected by Hurricane Harvey
Texas Monthly offers a comprehensive list.
2. President Trump Could End DACA As We Know It. Here’s What You Can Do.
The lives of 800,000 young, hardworking immigrants are in limbo, as reports say the president will end the program that protects them from deportation. Congress has the power to step in — contact your representatives now.
3. The Day the ‘Enemies of the American People’ Helped Save America
“So many of the people who’ve been vilified over the last couple of years in our endless, ear-hurting political debates — government bureaucrats, law enforcement officers, and, most important, citizens of every political stripe and every, to use the current buzzword, identity — are dropping whatever they are doing to rush into danger and rescue total strangers.”
4. Jim Wallis: Nashville Statement Damaging to People and to the Evangelical Witness
“Every initial of LGBTQ represents people who are beloved of God and made in the image of God.”
5. Hundreds of CEOs, Business Leaders Urge Trump to Keep DACA
Apple CEO Tim Cook and Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg are among the signatories, telling Trump, “Dreamers are vital to the future of our companies and our economy.”
6. White House Quietly Removes Sexual Assault Report from Website
The “Rape And Sexual Assault: Renewed Call To Action” lists facts and statistics on sexual assault and includes ways the Justice Department and college campuses could improve their response. It was published in 2014 under the Obama administration.
While we may be seeing the death rattle of the death penalty in the U.S., hundreds sit on death row as state-level battles play out around the country.
8. What Trump’s Generation Learned About the Civil War
“With the horrors of slavery diminished and its presence occasionally justified [in their school curricula], it’s easy to see how someone from Trump’s generation could view the Civil War as a conflict whose core tensions could be ‘worked out’ without violence.”
9. ‘There Is a Genocide Going On There’: Rohingya Huddle on Bangladesh Border
The testimonies of Rohingya sheltering in overcrowded Bangladeshi refugee camps escaping violence, are harrowing.
10. Dells Launch $100 Million Rebuild Texas Campaign in Response to Harvey
The Dells both grew up in Houston. They pledged an initial $18 million and will contribute $1 for every $2 contributed to the fund.
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