1. Civil Rights Group Documents Nearly 900 Hate Incidents Post-Election
More than 300 included direct references to the president-elect.
2. New Sanctuary Cities in Texas Vow to Resist Donald Trump’s Deportations
“My message to the people who fear, justifiably, in their hearts what is to come, is that before they come for you, they have to come through me.” —Austin city council member Greg Cesar
All the things you didn’t know you didn’t know about this season of waiting.
4. Donald Trump Wants to ‘Close Up’ the Internet
Actual quote. "We have to go see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what's happening. We have to talk to them about, maybe in certain areas, closing that Internet up in some way. Somebody will say, 'Oh freedom of speech, freedom of speech.' These are foolish people. We have a lot of foolish people."
5. 7 Survivors on What It Means to Have an Accused Sexual Predator in the White House
“President-elect Donald Trump’s victory represents the justification of sexism and institutionalized rape culture by millions of Americans.”
Here’s what it’s like to be included on the conservative “Professor Watchlist”: “Well, if it is dangerous to teach my students to love their neighbors, to think and rethink constructively and ethically about who their neighbors are, and how they have been taught to see themselves as disconnected and neoliberal subjects, then, yes, I am dangerous, and what I teach is dangerous.”
7. Piracy and Puritanism at Wells Fargo
Advent is a time to push back against what Walter Brueggemann calls “the data of despair,” a time to take actions that generate “narratives of hope.”
8. Lost and Found in Amarillo, Texas
A beautifully told story about a 64-year-old former teacher who serves the city’s refugee population: “She isn’t particularly interested in news headlines or political hand-wringing about refugees. Her calling is local and personal, a commitment to the biblical mandate to welcome the stranger, to look out from her front porch and see a neighborhood that goes deep and wide.”
9. How’s That Swamp-Draining Going?
A helpful roundup.
10. Stephen Hawking: This Is the Most Dangerous Time for Our Planet
“We face awesome environmental challenges: climate change, food production, overpopulation, the decimation of other species, epidemic disease, acidification of the oceans. …We now have the technology to destroy the planet on which we live, but have not yet developed the ability to escape it.”
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