Weekly Wrap 1.27.17: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week | Sojourners

Weekly Wrap 1.27.17: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week

1. What Will You Do if Donald Trump Deports Me?
“If you are an ally, a friend, or a decent human being who understands that immigrants and refugees work hard, play by the rules and are proud aspiring Americans, then read this guide.”

2. Here’s How Franklin Graham Justifies Trump’s Expected Refugee Ban
“It’s not a biblical command for the country to let everyone in who wants to come, that’s not a Bible issue.” 🤷🏽

3. CDC Abruptly Cancels Long-Planned Conference on Climate Change and Health
The announcement came shortly before Donald Trump took office, a presidency that has already seen reports of the administration silencing EPA staff and asking them to remove the EPA’s climate change page.

4. Thanks to Trump, Scientists Are Planning to Run for Office
A newly formed group, 314: Action, is giving scientists a boost to run for office in response to the Trump administration’s hostile attitude toward climate science.

5. Spain’s ‘Robin Hood Restaurant’ Charges the Rich and Feeds the Poor
"Paying customers at breakfast and lunch foot the bill for the restaurant to serve dinner to homeless people, free of charge.”

6. The Myth of the Well-Behaved Women’s March
“The high-fives of cops at the Women’s March and the blows raining down on BLM are the front and back of the same hand. If you think their uncharacteristic gentleness is a testament to your good behavior, think again. It comes from the same root as their violence: from the conviction that you are a delicate, breakable, and unthreatening thing.”

7. Black Actors Nominated in Every Acting Category for the First Time in Oscar History
🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿
Denzel Washington (
Fences, Actor), Mahershala Ali (Moonlight, Supporting Actor), Ruth Negga (Loving, Actress), Viola Davis (Fences, Supporting Actress), Naomie Harris (Moonlight, Supporting Actress) and Octavia Spencer (Hidden Figures, Actress).

8. U.S. Could Face Human Rights Crisis After Trump’s Xenophobic Immigration Orders
“Nearly 60,000 unaccompanied minors and close to 80,000 families were apprehended at the border in 2016, the vast majority of whom came from countries in Central America plagued by violence. Now these groups of migrants, who received a degree of flexibility under the Obama administration, will be kept in detention by order.”

9. Former Hiroshima Mayor Urges Trump to Say No to Nukes
“I know that because of your magnetic personality you would have a warm rapport with the hibakusha [survivors of the bombs] you would meet in Hiroshima or Nagasaki.”

10. Texas Executed Terry Edwards, Who Maintained His Innocence
Appeals — which noted systematic denial of all black jurors from his case and withholding of evidence — went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. At 9:45 p.m., the final denial came. Edwards is the third person executed this year, the second in Texas.

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