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Sunday Links
Your friendly context-free link dump:
- On The Media: Breaking News Consumer's Handbook: Protest Edition
- Wired: Congress' Phone System Is Broken But It's Still Your Best Shot
- 5 Calls on the App Store (iOS version of the website that helps you call your representatives)
- Houston Chronicle: Poor John Cornyn: His pesky constituents keep calling
- Vox: Hundreds chant "do your job!" at House Republican...
- Town Hall Project 2018 (find local Town Hall events in your area)
- Just Security: Full Text of Remarks by Top State Dept Official Discharged by White House
- New York Times: I Don’t Speak for Laura
- Salon: Don't think of a rampaging elephant (Linguist George Lakoff on political framing. again.)
- The Atlantic: How to Get Trump Voters to Support Refugees, Obamacare (More on political framing)
- @llaurappark: Stay freaked out and fired up.
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So the folks who were predicting a cruel, authoritarian power grab were underestimating how quickly it would happen. We're on day nine and we have a consitutional crisis happening at airports.
I would love to see more leadership from either side of the aisle in Congress making sure our checks and balances are functioning. Without enforcement, the Constitution is just a piece of paper. Until we start to see some opposition leadership in the government it's heartening to see the ACLU and people in the streets across the country making sure American values are upheld. (When you're feeling hopeless take a look at pictures from Women's Marches around the world.)
I've been reading more from Lawfare Blog. There's a lot of informed commentary there. Be sure to read Malevolence Tempered by Incompetence and President Trump's Insecure Android.
I identified with the person who asked this question at Ask MetaFilter: How to stay informed without losing my mind or my day? There wasn't a concensus there and I think the answer is going to be different for everyone, but I'm fairly sure outrage fatigue is part of their strategy. I'm still looking for an answer to that.
Here are a few articles I've bookmarked:
On a completely escapist note: MOUTH MOODS.
I would love to see more leadership from either side of the aisle in Congress making sure our checks and balances are functioning. Without enforcement, the Constitution is just a piece of paper. Until we start to see some opposition leadership in the government it's heartening to see the ACLU and people in the streets across the country making sure American values are upheld. (When you're feeling hopeless take a look at pictures from Women's Marches around the world.)
I've been reading more from Lawfare Blog. There's a lot of informed commentary there. Be sure to read Malevolence Tempered by Incompetence and President Trump's Insecure Android.
I identified with the person who asked this question at Ask MetaFilter: How to stay informed without losing my mind or my day? There wasn't a concensus there and I think the answer is going to be different for everyone, but I'm fairly sure outrage fatigue is part of their strategy. I'm still looking for an answer to that.
Here are a few articles I've bookmarked:
- Corvallis reaffirms sanctuary policy
- Was It Over When The Germans Bombed Pearl Harbor?
- NYT: Trump’s Immigration Ban Is Illegal
- Scientific American: The War on Facts Is a War on Democracy
- California Could Cut Off Feds In Response To Trump Threats
On a completely escapist note: MOUTH MOODS.
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