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Reimagining Tom Cruise Movie Posters With HOWARD THE DUCK Instead
Nerdist - Luke Y. Thompson
Joe Chencharik was just joking around with his co-podcaster TJ Dex when he was inspired, by Dex’s dislike of Tom Cruise and obsession with …
U.S. Politics
Why I’m No Longer a Russiagate Skeptic
POLITICO - By BLAKE HOUNSHELL
Facts are piling up, and it’s getting harder to deny what’s staring us in the face. When I wrote, back in February, that I was skeptical that President Donald Trump would ever be proved to have secretly
The 15 Best Salsa Songs Ever: Critic's Picks
billboard.com - Judy Cantor-Navas
Hector Lavoe, Marc Anthony, El Gran Combo, Ruben Blades, Sonora Ponceña, Joe Arroyo and more make our tribute to the Latin dance sound that never …
These New and Upcoming Books by Black Authors Will Give You Life in These Perilous Times
The Root - Hope Wabuke
Legal Scholars: Why Congress Should Impeach Donald Trump
TIME - By James C. Nelson, John Bonifaz
It has been widely acknowledged that, upon swearing the Oath of Office, President Donald Trump would be in direct violation of the foreign-emoluments …
To commemorate Black History Month, Trump administration decrees that white supremacists can’t be terrorists
Salon - Chauncey DeVega
Timothy James McVeigh; Donald Trump (AP/Evan Vucci/David Longstreath) Trump wants to focus counterterrorism exclusively on Muslims. Is this a thank-you note to white supremacists? February 3, 2017 9:59am
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In Case It Wasn’t Clear Yet, Steve Bannon Is Our President
GQ - Jack Moore
Donald Trump is just a puppet who doesn’t care about anything. If Donald Trump has shown anything during his first eleven days in office, it's that he's a coward with no ideas of his own, who is more happy
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Want to understand what Trump and Bannon are up to? Look to the Russian Revolution of 1917
Quartz - By Anastasia Edel
The key to a successful insurrection, Vladimir Lenin wrote three days before the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, was the seizure of the telephone and telegraph. Every Soviet child, including myself, learned
“You can’t coddle white brothers and sisters”: The fiery racial gospel of Michael Eric Dyson |
Salon - David Masciotra
In an unintentional and profoundly postmodern act of self-sabotage, white voters have allowed the nation to slip out of the hands of Barack Obama, the Elvis of American oratory in the 21st century, and
Peru, Colombia vow to stand with Mexico against Trump
New York Post - By Reuters
Peru and Colombia vowed to stand with Mexico as the country faces an uncertain economic future and grapples with a crisis with the United States just …
Trump says his refugee ban is about protecting America. It's really about Islamophobia.
Vox - Zack Beauchamp
President Trump’s recent decision to temporarily ban people from seven Muslim-majority countries, along with all refugees, is billed as religion-neutral. It’s not a Muslim ban, the argument goes, because
I Went Through America’s Extreme Vetting
POLITICO - By MOSTAFA HASSOUN
I’m a Syrian refugee. Trust me, it’s plenty tough. I’m a Syrian refugee living in the United States. My family, which fled to Turkey in 2011 as protests against the government grew, is Muslim. And on Donald
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The “alt” government agencies on Twitter are telling you everything President Trump won’t.
grist.org
If our public servants aren’t allowed to recognize the dangers of human-caused climate change, value scientific research, and call Trump on his …
A Wave of Alt-Government Twitter Accounts Are Now Mercilessly Trolling President Trump
UPROXX - Kimberly Ricci
Under Donald Trump’s administration, national parks face a number of perils greater than losing their Twitter accounts, which is what happened to the National Park Service after they tweeted “crowd-size”
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Republican men are out of touch on the facts of abortion, yet unwilling to overturn Roe: survey
Vox - Tresa Undem
I’ve been studying public opinion on abortion for the past few years. A central finding is that voter support for women’s rights on abortion is steady, if not increasing. A majority (64 percent) wants
How Trump’s Executive Orders Could Set America Back 70 Years
The Atlantic - Jeremi Suri
The president is taking the United States back to the nightmares of the world before the Second World War: closed borders, limited trade, and a go-it-alone national race to the bottom. Despite all the
Trump's 'Voter-Fraud' Investigation Targets States That Opposed Him
The Atlantic - David A. Graham
The White House says an inquiry into baseless claims of illegal voting will spare states that voted for the president. During his sole press conference as president-elect, on January 11, Donald Trump to
Learn Digital Photography with Harvard University’s Free Online Course
openculture.com - by Colin Marshall
Since the taking of the very first photograph in 1826, photography has developed, as it were, in ways hardly imaginable to its first few generations …
Farewell to Barack Obama: A humane, intelligent and (mostly) effective leader
Los Angeles Times - By The Times Editorial Board
It's a cliché that definitive judgments of a presidency take time to develop. Presidents praised in their own era — think of John F. Kennedy — are often subject to revisionist reappraisals by later historians,
Try this quick and easy oven-steamed salmon recipe for dinner tonight
Los Angeles Times - By Noelle Carter
If you're a salmon fan, this recipe from former Food columnist Russ Parsons is one of the easiest dishes you can make: Heat the oven to 250 degrees. Place the salmon on a baking sheet and slide it in oven
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Clear and present danger: Maybe this is how democracy ends |
Salon - Mike Lofgren
Even more questionable are some of Trump’s own actions as president-elect. When do American politicians hold rallies? Typically, when they are running for office. The freshly elected Trump, rather than
Some Trump Cabinet picks are testifying they’ve never spoken to him about their top issues
Vox - Dara Lind
Trump hasn’t talked about immigration with his pick to run Homeland Security — or talked Russia with his would-be secretary of state. It's not surprising that Donald Trump's key Cabinet nominees are being
Top 10 books about wild women
The Guardian - Danielle Dutton
From a 17th-century sci-fi utopia to an autobiographical vampire novel, all these great books were written by women who busted boundaries social, personal and literary I first came across 17th-century
The Complicated Legacy of Our First Black President
Elle - By Melissa Harris-Perry
As we bask in the glow of the Obama legacy, it's important to remember who was left behind. Tonight President Obama will deliver his farewell address. He will use the opportunity to remind the nation what
Donald Trump, a Tremendous Loser, Has No Famous Friends, Sad!
VICE - Dan Ozzi
With mere days away from his inauguration, President Elect Trump, who many people say is overrated, can't find a famous person to come within 500 yards of him. The moment was so great in magnitude that
A Sportsman’s View of National Monuments
fieldandstream.com - Hal Herring
Last winter, I was lucky enough to go south for a few days and hunt Gambel’s and scaled quail in the new Organ Mountains–Desert Peaks National …