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- The Best Late Night Coverage of Trump Win
Slate does a roundup of Late Night Show anchors taking on the Trump win, despite being all shaken up. A favorite was Late Night With Seth Meyers, who started out by going right for the anti-Donald jokes. (“Well, that was…
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- What Philosopher Charles Taylor Would Do If He Were In Charge in America
From a long profile of Philosopher Charles Taylor in the New Yorker:
Trump’s frank negativity—“We’re losing at everything” —spoke directly to Americans’ disillusionment; his emotional, unmediated spontaneity suggest…
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- What's Next: Maybe America isn't Special. Maybe, Its Day In The Sun Is Over
What's next for America is grim. The Most Frightening (And Real) Aspect of Paul Krugman on What's Next for America:
The political damage will extend far into the future, too. The odds are that some terrible people w…
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- NPR Does a Fact-Check of Donald Trump's Plan For His First 100 Days
NPR does a point-by-point fact check of Trump's plan for his first 100 days, when he starts to make 'America great again'.
...So where to start for President-elect Trump, who at one campaign stop said 70 percent …
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- Anil Dash: How To Fight Trump, Part 7
Anil Dash has a set of guides and everyone has to pitch in:
1. Start by figuring out who's already fighting for racial justice, against climate change, and for civil rights (including LBGTQ rights and women's rights…
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- Trump Win: Most Likely To Happen In America Next
Realize that Trump will be the president. Democracy is a two way street. Sometimes the other guy wins, and you just have to make the best of the situation. I'm not a Trump supporter, but I am a realist. No one will actua…
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- Kinds Of Media That Will Continue To Work For Trump No Matter What
Trump may in public blame the media for the protests and anything bad that happens to him, but he knows he has the support of the media that counts.
1. The New York Observer, Owned By Trump's son-in-law
The pa…
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- How The Media Can Regain its Glory in Trump era
Remember, way back in 2008, when Jon Stewart couldn't think of good wasy to make fun of Obama. Remember the Bush (jr) era being a golden age of news comedy shows.
This new Trump era gives media organization an oppntu…
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- Trump Win: How To Fight Back, Part 5 - Mend The Divide
Solutions on bringing the two Americas together after this most divisive of elections: How do we mend the divide in our country (US)?
1. Listen to each other. Let somebody you disagree with speak with you having an …
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- Trump Win: Where The Media Went Wrong
The media has obviously been faulted for ignoring, underreporting, being more self important (and self righteous), among other things, after Trump win. Politico asked eleven media veterans for their take on where the med…
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- Why It Is Wrong To Protest Trump's Win
This comment on AskReddit posts tiled, 'Leftists not protesting and Rightists- What do you think about the Leftists who are protesting?' explaisn why the protestors may be wrong:
1. Where were they when Bernie was…
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- Trump Win: How To Fight Back, Part 4 - Fight on
1. The Rumpus Writes, Do Not Look Away...We must stay informed, and we must take action.
2. EFF says, 'We will fight on, We’ll fight tomorrow.'
In 2017, we will fight for encryption, challenge the reckless deploy…
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- How Trump Won: It was the bots
Sue Halpern writes in the New York Review of Books, giving another explanation for Trump's win, poiting to fake followers of Trump on Twitter:
Andrew McGill pointed to an analysis of five hundred pro-Trump Twit…
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- How Storytelling Won Trump The Election
Politicians, like lawyers, are storytellers. Jesse Andrews writes in The Awl that Trump won because 'Trump told a story, and Clinton didn’t.'
Trump told a grossly simplistic story in his campaign...It was very …
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- Fear Radical White Men more than Radical Islamists in Amerrica
Siyanda Mohutsiwa tweets that Americans should fear radical white men more than radical Islamists. More on the big threat of radical whites on Slate:
"When we talk about online radicalization we always talk about Mu…
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- How Important Is The News Of Peter Thiel Joining The Trump Transition Team?
Three tings to know, from an useful discussion on Hacker News:
1. $1M is a pretty small price to pay to have a 50/50 shot at CTO of the USA.
2. I'm sure he'll see a very significant ROI on his $1M once the gover…
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- The Hypocrisy of Grubhub CEO Telling Pro-Trump Employees To Resign
This is one sorry idea for a lickbait. Grubhub CEO email to employees, telling pro-Trump employees to resign is in the same high class of hypocrisy as Calexit. This is wrong, very wrong on four fronts:
1. Keep yo…
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- Scenes From A Donald Trump Victory Party
Mattathias Schwartz writes in The Intercept after visiting a Trump victory party. This is how the 'other' America thinks?:
“We’re the fucking establishment now. You and I. We’re not…” the young red hat, encircled by…
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- Safety pins as a symbol of solidarity against racism
This, via Slate, which writes about people in Britain starting to wear safety pins to show their solidarity with the immigrants in a post-Brexit era. Slate writes that in a Trump-led America, it is time Americans ado…
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