- The Long Fight For A (Worthy) Female American President continues
Not trying to be untimely harsh here, but Elizabeth Warren would have been a better candidate than Hillary Clinton. She also took the fight to Trump and pulled no punches. However, this is not an ideal world. For the mea…
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- Trump: The President With Most Lawsuits?
The Daily Beast points out that Donald Trump faces 75 law suits.
Trump has been a party to some 4,000 lawsuits over the last 30 years.... Whatever one’s position on the election, it’s clear that Trump’s ongoing cou…
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- Trump Win: How To Fight Back, Part 3 - Organize
The mid-term elections are due in two years. 1/3 of the Senate and all of the House will be up for relection. Organize. You don't need the vested elites. Time for Bernie-supporters to get back in action.
Next: Read 2500…
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- Trump Win: How To Fight Back, Part 2 - Help Each Other
Be a helper. Here's a great starting list from The Awl on how you can pitch in and save society:
This is by no means a definitive list, but here are the names of some places to get your brain going. First, some nat…
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- Trump Win: How To Fight Back, Part 1
Masha Gessen gives six rules for surviving four (at least) years of nationalist autocracy of the Trump presidency. In short, never ever give an inch. And nothing for granted, no matter what they say. No need to be reconc…
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- Trump Win: Five Most Important Facts To Remember
Notes from an excellent discussion on Slashdot:
1. Trump received about the same number of votes as Romney did in 2012.
2. Hillary received about 10M fewer votes than Obama did in 2012.
3. Neither was a rem…
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- Trump Win: Another Fail For Big Data?
Tom Ewing writes about the failures of micro-targeting in the aftermath of the failure of Hillary Clinton's 'data-driven' poll campaign, saying it failed just as 'targeted ads' fail, and ends by saying this failure won't…
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- How Now America Follows India's Lead
In 2014, India 'escaped' from the clutches of a dynasty into the arms of a 56-inch chested nationalist. Now, America has run from a dynasty into the grubby arms of a nationalist. At the time of their fall, dynasties in b…
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- Dave Winer On How The Media Failed America
A dejected Dave Winer writes,
What will happen now? A lot of sleazy awful people will be leading our country. I thought we were done with all the Trump surrogates, but it's just beginning. Now MSNBC won't have a …
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- Four Ways The Media Failed America
1. Major networks devoted only 32 minutes in 2016 to political issues.
2. Journalists failed to question the polls predicting a Clinton victory because the data confirmed their gut feeling about who would win (New Yor…
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- The Media Still Hasn't Learnt Anything From Trump Victory, HuffPost Edition
Only the Huffington Post editors know what they are doing by appending the editor's note to all Trump stories, which calling him a liar, racist, and a xenophobe. Apparently the editors want to start with a 'clean slate'.…
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- How the Simpsons Predicted A Trump Presidency
The Guardian points out to plots in The Simpsons and other entertainment who predicted a Trump presidency. It writes about a Simpsons episode aired 16 years ago:
In 2000, Bart to the Future, an episode of the Si…
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- Should The US Abolish The Electoral College?
Withing 20 years, 2 Democrats have won the popular vote but lost the US general elections because of how the Electoral college works. Democrats get the votes from population concentrated in urban areas of East and West c…
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- The Hypocrisy and False Hopelessness Behind The CalExit Micro-movement
Silicon Valley Investors, for example, Uber investor and Hyperloop co-founder Shervin Pishevar have been calling for California, a stronghold for Democratic party to secede following Trump Win. The campaign is being call…
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- How To Write An Effective Anti-Donald Trump Song
Trump protestors, here are some useful tips from the folks at Vulture on how to write effective anti-Trump songs. Some favorite tips:
Do: Use Trump's words against him.
Do: Drag him before everyone else, then drop a …
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- Full List of Samantha Bee's Names For Donald Trump
Of all news show hosts, Samantha Bee was perhaps most correctly tough on Trump. Here’s a complete list of all things Trump has been called on Full Frontal With Samantha Bee (Via Slate.com):
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- Trump's Awful Plans For Making America Great
You can see the full list of Trump's To Dos here (pdf file). The list has a grand title, 'Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter' but how useful is this 'conract'?
Things that sound great: Term limits on cong…
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- Reasons For Trump Victory: The problem wasn't angry voters, it was absent voters
Analyzing the surprising election results, Daily Kos says
There were no “hidden Trump voters” who crawled out of a cave on Election Day. There were simply Democratic voters who didn’t show. In Wisconsin alone, a qua…
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- Study Finds That Drinking a Can of Sugary Soda Every Day Increases Your Risk For Prediabetes
A study done by USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University in Boston, where they analyzed 1700 middle-aged adults over 14 years, says that if you drink a daily can of sugar-sweetened beverage, you …
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- Epic Games chief pays $15M to protect 7,000 acres of North Carolina wilderness
Epic Games chief Tim Sweeney does what people like Mark Zuckerberg don't - actually do something tangible. Tim donated $15M to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to permanently protect 7,000 acres of undeveloped land in his …
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