Donald Trump’s second year in office begins like every new Star Wars movie: with the Resistance in tatters, trying to rebuild. There is plenty of internet #Resistance, ranging from insane conspiracy theories to serious commentary and organizing — but this online profusion has resulted in IRL confusion.
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Friends and supporters celebrate as Mazahir Salih takes oath of office
On Friday night, Dec. 29, friends and supporters of Mazahir Salih came together to celebrate victory. They gathered to share in the official taking of the oath of office for the Iowa City Council. Mazahir is the first ever elected Sudanese woman to any public office in the U.S. She won a resounding victory for city council in November.
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Democracy in Crisis: How Screwed Are We in 2018?
At the beginning of 2017, we were in purgatory. Remember the interregnum, after we elected Trump but before he took office? We knew it would be bad, but we also had no idea how bad or what to expect. Then Trump took office. Hundreds of people were arrested on Inauguration Day. Tens of thousands came out for the Women’s March. People spontaneously stormed airports when Trump’s first travel ban went into effect.
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Democracy in Crisis: 10 of Trump’s insane tweets
I got drunk recently and read all 2,735 tweets that Donald Trump had written since the election in the hopes that Trump’s Twitter feed, collected and searchable on trumptwitterarchive.com, might be a good way to get a sense of the horrors we’ve endured.
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Democracy in Crisis: Jackson Mayor on Trump’s visit to the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum
Noted racist and U.S. President Donald Trump had the audacity to attend the opening of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson last Saturday.
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Democracy in Crisis: James O’Keefe and Project Veritas have no claim to the word ‘truth’
Project Veritas, the creepo undercover right-wing sting team run by James O’Keefe, spent months trying to fool The Washington Post into printing false accusations against theocrat and alleged pedophile Roy Moore in order to undermine the real allegations made by women that he was sexually inappropriate with them when they were minors.
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Letter to the editor: Protect the charitable tax deductions that keep nonprofits afloat
We must support existing incentives for charitable giving by protecting the full scope and value of the tax deduction for all forms of charitable gifts. Charitable giving incentives encourage donors to give more, but under the Senate tax reform proposal, charities could see a staggering loss of up to $13.1 billion in contributions annually.
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Democracy in Crisis: Dude columnist struggles with what it means to be a ‘good man,’ female editor has doubts
Mary Finn, an editor with Democracy in Crisis, often makes extensive notes on my columns —
in this case, we decided they were far more interesting than the column itself. So we left them, in dialogue with a half-formed column.
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Democracy in Crisis: Protestors arrested on Trump’s Inauguration Day are facing felony charges
The J20 caseis the first mass trial, beginning this week. Most of the defendants were arrested on Inauguration Day, after a protest (which the government has called a riot) resulted in several broken windows and other damage. Police officers threw more than 70 “non-lethal” grenades, sprayed dozens of canisters of pepper spray and cordoned off around 200 people in a “kettle” flanked by riot police and walls on all sides.
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Democracy in Crisis: In the struggle to reclaim the U.S. from Trump, impeachment is an unlikely solution
What a year it has been since the dark night when the Democrats lost to Trump. And now, still lacking a serious vision, the Democrats will use the promise of impeachment as an election strategy to try to take the House in 2018.
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Democracy in Crisis: Trump’s flirtations with racism are making the alt-right more palatable
In the same way that Breitbart launders the extremist views of the Daily Stormer, the Trump administration is acting as a bridge to legitimize Nazi and Confederacy sympathizers.
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Democracy in Crisis Podcast: Tariq Touré on sports and the national anthem
In this week’s episode, Brandon Soderberg talks with poet and activist Tariq Touré about his poem “For the Love of the Game.”
