For a brief moment on New Year’s Eve, as we left the garbage year 2017 behind us, I felt a brief respite from the horror. But then came the morning, and along with it the realization that things are going to be as bad as they ever were. Enter “who has the bigger button” tweets and more backlash to the #MeToo moment.
It would be nice to think that a new year brings some sort of end to the madness, but the truth is that we need to fight as hard as ever – maybe even more so. So I’m foregoing resolutions this year in favor of doing what I’ve been doing all along – what all of us have been doing: getting through another day and keeping steady in the face of national confusion.
Glass half full
Steve Bannon is being abandoned at record speed. Maybe there’s hope for 2018 after all.
What I’m RTing
She literally brought a chair. I so wish Chisholm were here to see how her legacy is informing the future of politics. https://t.co/sg3sUmW0KF
— Rebecca Traister (@rtraister) January 3, 2018
When you report this you remember she was human: mother, daughter, sister, aunt. Her heart was bigger than the world. It really really was. She cared when most people wouldn't have. She was good. She only pursued right, no matter what. No one gave her justice.
— officialERICA GARNER (@es_snipes) December 30, 2017
So they changed the law in Oregon to let people pump their own gas and the Facebook comments on the news story are amazing. pic.twitter.com/MZ7jcBQRUF
— Kristen (@Kristytipsy) January 2, 2018
“Since television is a prominent source of cultural messaging for children, this correlation of foreign accents with “bad” characters could have concerning implications for the way kids are being taught to engage with diversity in the United States.” https://t.co/FVfJoNWlMY
— Stacey E. Singleton (@staceyNYCDC) January 5, 2018
Who I’m reading
Laura Norkin on why Black Mirror’s mess up around emergency contraception is dangerous; Melissa Harris-Perry on Erica Garner and racism killing black women; and, because I am weak, Michael Wolff’s excerpt in NYMag.
What I’m watching
A video on takeout food and the trash it creates (and why it doesn’t have to)
How outraged I am
Another day, another female politician being called “opportunistic”. I’m at a full 10 out of 10.
How I’m making it through this week
Thinking about this maverick and his ice cream cone.
This photo belongs in a museum pic.twitter.com/kfUesSJzeQ
— Gabe Habash (@gabehabash) January 4, 2018
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