And you may tell yourself, this is not my beautiful house [#31]
Dear friends,
I have been playing Radiohead's 'No Surprises' on a loop. I also feel unable to express my feelings about the past week in anything but animated emoji. But I've been reading a lot, and so I thought we could read together.
What I Read
Goodbye, America. The world may never forgive us for not seeing this coming. Racism was part of the package deal of voting for Trump. Make some space for yourself. Facebook's culpability. The gut check questions for journalism now. Why some Obama voters switched to Trump. What it was like to photograph Trump for a year. The American tragedy. A view from a longtime Republican. What happened to the GOP? Aaron Sorkin's letter to his daughter. A letter to America from Britain, where they know what America is going through. Rooting for Angela Merkel. Rules for surviving an autocracy. How to cope with a 'uniquely traumatic' event. White allies can step up. A post-election to-do list. A list of pro-Earth, pro-immigrant, pro-women groups you can support now. How we don't, but should, treat depression. What's it like to be super-rich? What do babies dream? The best movies under 90 minutes long. I love the idea of a 'night mayor.'
My Work
A pop-up podcast primer on South Korea's bizarre presidential scandal. You know, the one involving a 'Rasputin' who was a character in a soap opera one time? And in which Samsung was raided because of a dressage horse? Crowds half million strong rallied for the Korean president to step down. She reshuffled her cabinet, but that didn't change the public's mind. The view of the U.S. election from East Asia. The fears about what Trump will do to the U.S.-Japan and U.S. Korea alliances.
What I'm Watching
This Colbert moment is everything.
The pale blue dot.
And to cap things off, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ?!!?!?
Let's take care of one another, okay?
Elise
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