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made a very important bookstore display today.

made a very important bookstore display today.

2016 was bad

2016 was bad

What We Do Now » Melville House Books

We’re heartbroken. We’re excited. We’re energized. We’re scared. We’re confident that books can help—and this one in particular.

What We Do Now features essays on activism from twenty-seven leading progressives, including Gloria Steinem, Elizabeth Warren, George Saunders, Ilhan Omar, Bernie Sanders, Cornell William Brooks, Dave Eggers, and Paul Krugman.

It’s out on January 17th, just three days before Trump’s inauguration.

Pre-order it today. And get ready.

Here’s an idea --- let’s NOT normalize Donald Trump » MobyLives

DO NOT NORMALIZE TRUMP
DO NOT NORMALIZE TRUMP
DO NOT NORMALIZE TRUMP
DO NOT NORMALIZE TRUMP
DO NOT NORMALIZE TRUMP
DO NOT NORMALIZE TRUMP
DO NOT NORMALIZE TRUMP
DO NOT NORMALIZE TRUMP
DO NOT NORMALIZE TRUMP
DO NOT NORMALIZE TRUMP
DO NOT NORMALIZE TRUMP
DO NOT NORMALIZE TRUMP
DO NOT NORMALIZE TRUMP
DO NOT NORMALIZE TRUMP
DO NOT NORMALIZE TRUMP

seriously, visit a bookstore or library. those are good places to be in times like these.

seriously, visit a bookstore or library. those are good places to be in times like these.

So: I’m in the dark, in mid-air. Like everyone else in America, tonight. The plane’s path is stitching together all those big central states. All those Trump states; the land we call “flyover country,” even though it’s most of the country. When I look down, I see nothing; no cities means no light. I can’t tell you how it feels, or looks, what the mythology of the land is, what the assumptions there are. I can’t give you a portrait, the way I might if I’d breathed the air, drank the water. It’s just a void, a black blank slate, for miles. It will stay that way until tomorrow, until those states, and all the others, write the history of the world.