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Month: December 2019

Informed

Vox: One surprisingly simple reason evangelicals love Trump

Reading Time: 4 minutes Trump is betting that evangelicals will maintain their hardline views on immigration
Burge’s findings are in line with prior polling on evangelicals’ positions on immigration issues. An October PRRI survey of more than 2,000 voters found that Republican white evangelical Protestants were 75 percent more likely than all Republicans to assert that “immigrants are invading American society.”

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RelateThrive

Is a zero f*cks approach really possible?

Reading Time: 3 minutes This is much easier to write about than to practice – I fully admit that. I’ve lost whole days to being absorbed by whether or not I possibly offended someone. Yet, I am a very bland incarnation of myself when I care so much, so I will choose to push on and maybe I can drop a fuck or two every day until this whole thing becomes a little less painful, a little less excruciating, and maybe in the best way, a little less safe.

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Informed

Politico: How Close Did Russia Really Come to Hacking the 2016 Election?

Reading Time: 26 minutes “The FBI and DHS keep reassuring the public that they’ve ‘got this,’ but the lack of transparency and visibility into the investigations [of what occurred in 2016] doesn’t inspire confidence or provide assurance to the public that we can trust the process,” said Susan Greenhalgh, vice president of policy and programs for National Election Defense Coalition. “Elections demand transparency. Concealing the investigations and findings from the public directly undermines trust and confidence.”

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AstroEvolveWeekly

Astrology: Happy New Year! (yes, now)

Reading Time: 6 minutes The stars don’t care a button for human calendars, so 31 December and 1 January don’t have any inherent built-in astrological significance.

But OMGosh! – the astrology that’s coming up over the next week couldn’t be more perfect, as we prepare to move into a brand-new decade.

There’s pretty much something new every day in the lead-up to the very end of December, ready for a fresh new dynamic in 2020.

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