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Sci-Fi Writers Are Grappling With a Post-Trump Reality

Sci-Fi Writers Are Grappling With a Post-Trump Reality

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At the 2018 Worldcon, fantasy author N.K. Jemisin became the first person to ever win three consecutive Hugo awards for Best Novel. Given that level of success, science fiction editor John Joseph Adams felt she’d be the perfect guest editor for the latest edition of his anthology series The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy.

“Given that she’s clearly the face of the genre at the…

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McConnell's next chapter: Guiding the post-Trump GOP

McConnell’s next chapter: Guiding the post-Trump GOP

“My goal is, in every way possible, to have nominees representing the Republican Party who can win in November,” McConnell said by telephone. “Some of them may be people the former president likes. Some of them may not be. The only thing I care about is electability.” The Kentuckian made clear that “I’m not predicting the president would support people who couldn’t win. But I do think…

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In the Republican Party, the post-Trump era lasted a week

In the Republican Party, the post-Trump era lasted a week

While pundits ponder the GOP’s future — and traditionalists hope to change course out of the wreckage left by Trump’s insurrection — Washington’s power players and state activists have already made their choice. But it will also pose a fundamental question for the Grand Old Party itself. Is yet another doubling down on grassroots fury and the Trump base the best way to win back Americans?…

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What's in store for a post-Trump America? An Idaho town may have the answer.

What’s in store for a post-Trump America? An Idaho town may have the answer.

Back at the end of October, during an interview at his office in downtown St. Maries, Dave Resser, the sheriff of Benewah County in northern Idaho, leaned back in his executive chair and declared: “The United States is not a democracy; it’s a republic.” It was, plainly, an odd thing to say for a man who had come into his position through the exercise of democracy. Resser, who retired shortly…

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I’m watching you, Toronto.

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CHECK OUT JOTDOWN’S MADE IN BRITAIN! Set 20 years into the future, Made In Britain exists in a post-Brexit, post-Trump world. The population has continued to spiral out of control and Britain is attempting to "clean up the country” by creating an aryan race of a “purer” british descent. All citizens now must carry a microchipped identity card that states the percentage of British DNA they possess. The government has implemented a ground team of elitist immigration officers and soldiers to find and exterminate any person or animal living in the country under the DNA score of 57%.

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Divided Republican Party faces post-Trump reckoning in US

Divided Republican Party faces post-Trump reckoning in US

Republican legislators in the United States House of Representatives are gearing up to decide the fate of two members of the party who have drawn criticism for different reasons over the past few weeks. On Wednesday, Republicans will decide whether to strip Representative Liz Cheney of her leadership position after she voted to impeach former President Donald Trump for his role in inciting mob…

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I’m not messin’ around.

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Hope

He sat next to me on the lawn chairs positioned on the gentle, grassy rise above the lake. The colors took on their richer, darker aspects because of the dusk. They seemed at once more grounded and more magical. I thanked him for having been president. I was surprised by the welling up in my throat, clotting the words. The simple meaning I anticipated defied by bodily experience. His eyes welled up, too. He had not intended that he become so indispensable. He was not moved because his ego was touched by my show of emotion, instead, he felt a kind of compassion for me, as representative of those whom he had let down. In a flash of expression, a slight down turn of his mouth and dilation of his pupils, I understood his kind of leadership. Success could only mean that once he was finished, the edifice would remain standing, impervious to the absence of his hand, insensible to it’s withdrawal. 

He sat slightly above me, slightly behind me, on the hillside. He held my hand as we looked out onto the still water. People played in the waning light. They too, taking on a deeper glow. 

As if from nowhere, I did not see them coming and could not tell you from which direction, a group of men ridiculed the former president for holding my hand. They insinuated something untoward. Not because they noticed it, but because they were clustered together and of one mind, and it was a practiced mind. Practiced at attack and slander and vulgarity. Practiced at the en masse conversion of those impulses into reality. Manifestation.

I felt deeply uncomfortable. The manifestation had been a success, for I felt ashamed. The president, however, he continued to hold my hand, his gaze over the calm, dark, lake water unwavering. I felt my shame run down my arm and pulse through my hand, tempted to pull it from his and abandon the peace. This is how infection spreads, but it stopped there in his palm. He did not tighten his grasp or loosen it. He did not continue in reaction. He just continued. The itching small spasms in my hand, slowly dissipating, perhaps through sweat from my palm. The tightening in my arm that would bend my elbow and pull away, it too relaxed again. 

I stopped looking back at him, but instead mimicked his gaze toward the water. 

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Damon Albarn Talks Gorillaz Collaborations, Writing 'Humanz' in a Post-Trump World

Damon Albarn Talks Gorillaz Collaborations, Writing 'Humanz' in a Post-Trump World

Gorillaz’ musical mastermind and all-around rock icon Damon Albarn recently gave a rare interview to Sterogum, and he opened up a lot about the concept and process of the cartoon bands latest album, Humanz.

Turns out the record is greatly inspired by the Trump election, although when it started, it was still a far-off, unlikely idea. The process began with a simple question posed to collaborators: “Imagine a night where everything that you believed was turned on it’s head. How would you feel?”

In the end, Trump won the presidency of the United States, and Humanz surreality became all too real.

“[Humanz] is a journey through that night, post-whatever that was,” Albarn is quoted by Stereogum. “That news. When you go out that night, how do you feel? This record was anticipating that night but trying to make a party out of it.”

D.R.A.M., Vince Staples, Popcaan, and the rest of the album collaborators were asked to keep a few key points in mind.

“We wanted this record to convey pain, joy, and urgency,” Albarn is quoted. “Those were the three tenets. You couldn’t enter the dark fantasy unless you were going to carry those three superpowers with you.”

The full interview dives into the band’s history, collaborations that never were, and the years between Plastic Beach and now when another Gorillaz record seemed impossible.

“What makes a Gorillaz song different than anything else I do is very simple: I just use synthesizers,” Albarn once defensively told a reporter during an interview for his solo record. “Are you asking me if I’ll make another album someday with synths and drum machines? Sure.”

It’s a must-read for any hard-core Gorillaz fan, and in a strange way, a beautiful love letter to the United States. As with the album Humanz itself, Albarn claims the concept of Gorillaz as a band is intrinsically linked to our home country, for better or worse.

“I don’t think there would be Gorillaz if there wasn’t America,” Albarn is quoted. “I don’t think there’s anywhere in the world that has the sort of resources to keep something like Gorillaz afloat, other than America. It’s big. It really is. God bless America.”

Read the full feature at Stereogum.

http://tunecollective.com/2017/04/14/damon-albarn-talks-gorillaz-collaborations-writing-humanz-post-trump-world/

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https://theweek.com/speedreads/962874/no-way-mcconnell-posttrump-epiphany-political-scientist-says

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“How over the last thirty years, American-led globalization, our post-9/11 fixation on national security, and our scaling up of technologies that we didn't fully understand had helped create the authoritarian dynamic that I'd just described. How America had been weakened by the Iraq War and and the financial crisis and then gone through our own crisis of identity with Trump, which rendered our moral authority - those statements we issued - less powerful. How that made us, in many ways, a more “normal” country, as dysfunctional as anyone else - one that couldn't go around shaping events in other countries the way we once could. But perhaps that could open a new door to America. It could free us to set a more recognizable and relevant example if we got our act together as a multiethnic democracy. It could free us to use our voice forcefully and honestly, unencumbered by the notion that we had to be restrained in order to solicit cooperation on other matters as a global hegemon.” #currentlyreading #nonfiction #bookworm #bookstagram #supportlocallibraries #obamawhitehouse #americanpolitics #posttrump

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How Nike’s Colin Kaepernick ad explains branding in the post-Trump era

How Nike’s Colin Kaepernick ad explains branding in the post-Trump era

Nike announced on Monday that the 30th anniversary of its “Just Do It” campaign would star Colin Kaepernick, the former NFL quarterback who famously began kneeling during the national anthem in order to protest police brutality, igniting a national conversation about race, sports, and the meaning of patriotism.

The ad, which features a close-up of Kaepernick’s face and the tagline “Believe in…

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