Welcome to This Week in Trumplandia. Check in with us every Thursday for a weekly roundup of the most pertinent and relevant content on our country, which is currently spiraling down a crappy toilet drain. You owe it to yourself, your communities, and your humanity to contribute whatever you can, even if it is just awareness of the truth.
This is actually happening. The Electoral College officially voted for Donald Trump to be the next President of the United States.
Take a look at five of the many ways Trump uses ‘gaslighting’ to manipulate and abuse people.
This open letter from Muslim parents to their children is a heartbreaking and terrifying reminder that marginalized people are almost always in danger.
Sorry to add to the growing terror of America, but Trump and his cabinet might do some serious damage to democracy during their reign.
Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump remind us that they don’t understand what a President is—and that they’re very small, sick men—by auctioning off hunting trips after Inauguration day.
Another day, another Trump cabinet pick who will clearly make biased, selfish, money-based decisions.
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