“Some of the most enthusiastic shouts and cheers around me are coming from women. They appear almost entirely white and they’re decked out in Trump gear. Presumably, they are part of the 53 percent of white women who voted for Trump.” Nate Gowdy With the red hats, he has created a universal symbol. I’m sure […]
Inauguration 2017
Posted inResistance and Solidarity
You Can’t Turn Off Trump
Friday will be a made-for-TV inauguration for a made-for-TV president with a following of believers enabled by the internet’s worst conspiracy theories. Nate Gowdy My great-grandfather was a man of few words. I never met him, but I understand he had a thick accent from growing up speaking Yiddish in a shtetl in what is […]
Posted inMusic
Inauguration 2017 Playlist: Songs of Rage, Protest and Reflection
By now, more than half the U.S. population is likely feeling a growing sense of fear, rage, disbelief, and pitying self-reflection as Inauguration Day 2017 looms ever closer to the reality of Trump as President. We here at The Mercury are experiencing a similar sense of WTF?; how exactly do we accept the transition, from […]