Huffington Post:

If the thought of President Trump in the Oval Office has you contemplating a move to Canada, think again. There are other, more healthful things for you to do than give up.
Here are a few positive things you can do right now:

Great list of organizations. I plan on donating to a few of these.

This is a hell of a lede from David Remnick for The New Yorker:

The election of Donald Trump to the Presidency is nothing less than a tragedy for the American republic, a tragedy for the Constitution, and a triumph for the forces, at home and abroad, of nativism, authoritarianism, misogyny, and racism. Trump’s shocking victory, his ascension to the Presidency, is a sickening event in the history of the United States and liberal democracy. On January 20, 2017, we will bid farewell to the first African-American President—a man of integrity, dignity, and generous spirit—and witness the inauguration of a con who did little to spurn endorsement by forces of xenophobia and white supremacy. It is impossible to react to this moment with anything less than revulsion and profound anxiety.

It gets stronger from there.

I’m thinking Donald Trump may want to catch up on his School House Rock ahead of his inauguration.

See also: The Preamble, Electoral College and I’m Just a Bill.

Fuck.

The sandwich, also called a chop cheese — ground beef with onions, topped by melted cheese and served with lettuce, tomatoes and condiments on a hero roll — has long been a staple of bodegas in Harlem and the Bronx. Now, it has started migrating from grill tops to restaurant menus, from the lyrics of rappers onto the pages of food blogs.

Sounds tasty (though I could do without the cheese).

I lived in New York for nearly twenty years until the late ’90s, and this is the first I’m hearing about it. Of course, I rarely made it further north than 96th street.

That’s like another country.

Oregon Trail-inspired video game from New York Times Interactive. Fun—and frustrating—look at the difficulties the GOP and their supporters are causing voters.

(I think I was too old to play Oregon Trail when it was popular in the mid-’80s, but I recognize the graphics and menu styles.)

David Frum, writing for The Atlantic:

This November, however, I am voting not to advance my wish-list on taxes, entitlements, regulation, and judicial appointments. I am voting to defend Americans’ profoundest shared commitment: a commitment to norms and rules that today protect my rights under a president I don’t favor, and that will tomorrow do the same service for you.

Vote the wrong way in November, and those norms and rules will shudder and shake in a way unequaled since the Union won the Civil War.

Tuesday’s vote is not one between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. It’s between an America where The Great Experiment has a chance to continue, and one where our basest instincts threaten to overwhelm and doom the republic.

Slate: 

For purposes of comparison, we present these complete accountings of the candidates’ offenses and misdemeanors. Weigh them according to your personal moral compass, then print them out and take them to the polls to help you decide. Good luck.

Well researched.

The Daily Beast on director Scott Derrickson’s casting of Tilda Swinton:

In order to avoid one offensive stereotype, Derrickson and Co. effectively erased The Ancient One’s Asianness. Along with it disappeared any discernable debt the character might have represented to the place and people and culture the film’s setting, costumes, and multicultural spiritual mishmash still borrows. In trying to be one kind of woke, Doctor Strange became most unfortunately unwoke […].

Derrickson describes the offensive stereotypes as

“[…] 1960s versions of what Western white people thought Asians were like,” he said. “We weren’t going to have the Ancient One as the Fu Manchu magical Asian on the hill being the mentor to the white hero. I knew that we had a long way to go to get away from that stereotype and cliché.”

And after changing the character’s gender:

“[…] when I envisioned that character being played by an Asian actress, it was a straight-up Dragon Lady.”

“I know the history of cinema and the portrayal of the Dragon Lady in Anna May Wong films, and the continued stereotype throughout film history and even more in television,” he continued. “I just didn’t feel like there was any way to get around that because the Dragon Lady, by definition, is a domineering, powerful, secretive, mysterious, Asian woman of age with duplicitous motives—and I just described Tilda’s character. I really felt like I was going to be contributing to a bad stereotype.”

He admits

“Diversity is the responsibility of directors, and I took that as seriously as I could,” he said. “Whitewashing, if you use the term the way it’s used now—it’s what I did with the role. But it also implies racial insensitivity and it implies racist motives and I don’t think I had either. I was really acting out of what I still feel is the best possible choice. But it’s like I chose the lesser evil—and just because you choose the lesser evil it doesn’t mean you’re not choosing an evil.”

I’m not sold that he couldn’t have kept the character true to its original ethnicity by casting an Asian woman, while still updating for modern sensibilities, but bravo to Derrickson for trying to be sensitive to stereotypes.

(The trailers looks great, by-the-way.)

President Obama’s administration has created a massive digital footprint, from whitehouse.gov and We The People to @whitehouse and @POTUS.

The entire thing, all of it, every bit of content on every social media handle and website, will all be preserved and archived, and the accounts themselves turned over to the incoming president:

On Twitter, for example, the handle @POTUS will be made available to the 45th President of the United States on January 20, 2017. The account will retain its more than 11 million followers, but start with no tweets on the timeline. @POTUS44, a newly created handle maintained by NARA, will contain all of President Obama’s tweets and will be accessible to the public on Twitter as an archive of President Obama’s use of the account.

Other accounts being preserved and transitioned include @WhiteHouse, @FLOTUS, @PressSec, and @VP.

What’s truly remarkable though:

In addition to the steps that the White House and [National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)] are taking, we want to open up this process to the American people. Specifically, by the end of this Administration, we’re committed to publicly sharing our social media content in an easily accessible and comprehensive way (e.g., zip files to download). In the interim, we’re inviting the American public – from students and data engineers, to artists and researchers – to come up with creative ways to archive this content and make it both useful and available for years to come. From Twitter bots and art projects to printed books and query tools, we’re open to it all. The White House will make our social media data available early to people who are interested in building something for the public.

So cool.