Links 31/12/16 compact edition

Politics and Pop Culture: 

We have to resist: A Longreads interview with Rebecca Solnit. 

'Did the Russian government direct a cyber campaign against the U.S. in the midst of its election?'

In Teen Vogue: Donald Trump is gaslighting America.

Hannah Arendt's usefulness in analysing the current political situation in the US. 

After losing the popular vote by a massive margin, the GOP is already working on new efforts to suppress voting rights. 

What all of this could mean for LGBTQIA* rights. 

Riding the Underground Abortion Railroad in Texas.

Celebrating Gay Pride in Uganda. 

Stop normalising Glenn Beck.

The New York Times investigated the psychological effects on people stuck in Australia's offshore detention centres.

Ta-Nehisi Coates on the history of the first black President in the White House: My President Was Black (and more in this interview between Obama and Coates).

Foreign policy experts are ranking world conflicts in 2017.

The failure of political science.

In health: vitamin pills don't work and your brain on PMS (and being on hormonal birth control pills) is like your brain on alcohol or depressants. OxyContin is going global. The future of Planned Parenthood.

Bitch media with a series of essays on unnatural disasters, eg. the horrors of 2016. 

The future of No Work. 

Carrie Fisher drowned in moonlight, strangled by her own bra (and the invaluable role Carrie Fisher played as a mental health advocate, and an interview for NPR).