November 16, 2016

A dispatch from Mt. Greenwood, the site of Chicago’s latest police shooting and the only neighborhood in the city to go for Trump, written by a native daughter. / South Side Weekly

“The heartbreak of this election for Clinton supporters is not just the loss of a tough, smart, and inspiring first female president—though that is wrenching—but also the loss of the idea that this country was so very close to being better, more inclusive, more just, and more representative.” Do we need another election post-mortem? Can we bear it? Rebecca Traister gets to the heart of why Clinton’s loss gutted so many. / The Cut

In case you want to know what it’s like inside the Trump transition, a bird’s-eye view, as cited in this exposé of the chaos that even has Giuliani backpedaling. / The New York Times

In “Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Him,” American artist Isaiah Lopaz makes T-shirts out of things said to him in Berlin, about him or his work. / Isaiah Lopaz/Him Noir, The New York Times

Five more cities—Cook County, Boulder, San Francisco, Oakland, and Albany, Calif.—joined Berkeley and Philadelphia in penalizing soft drink consumers, despite Big Soda’s big money. / reason.com

“The upshot is that France’s primary season is turning into a proxy first-round of the presidential election: a race to select the candidate best-placed to take on Ms. Le Pen.” Why French political parties are staging America-style primaries: to find a way to beat Marine Le Pen and the ultranationalist National Front. / The Economist

Oxford Dictionaries says “post-truth” is its international word of the year. / The Guardian

This is a 10-hour version of Marconi Union’s “Weightless,” said to be the most relaxing song in the world. / kottke.org

“As much as I don’t like large groups of people, there’s always something in me that wants to help. A lot of the time, I often feel broken inside, but if I can help as many people as possible, then my purpose is served.” The writer of Moonlight on memory and forgiveness. / The Creators Project

Will the mid-level bureaucrats who make up the effective government take a page from the Wobblies and withdraw efficiency from the Trump Administration? / iww.org, Slate

“We don’t feel an obligation to revere the English language. We can play around with it. We can fuck with it—deliberately. Not even in a malicious kind of a way, but in an expressive way. There’s a lot more play involved in black vernacular than there is in figuring out how to talk to some white person at a job interview.” This interview with PEN/Faulkner winner James Hannaham—about language, crack cocaine, and slavery—is actually warmly funny. / Public Books

No one knows what his drone policy will be, but it’ll be harder for him to retract promises to chase down ISIS—and terrorrists’ families, damn the Geneva Convention—than to stick with skepticism of Obama-era aggressions. / Motherboard

See also: Obama won’t make any changes to drone playbook before handoff. / The Guardian

The liberals who excused the precedent set by President Obama’s wild expansion of Dick Cheney’s unconstitutional surveillance state, unconstitutional foreign wars, limitless worldwide drone program, and intense and record-breaking classification and censorship of government documents don’t look very good right now. / Foreign Policy, GQ, antiwar.com, The New Republic, The Intercept, Slate, The Washington Post, Jacobin

As part of a crackdown on Kashmiri activists on the contested border with Pakistan, the Indian military has been deliberately blinding protesters, claiming it has no other choice. / The Guardian

“There was only one other Hispanic in the entire third floor. And when I did see one I had to speak to them in Spanish so people wouldn’t try to undercut us from doing our job.” The DNC’s former Hispanic media director describes exactly how badly Democrats shot themselves in the foot during this election. / The Huffington Post

For your Wednesday afternoon escapism, Kirsten Dirksen goes inside a “dream budget home” inside an Italian alps ruin—a slight twist on the Great American Cabin that Outside says “we all dream of buying.” / Outside

Related: Two elegant maps show how Clinton voters live on large atolls and small island chains, and Trump voters inhabit vast lands riddled by lakes. / The New York Times

Some dug in their heels, some changed their votes, and most of them hated the experience, reports the Guardian. / The Guardian

Need an imaginary friend in your life? In “The Madness of Many,” New York photographer Jess Richmond cuts out life-size versions of herself to tell a story about her twin sister, Connie, who never actually existed. / Instagram, jessrichmond.com