Monday morning reading ... by gimleteye

Globe and Mail, OPED: "Gutting net neutrality is a death knell for the resistance"
HIGHLY RECOMMEND READERS TO CALL SEN. MARCO RUBIO'S OFFICE AND ASK HIM TO STOP THIS MENACE!

From the moment he launched his campaign in June, 2015, Donald Trump's every tweet, threat and conspiracy theory has been logged and scrutinized, championed by his propagandists and critiqued by his protesters, and transformed into memes and viral tracts.

We Americans may be a captive audience to our reality-TV star who thinks he's an authoritarian, but we are a chatty audience, and our loquaciousness has been our salvation. For nearly a year, we have exercised First Amendment rights like we were working a defibrillator on democracy's damaged heart. We debunked lies, catalogued crimes, demanded justice and created a vast, informal movement dedicated to the pursuit of truth over alternative facts.

But that may be about to end. Last week, the Federal Communications Commission announced it was planning a sweeping rollback of net neutrality, allowing corporations to decide what content is available online while pricing most citizens out of equal access to information.

In 2015 Pope Francis released "Laudato Si", his encyclical on global warming. It is a touchstone or should be, for Christian evangelicals who are also climate change deniers.

Amy Siskind: Week 53: Experts in authoritarianism advise to keep a list of things subtly changing around you, so you’ll remember.

NY DAILY NEWS, President Trump's earliest appearance in Panama Papers revealed

NY Times OPED, "We can't trust Facebook to regulate itself"

Daily Beast, "Make Nepotism Great Again, 20 Families got jobs in Trump administration"

Moyers and Co., "Additions to Our Trump-Russia Timelines: Keep up with the latest entries on our timelines tracking Trump and his inner circle's involvement with Russia." BY STEVEN HARPER | NOVEMBER 21, 2017

THE FULL PICTURE OF COLLUSION:'How Russia Helped Trump Win The White House' from Fresh Air.