Wednesday, November 9, 2016

RSN: Canada's Immigration Website Has Been Down for Hours, This Is a Terrifying Moment for America. Hold Your Loved Ones Close




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Canada's Immigration Website Has Been Down for Hours 
Search traffic for 'Canada,' 'Canada immigration' and 'move to Canada' increased on election night, according to Google Trends. (photo: Open Grid Scheduler/Grid Engine/Flickr) 
Camila Domonoske, NPR News 
Domonoske writes: "Canada's Immigration and Citizenship site has been down for hours - apparently due to a spike in searches by Americans watching the presidential election." 
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This Is a Terrifying Moment for America. Hold Your Loved Ones Close. 
Steven W. Thrasher, Guardian UK 
Thrasher writes: "Hold tight to the ones you love living in black and brown and yellow and native skin. Hold tight to us, because we will have to face white people who think we are rapists. We will have to face a nation that wants to stop-and-frisk us. Hold tight to us, because mass incarceration is actually going to get worse, and more of our brothers and sisters are going to be disappeared. We are going to be living as strangers in our land, among people who believe they have taken the country 'back' from us. So hold tight to us, please, and to each other." 
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Dakota Access Pipeline Operator to Defy Obama and Push on With Final Phase of Drilling 
Julia Carrie Wong and Sam Levin, Guardian UK 
Excerpt: "The Dakota Access pipeline operator chose the day of the US presidential election to announce that the final phase of its controversial construction project will begin in two weeks - marking a bold escalation in its response to the Native American protests." 
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Marijuana Wins Big on Election Night 
Christopher Ingraham, The Washington Post 
Ingraham writes: "Voters in California, Massachusetts and Nevada approved recreational marijuana initiatives Tuesday night, and several other states passed medical marijuana provisions, in what is turning out to be the biggest electoral victory for marijuana reform since 2012, when Colorado and Washington first approved the drug's recreational use." 
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Sheriff Joe Arpaio Goes Down 
Alice Miranda Ollstein, ThinkProgress 
Ollstein writes: "A scream rose from the crowd gathered at Grant Park on the south side of Phoenix when the Associated Press announced that Joe Arpaio's 23-year tenure as Maricopa County Sheriff had come to an end." 
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Mexico Braces for the Fallout of a Trump Presidency 
Azam Ahmed, Kirk Semple and Paulina Villegas, The New York Times 
Excerpt: "For Mexico, the nightmare came true. Perhaps no country aside from the United States itself had as much at stake in the American presidential election as Mexico did." 
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Trump's Win Is a Deadly Threat to Stopping Climate Change 
Rebecca Leber, Grist 
Leber writes: "A President Clinton would have faced a divided Congress, limiting what she could accomplish in terms of advancing climate action. But with both houses in GOP hands, Donald Trump has no such limitations in what he could do to reverse it." 
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