This is awesome!

https://www.randomactsofkindness.org/

THIS:

Blessed to know Inky and call him friend

A great example of being a faucet and not a drain:

When you hear “Border” or “There Goes the Neighborhood” or “Demographics” listen to this song

Please be a faucet, and not a drain

A police officer spent his lunch break sharing pizza with a homeless woman and it was captured in a heartwarming photo

Civility Is Overrated

“The gravest danger to American democracy isn’t an excess of vitriol—it’s the false promise of civility.”

” The true threat to America is not an excess of vitriol, but that elites will come together in a consensus that cripples democracy and acquiesces to the dictatorship of a shrinking number of Americans who treat this nation as their exclusive birthright because of their race and religion. This is the false peace of dominance, not the true peace of justice. Until Americans’ current dispute over the nature of our republic is settled in favor of the latter, the dispute must continue.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/12/adam-serwer-civility/600784/

We can disagree on ice cream flavors (chocolate), sports teams (Alabama, Cubs, RedSox), religion (Southern Baptist) and politics (Non-Practicing GOPer) and be civil with each other. Respect each others’ right to be wrong.

What the friendship of Ellen DeGeneres and George W. Bush should teach us

Is Politics a War of Ideas or of Us Against Them?

Some Dirty Words – HBO:

Maher: We Need to Learn to Live With People Who Disagree With Us, A Second Civil War Could Happen

Rethinking Polarization

What I Learned from Listening to Americans Deliberate

We need a nation of love, not hate, unity, not division, caring, not apathy, empathy, not crassness, compassion, not ridicule.

California professors install seesaws along U.S.-Mexico border wall

Are we going backwards? Back to the 1960s?

Trump Needs His Base to Burn With Anger

Americans in the age of Trump: Less tolerant

“Race” was invented in the 15th Century

Europeans invented the concept of race as we know it

Speaking of labels

Love Has No Labels

The political power of being a good neighbor

We have to #StopTheHate !

‘No blondes allowed’: 50 years after a junior high experiment, students say it had ‘a big impact’