What's Left #36

What's Left
for the weeks of October 20 - November 2, 2017

This week:

Good News: TheRumps new travel ban blocked
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/10/17/us-judge-blocks-latest-trump-travel-restrictions/23246487/
https://news.google.com/news/story/dKpPn-G2Q8pxS5MqASK_8cm8qoX9M?ned=us&hl=en

Good News: memorial fund for Philando Castile wipes out school lunch debt
https://splinternews.com/a-philando-castile-memorial-fund-has-wiped-out-all-stud-1819557723

Not Good News: Americans increasingly ignorant of Constitution and ready to jettison free press
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/18/trump-media-fake-news-poll-243884?cid=apn
https://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2017/08/daily-chart-0
https://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/americans-are-poorly-informed-about-basic-constitutional-provisions

We Are Not Alone: Madagascar battles pneumonic plague
http://www.france24.com/en/20171017-madagascar-plague-seychelles-health-disease

We Are Not Alone: renewed hopes for peace in South Sudan
http://www.irinnews.org/opinion/2017/10/18/south-sudan-seize-chance-peace
http://www.igadregion.org/the-igad/

Special Comment: some sympathy and understanding for the white working class
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/11/22/who-exactly-is-the-white-working-class-and-what-do-they-believe-good-questions/?utm_term=.6713db223385
https://www.salon.com/2015/11/29/the_truth_about_the_white_working_class_why_its_really_allergic_to_voting_for_democrats/
https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/robert-reich-and-cnns-erin-burnett-take-turns-debunking-trumps-favorite-economist
https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6946196