This is a super important point. It feels a lot like it’s every person for themselves.
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Im actually serious except I throw my tag up on canvas and scrap wood not public property. I love the urban arts.
I’ve heard that there are some high school (or maybe it’s college?) teachers out there that start their class by having the students read WTFJHT, which is super interesting.
Is there a safe for work version of WTFJHT that would be useful to a younger audience? Maybe we could retool the daily post to be more accessible? Idk, riffing here.
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Hi there. I’m an American expat, originally from Colorado, living in Scotland for the past several years. My husband’s a Brit and I’ve got dual citizenship.
I’ve been in total shock since the UK shot itself in the foot with the Brexit vote on June 23rd 2016, and November 8th put me right over the edge. I’m coming up on 60 years old and have watched all our retirement plans pretty much go up in smoke due to both of those events. Just trying to make it day by day now and salvage whatever we can. The daily WTFJHT emails help a lot in keeping up with the heartbreaks of the day.
I’m interested in web development and hifi audio. And I fucking despise DJT, if I’m allowed to say that on my first post; hence my username.
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That’s interesting! My guess would be college, if for no other reason that the name of the blog, though. (Public schools can be so picky! LOL.)
A “safe for school” version could be very useful for older (high school) students, I think.
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Yeah, I was guessing college, too. I really like this idea of a “safe for school” version. If you have ideas, please lmk.
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Karen, here, (and glad to be here). I teach 6th grade World History in a small town in a southern state. (Carefully, as you might imagine, haha.)
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I will think on it. 
Hi Debra here, currently in Phoenix A.Z., originally from CA. Wake up every morning with the sense of doom… love the news letter and meeting people with like minds that think this has to be a terrible dream and there has to be something we can do about it.
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Sofarleft here. Newly discovered WTF member. I live underground in a very red state. Freelance writer and photographer (wife is freelance writer/editor).
I think of myself as being so far left the socialist say what the fuck is up with him.
Very glad to be here. And thanks to Matt for doing the heavy lifting each day.
Sofarleft.
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Hello, just joined the forum. My name is Ellen. I live north of Boston and am an editor and writer. I am grateful for the WTF daily news summaries and perspective. They help keep me from losing my mind. Same for you, maybe? Glad to be here with like-minded citizens.
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Me too, it was my first (and only, until election night in the US) wave of true deep unease that drumpf might actually win. I will never forget that feeling, it just bombed into my stomach and spread to every nerve.
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I know exactly what you mean. I sat up all night watching the referendum results and getting more depressed as the night went on. Rinse & repeat on November 8th. That deep unease has been there ever since; if anything, it has intensified lately.
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Just joined the Community…I feel welcome already. Wonderful to feel I am with like minds. My name is Carol and we live in rural Hawaii (Big Island) where we moved to after sailing in the S. Pacific for 6 years and before that the working life in Seattle. We love living in a ‘it takes a village’ world … WTFJHT has that same feel - a no B.S. community. Aloha
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Hello all, I am a long time activist who is an active member of The Resistance. I am a Queer POC artsy philosopher poet type. I was in Philly. I was at Standing Rock. I was at the women’s march and many more protests since November 9. I am an artivist and have been involved with Artivists Into Action and Indivisible. My sister and I started a local )Los Angeles) group called the Rainbow 
Resistance where we get together on a Sunday afternoon twice a month to swap info, eat snacks and write letters to our members of congress. If you want to join us, hit me up for deets.
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Hi everyone! My name is Riley (IRL) and by day I work for Apple helping people learning how to use their shiny new toys! By night I am working on a fiction series that has been a decade in the making. I’m super excited to be here, and I’d like to say a big thank you to Matt for bringing me up to speed every day, yours is pretty much the only email I open these days. 
What else, I’m engaged and have a cute dog, and am working with my community to help folks learn ASL! Thanks for reading and I look forward to all the great things ahead.
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Hola - I am another frustrated member of the resistance. A librarian working hard for facts and reality. I am trying to keep up without going mad. Thank you for your indispensable resource. Keep up the good work.
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I think mostly the word “fuck” I would think would be the only qualm…everything else I wouldn’t think to be an issue…depending on how much work you are looking to put into it, my other suggestion would be to lighten up the verbiage a little to be digestable (and kept the attention) to a HS student, as well as a little more context in the form of links to previous stories (so they can delve deeper if they want or haven’t been following closely but for those who have, it wouldn’t weigh down the content). One of the best tips I ever got regarding designing training materials was that the white to black ratio of what’s printed on the bag is critical to someone’s ability to actually read and retain the information.
Generally, I think a school version would be phenomenal - I wish I had something like that when I was in high school, it would not only be beneficial to know what’s going on and be engaged but to promote media literacy.
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Introduction,
First off, thanks Matt for this discussion group as well as the daily briefing. My RLN is Jerry Salisbury and I am a retired hospital Facility Manager in Akron Ohio. I lived in Seattle, Washington for many years and worked at the University of Washington.
Returning to Ohio from Seattle has been major culture shock for us. Seattle was fairly progressive and returning to “the heartland” has as I said been traumatic. When I left this State in 1978 it was highly unionized and it seemed as though people cared for each other. Now I’m sorry to say, people vote for candidates like Trump and we seem to have become one with the party of “I’ve got mine - screw you!”
In any event thanks for providing a place to exchange information (and occasionally just vent).
Best regards to all
Jerry
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welcome! and wow, apple – super exciting!! (i’m secretly super jealous)
welcome to the virtual blue (purple?) state! 
welcome! love to know someone from the “inside” is here…super excited to hear your take on things, since you have such a unique perspective!
welcome! i’d love to pick your brain someday - i have an idea for experiment of sorts to pair those baby boomers who were politically active specifically during the anti-war time with millennials who want to be more politically active in the resistance to strategize ways where we can take the learnings of previous times and pair with current times to be the most effective. (if that makes sense?)