Happy Hanukkah! Happy Christmas Eve!

The dog finally got hungry enough to eat her wet food and now she just chows it down. Still isn't touching the dry, so I think I'll try a different variety and freecycle this bag. (Also her rawhide chews. She loves tearing into her giant plushie bone, but she doesn't seem interested in chewing anything more substantial.)

She's also started flopping on her back for tummy rubs. She's even cuter this way.

Let's close some tabs.

These articles will be depressing or at least serious.

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Clinton wins popular vote by nearly 2.9 million

Hard-wired: The brain's circuitry for political belief

What Those Who Studied Nazis Can Teach Us About The Strange Reaction To Donald Trump

Discrimination interacts with genetics, impacts health

How Racism Was First Officially Codified in 15th-Century Spain

'Sniff test' may be useful in diagnosing early Alzheimer's disease

How the body of an Arizona great-grandmother ended up as part of a U.S. Army blast test

Colorado inmate freed early, jailed again asks for release (Maybe I shouldn't be, but I'm with him. The state screwed up, and it doesn't seem he's at a high risk for reoffending at this point - call it an extended parole and drop it. "Oh, he didn't complain when he realized there was an error" - well, no shit. Like, nobody seriously expected him to come forward and say "Whoops, you're gonna let me out 90 years early!" did they? Nobody is that honest.)

A Blueprint to End Mass Incarceration

From media cutoffs to lockdown, tracing the fallout from the U.S. prison strike

We Wanted To Find Troubled Jails, So We Counted The Bodies

For Immigrants, the Threat of Indefinite Detention

You Say You're An American, But What If You Had To Prove It Or Be Deported?

Restoring the fundamental right of habeas corpus, legal scholars say, is crucial to protecting dissent under Donald Trump

L.A. proposes $10-million legal defense fund for immigrants facing deportation

Putin: Russia's military is stronger than any potential foe

Ukraine investigates suspected cyber attack on Kiev power grid

2 Former Flint Emergency Managers, 2 Others Face Felony Charges Over Water Crisis

A Pakistani girl is snatched away, payment for a family debt

The Man Who Cleans Up After Plane Crashes

Lagos development boom sparks fear that slum dwellers will be left homeless

How Hospitals, Nursing Homes Keep Lethal "Superbug" Outbreaks Secret

How the refugee crisis is changing the world economy.

When I offered a lift to a Syrian refugee family trying to cross Denmark, I had no idea I would end up in court charged with people smuggling.

Migrants from around the globe are forging a grueling path to the U.S. — through the heart of the rainforest

Mediterranean death toll is record 5,000 migrants this year: agencies

World War Three, by Mistake

US abstains as UN demands end to Israeli settlements

As Groundwater Dwindles, a Global Food Shock Looms

Farmers in Sudan battle climate change and hunger as desert creeps closer

Arctic heatwave could break records

Abandoned Texas oil wells seen as "ticking time bombs" of contamination

The Making of an American Terrorist

New armed group emerges as threat in Central African Republic