Truthout's editor and columnist William Rivers Pitt's letter to his mother on her birthday. It's too long to post the whole thing but here is a tiny excerpt I found particularly well said. It is newsworthy in that it he covers a lot of things that are happening in the news and provides lots of links so I figured it would fit here. I really think it is worth a read.
To My Mother
I know you pride yourself on being up on current events - it must be in the genes - but I wanted to make sure you are fully up to speed on what The Bastards have been up to lately, because they have been busy in a way I have never actually seen before in my life. Every part of what has been happening in American politics of late is entirely familiar, the stuff of old nightmares, but I have never experienced such a barrage of unrestrained hatred, filth and nonsense to compare with this. It's as if The Bastards took 100 years worth of anti-woman sentiment, condensed it into a dense nugget of hate-crack, and hit the pipe. Hard.