Mexico to Hold the World's Most Awkward Dinner Party

Just issues, news, and other stuff that matters to you [Fusion] August 31, 2016 🚨Code red!🚨 Today in Donald Trump, the bellicose billionaire is visiting Mexico after [more than a year of mocking it]. The invite came at [the behest] of Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, who [once compared Trump to Mussolini and Hitler]. Unsurprisingly, [the Mexican people] are [not all that thrilled] to have him (though we’re hoping they still [bring out the piñatas]). Stateside, Questlove may have found the perfect [Trump sandwich], but we’re still full from California’s [Operation Taco Bowl]. In other developments, the internet learned about Anthony Weiner and[the rise of dick pics]; why Huma [will be just fine]; the history of [black Wall Street]; the problems with casting [cis actors in trans roles]; the bizarre ([and erotic]) new trend rocking food advertising; all about America’s [newest fear]; and why [a teatox] is a very bad idea. We also took a trip through our nation’s [backwards gun-tracing system], cried over this [touching story] about an autistic boy’s unusual friendship, said [goodbye to a feminist fashion legend], and scheduled [our first flight to Cuba]. In closing, be sure to sign up for [the official Millennial mailing list]. Because how else will you know if the kids still like [Denver] and[money]. —[Laura Feinstein] TODAY IN... SUCCINCT This [one, brilliant paragraph] sums up just how misguided the burkini ban is. HIGH AND DRY Why black people are being [left out of the weed boom]. SHAME GAME [Here’s why] you should ask a survivor about her rape. WELL, DUH How young black people get treated [much worse by the police] than white people. NICE TRY Why [this new law] is only half the battle in preventing sexual assault. THE READ [Meet the New America: Straight-ish, Heteroflexible, and Pansexual] by Rachel Hills As a feminist, I’d never been much of a fan of Freud’s takes on gender. But as a sex writer and researcher, his belief that our human sex instinct wasn’t so much for reproduction as for pleasure resonated with me. If my attractions manifested as a desire to turn emotional excitement into a physical connection, why should that only apply to cisgender men? How could I definitively say I would never be attracted—or had never been attracted—to a woman? Or, now that we were considering it, to a trans or gender-nonconforming person? [Read more]. LET’S TALK ABOUT DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES Check out this [visually stunning 360-degree video], produced by [Doctors Without Borders], that tells the story of a Honduran man waiting to see if he’ll receive asylum in Mexico. Today, more than 65 million people have been displaced by wars and persecution, hundreds of thousands of which are those fleeing extreme violence in Central America. [Facebook] [Twitter] [Vine] [Instagram] [Youtube] Remember, you can always [click here to unsubscribe] and never see another one of these emails until the apocalypse (at which time it'll be nothing but emails). This email was sent to {EMAIL} Fusion · 419 Lafayette St · New York, NY 10003 · USA