Refugee & Muslim Ban
- Border authorities urged to comply with US courts by Massoud Hayoun (Al Jazeera)
- Reader Questions Answered on Trump’s Travel Ban by Jessica Huseman (ProPublica)
- U.S. judge orders Trump administration to allow entry to immigrant visa holders by Alex Dobuzinskis and Mica Rosenberg (Reuters)
- Child refugees from Central America are being turned away too: The human cost of Trump’s ban grows daily by Heather Digby Parton (Salon)
- Here’s the Hell Trump’s Order Created for Refugees Overseas by Madison Pauly (Mother Jones)
- Designers Protest Donald Trump’s Muslim Ban by Channing Hargrove (Teen Vogue)
- Twitter donates $1 million to ACLU to battle Trump’s immigration ban by MIX (TNW)
- Virginia sues Donald Trump over ‘Muslim ban’ by Andrew Buncombe (Independent)
- Donald Trump has built a wall. It’s in Washington Dulles International Airport. by Tara Golshan (Vox)
- Minnesota suing Trump administration over refugee order by Karen Zamora & Mary Lynn Smith (StarTribune)
- Canada under pressure to counter Trump’s ‘Muslim ban’ by Jillian Kestler-D’Amours (Al Jazeera)
- Police threatened to arrest filmmaker at JFK #MuslimBan protest for making this short film by Xeni Jardin (BoingBoing)
- US entry ban: New York’s Yemeni bodegas shut in protest (BBC)
- More Than 1,000 Bodegas in New York Are Striking to Protest Trump’s “Muslim Ban” by Jenny Luna (Mother Jones)
- ACLU demands records on how federal immigration agents implemented Trump’s Muslim ban by Kerry Eleveld (Daily Kos)
- 8 Women Respond to Trump’s Immigration Ban by Muna Mire (Elle)
News
- UC Berkeley cancels Milo Yiannopoulos talk as students protest (BBC)
- Breitbart Editor’s Event Canceled As Protests Turn Violent At UC Berkeley by James Doubek (NPR)
- Trump threatens UC Berkeley funding after Milo Yiannopoulos event shut down by protestors by Colin Lecher (Verge)
- President Trump Threatens to Yank U.C. Berkeley’s Federal Funding Over Protests Against Milo Yiannopoulos by Zamira Rahim (TIME)
- Non-Muslim Americans wear hijab in solidarity for World Hijab Day (BBC)
- President Trump’s holy war: Counterterrorism program to shift focus to “Radical Islamic extremism,” not domestic threats by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
- Trump is already showing signs of major disrespect toward the U.S. military by Jefferson Morley (Salon)
- Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner ‘struggling to control Donald Trump as their influence wanes’ by Maya Oppenheim (Independent)
- Acting Attorney General Sally Yates fired by Donald Trump is nominated for John F Kennedy Courage Award by Siobhan Fenton (Independent)
- Donald Trump warns call where he hung up on Australian Prime Minister is ‘just the start’ by Rachael Revesz (Independent)
- Donald Trump administration ‘wants to cut white supremacism from counter-extremism programme’ by Lizzie Dearden (Independent)
- Trump drafts anti-immigrant order echoing ideology of Europe’s radical right by Justin Salhani (ThinkProgress)
- The Climate Scientist Who Became a Politician by Ed Yong (The Atlantic)
- Trump’s doctor says president takes hair-growth medication by Louis Nelson (Politico)
- Trump opens National Prayer Breakfast with talk about TV ratings by Rebecca Savransky (The Hill)
- President Trump Insults Schwarzenegger’s Apprentice Ratings at National Prayer Breakfast (?) by Ben Mathis-Lilley (Slate)
- Breitbart loses advertising deals with 818 companies due to grassroots campaign by Rachael Revesz (Independent)
- Steve Bannon in 2016: legal immigration is the real “problem” by Tara Golshan (Vox)
- A draft executive order would make DREAMers vulnerable to deportation by Dara Lind (Vox)
- Trump vows to ‘destroy’ law banning political activity by churches by Mark Landler (The NY Times)
- Trump on combative calls with foreign leaders: ‘Don’t worry about it’ by Nolan D. McCaskill and Louis Nelson (Politico)
- Sean Spicer claims that Houthi rebel assault on Saudi frigate was an Iranian attack on a US warship by Cory Doctorow (BoingBoing)
- Time cover labels Bannon ‘The Great Manipulator’ by Jose Concha (The Hill)
- Poll: 4 in 10 support impeaching Trump by Mark Hensch (The Hill)
- New Arkansas Law Lets Men Block Wives’ Abortions by Laura Bassett (Huffington Post)
- How Twitter took on Trump’s bot army—and won by Louise Matsakis (Mashable)
- Comcast’s huge Trump protest started on Slack by Sasha Lekach (Mashable)
- Uber CEO Travis Kalanick tells employees he’s quitting Trump advisory council by Andrew J. Hawkins (Verge)
- The EPA Has Started to Remove Obama-era Information by Brian Kahn (Scientific American)
- Mexican scientists feel the Trump effect by Lizzie Wade (Science)
- Gorsuch in His Youth: ‘Fascism Forever’ by Jefferson Morley (AlterNet)
- Trump didn’t bother to show up in Situation Room for botched Yemen raid by Mark Sumner (Daily Kos)
- There’s no recording of Trump’s talk with Putin—because Trump’s team turned off the recorder by Hunter (Daily Kos)
- More Than 70 Arrests In North Dakota As Pipeline Detractors Weigh Legal Action by Rebecca Hersher (NPR)
- Senate Republicans Bypass Another Boycott By Democrats To Advance EPA Nominee by Arnie Seipel (NPR)
- Pelosi calls Trump’s chief strategist a ‘white supremacist’ by Stephen Ohlemacher (AP)
- Ivanka Trump Also Promised to Resign From Family Business, And Hasn’t Filed Paperwork by Derek Kravitz & Al Shaw (ProPublica)
- Donald Trump loosens sanctions preventing Russia intelligence agencies from cyberspying by Andrew Buncombe, Feliks Garcia (Independent)
- Global gag rule: unsafe abortions kill one woman every two hours in India – Donald Trump will make this worse by Katie Forster (Independent)
- U.S. makes limited exceptions to sanctions on Russian spy agency by Joel Schectman and Dustin Volz (Reuters)
- Trump vows to end prohibition on church political activity by Jeff Mason and Roberta Rampton (Reuters)
- John McCain Heroically Undermines, Insults Trump in Statement About Call to Australian Ambassador by Ben Mathis-Lilley (Slate)
- Reddit Bans Prominent Alt-Right Community Amidst Doxxing Rumors by Jenna Amatulli (Huffington Post)
- Donald Trump Keeps Calling Refugees Detained By Australia ‘Illegal Immigrants’ by Elise Foley (Huffington Post)
- Republicans back off bill to sell 3.3m acres of public land after outcry by Caty Enders (The Guardian)
- After a massive backlash, a Republican yanks his bill to sell off public lands by Brad Plumer (Vox)
- House votes to scrap Obama rule on background checks for gun ownership by Justin Carissimo (Independent)
- Internet troll Milo Yiannopoulos warns US universities that Donald Trump is ‘watching’ in wake of Berkeley protest by Feliks Garcia (Independent)
- Seasoned spymaster linked to waterboarding named CIA deputy by Deb Reichman (AP)
- Trump rattles world leaders as Cabinet tries to soften tone by Josh Lederman and Vivian Salama (AP)
- Uber C.E.O. to leave Trump advisory council after criticism by Mike Isaac (The NY Times)
- Ursula K. Le Guin Wants Everyone to Know the Huge Difference Between ‘Alternative Facts’ and Fiction by Katharine Tendacosta (Gizmodo)
- Mattis warns North Korea of ‘overwhelming’ response to nuclear use (BBC)
- Trump names former ‘black site’ prison operator CIA deputy chief by Mark Hosenball (Reuters)
- Senate schedules 6:30 am vote on DeVos by Alexander Bolton (The Hill)
- Kellyanne Conway made up a fake terrorist attack to justify Trump’s “Muslim ban” by Zack Beachamp (Vox)
- Trump’s rise to power spurs spike in bomb shelter orders by Gordon Dickson (The Star)
- Tabloid claims that Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch had founded a “Fascism Forever” club in high school proved false. by Kim LaCapria (Snopes)
Analysis
- How Trump’s Supreme Court Could Overturn Roe v. Wade Without Overturning It by Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux (FiveThirtyEight)
- Donald Trump Has Been So Terrible at His Job Even Australia Is Pissed at Us Now by Jack Moore (GQ)
- Trump team building a wall inside National Security Council by Gregory Hellman & Bryan Bender (Politico)
- Keeping Them Honest: Photographs Misidentified – Police Did NOT Burn Standing Rock Tepees by Levi Rickert (Native News Online)
- Steve Bannon Is Turning Trump Into an Ethno-Nationalist Ideologue by Jeet Heer (New Republic)
- How Far Outside the Legal Mainstream Is Neil Gorsuch? by Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener (The Nation)
- Where each Democratic senator stands on putting Trump’s judge on the Supreme Court by Ian Millhiser (ThinkProgress)
- Trump’s Supreme Court Pick Has Given Hints on How He’d Rule in LGBTQ Cases by Tess Owen (VICE)
- How worried should environmentalists be about Trump? by Zack Stanton and Alex Guillen (Politico)
- Donald Trump declares a vision of religious nationalism by Emma Green (The Atlantic)
- The Swashbuckling Campaign to Destroy Obamacare Hits a Wall by Robert Pear and Reed Abelson (NT Times)
- President Trump modifies Obama’s sanctions against Russia by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
- Freedom of Speech Is Not Freedom From Dissent by Jay Willis (GQ)
- Liberals are the new Tea Party by Sarah Kliff (Vox)
- Why Congress just killed a rule restricting coal companies from dumping waste in streams by Brad Plumer (Vox)
- Donald Trump lied to us about his health by Kevin Drum (Mother Jones)
- Case study in chaos: How management experts grade a Trump Whitehouse by James B. Stewart (The NY Times)
- How #Resist became the rallying cry for fighting back in Trump’s America by Marissa Wenzke (Mashable)
- The Far-Right May Be Rising, But So Is Popular Resistance by Soumaya Ghannoushi (Huffington Post)
- John McCain Takes Over as Shadow Secretary of State by Tina Nguyen (Vanity Fair)
Opinion
- Why We Support Keith Ellison for DNC Chair by The Nation (The Nation)
- What a growing coalition of anti-Trump protesters can learn from the Tea Party’s success by German Lopez (Vox)
- I Got All My News from Trump’s Twitter Feed for a Confusing Five Days by Megan Koester (VICE)
- Sens. Tim Kaine and Tom Harkin: Betsy DeVos Is the Wrong Choice by Sen. Tim Kaine, Sen. Tom Harkin (TIME)
- Angelina Jolie: Refugee Policy Should Be Based on Facts, Not Fear by Angelina Jolie (NY Times)
- How Trump Would Corrupt the Pulpit by Steve Waldman (NY Times)
- Wanted: One Republican with integrity, to defeat Betsy Devos (The NY Times)
- The C Student in Chief by Katy Waldman (Slate)
- We Are The Scientists Against A Fascist Government by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Sarah Tuttle, and Joseph Osmundson (The Establishement)
Resources/Action
- A guide to all of the upcoming marches, rallies and protests happening in L.A. (Timeout)
- The Army Is Accepting Your Comments On The Dakota Access Pipeline by Hilary Hanson (Huffington Post)
- An Earth Day protest: The March for Science is set for April 22 by Brian Kahn (Salon)
- Here’s How To Find The Next Major Protest In New York by Sarah Ruiz-Grossman (Huffington Post)
- Next Protest (currently NYC only)
Black History Month
#TBT
- We need to talk about the online radicalisation of young, white men by Abi Wilkinson (The Guardian)