Muslim & Refugee Ban
- 19 Arrested After Rabbis Stage Sit-In At New York’s Trump International Hotel by Rebecca Shapiro (Huffington Post)
- The law backs a president’s power on immigration. Here’s where the travel ban differs by David G. Savage (LA Times)
- The legal battle over Trump’s immigration ban, explained by Dara Lind (Vox)
- Why Trump’s Immigration Ban Could Hit Facebook the Hardest by Maya Kosoff (Vanity Fair)
- Live Analysis: Oral arguments on Trump’s immigration order (The NY Times)
- Court questions whether US travel ban is anti-Muslim (BBC)
Betsy Devos Confirmation
- Senate Democrats talk all night to protest Betsy DeVos. Can you make one last call against her? by Laura Clawson (Daily Kos)
- Senate Democrats Talk All Night Ahead Of Betsy DeVos Vote (Huffington Post)
- Even with unprecedented opposition, Betsy DeVos is likely to squeak through to become secretary of Education by Joy Resmovits (LA Times)
- Someone is paying random internet users to lobby for Betsy DeVos’s confirmation by Aja Romano (Vox)
- The Battle Against Betsy DeVos Isn’t Over by Graham Vyse (New Republic)
- Betsy DeVos likely to get education post despite all-night Democratic protest by by Sabrina Siddiqui and Lauren Gambino (The Guardian)
- Betsy DeVos Confirmed as Education Secretary; Pence Breaks Tie by Emmarie Huetteman (NY Times)
- Senate narrowly confirms Betsy DeVos as education secretary by Emma Brown (Washington Post)
- Senate Confirms Betsy DeVos as Ed. Secretary, Amid Unprecedented Pushback by Alyson Klein (Education Week)
- The Senate Just Confirmed Betsy DeVos As Education Secretary. Every Single Democrat Voted Against Her. by Kristina Rizga (Mother Jones)
- Opinion: DeVos voucher plan would exacerbate educational inequality by Jerusha Conner (The Hill)
- Pence Becomes First VP To Break Senate Tie Over Cabinet Nomination by Ron Elving (NPR)
- The Conservative Case Against Betsy DeVos by Stephen Smiley (Slate)
- Over massive opposition, Betsy DeVos is confirmed as education secretary by Casey Quinlan (Think Progress)
- Teachers union on DeVos confirmation: ‘A sad day for children’ by Lisa Hagen (The Hill)
- The Democrats Never Had a Chance Against Betsy DeVos by Jim Newell (Slate)
- Sen. Al Franken asked Republicans to do their job and help our country’s children—they wouldn’t by Walter Einenkel (Daily KOS)
- Betsy DeVos Is Your Secretary of Education Because Republican Senators Couldn’t Afford to Say No by Jay Willis (GQ)
- DeVos foes promise to make her job hell by Kimberly Hefling and Michael Stratford (Politico)
News
- Trump advisers’ tax credit plan for infrastructure has risks by Joan Lowy & David A. Lieb (AP)
- Gun Violence Researchers Race to Protect Data From Trump by Emma Grey Ellis (Wired)
- White House attempts to prove Trump isn’t a totalitarian liar. Fails by Barbara Morrill (Daily Kos)
- Here’s everything Donald Trump has tweeted since he became president (LA Times)
- More Trouble for Andrew Puzder by Russell Berman (The Atlantic)
- How the Black Lives Matter Movement Is Mobilizing Against Trump by Brandon Ellington Patterson (Mother Jones)
- Syria’s Assad views Trump as ‘promising’ on Islamic State (Reuters)
- Melania Trump Sues Daily Mail for Hurting “Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunity” to Monetize Her Brand by Osita Nwanevu (Slate)
- A powerful member of the British Parliament just told Trump he’s not welcome by Zeeshan Aleem (Vox)
- U.S. Could Grant Final Permit For Dakota Access Pipeline Within Days, Lawyer Says by Valerie Volcovici (Huffington Post)
- Donald Trump’s staff get him to agree to policies by saying ‘Obama wouldn’t have done it’ by Caroline Mortimer (Independent)
- US women to stage all-out strike in follow-up to Women’s March against Donald Trump by Matt Broomfield (Independent)
- Donald Trump has violated US Constitution and should be impeached by Congress, two legal experts say by Ben Kentish (Independent)
- Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei says Donald Trump is showing ‘the real face of America’ by Lizzie Dearden (Independent)
- The full list of Trump’s ‘under-reported’ terror attacks – and how they were reported by Claire Phipps (The Guardian)
- Trump: ‘I don’t know Putin’ by Mallory Shelbourne (The Hill)
- New York Times editorial board slams Trump for Putin comments by Mallory Shelbourne (The Hill)
- Republicans fear for their safety as Obamacare protests grow by Rachael Bade (Politico)
- US army to allow completion of Dakota Access pipeline (Al Jazeera)
- AP FACT CHECK: Trump botches murder rate by Calvin Woodward (AP)
- Republican Senators Vote to Formally Silence Elizabeth Warren by Matt Flegenheimer (NY TImes)
- Trump has lost Kanye: Yeezy has scrubbed his tweets that supported the president by Rachel Leah (Salon)
- Trump official admits administration misuses the term “fake news” to discredit media criticism by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
- CNN to Spicer: We are concerned about Conway’s credibility by Madeline Conway (Politico)
- Der Spiegel editor defends Donald Trump cover cartoon showing him beheading Statue of Liberty by Matt Broomfield (Independent UK)
- Here’s a List of 39 White Terrorists for the Smug Congressman Who Challenged CNN to Name More Than Two by Ben Mathis-Lilley (Slate)
- House Republicans Just Voted to Eliminate the Only Federal Agency That Makes Sure Voting Machines Can’t Be Hacked by Ari Berman (The Nation)
- Elizabeth Warren was just silenced on the Senate floor. Her crime was quoting Coretta Scott King. by Judd Legum (Think Progress)
- More Than 650,000 People Have Joined a Campaign to Impeach President Trump by Aric Jenkins (Time)
- Senate Republicans just banned Elizabeth Warren from talking about Jeff Sessions by Jeff Stein (Vox)
- CNN: Trump regrets hiring Spicer, blames Priebus by Rebecca Savransky (The Hill)
- Read the letter Coretta Scott King wrote opposing Sessions’s 1986 federal nomination by Wesley Lowery (Washington Post)
- Read the letter Coretta Scott King wrote opposing Sessions’s 1986 federal nomination by Wesley Lowery (Washington Post)
- Yemen withdraws permission for U.S. antiterror ground missions by David E. Sanger and Eric Schmitt (The NY Times)
Analysis
- Immigrants Do Not Increase Crime, Research Shows by Charis Kubrin, Graham C. Ousey, Lesley Reid, Robert Adelman (Scientific American)
- What Steve Bannon Wants You to Read by Eliana Johnson & Eli Stokols (Politico)
- How Republicans Might ‘Repair’ Obamacare Before Repealing It by Russell Berman (The Atlantic)
- How to stop an autocracy by Ezra Klein (Vox)
- Donald Trump Sounds Very Annoyed That Everyone Knows Steve Bannon Is the Real President by Jack Moore (GQ)
- Why the Trumps’ travel expenses matter by Jeremy Venook (The Atlantic)
- The World According to Bannon by Alexander Livingston (Jacobin)
- Republicans broke the Senate and now they’re mad Democrats are playing by the new rules by Laura Clawson (Daily KOS)
- It’s Not Just DeVos: Trump’s Cabinet Is Facing Unprecedented Opposition by Ella Koeze (FiveThirtyEight)
- Where Countries Stand With Donald Trump: A Cheat Sheet by Uri Friedman (The Atlantic)
- Leaks Suggest Trump’s Own Team Is Alarmed By His Conduct by S.V. Date and Christina Wilkie (Huffington Post)
Opinion
- Doctors Are Speaking Out Against Trump by Nathaniel P. Morris (Scientific American)
- Containing Trump by Jonathan Rauch (The Atlantic)
- Why Trump wants to disempower institutions that protect the truth by Lawrence Douglas (The Guardian)
- Trump’s anemic imagination undermines the American Dream by Aatish Taseer (The Guardian)
- Labor Leaders’ Cheap Deal With Trump by Naomi Klein (NY Times)
- Poetry After Trump by Garry Bertholf and Walt Hunter (Viewpoint Magazine)
- All praise to John Bercow for refusing to bow to racist, sexist Donald Trump by Owen Jones (The Guardian)
- Why Trump wants to disempower institutions that protect the truth by Lawrence Douglas (The Guardian)
- Betsy Devos teaches the value of ignorance (The NY Times)
- From Streep to McCarthy, why women are the one’s getting underneath Trump’s skin by Meredith Blake (The LA Times)
Recommended Reading
- The Banality of Evil: Hannah Arendt on the Normalization of Human Wickedness and Our Only Effective Antidote to It by Maria Popova (Brain Pickings)
- Five Comics Depicting Immigrant and Refugee Stories around the World by Susan Harris (Words Without Borders)
- Us for President – Issue 2
- “I Am Not Your Negro”: James Baldwin’s lesson for white America still hits home 50 years later by Andrew O’Hehir (Salon)
Conservative Perspectives
- Berlin Report: 92 Percent of Left-Wing Activists Live With Parents, One in Three Unemployed by Charlie Nash (Breitbart)
- DeVos Critics’ Hypocrisy on Public Schools by Deroy Murdock (National Review)
- Why Are Liberals Surprised by the Senate Confirmation of DeVos? by Jim Geraghty (National Review)
- Democrats Are Going Ape On Betsy DeVos Because If They Lose Education They Lose Everything by Joy Pulimann (The Federalist)
Resources / Action
- Ivanka Trump’s Fashion Line: A Complete List of Retailers by Alyssa Hardy (Teen Vogue)
- Can’t make the protest? Here are eight small acts of resistance by Harrison Jones (The Guardian)
- May We Be Well: a note on trauma and self care for anyone currently engaging in protest by Allison Carter (Entropy)