Immigration & Travel Ban News
- Trump’s Deportation Raids: What We Know and Don’t Know by Ian Gordon (Mother Jones)
- Trump vows to introduce overhauled travel ban (Al Jazeera)
- US businesses close during Day Without Immigrants (BBC)
- Trump may deploy National Guard to round up unauthorized immigrants: AP (Reuters)
- Donald Trump considers mobilising 100,000 National Guard troops to round up undocumented immigrants by Feliks Garcia (Independent)
- Migrants Choose Arrest In Canada Over Staying In The U.S. by Kathleen Masterson (NPR)
- Trump Concedes Defeat on Travel Ban—For Now by Matt Ford (The Atlantic)
- Lawyers for detained DREAMer accuse government of intentionally tampering documents by Esther Yu Hsi Lee (ThinkProgress)
- Opinion – Trump Can’t Build a Border Wall Without the Real Estate by Evan Siegfried (Wall Street Journal)
- Trump administration plan to send 100,000 troops to round up immigrants labelled ‘despicable and un-American’ by Rachael Revesz, Feliks Garcia (Independent)
- Trump Administration Denies Considering Use of National Guard for Deportations (Mother Jones)
- Is ICE Out of Control? by Mark Joseph Stern (Slate)
News
- The Trump White House Has Some Bizarre Questions About the Media For You to Answer by Jay Willis (GQ)
- U.S. top court to set guidelines for Trump treatment of non-citizens by Lawrence Hurley (Reuters)
- Trump says four people under consideration for national security adviser (Reuters)
- Donald Trump continues attack on media in ominous survey emailed to supporters by Will Worley (Independent)
- Donald Trump accuses Jewish reporter of lying and tells him to ‘sit down’ in response to anti-semitism question by Maya Oppenheim (Independent)
- Supreme Court To Set Guidelines For Trump’s Treatment Of Non-Citizens (Huffington Post)
- Child’s Play: Team Trump Rewrites a Department of Energy Website for Kids by Patrick G. Lee (ProPublica)
- AP FACT CHECK: Trump Israel pick talks tough on Palestinians by Josh Lederman (AP)
- President Trump’s family is living large — and American taxpayers are paying for it by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
- Trump supporters loved his press conference, cheer his combative stance with the media by John Raby (Salon)
- Trump was fully briefed on content of Flynn’s calls with Russian ambassador: report by Paulina Firozi (The Hill)
- Fact-checking Trump’s claim that he has no business ties to Russia by Zeeshan Aleem (Vox)
- Group making anti-Trump robocalls is closely tied to a pro-Trump PAC by Andrew Kaczynski (CNN)
- Environmental Protection Agency employees launch effort to block Scott Pruitt’s confirmation by Will Worley (Independent)
- Senate Confirms Scott Pruitt as E.P.A. Head by Coral Davenport (New York Times)
- Scott Pruitt, longtime adversary of EPA, confirmed to lead the agency by Brady Dennis (Washington Post)
- State Dept. carries out layoffs under Rex Tillerson by Margaret Brennan and Kylie Atwood (CBS)
- Comey meets Intel senators amid uproar over Trump-Russia ties by Katie Bo Williams (The Hill)
- Popular domestic programs face ax under first Trump budget by Sharon LeFraniere and Alan Rapperport (The NY Times)
- Trump calls the news media the ‘enemy of the American people’ by Michael M. Grinbaum (The NY Times)
- German Defense Chief hits Trump attitudes on torture, Russia, and Muslims by Michael Birnbaum and Dan Lamothe (The Washington Post)
- Trump’s updated travel ban to have minimal input from national security by Spencer Ackerman (The Guardian)
- Feinstein: Trump trademark in China may violate the Constitution by Kyle Cheney (Politico)
- Democrats use obscure 1920s law to try to force Donald Trump to release tax returns by Ben Kentish (Independent)
- Growing number of politicians ‘openly questioning Donald Trump’s mental health’ by Lucy Pasha-Robinson (Independent)
- Protesters repeatedly interrupt hearing for Donald Trump’s Israel ambassador pick by Peter Walker (Independent)
- Trump declares media ‘the enemy of the American people’ (Al Jazeera)
- Donald Trump aide accuses BBC of ‘fake news’ (BBC)
- Secret Service investigating object tossed at Trump motorcade by Cristiano Lima (Politico)
- Trump’s Pick to Replace Mike Flynn Turns Down the Job by Tina Nguyen (Vanity Fair)
Analysis
- Actually, Trump’s Congress Isn’t Off To A Slower Start Than Normal by Harry Enten (FiveThirtyEight)
- Puzder’s Out, But Acosta Raises Questions by Justin Miller (The American Prospect)
- Beyond DeVos, What 5 Key Trump Appointees Could Mean For Schools by Anya Kamenetz, Sophia Boyd, Kat Lonsdorf (NPR)
- Why Trump Can’t Answer Questions About Anti-Semitism by Peter Beinart (The Atlantic)
- The Anti-Trump ‘Resistance’ in Red States by Clare Foran (The Atlantic)
- One Press Conference, Two Audiences by Conor Friedersdorf (The Atlantic)
- Why Trump Needs an Enemy by Ryan Lizza (New Yorker)
- Here’s how Trump’s white, manly bubble works by Laura Clawson (Daily Kos)
- How People Vote by Niko Kolodny (Boston Review)
- Today in Conservative Media: Rush Limbaugh Was a Big-League Fan of Trump’s Press Conference by Jacob Brogan (Slate)
- In Trump Era, Censorship May Start in the Newsroom by Jim Rutenberg (NYTimes)
- John McCain just systematically dismantled Donald Trump’s entire worldview by Aaron Blake (NY Times)
- Constraints threaten Trump’s promise of an immigration crackdown by Michael D. Shear and Ron Nixon (The NY Times)
- Trump loyalists stand by their man– but the resistance is taking root by Tom McCarthy (The Guardian)
- Help wanted: National security advisor who can handle the chaos by Bryan Bender and Daniel Lippman (Politico)
- Five things Pruitt can do to cripple the EPA by Annie Snider (Politico)
- Mitch McConnell Just Reached a New Low by John Nichols (The Nation)
Opinion
- Donald Trump Threw a Horrifying, Unhinged Press Conference to Show Everyone His Administration Isn’t a Mess by Jack Moore (GQ)
- Why the Resistance Is the Best Thing That’s Happened to President Trump by David Harsanyi (Reason)
- Understanding Trump’s narcissism could be the key to opposing him by Kamran Ahmed (The Guardian)
- Why the Iran Nuclear Deal Must Stand by Antony J. Blinken (New York Times)
- President Trump, White House apprentice (The NY Times)
- The downfall of Kellyanne Conway by Erin Gloria Ryan (The NY Times)
- A General Strike Is Possible by Erik Forman (Jacobin)
- What a Failed Trump Administration Looks Like by David Brooks (NY Times)
- Citizen Trump likely wouldn’t get a security clearance. Here’s why. by Colbert I. King (Washington Post)
- Trump’s self-care tour is costing America millions by Emily Jane Fox (Vanity Fair)
Poetry
- Everything I Know About Blackness I Learned from Donald Trump by Shane McCrae (Love’s Executive Order)
Action / Resources
- Your Members of Congress Are Going Home. Greet Them by Demanding Health Care for All by NationAction (The Nation)