Immigration & Muslim/Refugee News
- Trump’s Plan To Hire 15,000 Border Patrol And ICE Agents Won’t Be Easy by Brian Naylor (NPR)
- Undocumented Immigrants Across the U.S. Are Bracing for Trump’s Deportation Crackdown by Deepti Hajela & Amy Taxin (TIME)
- Dividing Immigrants Into ‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ Is a Dangerous Trap by Kai Wright (The Nation)
- Fact-Checking Claims About Trump’s Travel Ban by Linda Qiu (NY Times)
- Trump’s Other Executive Orders That May Target Immigrants by Brandon Ellington Patterson (Mother Jones)
- The Coming Battle Over Legal Immigration by Ronald Brownstein (The Atlantic)
- Immigrants Are Changing Their Routines to Avoid Deportation Under President Trump by Deepti Hajela & Amy Taxin (TIME)
- I Was a Muslim in Trump’s White House by Rumana Ahmed (The Atlantic)
- Immigration Agents Took a Woman With a Brain Tumor Out of the Hospital: Report by Maya Rhodan (TIME)
- Trump touts recent immigration raids, calls them a ‘military operation’ by Philip Rucker (Washington Post)
- CNN: White House wants intel report to back up travel ban by Nikita Vladimirov (The Hill)
- Border Patrol Agents Stop Domestic Travelers at New York Airport by Tim Dickinson (Rolling Stone)
- New Immigration Rules Would Have Made 1990s Melania Trump a Deportation Priority by Ben Mathis-Lilley (Slate)
- Canada’s Trudeau pressured to tackle problem of asylum-seekers by Andrea Hopkins & David Ljunggren (Reuters)
- Donald Trump threatens to use US military to deport undocumented immigrants by Lucy Pasha-Robinson (Independent)
- Federal agents in Texas move hospitalized Salvadoran woman awaiting emergency surgery to a detention facility by Barbara Demick (LA Times)
- More than 50 detained in immigration raids at Asian restaurants in Mississippi by Jenny Jarvie (LA Times)
Standing Rock
- Dakota pipeline protesters leave site after year-long occupation (BBC)
- Standing Rock is burning in the snow and departing water protectors grieve DAPL progress by Alli Joseph (Salon)
CPAC
- Donald Trump returns in triumph to CPAC – with Breitbart as supporting cast by Ben Jacobs (The Guardian)
- CPAC day one: Kellyanne Conway, Mike Pence and Steve Bannon speak – live by Paul Owen (The Guardian)
- Will CPAC denounce Putin’s war against democracy? by Brent Budowsky (The Hill)
- Good Morning From CPAC: Richard Spencer Was Here, Has Been Kicked Out by Osita Nwanevu (Slate)
- Richard Spencer welcomed at CPAC, then kicked out by Kira Lerner (ThinkProgress)
- Read the Transcript of Kellyanne Conway’s Remarks at CPAC by Julia Zorthian (TIME)
- CPAC 2017: Thousands of conservatives toast Donald Trump’s brand of ‘America First nationalism’ by Feliks Garcia (Independent)
- Trump summons CEOs for advice on taxes, regulations, infrastructure by Philip Rucker (Washington Post)
- Bannon vows a daily fight for ‘deconstruction of the administrative state’ by Philip Rucker and Robert Costa (Washington Post)
- Alt-Right Facts by Michelle Goldberg (Slate)
- Vice President Pence To CPAC: ‘We’re In The Promise-Keeping Business’ by Jessica Taylor (NPR)
News
- End of transgender bathroom rule gets conservative praise by Sadie Gurman & Maria Danilova (AP)
- Trump’s Election Drives More Women To Consider Running For Office by Katie Orr & Megan Kamerick (NPR)
- Should Scientists March? U.S. Researchers Still Debating Pros And Cons by Nell Greenfieldboyce (NPR)
- Sen. McCain Makes Unannounced Trip To Syria To Meet With U.S. Forces by Doreen McCallister (NPR)
- Report: Devos Wanted to Keep Trans School Protections, Was Overruled by Sessions and Trump by Mark Joseph Stern (Slate)
- Why Kansas’ Fiscal Implosion is Bad News for Trump by Patrick Caldwell (Mother Jones)
- Trump again vows to bring back U.S. jobs, but offers few details by David Shepardson & Ginger Gibson (Reuters)
- Conservative activists refuse to believe Trump is spending more on travel than Obama by Jeff Stein (Vox)
- Boehner: A repeal and replace of Obamacare is ‘not going to happen’ by Bob Bryan (Business Insider)
- FBI refused White House request to knock down recent Trump-Russia stories by Jim Sciutto, Evan Perez, Shimon Prokupecz, Manu Raju and Pamela Brown (CNN.com)
- Spicer: Feds could step up enforcement against marijuana use in states by John Wagner and Matt Zapotosky (Washington Post)
- Bathroom Case Puts Transgender Student on National Stage by Sheryl Gay Stolberg (NY Times)
- Exclusive: Trump likes two-state solution, but says he will leave it up to Israelis, Palestinians by Steve Holland (Reuters)
- U.S. reverses Obama-era move to phase out private prisons (Reuters)
- California bans students and public workers from state-funded trips to anti-LGBT states by Harry Cockburn (Independent)
- Californian city unanimously approves Donald Trump impeachment resolution by Jon Sharman (Independent)
- White House plans to crack down on legal recreational pot by Mark Frauenfelder (BoingBoing)
- The White House Just Promised a New Crackdown on Weed by Laura Messman (VICE)
- Obama lawyers form ‘worst-case scenario’ group to tackle Trump by Edward-Isaac Dovere (Politico)
Analysis
- How Trump’s Bullying of Mexico Could Backfire by Nathaniel Parish Flannery (New Republic)
- What’s Next For The Affordable Care Act? Your Questions Answered by Julie Rovner (NPR)
- Conservatives Can’t Figure Out Whether to Embrace or Denounce the Alt-Right by Patrick Caldwell (Mother Jones)
- How Milo Yiannopoulos and PewDiePie Found the Edge of the Internet by Dana Schwartz (GQ)
- A majority of Americans are embarrassed by President Trump by Philip Bump (Washington Post)
- Life in Donald Trump’s America will be even worse than you thought, warns Michael Moore by Jon Sharman (Independent)
- Poet Claudia Rankine on studying whiteness, and the age of protest by Claudia Rankine (Financial Times)
Opinion
- Donald Trump’s Attack on Trans Rights Proves He’s Just a Puppet by Jack Moore (GQ)
- Yes, liberals are planning town hall protests. It’s called democracy by Ben Wikler (The Guardian)
- Standing Rock is burning – but our resistance isn’t over by Julian Brave NoiseCat (The Guardian)
- Empathy for Trump voters? No, thanks. by Paul Bloom (Vox)
- Trump will likely sell out his working-class white base. Here’s how. by Greg Sargent (Washington Post)
- Welcome to the America Black People Have Always Lived In by Michael Harriot (The Root)
Action / Resources
- Daily Engagement: Help in the Fight Against Trump’s Rollback of Trans Rights in Schools by Tom Hawking (Flavorwire)