Jared Kushner
- Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner to lead US federal overhaul (BBC)
- Donald Trump plans to make Jared Kushner America’s unelected, unapproved, uncontrolled CEO by Mark Sumner (Daily Kos)
- Trump’s son-in-law to oversee government revamp: official by Susan Heavey & David Shepardson (Reuters)
- Senate Committee to Question Jared Kushner Over Meetings With Russians by Jo Becker, Matthew Rosenberg, Maggie Haberman (NY Times)
- Senate panel to question Trump son-in-law on Russia by Patricia Zengele (Reuters)
- Jared Kushner’s Innovative Idea: The Government Should Run More Like a Business by Osita Nwanevu (Slate)
- Trump Creates New White House Office Headed by His Son-in-Law Jared Kushner by Catherine Lucey (TIME)
- Jared Kushner to speak to Senate committee over his meeting with Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak by Rachael Revesz (Independent)
- Senate panel plans to interview Trump son-in-law Kushner in Russia probe by Karoun Demirjian (Washington Post)
- The Latest: Russian state bank says it met with Kushner (AP)
Healthcare / AHCA
- Five Lessons From Trumpcare’s Collapse by Adam Gaffney (Jacobin)
- Trump Doesn’t Have A Mandate For Paul Ryan’s Agenda by Nate Silver (FiveThirtyEight)
- What it Means to Defund Planned Parenthood by Elaine Godfrey (The Atlantic)
- Donald Trump’s belief that Obamacare is “exploding” is false and self-destructive by Matthew Yglesias (Vox)
- How The Affordable Care Act Is Transforming Health Care Design by Diana Budds (Co.Design)
- States with more Planned Parenthood clinics have fewer teen births and sexually transmitted diseases by Miranda Yaver (Washington Post)
- How do Americans feel about single-payer health care? It’s complicated. by Philip Bump (Washington Post)
- Obamacare is now officially part of America’s social safety net by Sarah Kliff (Vox)
Neil Gorsuch
- For A Trump Nominee, Neil Gorsuch’s Record Is Surprisingly Moderate On Immigration by Kevin Cope & Joshua Fischman (FiveThirtyEight)
- Neil Gorsuch’s Own Testimony Clearly Disqualifies Him by John Nichols (The Nation)
- Sen. Coons: Republican nuclear option to confirm Gorsuch is ‘tragic’ by Kelsey Sutton (Politico)
- Gorsuch’s path to 60 votes closing fast by Seung Min Kim & Elana Schor (Politico)
- Dems delay Senate panel vote on Supreme Court nominee by Jordain Carney (The Hill)
Trans / LGBTQ Issues
- NC ‘bathroom bill’ to cost state $3.76 billion: report by Rebecca Savransky (The Hill)
- North Carolina’s anti-LGBTQ law is costing the state’s economy hundreds of millions a year by German Lopez (Vox)
- Trump is greenlighting the harassment of transgender kids by Emma Margolin (ThinkProgress)
- Analysis: So – Are LGBTQ Rights Protected under Federal Employment Law or Not? by Dabny D. Ware (National Law Review)
News
- Christie to join White House opioid effort (AP)
- Feature: ‘Religious left’ emerging as U.S. political force in Trump era by Scott Malone (Reuters)
- Joe Biden Has One Big Regret: Not Being President by Maya Rhodan (TIME)
- Par for the course: White House says Trump’s golf outings to his courses were “meetings” by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
- Florida Dems to Trump: Cut back Mar-a-Lago visits or pay up by Cristina Marcos (The Hill)
- Nunes was on WH grounds day before announcing Trump surveillance info by Rebecca Savransky (The Hill)
- EPA Chief: Paris Climate Accord ‘Just A Bad Deal’ by Nick Visser (Huffington Post)
- Donald Trump will scrap Barack Obama’s plan to halt global warming, reveals EPA chief Scott Pruitt by Andrew Buncombe (Independent)
- Trump begins tearing up Obama’s years of progress on tackling climate change by David Smith (The Guardian)
- Planned rollback of climate rules unlikely to achieve all of Trump’s goals by Coral Davenport (The NY Times)
- Donald Trump branded ‘international embarrassment’ after handing made-up Nato invoice to Angela Merkel by Caroline Mortimer (Independent)
- Trump approval hits new low by Jonathan Easley (The Hill)
- Sessions says grants to be withheld from sanctuary cities by Jordian Fabian (The Hill)
- Attorney General Orders Crackdown On ‘Sanctuary Cities,’ Threatens Holding Funds by Jessica Taylor (NPR)
- U.S. attorney general escalates pressure on ‘sanctuary’ cities by Julia Edwards Ainsley & Andy Sullivan (Reuters)
- House Democrats Ask Devin Nunes to Recuse Himself From Russia Inquiry by Matthew Rosenberg and Emmarie Huetteman (NY Times)
- Nunes admits meeting with source of Trump surveillance documents on White House grounds by
- Freedom Caucus: Do these 29 white men run America? by Katie Shepherd (BBC)
- Trump Repeals Regulation Protecting Workers From Wage Theft by Dave Jamieson (Huffington Post)
Analysis
- Why Trump’s populist appeal is about culture, not the economy by Sean Illing (Vox)
- The U.S. Could Be Headed for Another Government Shutdown by Tina Nguyen (Vanity Fair)
- Who Oversees The President’s Ethics? Here’s Our List by Alina Selyukh, Lucia Maffei (NPR)
- Nunes is making it very hard for Republicans to claim they can run an impartial investigation on Russia by Amber Phillips (Washington Post)
- White House coy about source of Nunes’ wiretapping evidence by Matthew Nussbaum (Politico)
- Is Trump still tweeting from his unsecured Android phone? by Kaveh Waddell (The Atlantic)
- 4 Ways Trump and the GOP Still Wield Tremendous Power to Do Serious and Lasting Damage to America by Steven Rosefeld (AlterNet)
Opinion
- Why Washington was a no show at human rights hearings by Lauren Carasik (Al Jazeera)
- After 9/11 politicians put their country above their parties. We must do so again by Eric Swalwell (The Guardian)
- The all-male photo op isn’t a gaffe. It’s a strategy by Jill Filipovic (NY Times)
- Paul Ryan, brought down to size (The NY Times)
- L.A. needs to provide attorneys to immigrants facing deportation by Bruce J. Einhorn (LA Times)
Action / Resources
- Chelsea Clinton’s empowering advice for young activists in the Trump era by Matt Petronzio (Mashable)
- Facebook’s ‘Town Hall’ is probably the best thing the social network has ever done by Kerry Flynn (Mashable)
- A Brief History of Activism That Has Made a Big Difference in Society by Shannon Luders-Manuel (AlterNet)