Trans Soldiers
- Trump: US military will ‘not accept’ transgender people (Al Jazeera)
- Trump: Transgender people ‘can’t serve’ in US military (BBC)
- Taking Care of Trans Soldiers Costs About the Same as Four of Trump’s Trips to Mar-a-Lago by Jack Moore (GQ)
- Trump Says Transgender People Can’t Serve In Military by Laurel Wamsley (NPR)
- Trump’s Transgender Ban Could Force Out Thousands of Service Members by Emma Green (The Atlantic)
- Twitter reacts to Trump’s decision to ban transgender Americans from the military by Annabel Thompson (ThinkProgress)
- ‘Trans Lives, Safety and Service Matter.’ Read Laverne Cox on Trump’s Transgender Military Ban by Joey Nolfi (TIME)
- Chelsea Manning responds to Trump’s transgender military ban: ‘Sounds like cowardice’ by Harriet Agerholm & Tom Batchelor (Independent)
- What Donald Trump’s ban on transgender people serving in US military actually means by Andrew Griffin (Independent)
- Twitter Explodes over Trump’s Sudden Ban on Transgender Troops Maya Kosoff (Vanity Fair)
- Rep. Scott Peters Files Legislation To Block Trump’s Military Trans Ban by Jenna Amatulli (Huffington Post)
- Here’s What Trans Veterans Are Saying About Trump’s Trans Military Ban By Julia Reinstein and Sarah Karlin (Buzzfeed)
- Opinion: Trump’s Contempt for Transgender Heroes by Jennifer Finney Boylan (NY Times)
- Pentagon spends 10 times more on erectile disfunction meds than transgender services by Robin Eberhart (The Hill)
- Sanders threatens to halt briefing as transgender troop ban dominates by Madeline Conway (Politico)
- Hill Democrats slam Trump’s military transgender ban, while GOP is caught by surprise by Mike DeBonis and Ed O’Keefe (The Washington Post)
- ‘It will be fun to watch [Democrats] have to defend this’: Why Trump’s transgender military ban should frighten the GOP by Aaron Blake (The Washington Post)
- Inside Trump’s snap decision to ban transgender troops by Rachel Bade and Josh Dawsey (Politico)
- Trump’s contempt of transgender heroes by Jennifer Finney Boylan (The New York Times)
Healthcare
- John McCain Voted to Approve the Bill He Said He Would Not Vote For by Jack Moore (GQ)
- Republicans Grasp for Health-Care’s ‘Lowest Common Denominator’ by Russell Berman (The Atlantic)
- Obamacare repeal battle back on the Senate floor by Richard Cowan (Reuters)
- Senate delays vote on healthcare repeal by Jordain Carney (The Hill)
- Health Care Vote: Senate Rejects Repeal Without Replace by Thomas Kaplan and Eileen Sullivan (NY Times)
- ‘Skinny’ Obamacare repeal still lacks votes to pass by Burgess Everett, Seung Min Kim, and Jennifer Haberkorn (Politico)
Russia / Senate Hearings
- Trump And Congress Are Probably On A Collision Course Over Russia by Nate Silver (FiveThirtyEight)
- Foreign Agents Take Center Stage In Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing by Brian Naylor (NPR)
- Bill Browder’s Testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee by Rosie Gray (The Atlantic)
Sessions
- Trump slams Attorney General Sessions, FBI in latest tweets (Reuters)
- U.S. attorney general to unveil leak probes soon: reports (Reuters)
- On Twitter, Trump continues attacks on Sessions by Nolan D. McCaskill (Politico)
- Opinion: A Trump Tower of Absolute Folly by Russ Douthat (NY Times)
- Senate Republicans have tolerated Trump’s controversies. His treatment of Sessions is different. by Paul Kane (The Washington Post)
News
- Moscow warns new U.S. sanctions take ties into uncharted waters (Reuters)
- US parents are pulling their children out of Boy Scouts over Donald Trump’s ‘drunk stepdad’ speech by Chris Baynes (Independent)
Opinion
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To America, It Looks Like Chaos. For Trump, It’s Just Tuesday. by Michael Kruse (Politico)