Week 15 and it has been determined that presidenting is hard.
Here’s my weekly roundup of articles, food for thought, ways to take action, ongoing resources and lighter stuff to keep sane. You can take a look back at week 1, week 2, week 3, week 4, week 5, week 6, week 7, week 8, week 9, week 10, week 11, week 12, week 13 and week 14.
As per usual, I hope you will take the time to read and understand what’s going on and then take some action that goes beyond sharing a Facebook post or sending an email. If you have something to add, please do so via a comment.
I will continue to do this for as long as necessary. We can’t look away.
Read
- USDA to ease school meal standards (The Hill, April 28, 2017)
- Donald Trump blames constitution for chaos of his first 100 days (The Guardian, April 30, 2017)
- Donald Trump doesn’t know why we had a Civil War. (New Republic, May 1, 2017)
- Trump Administration Rolls Back Michelle Obama’s Healthy School Lunch Push (NPR, May 1, 2017)
- Trump Wants Health-Care Bill to Protect Pre-Existing Conditions (Bloomberg, May 1, 2017)
- Lawmakers settle on hard-fought $1 trillion spending bill (WMTW, May 1, 2017)
- Democrats save arts funding for NPR and PBS from Donald Trump (Independent, May 2, 2017)
- House passes ObamaCare repeal (The Hill, May 4, 2017)
- These are all the people the Republican health care bill will hurt (Vox, May 4, 2017)
Food for Thought
- Racism is expecting Obama to work for free while letting Trump’s family siphon tax payers dollars through their business (Afropunk, May 1, 2017)
- Obama Responds To Jimmy Kimmel’s Emotional Health Care Speech (GOOD, May 2, 2017)
Take Action
- Attend Resistance School
- Facebook Town Hall Feature Lets Users Call and Email Elected Officials (Teen Vogue, Mar. 27, 2017)
- Join SocialStandsWithPP to ensure that women have access to health care services.
- How to find town hall meetings (CNN, Feb. 10, 2017)
- Join People Power
- Join the United State of Women
- Make 5 Calls
- Take action on CREDO
- Pay attention to Indivisible’s Action Calendar
- Run for office:
- She Should Run
- Running Start
- Emerge America (many states, like Maine, have their own local programs)
Ongoing Resources
- Dan Rather’s Facebook page
- Resistbot
- What The Fuck Just Happened Today?
- Trump Human Rights Tracker
- ACLU Action Page
- Countable
- Presterity
- New and Guts
- Trump archive
Now stop, take a few breaths and enjoy these last fun articles and videos.
- Trump Said Presidenting Is Hard. The Mexican Ex-President’s Response Is Hilarious. (Occupy Democrats, April 28, 2017)
- Samantha Bee got Will Ferrell to roast Donald Trump — in character as George W. Bush (Washington Post, April 29, 2017)
- TRUMP HAS NO IDEA WHY THE CIVIL WAR HAPPENED, TWITTER HAS A FIELD DAY (Harper’s Bazaar, May 1, 2017)
