Are we only on week five of #45? It feels like much longer. But at least Sweden was declared second to America this week (see video below). We are all still mourning that terrible incident in Sweden that didn’t happen. We may also be mourning the loss of the EPA soon too.
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 and week 4.
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
- Trump unleashes fury after four long weeks (Politico, Feb. 16, 2017)
- Several Hispanic Dems denied entry to meeting with ICE (The Hill, Feb. 16, 2017)
- Paul Ryan’s Obamacare Alternative Is Here, and It Doesn’t Even Pretend to Care About Poor People (GQ, Feb. 17, 2017)
- The Trump Media Survey Is Phenomenally Biased. It’s Also Useful (NPR, Feb. 17, 2017)
- SCOTT PRUITT, THE E.P.A., AND THE REPUBLICANS’ BARGAIN WITH TRUMP (The New Yorker, Feb. 17, 2017)
- National Security Council aide dismissed after criticizing Trump: report (The Hill, Feb. 18, 2017)
- Republicans’ New Plan to Gut Public Insurance (The Atlantic, Feb. 18, 2017)
- McCain: Trump’s attacks on press are ‘how dictators get started’ (Politico, Feb. 18, 2017)
- Betsy DeVos criticized teachers at a school she visited. Their response is PRICELESS. (US Uncut, Feb. 18, 2017)
- Sweden has no idea what Trump meant when he said, ‘You look at what’s happening … in Sweden’ (Washington Post, Feb. 19, 2017)
- ‘You don’t get to tell us what to do’: Fox News anchor confronts Reince Priebus over Trump’s media criticism (Yahoo! Finance, Feb. 19, 2017)
- Pruitt confirmation sets stage for Trump EPA assault (The Hill, Feb. 20, 2017)
- Trump Just Revealed Where He Heard About The Imaginary Swedish Terror Attack (Occupy Democrats, Feb. 20, 2017)
- Trump family trips cost taxpayers $11.3m in one month – almost as much as Obama’s cost in a year (Independent, Feb. 20, 2017)
- Cost of Trump family security vexes New York and Florida officials (The Guardian, Feb. 20, 2017)
- NPR has created a team devoted to covering President Trump’s conflicts of interest (Poynter, Feb. 20, 2017)
- How the good ideas in Paul Ryan’s ObamaCare plan are overwhelmed by all the bad ideas (The Week, Feb. 21, 2017)
- Trump set to reverse Obama rules on transgender bathrooms (Reuters, Feb. 22, 2017)
- Nine arrested at Dakota Access Pipeline protest site (CNN, Feb. 22, 2017)
- Emails show ties between new EPA head, energy firms: watchdog (Reuters, Feb. 22, 2017)
- Donald Trump’s Assault On Clean Water Laws Has Already Begun (Huffington Post, Feb. 22, 2017)
- Report: DeVos Wanted to Keep Trans School Protections, Was Overruled By Sessions and Trump (Slate, Feb. 22, 2017)
- Obama lawyers form ‘worst-case scenario’ group to tackle Trump (Politico, Feb. 23, 2017)
- CNN And MSNBC Cut Away From And Dump Trump White House CEO Propaganda Event (Politicus USA, Feb. 23, 2017)
Food for Thought
- How Mass Deportations Work (Medium, Nov. 22, 2016)
- Immigrants Want You to See These Chilling Photos of US Detention Centers (US Uncut, Feb. 14, 2017)
- Stop saying Trump has narcissistic personality disorder, says psychiatrist who defined it (CBC, Feb. 15, 2017)
- White American Christians, You Let the Wolves in (John Pavloitz, Feb. 17, 2017)
- What you need to know about the enemies of the American people the president warned you about (Dallas News, Feb. 18, 2017)
- Don’t Dismiss President Trump’s Attacks on the Media as Mere Stupidity (Time, Feb. 18, 2017)
- Trump Is Violating the Constitution (ACLU, Feb. 20, 2017)
- Yes, Donald Trump IS an anti-Semite (Haaretz, Feb. 22, 2017)
Take Action
- How to find town hall meetings (CNN, Feb. 10, 2017)
- Do These 10 Things, And Trump Will Be Toast (Huffington Post, Feb. 21, 2017)
- Get involved with A Day Without a Women on International Women’s Day
- 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
- 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.
- Photos From Within Trump’s White House Are Why Photography Was Invented (Huffington Post, Feb. 16, 2017)
- 18 WTF Moments From Trump’s Unhinged Press Conference (Rolling Stone, Feb. 16, 2017)
- Donald Trump Told Chris Christie To Eat Meatloaf, And Everyone Thinks It’s Hilarious (Huffington Post, Feb. 17, 2017)
- New ‘Tiny Trumps’ meme has flooded the internet big time (Mashable, Feb. 17, 2017)
- After Donald Trump claimed there was a tragedy in Sweden, people have hilarious suggestions of what it might have been (Hello Giggles, Feb. 19, 2017)
