Plus IIRC, it is typical for the current holders of these placements to get some transition time (particularly in the case of State Department placements where entire families are living in a different country), and Trump’s team bucked tradition by insisting that a lot of them leave the moment he took office. So…

Apparently, Trump’s team drafted the executive order without any consultations with the Department of Justice and other federal departments directly effected by it. They don’t even know who wrote it. Everyone from top ranking officials to customs agents at airports were freaking out because they had no notice of this…

Very important to note that by the text of the order, there is NOT any block to Trump’s exclusion of refugees; this JUST says that people cannot be “removed,” which means that people are still stuck abroad. This saves those who were in the air when the EO was signed and who are currently detained.

“...I was disappointed to see Theresa May, our unelected Prime Minister refuse to condemn this policy...”

I’ve got a flight to the US rostered for next week. It will be interesting to see how it pans out, but there are going to be a lot of nervous people on board I think.

Canadian airlines are pro-actively helping those affected by this to change flights, destinations, etc, at no extra cost to the passenger. Nicely done

All of this is a load of flaming horseshit. All of these muslim majority country’s citizens banned except for Saudi Arabia. You know, that country that still doesn’t allow women to drive and continually uses slave labor to build big useless skycrapers that stay 90% empty most of the time? That country that 15 of it’s…

Somewhat unamusingly, an edict came down from our airline management via email about this. They were going to start holding the flight crews accountable for anyone who got on board who was turned away from the USA (it costs the airline an enormous amount of money when this happens.)

Not surprising taxi workers are protesting this, I imagine they have lots of representation from the list of countries on the EO. Good on them.

If I squint hard enough I can almost see the justification for this...then I remember none of the countries that the 9/11 hijackers were from are part of the ban. And Dear…

This is exactly why he fired every diplomat on the 20th. Evan Some holdovers from the bush administration. There is literally no way for us to even say to another countries government,”yeah, be cool things will be a little different, but you can still count on us.”.

Dear Rest of the Planet and It’s Leaders,

Jeebus, I’m so glad that in between his 7 hours of TV a day and tearing the country apart with his shitty executive orders he has time to be this fucking petty.

This man is bound to crack soon, right? He can only focus on perceived slights. His all-consuming need for revenge is bound to backfire soon enough. (Or so I have to tell myself in order to keep calm and carry on.)

Found that weird and potentially problematic as well.

I thought it was really weird how the article just dropped that and ended abruptly. Like, did she explain to her son that “cool kids” are not immune to being sexually abused?

All I got from this is the shocking realization about how long it has been since I’ve seen a beautiful penis in person. They have been decidedly underwhelming lately.

I’m very pregnant, and my kid (3.5 years old) knows that there’s a baby in Mommy’s tummy that’s going to come out soon. But the other day he asked me, out of nowhere, with a comedically furrowed toddler brow, “Mommy, how did the baby get IN your tummy?”

I honestly don’t get peoples arguments and defensiveness over Trump not really being smart or capable enough to do the horrible things he’s doing. Like, does it matter? He’s doing the things, period. It’s completely inane and beside the point to debate his intelligence at this point.

Did you see the interview with Masha Gessen on Samantha Bee’s show? Gessen was imputing some fairly arcane motivations to Trump, and Samantha Bee basically wondered whether he was intelligent enough to devise such advance plans.

You’re really giving him a lot of credit by suggesting anything he’s doing is part of anything even remotely resembling a plan.