Call them anyway! Look at how Ben Carson’s appointment to HUD Secretary cruised through committee before the protests coalesced and people got busy. Democrats voted for him, because they didn’t have a million boots up their asses. They can’t be trusted. We are the checks and balances, now.

I just did the same thing. I hate talking on the phone, especially to strangers, but I had to do it. I have two Republican senators who have supported Trump whole-heartedly so far.

I’ve never called an elected representative in my life. I just did. I expected to have to leave a voicemail, but someone picked up on the first ring! This caught me off guard, so I stammered my way through what I wanted to say about the last couple of weeks, especially this weekend. Who knows if the congressperson I…

You have calls to make, too.

Call Trudeau! Tell him that you will help vote him out of office if he does not oppose—and speak out against—literally everything the Trump administration does or tries to do. Do the same for your representatives at the Entmoot or whatever Canada’s legislature is called. Make sure they understand that Canada’s people…

For all of my many, many fellow lawyers burning billables on Deadspin: the ACLU may have raised $24 million this weekend, but they still accomplish most of their victories with the help of volunteer lawyers all across the country. Sign up with your local organization today.

Yes. Everything that’s gone on in the first week of this presidency, from the seemingly trivial like lying about crowd size, to the major, like sparking a humanitarian crisis, ought to scare everyone who sees any value in American democracy and professes any fealty to American ideals. It is astonishing the speed with…

The Dems should still primary Feinstein. Even if she belatedly develops a spine in the next year. She’s emblematic of the slow death of the party.

The ACLU just got a year’s worth of donations in a month. My congresswoman (Feinstein), who I disagree with frequently, just introduced legislation to roll back the “travel” (read: Muslim) ban. The Women’s March was by many accounts the largest protest ever.

If nothing else good results from this, maybe now, at long last, people will understand why it’s really fucking important to vote, in every single election, no matter what.

Drink water and stay rested, because this isn’t going to be over soon. It is going to be a marathon, not a sprint.

No. These citizens care about people’s rights. These citizens have compassion for their fellow human and care about doing what’s right. These citizens understand that green card holders and refugees (who have already been through “extreme vetting”) aren’t people to be afraid of.

We got “:30" closer to doomsday.

-Appointed white supremacist political flunky to permanent place on the National Security Council and made the presence of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Director of National Intelligence optional.

That’s what I’ve been saying all weekend. We are treading into some really dangerous waters here. Congress and the Courts need to make a swift move to reassert some authority over the Executive Branch. If, as has been reported, people were still being deported after the stay order was issued than some CBP officers…

What do we do when the enforcement arm refuses to do their jobs (e.g. CBP at Dulles not following the court orders)? We’re looking at some real Jacksonian shit right here.

Did nobody tell him about the mirror? Or could he just not wait for the shutter noise?

It’s classic dictator chic. Look familiar? (Ivanka’s practically in Evita’s exact dress!)

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Yes, and this is how people defend Trump against accusations of fostering (or at least turning a blind eye to) anti-Semitism in his administration and supporters. It’s a fig leaf. Kushner is obviously not going to stand up for Jews, or anyone besides himself and his own interests.