During yesterday’s White House press briefing, Sean Spicer was asked about a story published by MrB’s organization, ProPublica, that morning. ProPublica’s Derek Kravitz and Al Shaw wrote that previously unreported changes to a trust document allow Trump to draw money from the supposedly “blind” trust for his more than 400 businesses, at any time, without…
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Recommended Reading: The Coal Country Canard
Last week, Trump gathered a bunch of coal miners around him and announced the rollback of Obama-era environmental regulations, claiming that would help bring back jobs in the coal industry. In response, Paul Krugman wrote an op-ed for the New York Times this weekend about the myth of coal country. In case you missed it,…
Recommended Reading: Milo the Troll as Peter Pan
There have already been plenty of think pieces about Milo Yiannopoulos, the Trump-supporting professional provocateur and banned Twitter troll who finally took it too far with his comments about “cross-generational relationships.” His foul statements about women, African-Americans, Muslims, gay and transgender people, immigrants, and fat people were fine with his audience at the hate-spreading site…
Because Facts Matter …
Trump’s plan to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico is even more foolish than it seems on the surface because unauthorized immigration from Mexico is at a 40+ year low, as has been reported many times by many sources. Trump’s claims about Mexican immigrants pouring into the country have always been bald-faced lies….
Today’s #ResistTrumpTuesdays Action
Your new passion for activism is rattling the regime. Keep it up with #ResistTrumpTuesdays and spend your lunch hour at a rally to “Stop Trump’s #SwampCabinet.” FIND A LOCAL RALLY THROUGH MOVEON’S WEBSITE. Last week, hundreds of people — including me — went to New York’s senators’ offices despite driving rain. People out in the…
After the March: Your Next Action Is Tomorrow!
If you went to the Women’s March — either in Washington or anywhere else in the country (or the world) — I’m sure you know that that was only the first step. I wrote about the second step for The Activist Playbook. Here’s the info: Think of every Tuesday for the first 100 days of…
Free for Protestors: Purrkoy the Pussy Art
My right-hand woman Eryn Patton designed a sign featuring Purrkoy the Kitten for this weekend’s protests, and — due to popular demand — I’m sharing it! Click to download it for free: PurrkoyThePussy Purrkoy, aka PK or #babycat, is an Exotic Shorthair kitteh who was named after Anne Boleyn’s dog. (The dog’s name was Purkoy,…
Additional Protest Tips
For those of you going to the Women’s March on Washington or any of the sister marches, check out the protest tips I’ve shared here. I thought of a few more personal suggestions regarding potential protest infiltrators who are looking for a photo op or a way to instigate violence. Should you see a few…
Get NASTY Now! And Some Protest Tips.
If you’re a NASTY woman and would like to wear one of my NASTY necklaces to this weekend’s protest marches, I have a few available in silver — but you must order by tomorrow to receive yours in time! As always, $25 of the $300 purchase price will be donated to Planned Parenthood in your…
Prescient
It’s remarkable that Martin Luther King Jr. said this nearly 50 years ago: “When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism and militarism are incapable of being conquered.” It sounds like he’s talking about what’s happening in the U.S. today. And…