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Trump Promised to Resign From His Companies — But There’s No Record He’s Done So

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To transfer ownership of his biggest companies, Trump has to file a long list of documents in Florida, Delaware and New York. We asked officials in each of those states whether they have received the paperwork. As of 3:15 p.m. today, the officials said they have not. Trump and his associates “are not doing what they said they would do,” said Richard Painter, the chief ethics lawyer for President George W. Bush. “And even that was completely inadequate.”

Source: Trump Promised to Resign From His Companies — But There’s No Record He’s Done So – ProPublica

If you are a big tree, we are a small axe

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From my old friend Joe Macdonald, who has been burning it up on Facebook recently with some amazing, insightful and deeply moving writing. He says,

I first heard this deep cut by Bob Marley when I bought a cassette of rarities in a grocery store in northern British Columbia in 1986. If you are a big tree, we are a small axe. Ready to cut you down. Watching the extraordinary turn-outs of these Women’s Marches is the most hopeful thing I have seen in years and years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E28RoPgmsU

The lyrics are apropos:

Why boasteth thyself/Oh, evil men
Playing smart/And not being clever?
I said, you’re working iniquity/To achieve vanity (if a-so a-so)
But the goodness of Jah, Jah/I-dureth forever

So if you are the big tree
We are the small axe

Pictures From Women’s Marches Around the World

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Crowds in hundreds of cities around the world gathered Saturday in conjunction with the Women’s March on Washington.

Source: Pictures From Women’s Marches Around the World – The New York Times

Including photos from Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver among many other cities both in North America and abroad.

From Montreal:

A woman holds up a sign during a demonstration to protest the inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump in Montreal, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017. Protests are being held across Canada today in support of the Women’s March on Washington. Organizers say 30 events in all have been organized across Canada, including Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. (Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press via AP)
NYTCREDIT: Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press, via Associated Press

Here’s an article with some great photos from a large march in Ottawa today as well.

Ezra Klein: Trump’s real war isn’t with the media. It’s with facts.

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[Spicer] said: “This was the largest audience ever to witness an inauguration, both in person and around the globe.”

This, along with much else Spicer said, was plainly untrue. But there’s a strategy at work here. The Trump administration is creating a baseline expectation among its loyalists that they can’t trust anything said by the media. The spat over crowd size is a low-stakes, semi-comic dispute, but the groundwork is being laid for much more consequential debates over what is, and isn’t, true.

Source: Trump’s real war isn’t with the media. It’s with facts. – Vox

The Trump Administration is trying to spin the sparse turnout using classic “Big Lie” techniques. Ezra takes a deeper look, complete with links to reliable data sources and further analysis.

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