This should be interesting.
Follow daily updates on the 45th president of the United States as we track Trump one day at a time
Source: Donald Trump’s first 100 days as president – The Guardian
What’s going on here?
What’s going on is that I have decided to revive this blog. I can’t guarantee how long this will continue, but the inauguration of Donald Trump and the massive Women’s marches on Washington today have moved me to try and memorialize the Trump presidency through links to relevant articles.
The times we’re living through at the moment are not normal. Donald J Trump is no normal President. The election he won was no normal political contest, and his Presidency has already gotten off to a rocky start.
I could – and probably will – write a long essay on the matter – but for the moment I prefer to let the articles and photos I choose to speak for themselves.
If you are a big tree, we are a small axe
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 foreverSo if you are the big tree
We are the small axe
Pictures From Women’s Marches Around the World
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:
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.
[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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