there's no revolution anymore.

a) erases Natives and their history 

b) erases African-Americans and the history of the slave trade and 

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The Media Failed to Prepare Americans for the Trump Whiplash: “The policy stakes of this election were never adequately conveyed by the political press.”

Trump

Congratulations, America — you did it! An actual fascist is now your official president

Trump signed an executive order resurrecting both the Dakota Access and Keystone XL Pipelines. Trump is still an investor in Energy Transfer Partners, and Rick Perry is still on its board of directors.

Trump dogged by insecurity over popular vote, media coverage

Trump claims that between 3 and 5 million people voted illegally in the presidential election. This is a lie, but Sean Spicer wouldn’t refute it, and Mitch McConnell backed him up, saying, “It does occur. There are always arguments on both sides about how much, how frequent and all the rest.”

The USDA can no longer publish its research any “public-facing documents”

The EPA’s grants have been frozen and its staff can no longer speak to the public. Also today, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality said that Flint’s water system no longer has levels of lead exceeding the federal limit. Since staff can’t speak to the public, we don’t know whether lead levels actually dropped or the limit was quietly changed.

NIH staff have been told to cease communications with the press and Congress. WTF.

Badlands National Park Twitter account goes rogue, starts tweeting scientific facts. Let that headline sink in for a minute. Communicating facts to the public is “going rogue.” The Golden Gate National Park Service and NASA Climate accounts followed suit. A Scientists’ March on Washington is now being organized.

Trump–back to using his personal Twitter account–says he’ll send in feds if Chicago doesn’t fix ‘horrible carnage going on’

Congress

House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) suggests people bypass the media and get their news “directly from the president.”

Senator Ed Markey and Representative Ted Lieu have filed identical bills that would prevent the President from launching a nuclear first strike without a declaration of war by Congress

The Most Dangerous Bill You’ve Never Heard Of Just Passed The House

Last, week, under the cover of a media bliss-out except among Koch funded right-wing channels, the House of Representatives passed a bill which would effectively repeal future standard setting under every important environmental, public health, consumer protection, labor standards, occupational safety and civil rights law on the books.

The bill, called the REINS Act, requires that any future major regulation adopted by an Executive Agency — say a new toxic chemical standard required by the recently enacted Chemical Safety Act, or a new consumer protection rule about some innovative but untested kind of food additive — must be approved by a specific resolution in each House of Congress within 70 days to take effect.

Cruz introduces bill letting states bar refugees

Cabinet & Federal Appointees

“Propaganda minister”: Carl Bernstein slams Kellyanne Conway after she picks a fight with CNN, Anderson Cooper

James Comey is keeping his job as FBI director. Surprise, surprise.

Carson, Chao, and Ross have made it through committee, not surprisingly.

Health Secretary nominee Tom Price proposed bill benefiting his Puerto Rico investments.

Price had no idea that women paid more for health insurance pre-ACA until his hearing today.

Betsy DeVos will not get a second hearing.

Protests

Anti-fascist protester shot by Trump fan during brawl outside Breitbart editor’s speech at the University of Washington

Six journalists covering inauguration protests have been charged with felony rioting

N.C. state lawmaker says shouting at current or former gov’t officials should be punishable by 5 years in prison.

The Minnesota House wants to allow state agencies to sue peaceful protesters for police overtime costs.

Other Fascist Nonsense

At GOP leaders’ urging, Texas Supreme Court will consider undoing gay spousal rights

The Public School and Employee Retirement Systems of Missouri has more than $118 million worth of investments in Russian companies

Good News

The Arizona bill banning classes on social justice is dead

Corrections

All the links from the White House website are gone, but the Affordable Care Act is still in effect, and you can sign up for health insurance until January 31.

Trump and his cronies may want to kill it, but that takes time (especially now that key players are waffling and the insurance industry have noticed that it will rain chaos down upon them). So sign yourself up. Get in a free checkup, a round of antibiotics, a birth control implant, while you have the chance.

If anyone needs help applying, ping me.

“This bill repeals the United Nations Participation Act of 1945 and other specified related laws.

The bill requires: (1) the President to terminate U.S. membership in the United Nations (U.N.), including any organ, specialized agency, commission, or other formally affiliated body; and (2) closure of the U.S. Mission to the United Nations.”

This isn’t the first time this has been proposed; Ron Paul put forward a bill in 2009, and Rand Paul wanted to do the same in 2015. But both of those times saw either a Democratic-majority Congress or a sitting Democratic president, and both of those times came when 8/10 Americans favored the U.S.’s participation in the U.N.

With a Republican-majority Congress, a Republican president, a wave of nationalism, and the new precedent of Brexit, this bill has more of a chance than previous attempts.

The U.S. is one of five members of the U.N. Security Council with veto power, along with China, France, Russia, and the U.K. We use our veto power more than any other country, save Russia, on the council. (Russia has used their last two vetoes to: (1) veto the resolution demanding an end for the bombing of Aleppo; and (2) veto a resolution to set up a criminal tribunal to investigate the MH17 air disaster in Ukraine.)

U.N. missions prevent specific countries from stepping into environments or conflicts that are a danger to the world’s safety. The U.N.’s peacekeeping force can go places and do things to attempt to uphold peace that the U.S. or another individual country is incapable of doing. The U.N. can also use sanctions as a non-violent deterrent or reprimand, as well as help monitor nuclear programs and combat terrorism. The World Health Organization and UNESCO provide public safety, cultural awareness, and health services worldwide that aim to better the world as a whole.

Trump’s inaugural address explicitly laid out an isolationist view of our nation that’s contradicted years of precedent, years in which the U.S. (at least publicly) believed that a safer, healthier, more prosperous world was to the benefit of us all. Instead we’re now facing the prospect of a world where we will not–and perhaps will not be able to–respond, in words or in actions, to international health or ethics crises. We will leave Russian and Chinese economic and military influences basically unchecked, particularly if Marine le Pen takes power in France.

It may sound out there. It may sound unlikely, or silly, or ridiculous. But so did Brexit. And so did Trump.

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Mover Shaker’s new album ‘Michigania’ is now streaming in full on Modern Vinyl! album releases tomorrow, December 9th, via us digitally and on cassette!

Chelsea Manning courageously declined a plea deal during her trial, stood by her actions, and accepted the full sentence when it was announced to her. Manning is a hero who undertook an immense personal cost to bring crimes committed by American military to public attention. During a time of uncertainty, speculation and overlooked concerns, Manning substantiated the claims of Iraqi and Afghan civilians with irrefutable proof. 

She is a hero who deserves a full and unconditional pardon from Barack Obama, but is only asking for release with time served for her 35 year prison sentence. 

You can read the formal commutation application sent to Barack Obama here 

You can donate to Chelsea Manning’s cause here 

You can sign Amnesty International’s petition to seek clemency for Chelsea Manning here.