1/23/17 links roundup

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Women's March
* These women never met till today and practiced this song online. (Twitter). Incredible. (Additional info via the BBC)

Activism / Resources
* Celeste P is a quality Twitter follow re: practical ways of affecting Congress, including both elections and contacting your reps. She is also involved with Road to 2018 (org focused on preserving Dem Senate seats - Twitter here) and It's Time to Fight, which I've linked before, focused on calls to action.

Good news
* Supreme Court Rejects Texas Appeal on Voter ID Law (Daily Beast). REALLY GOOD NEWS.

* After ethics review, Senate postpones committee vote for Betsy DeVos (Washington Post)

* Ethics lawyers sue Trump over foreign payments (BBC)

* Congress Gutted Researchers' Ability to Study Gun Violence. Now They're Fighting Back. (Mother Jones)

* U.S. judge finds that Aetna misled the public about its reasons for quitting Obamacare (LA Times). Not sure if this news is good or bad, but it undermines a GOP talking point, so I guess we'll take it.

Bad news
* Republican Lawmakers in Five States Propose Bills to Criminalize Peaceful Protest (The Intercept.) Note: the article is incorrect in that only the WA state house is majority Democrat, not the senate, so take other claims w/grain of salt as well.

* Donald Trump just named a net neutrality foe to head the FCC (Vox)

* White House press conference: Sean Spicer suggests Donald Trump will push through Dakota Access Pipeline (Independent)

* Trump names his Inauguration Day a ‘National Day of Patriotic Devotion’ (Washington Post)

* Trump floats rolling back food regulations (The Hill, Sep 2016).

* Trump’s Health Plan Would Convert Medicaid to Block Grants, Conway says (NYT)

Comments

[lightbird]

Thank you for these round-ups.

I've got a link to an updated article on the 'Regulatory Accountability Act':

Link to article: Republicans pass sweeping bill to reform 'abusive' U.S. regulation

Link to text of the bill: H.R.5 (sponsored by Bob Goodlatte-R.)

This bill is aimed at most if not all U.S. regulatory bodies. Looks like they smooshed a bunch of previously separate bills into one.

[snickfic]

You're welcome! I will take a look at your links, but I am by no means the link czar - feel free to post anything you find to the main comm! No need to go through me. :)

[lightbird]

Okay, cool. I just figured since this was a compilation of links I'd add it here so it's in one place. :)

[snickfic]

Ahhh okay. I think probably most people won't think to look in the comments for more links, so if you want eyes on it, posting it to the comm is the awy to go. :)

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Although now that I think about it, it might actually be a good idea for me to just mention in the beginning of the links post to check the comments for more links that people feel like posting, in case they don't feel up to making a whole post about it. I think I will do that starting next post.

[tanaqui]

Please do add that people should check the comments for more links. Sometimes, if it's just one or two links, people may not feel it's worth a whole new post, especially if it's adding further information for a link you already posted, rather than a whole new topic. We can always pull out links that we feel deserve their own post.

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Will do!

[lynnenne]

"National Day of Patriotic Devotion"

So Americans have to go out and protest every Jan. 20 as part of their democratic duty? Sweet!

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Hah, I will try to view it in that light, but man it's creepy as all hell.