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Week 3: 2017-02-10 – 2017-02-16

2017-02-10 (Day 20, Friday)

• Federal agents conduct immigration enforcement raids in at least six states (via) ...immigration activists said Friday that they had documented ICE raids of unusual intensity in the past 48 hours in Vista, Pomona and Compton, Calif.; Austin, Dallas, and Pflugerville, Texas; Alexandria and Annandale, Va.; Charlotte and Burlington, N.C.; Plant City, Fla.; the Hudson Valley region of New York; and Wichita, Kan. [..] There were also reports of ICE checkpoints, targeting immigrants for random ID checks, in North Carolina and in Austin, according to advocates.
• Anti-Trump protesters pack Perdue, Isakson event (via) "It's not just progressives and liberals. Because I'm not one," said Heidi Morton of Smyrna. "There are a lot of conservatives and Republicans that can’t stand Trump. And Republican politicians need to know their constituents are out here."
• DOJ nixes request to halt order against trans student protections: or, in other words, they're allowing an anti-trans court order to stand instead of challenging it

2017-02-11 (Day 21, Saturday)

• Electoral commissioner calls on Donald Trump to provide evidence of New Hampshire voter fraud (via)
• NAACP Estimates More Than 80K Turned Out to Protest Trump at the Moral March on Raleigh (post)
• Paul Krugman Issues a Warning About What We All Know Is Coming (via)

2017-02-12 (Day 22, Sunday)

• Congress Must Act As Intelligence Experts Warn Russia Is Listening In Trump's Situation Room (via)

2017-02-13 (Day 23, Monday)

• Crossing the border: US migrants seek refugee status in Canada: two Ghanan refugees lose their hands due to frostbite
• Mexico protesters march against Trump's immigration policies (via)
• National Security Adviser Flynn resigns amid concern over his Russia ties
• Donald Trump, who campaigned on rolling back trans rights, has begun rolling back trans rights (via)
• Diehard Coders Just Rescued NASA’s Earth Science Data (via)
• Democracy in Crisis: Trump’s Tough-on-Crime Week (share)

2017-02-14 (Day 24, Tuesday)

• Democracy in Crisis: In Which the Far Right Freaks Out Over Michael Flynn (share): the alt-realitarians see this as the start of a "palace coup" against Trump, led by the GOP establishment. (If only.)
• Legendary Newsman Dan Rather Unloads On The Trump White House: 'Damn The Lies' (via)
• Russia Deploys Missile, Violating Treaty and Challenging Trump
• McConnell: Flynn investigation 'highly likely' in Senate committee
• Democrats and Republicans Demand Full Scale Investigation of Trump's Ties to Russia

2017-02-15 (Day 25, Wednesday)

• Ohio Republican says it's time to impeach President Trump
• New York attorney general reviewing request to bring action to dissolve Trump Organization

2017-02-16 (Day 26, Thursday)

• Read the full transcript from Trump's news conference (via; some further discussion in comments)