[Vision2020] We are 5 days in..

[Janesta]

We are 5 days in.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the DOJ’s
Violence Against Women programs.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the National
Endowment for the Arts.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the National
Endowment for the Humanities.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Minority
Business Development Agency.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Economic
Development Administration.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the
International Trade Administration.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the
Manufacturing Extension Partnership.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Office
of Community Oriented Policing Services.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Legal
Services Corporation.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Civil
Rights Division of the DOJ.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the
Environmental and Natural Resources Division of the DOJ.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Overseas
Private Investment Corporation.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the UN
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Office
of Electricity Deliverability and Energy Reliability.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Office
of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Office
of Fossil Energy.

* On January 20th, 2017, DT ordered all regulatory powers of all federal
agencies frozen.

* On January 20th, 2017, DT ordered the National Parks Service to stop
using social media after RTing factual, side by side photos of the crowds
for the 2009 and 2017 inaugurations.

* On January 20th, 2017, roughly 230 protestors were arrested in DC and
face unprecedented felony riot charges. Among them were legal observers,
journalists, and medics.

* On January 20th, 2017, a member of the International Workers of the World
was shot in the stomach at an anti-fascist protest in Seattle. He remains
in critical condition.

* On January 21st, 2017, DT brought a group of 40 cheerleaders to a meeting
with the CIA to cheer for him during a speech that consisted almost
entirely of framing himself as the victim of dishonest press.

* On January 21st, 2017, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer held a
press conference largely to attack the press for accurately reporting the
size of attendance at the inaugural festivities, saying that the
inauguration had the largest audience of any in history, “period.”

* On January 22nd, 2017, White House advisor Kellyann Conway defended
Spicer’s lies as “alternative facts” on national television news.

* On January 22nd, 2017, DT appeared to blow a kiss to director James Comey
during a meeting with the FBI, and then opened his arms in a gesture of
strange, paternal affection, before hugging him with a pat on the back.

* On January 23rd, 2017, DT reinstated the global gag order, which defunds
international organizations that even mention abortion as a medical option.

* On January 23rd, 2017, Spicer said that the US will not tolerate China’s
expansion onto islands in the South China Sea, essentially threatening war
with China.

* On January 23rd, 2017, DT repeated the lie that 3-5 million people voted
“illegally” thus costing him the popular vote.

* On January 23rd, 2017, it was announced that the man who shot the
anti-fascist protester in Seattle was released without charges, despite
turning himself in.

* On January 24th, 2017, Spicer reiterated the lie that 3-5 million people
voted “illegally” thus costing DT the popular vote.

* On January 24th, 2017, DT tweeted a picture from his personal Twitter
account of a photo he says depicts the crowd at his inauguration and will
hang in the White House press room. The photo is of the 2009 inauguration
of 44th President Barack Obama, and is curiously dated January 21st, 2017,
the day AFTER the inauguration and the day of the Women’s March, the
largest inauguration related protest in history.

* On January 24th, 2017, the EPA was ordered to stop communicating with the
public through social media or the press and to freeze all grants and
contracts.

* On January 24th, 2017, the USDA was ordered to stop communicating with
the public through social media or the press and to stop publishing any
papers or research. All communication with the press would also have to be
authorized and vetted by the White House.

* On January 24th, 2017, HR7, a bill that would prohibit federal funding
not only to abortion service providers, but to any insurance coverage,
including Medicaid, that provides abortion coverage, went to the floor of
the House for a vote.

* On January 24th, 2017, DT ordered the resumption of construction on the
Dakota Access Pipeline, while the North Dakota state congress considers a
bill that would legalize hitting and killing protestors with cars if they
are on roadways.

* On January 24th, 2017, it was discovered that police officers had used
confiscated cell phones to search the emails and messages of the 230
demonstrators now facing felony riot charges for protesting on January
20th, including lawyers and journalists whose email accounts contain
privileged information of clients and sources.

*credit for compilation: Karen Cornett-Dwyer


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Do any of these actions bother you? Even one?


Love to All,

Janesta
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