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USA 2017
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Links behind the headlines and twitter moments documenting political coverage.

ufos https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/12/we-may-not-be-alone-ufo-report-times

Word ban at CDC
On the list: "diversity," "fetus," "transgender," "vulnerable," "entitlement," "science-based" and "evidence-based." https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/cdc-gets-list-of-forbidden-words-fetus-transgender-diversity/2017/12/15/f503837a-e1cf-11e7-89e8-edec16379010_story.html http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/16/health/cdc-banned-words/index.html

Mueller
https://www.trumpisnotabovethelaw.org/event/mueller-firing-rapid-response/search/

Tax Bill
https://twitter.com/i/moments/936749874652909568 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/what-we-found-in-the-new-senate-tax-bill http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/362878-live-coverage-senate-holds-tax-reform-vote-a-rama http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/01/politics/senate-vote-still-writing-tax-bill/index.html https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/01/tax-bill-2017-senate-republicans-274453 http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/nov/28/house-and-senate-tax-bills-overview/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5EokSiR8sU

Alabama
“I’m a supporter of the Second Amendment. When you see me with a gun, folks, I’ll be climbing in and out of a deer stand or a turkey blind, not prancing around on a stage in a cowboy suit.” Doug Jones

https://www.thedailybeast.com/republican-women-in-alabama-begin-to-turn-on-roy-moore http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/26/politics/alabama-senate-results-roy-moore-luther-strange/index.html https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/20/roy-moore-dodges-press-250541 http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/363373-jones-mocks-roy-moore-for-prancing-around-on-a-stage-in-a-cowboy-suit

Colin Kaepernick
http://www.vulture.com/2017/11/the-best-joke-about-the-nfl-national-anthem-protests.html

Uranium Deal
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/14/hillary-clinton-uranium-one-deal-russia-explainer-244895 http://www.newsweek.com/fox-news-host-destroys-conspiracy-theory-about-hillary-clinton-and-uranium-one-711762 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/11/15/shep-smith-and-sean-hannity-live-in-different-realities-thats-a-problem-for-fox-news https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2017/11/14/fox-news-shepard-smith-debunks-uranium-one-lie-peddled-his-own-network/218557

Indictment
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2017/10/31/daily-202-10-takeaways-from-mueller-s-shock-and-awe-gambit/59f778d330fb0468e7653ee5/

Boehner
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/10/29/john-boehner-trump-house-republican-party-retirement-profile-feature-215741

Wilson
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/20/frederica-wilson-trump-gold-star-families-244013

Tillerson
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/10/17/magazine/rex-tillerson-and-the-unraveling-of-the-state-department.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/posteverything/wp/2017/10/18/the-sooner-rex-tillerson-resigns-as-secretary-of-state-the-better

McCain
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/17/politics/john-mccain-trump-spurious-nationalism/index.html

Hashtags
[|#TakeAKnee]
 * 1) MeToo

60 Minutes
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/352170-oprah-tackles-trump-us-politics-in-60-minutes-round-table

Buzzword Bingo
Alternate - Debate - Dreamers - Health Care - NATO - Resistance - Sexual Assault - Swing Vote - Thanksgiving Day Parade - Transgender

Dreamers
http://deadline.com/2017/09/donald-trump-jeff-sessions-daca-rescinded-obama-overreach-unconstitutional-1202161298/ http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/05/trump-dreamers-daca-work-permits-242323

NASA
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/09/04/548472775/trump-picks-oklahoma-congressman-to-head-nasa

Election data
https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/docs/comments-received-june-29-through-july-11-2017.pdf

NATO
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/07/12/president-trumps-claim-billions-and-billions-are-pouring-into-nato-because-of-his-administration http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/06/05/trump-nato-speech-national-security-team-215227

Health Care
healthcare media type="custom" key="29176429"

FBI / Comey Firing
http://www.npr.org/2017/10/23/559545666/comey-fesses-up-claims-ownership-of-suspected-twitter-account https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/its-not-just-trumps-message-that-matters-theres-also-his-metamessage/2017/06/09/57321c90-4d20-11e7-9669-250d0b15f83b_story.html http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/08/james-comey-trump-russia-testimony-239294 http://www.npr.org/2017/05/15/527773206/what-just-happened-the-james-comey-saga-in-timeline-form https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/05/11/did-trump-and-sessions-flip-flop-on-comeys-decisions-in-the-clinton-investigation http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/333197-five-story-lines-to-watch-in-trump-comey-fight https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/comey-watergate/526443/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-trumps-anger-and-impatience-prompted-him-to-fire-the-fbi-director/2017/05/10/d9642334-359c-11e7-b373-418f6849a004_story.html http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/05/09/comey-trump-firing-is-this-a-constitutional-crisis-215118 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dismissal_of_James_Comey

Russia 2017
http://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/353367-juan-williams-trumps-smokescreen-on-russia-wont-work http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/03/politics/russian-facebook-ads-michigan-wisconsin/index.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/07/13/video-every-russia-story-trump-said-was-fake-news-or-a-witch-hunt https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/06/01/every-russia-story-trump-said-was-a-hoax-by-democrats-a-timeline http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/11/donald-trump-jr-emails-smoking-gun-robert-mueller-240414 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-revelation-unlike-any-other-in-the-russia-investigation/2017/07/11/7985fa14-666b-11e7-8eb5-cbccc2e7bfbf_story.html http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/06/11/forget-comey-the-real-story-is-russias-war-on-america-215245 https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/world/national-security/trump-revealed-highly-classified-information-to-russian-foreign-minister-and-ambassador/2017/05/15/530c172a-3960-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html https://www.lawfareblog.com/bombshell-initial-thoughts-washington-posts-game-changing-story - [|@lawfareblog]

Russia Probes
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/449309/trump-russia-separating-hysteria-genuine-concerns http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/28/trump-russia-advice-238911 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/house-majority-leader-to-colleagues-in-2016-i-think-putin-pays-trump/2017/05/17/515f6f8a-3aff-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html?utm_term=.bf0b1a487b00 http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2017/politics/trump-russia-connections/ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/05/us/politics/senate-russia-trump-associates.html http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/trump-and-russia-explained-in-six-minutes/8478952 http://www.rawstory.com/2017/04/uk-given-memos-indicating-the-trump-organization-paid-russia-hackers-report/amp http://www.newyorker.com/news/ryan-lizza/how-a-republican-congressman-accidentally-disclosed-a-secret-intelligence-debate http://www.politico.com/trump-russia-ties-scandal-guide http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/graham-sessions-trump-russia-235597 https://www.wsj.com/articles/investigators-probed-jeff-sessions-contacts-with-russian-officials-1488424871 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/25/trump-russia-fbi-white-house-priebus http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/comey-middle-political-fray-trump-russians-45730654 http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/06/trump-putin-and-the-new-cold-war http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/trump-russia-probe-senate-mark-warner-235391 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-administration-sought-to-enlist-intelligence-officials-key-lawmakers-to-counter-russia-stories/2017/02/24/c8487552-fa99-11e6-be05-1a3817ac21a5_story.html

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Journalism
http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/samantha-bee-not-white-house-correspondents-dinner-full-frontal-1202403838 http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-et-st-white-house-correspondents-dinner-20170430-story.html http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-us-two-worlds-20170410-story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2017/04/30/hasan-minhajs-harshest-burns-at-the-white-house-correspondents-dinner https://youtu.be/GO5xB8BlhbU http://deadline.com/2017/04/samantha-bee-jake-tapper-smug-liberal-1202079779

Deep State
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/03/07/what-an-actual-deep-state-looks-like

Migration
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/02/21/donald-trump-homeland-security-issues-deportation-memos/98190192/

ACLU
https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/what-do-when-encountering-law-enforcement-airports-and-other-ports-entry-us

Protests
https://twitter.com/i/moments/903652643259637762

Parody
http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/02/donald-trump-parody-videos

Agnotology and Phatic Journalism
http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2017/01/fte_20170129_1030.mp3 0:50 What is the study of ignorance called? https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/01/30/knowledge-knows-no-boundaries https://twitter.com/krmaher/status/826261479456280577 https://twitter.com/wikilibrary/status/826263902837231616

Twitter Moments
⚡️ “Muslim Ban/Airport Protests” https://twitter.com/i/moments/825577318336729088

⚡️ “Inauguration Weekend” https://twitter.com/i/moments/822616343254106114

Headlines
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/360737-interior-watchdog-says-zinke-did-not-properly-document-his-travel http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/24/zinke-fundraisers-republican-operatives-244094 http://mashable.com/2017/04/15/ted-lieu-congressman-twitter http://www.mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=speeches&id=32A7E7DD-8D76-4431-B1E7-8644FD71C49F http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN15F276 https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/a-clarifying-moment-in-american-history/514868 http://nation.foxnews.com/poll/index.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-inevitability-of-impeachment_us_588e8d52e4b0b065cbbcd09f https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/trial-balloon-for-a-coup-e024990891d5 Donald Trump Blows Up the US-Mexico Relationship [|01/27/2017: One week into Donald Trump's economy] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/josh-rogin/wp/2017/01/26/the-state-departments-entire-senior-management-team-just-resigned http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2017/01/politics/trump-inauguration-gigapixel http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/alternative-facts-dictionary-conway-234005 https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/the-pointless-needless-lies-of-the-trump-administration/514061 http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/trump-biographers-presidency-legitimate-214655

Assault on Nature
http://www.salon.com/2017/07/18/karen-budd-falen-the-bundy-familys-lawyer-may-be-trumps-pick-to-manage-federal-lands https://medium.com/westwise/three-reasons-karen-budd-falen-is-unfit-to-lead-the-bureau-of-land-management-29634afbbb3 [|Trump's alarming environmental rollback: what's been scrapped so far]

Assault on Nature / Climate Change (Cross-posting on wildusa)
http://ew.com/tv/2017/03/28/late-show-stephen-colbert-donald-trump-climate-change http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/donald-trump-obama-climate-change-policies-236570 http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/trump-epa-environmntal-regulations-235596 [] [] [] [] [] []

=== National Parks Resistance / Twitter (Cross-posting on wildusa) === [|https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/former-park-service-director-speaks-out-against-trump-administration] [] [] [] []

Public Lands (Cross-posting on wildusa)
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Mexico
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2017/01/31/the-u-s-mexico-relationship-is-dangerously-on-the-edge http://www.latimes.com/world/mexico-americas/la-fg-mexico-trump-20170201-story.html

Approval Rating - Hitting the ground running ... or face plant?
http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/27/politics/trump-approval-rating-quinnipiac-poll/index.html http://www.politico.com/blogs/donald-trump-administration/2017/01/job-approval-rating-quinnipiac-poll-234225

Muslim Ban / Travel Ban / Airport Protests
https://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-rejects-intelligence-report-on-travel-ban-1487987629 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/06/business/trumps-travel-ban-hits-close-to-home-for-corporate-travelers.html http://www.travelweekly.co.uk/articles/272218/trade-bodies-line-up-to-condemn-trump-travel-ban https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trumpbeat-three-lessons-from-the-travel-ban http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/02/trump-vetting-executive-order-immigration-000293 https://theintercept.com/2017/02/03/trump-muslim-ban-executive-order-violated-executive-order-about-executive-orders/ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/31/public-lands-sell-congress-bureau-management-chaffetz http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/president-trumps-first-defeat-214707 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/28/opinion/donald-trumps-muslim-ban-is-cowardly-and-dangerous.html http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38786466 http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/01/28/elizabeth-warren-decries-donald-trump-immigration-order-logan/YwrOLjoOtgskLFS78PU6dN/story.html http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/trump-refugees-lawsuit-iraq-visas-234305 Trump asked for a 'Muslim ban,' Giuliani says — and ordered a commission to do it 'legally'

Crony Cabinet
http://billmoyers.com/story/trumps-crony-cabinet-may-look-strong-scared

Embedded Tweets
https://twitter.com/MerriamWebster/status/823221915171061760

Bingo bipartisan - healthcare - obstruction of justice - solar eclipse

Dreamers https://lasvegassun.com/news/2017/dec/25/in-fighting-for-the-dreamers-sandoval-shines-brigh/

Quotes
Trump's strategy is to demoralize and disgust you, so that you disengage. Do not disengage. https://twitter.com/ChristineArena/status/825381963653541889

Is Trump’s chest-beating, ‘America first’ approach to presidential leadership really a display of strength, or does it reflect an enfeeblement of American national identity? http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/theminefield/is-trump%E2%80%99s-immigration-ban-a-show-of-strength-...-or-weakness/8227468 https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3438487/Dissent-Memo.pdf