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7:15 PM ET, January 21, 2017

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German Lopez / Vox:
DC's metro system keeps trolling Trump for his poor inauguration attendance  —  It keeps pointing out on Twitter how bad attendance was for Trump's event — and how good it is for the Women's March on Washington.  —  Washington, DC's metro system, WMATA, just keeps throwing shade …
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Chicago Tribune:
Hundreds march through Loop as part of Women's March on Chicago  —  An estimated 250,000 people gathered to rally in downtown Chicago as a sister event to the National Women's March taking place in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 21, 2017.  —  Organizers officially canceled the march portion …
Washington Post:
Women's March on Washington: A sea of pink-hatted protesters vows to resist Donald Trump … Hundreds of thousands of people poured into Washington Saturday for the Women's March, a larger-than-expected crowd determined to mount a roaring rejoinder to the inaugural gathering for Donald Trump one day earlier.
Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Politicians, Activists Rally Crowd at Women's March in Washington
Julie Turkewitz / New York Times:
'We're Not Going Away': Huge Crowds for Women's Marches Against Trump
Daily Mail:
The enthusiastic crowd brought instruments as they cheered and chanted during the protest
Discussion: twitchy.com
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
At CIA headquarters, Trump boasts about himself, denies feud  —  President Donald Trump, in his first speech in his first full day as commander in chief, visited the Central Intelligence Agency on a mission to reassure the intelligence community that they have his full support …
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Sarah Wheaton / Politico:
On Day 2, Trump sticks to media bashing and boasting  —  President Donald Trump declared fresh war on ISIS — and the news media — while trying to forge a new alliance with the intelligence community in a visit to the CIA headquarters, his first to an executive agency as president.
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump attacks Time reporter for mistake about MLK bust  —  President Trump on Saturday attacked a Time magazine journalist for mistakenly reporting that a bust of Martin Luther King, Jr. had been removed from the Oval Office.  —  Trump called out the reporter, Zeke Miller …
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
President Trump Tells CIA: ‘I Am With You 1,000 Percent’
Discussion: Jamie Dupree
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Spicer Assails Media For ‘Misrepresenting’ Inauguration Crowd (VIDEO)  —  White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Saturday accused the media of misrepresenting the crowd at Donald Trump's inauguration in order to dampen enthusiasm for the event, getting some numbers wrong himself in the process.
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Lisa Rein / Washington Post:
Interior Department reactivates Twitter accounts after shutdown following inauguration
The Independent:
Donald Trump is so unpopular that there are even women marching against him in Antarctica.  —  The day after the inauguration of a president who bragged about grabbing women by their genitals, thousands will be marching in Washington and in more than 60 countries around the world, to …
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Ashifa Kassam / The Guardian:
Canadians traveling to Women's March denied US entry after sharing their plans  —  After telling border agents their plans to march, group's cars were searched and phones examined, and each person was fingerprinted and had their photo taken  —  Would-be protesters heading to the Women's March …
Steve Rukavina / CBC News:
Montrealers bound for Trump inauguration turned away at border
Discussion: The Guardian
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Justice Department blesses White House post for Kushner  —  In a reversal of legal advice given to prior presidents, the Justice Department has concluded that it is lawful for President Donald Trump to appoint his son-in-law Jared Kushner to a White House post.
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Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Justice Department opinion backs Trump on hiring of son-in-law
Discussion: Politico and Fox News Insider
Michelle Fitzpatrick / Yahoo:
‘Europe will wake up in 2017’, Le Pen tells Germany right-wing congress  —  Koblenz (Germany) (AFP) - French presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen on Saturday told a European gathering of rightwing populists in Germany that a string of high-stakes elections in 2017 would blow a wind of change across the region.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Breitbart to open bureaus in Berlin and Paris: report
Discussion: RedState
Bloomberg:
Merkel Scours Trump Archive for Clues on How to Read Him
Discussion: Axios and Political Wire
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Fox declines to renew contracts for several contributors  —  Fox News has declined to renew contributor contracts for longtime political commentator George Will, Republican strategist Ed Rollins and actress Stacey Dash, according to a network spokesperson.  —  Will, 75, is a Pulitzer-winning …
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Trump's inaugural cake was commissioned to look exactly like Obama's, baker says  —  Amid the glitz of President Trump's inaugural festivities, one item stood out in particular late Friday night: a spectacular nine-tier cake that the new president and Vice President Pence cut into with a sword.
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Trump's executive order on Obamacare, explained by two health policy experts  —  Shortly after the end of his inaugural parade, President Donald Trump issued his first executive order: instructions for the federal government to dismantle the Affordable Care Act “to the maximum extent permitted by law.”
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
NYT's Dean Baquet rips ‘fairly ridiculous conclusion’ in public editor's column on Russia coverage … Executive editors at the New York Times routinely differ with the public editors who deliver less-than-flattering judgments on the work of their colleagues.  Less routinely do they express their misgivings afterwards.
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Brock groups set $40 million budget to fight Trump  —  AVENTURA, Fla. — The constellation of political groups in Democratic strategist David Brock's network are aiming to raise roughly $40 million in 2017, the Clinton antagonist-turned-top ally told roughly 120 donors gathered here on Saturday.
Discussion: Washington Post
 
 
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump attends interfaith prayer service in Washington as a huge crowd protests his presidency
Discussion: The Hill, RedState and CNN
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Inaugural Speech Dims G.O.P. Hopes for a More Conservative Trump Agenda
Ken White / Popehat:
On Punching Nazis
New York Times:
What President Trump Doesn't Get About America
CNN:
White House site updated to remove Melania Trump QVC reference
Discussion: Mediaite
 Earlier Items: 
Reuters:
'It's made in Vietnam!' At inauguration, origin of red Trump hats shocks many
Discussion: TheStreet.com
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Flynn is creating the most military-heavy National Security Council of the modern era
Discussion: RedState
Joe Concha / The Hill:
ABC reporter: Trump speech carried anti-Semitic ‘overtones’
Discussion: RedState
Benjamin Freed / Washingtonian:
Grasping for Metaphor, Reporters Flock to Burning DC Garbage Can
Washington Post:
Trump's America is a rotten place
Discussion: IJR
 

 
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
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Liz Pelly / Harper's:
How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK
 
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