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5:30 PM ET, January 30, 2017

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Bwittes / Lawfare:
BREAKING NEWS: Full Text of Draft Dissent Channel Memo on Trump Refugee and Visa Order  —  Consider this a major bureaucratic uprising on the part of career foreign service officers against the President on his executive order on refugees. … Numerous Foreign Service officers and other diplomats …
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Mike Levine / ABC News:
EXCLUSIVE: US Diplomats Consider Filing Dissent Over Immigration Ban  —  Dozens of foreign service officers and other career diplomats stationed around the world are so concerned about President Donald Trump's new executive order restricting Syrian refugees and other immigrants from entering …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Hullabaloo
Mark Berman / Washington Post:   Trump defiantly says ‘all is going well’ on immigration order amid chaos, while Obama backs protesters
New York Times:
How Trump's Rush to Enact an Immigration Ban Unleashed Global Chaos  —  WASHINGTON — As President Trump signed a sweeping executive order on Friday, shutting the borders to refugees and others from seven largely Muslim countries, the secretary of homeland security was on a White House conference call getting …
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Benjamin Wallace-Wells / New Yorker:
A Dangerously Isolated President  —  The Presidential order that Donald Trump signed on Friday barring all refugees and citizens from seven Muslim countries from travel to the United States was reviewed by virtually no one.  The State Department did not help craft it, nor the Defense Department, nor Justice.
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Scarborough singles out Trump aide Stephen Miller for ‘power trip’ … MSNBC's Joe Scarborough on Monday singled out Stephen Miller, saying President Trump's senior adviser had gone on a “power trip.”  —  “Why did Stephen Miller fight so hard to put out this order on Friday without talking to any of the other agencies?”
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Senate Dems will filibuster Trump's Supreme Court nominee  —  Senate Democrats are going to try to bring down President Donald Trump's Supreme Court pick no matter who the president chooses to fill the current vacancy.  —  With Trump prepared to announce his nominee on Tuesday evening …
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Jonathan S. Tobin / New York Post:   Why the Supreme Court fight is sure to go nuclear
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Trump signs executive order requiring that for every one new regulation, two must be revoked  —  President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday morning requiring that for every new federal regulation implemented, two must be rescinded.  —  “This will be the biggest such act …
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Washington State:
AG Ferguson seeks halt to Trump's immigration Executive Order
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Obama supports protests: ‘American values are at stake’  —  Barack Obama spoke out Monday afternoon against his successor — and in support of the protests opposing President Donald Trump — with a spokesman saying the former president thinks they're “citizens exercising their Constitutional right …
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Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Obama rejects comparison between Trump's immigration policy and his own, encourages protests
James V. Grimaldi / Wall Street Journal:
Rep. Tom Price Got Privileged, Discounted Offer on Biomedical Stock, Company Says  —  Rep. Tom Price got a privileged offer to buy a biomedical stock at a discount, the company's officials said, contrary to his congressional testimony this month.
Madeline Conway / Politico:
Trump on Schumer's tears: Who is his acting coach?  —  President Donald Trump on Monday accused Sen. Chuck Schumer of crying “fake tears” at a news conference criticizing his controversial executive order on refugees and travelers from seven Muslim-majority nations.
Discussion: ABC News, Political Wire and Daily Kos
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Aaron Short / New York Post:
Chuck Schumer under fire from left-wing activists
Discussion: Power Line
Bloomberg:
U.S. Exempts Green Card Holders From Trump's Travel Ban  —  Trump defends order on immigration after criticism, protests  —  Republican lawmakers say White House action was too broad  —  Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said green-card holders from the predominantly Muslim Middle …
Discussion: Business Insider and IJR
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Donald Trump's travel ban fundamentally changes American history
Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
Samantha Bee to Roast Trump on Same Night as Correspondents' Dinner  —  The annual custom of the White House Correspondents' Association dinner suddenly seems uncomfortable if not untenable: Journalists mingling with Trump administration aides who loathe them, celebrities decrying Trump White House policies …
New York Times:
Bannon Is Given Security Role Usually Held for Generals  —  WASHINGTON — The whirlwind first week of Donald J. Trump's presidency had all the bravura hallmarks of a Stephen K. Bannon production.  —  It started with the doom-hued inauguration homily to “American carnage” …
Page Six:
Billy Bush's wife is furious about that Donald Trump tape  —  Media insiders are buzzing that Andy Lack wants NBC to become “the next Fox News” after he poached cable stars Greta Van Susteren and Megyn Kelly from the network.  —  “He believes he's building MSNBC and NBC into the next Fox.
Washington Post:
Trump's hard-line actions have an intellectual godfather: Jeff Sessions  —  In jagged black strokes, President Trump's signature was scribbled onto a catalogue of executive orders over the past 10 days that translated the hard-line promises of his campaign into the policies of his government.
Discussion: Los Angeles Times, Daily Kos and Axios
Matea Gold / Washington Post:
Koch network could serve as potent resistance in Trump era  —  INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — The weekend gathering of wealthy donors who help finance the conservative Koch network was supposed to serve as a celebration of the policy victories within reach now that Republicans control Washington …
Discussion: Axios, Hot Air and East Bay Times
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Tarini Parti / BuzzFeed:
Koch Network Focuses On Understanding Trump Voters
Discussion: Raw Story, Heat Street and alan.com
CNN:
How the Trump administration chose the 7 countries in the immigration executive order  —  (CNN)The seven Muslim-majority countries targeted in President Trump's executive order on immigration were initially identified as “countries of concern” under the Obama administration.
Breitbart:
EXCLUSIVE - Islamic State Supporters React Angrily to Trump's Temporary Refugee Halt  —  Islamic State sympathizers and militants predictably reacted angrily to President Donald Trump's temporary halt on refugees while the government revamps its flawed security screening process.
Discussion: Infowars, ABC News and Washington Post
Yonatan Zunger:
Trial Balloon for a Coup?  —  Analyzing the news of the past 24 hours  —  The theme of this morning's news updates from Washington is additional clarity emerging, rather than meaningful changes in the field.  But this clarity is enough to give us a sense of what we just saw happen, and why it happened the way it did.
CBC News:
Multiple dead, 2 arrested after shooting at Quebec City mosque  —  Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard calls shooting an act of terrorism  —  Quebec City Police say several people are dead after shots were fired inside a mosque on Sunday night during evening prayers.  —  Multiple people are also feared wounded.
Bloomberg:
Trump's Next Move on Immigration to Hit Closer to Home for Tech  —  President Donald Trump's clash with Silicon Valley over immigration is about to become even more contentious.  —  After the new president banned refugees and travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries, Google …
Harvard University:
We Are All Harvard  —  Last Friday's executive order imposing restrictions on travel to the United States has provoked uncertainty and escalating anxiety among many people in our own University and others.  Although the situation remains in flux and doubt, I write to share information …
Nina Chestney / Reuters:
U.S. will change course on climate policy, says former EPA transition head  —  The United States will switch course on climate change and pull out of a global pact to cut emissions, said Myron Ebell, who headed U.S. President Donald Trump's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) transition team until his inauguration.
Discussion: The Daily Caller, RedState and Infowars
 
 
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Justin Salhani / ThinkProgress:
GOP Congressman cultivating ties with anti-Muslim parties across Europe
Laurie R. Blank / The Hill:
Return of ‘black site’ prisons would be a return to darkness
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Associated Press:
Trump Advisers Start ‘America First Policies’ Nonprofit
Discussion: Politico and ABC News
Melanie Zanona / The Hill:
Ford criticizes immigration order: ‘Against our values’
Discussion: Raw Story and The Verge
Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
The Alt-Majority: How Social Networks Empowered Mass Protests Against Trump
Anna Yukhananov / Morning Consult:
Approval Ratings for Obamacare Jump With Law on Chopping Block
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Susan Page / USA Today:
Trayvon Martin's parents, five years after his shooting, weigh political bids
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 Earlier Items: 
Los Angeles Times:
When Muslims got blocked at American airports, U.S. veterans rushed to help
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
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Numbers / Pew Research Center:
Most Americans see labor unions, corporations favorably
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Axios
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Normalizing Violence  —  Have you punched a Nazi today?
Discussion: The Hill, New York Times and Mediaite
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Rubio, Scott ‘uneasy’ about Trump immigration order
Discussion: Politico, ABC News and RedState
Weekly Standard:
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Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

 
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