Week One

It's been quite a week.

• The immediate ban on refugees from seven Muslim countries
• Bannon on National Security Council, Chairman of Joint Chiefs out
• The gag order for the EPA, USDA, National Park Service
• The ban on funding for international health programs that offer abortion
• Pulling out of the Pacific Trade partnership
• Building the wall
• Restarting DAPL
• Gutting "Obamacare"/ACA
• Government hiring freeze
• Deleting the LGBT page and climate change page from wh.gov
• Going after the NEA/NEH, Corporation for Public Broadcasting
• Also the Endangered Species Act
• Obsession with size of his inaugural crowds and voter fraud
• Ignoring the Women's March
• Not divesting from his companies
• Not releasing his taxes
• "Alternative facts"

And those are just the ones I'm coming up with right off the top.

I know that dear old Mr. Rogers said, in times of emergency, to look to the helpers.  Here are just a few:

• Dan Rather's News and Guts
• The 2.9 million people at various Women's Marches in the U.S. (and on all seven continents!), including numerous people I know
• Plans for marches by scientists, LGBT pride, and more.
• The alt nps twitter feed
• New Yorkers rushing to JFK to help detained Muslim travelers
• #cuteanimaltweetoff

And so, the first week is over.  I wonder if all of his announcements and executive orders are a strategy to overwhelm and exhaust democrats, liberals, the opposition.   And I am overwhelmed and exhausted by the election and the new presidency.

And I haven't yet figured what to do exactly, besides petitions and phone calls and donations.  But I'm still paying attention.

And I won't be silent.

Stay woke, as they say, people.