Mixed Feelings

Links and Show Notes: Court rules Civil Rights Act protects LGBT employees from discrimination - The Hill Court: Civil Rights Act covers LGBT workplace bias - Chicago Tribune How to Help the Victims of the Syria Chemical Attack - Teen Vogue Syria attack survivors describe chemical bombs falling from sky - CNN For Trump, a Focus on U.S. Interests and a Disdain for Moralizing - The New York Times Fox Losing More Advertisers After Sexual Harassment Claims Against O’Reilly - The New York Times Will Bill O’Reilly survive advertiser defections? - The Washington Post Sleeping Giants (@slpng_giants) Trump Removes Stephen Bannon From National Security Council Post - The New York Times Kendall Jenner’s Pepsi Commercial Draws Controversy - Variety Pepsi yanks Kendall Jenner TV ad, apologizes to her - USA Today Why is everyone talking about a racist Sony ad that’s 10 years old? - Polygon

It turns out that the Sony ad we mentioned is 10 years old and got swept up with the other racist advertising that came out this week.

Links and Show Notes: Paul Ryan: House Republicans will continue their push for health-care reform this year - The Washington Post Tomi Lahren 'Banned Permanently' From TheBlaze After Abortion Comment - The Huffington Post Congress Just Gave Internet Providers the Green Light to Sell Your Browsing History Without Consent - Gizmodo VPNs Won’t Save You from Congress’ Internet Privacy Giveaway - WIRED In Wake of Attack, U.K. Officials to Push Against Encryption Technology - The New York Times Ben Franklin's Famous 'Liberty, Safety' Quote Lost Its Context In 21st Century - NPR Missing black girls in DC spark outrage, prompt calls for federal help - CNN D.C.'s Missing Teens: A False Number That Spurred A Real Conversation On Race - NPR D.C. Missing Girls: What Social Media Got Wrong - Time Equal Pay for Men and Women? Iceland Wants Employers to Prove It - The New York Times Harvard economist Claudia Goldin examines the gender wage gap - Harvard Magazine Man and woman switch names in viral workplace sexism experiment - NY Daily News Beauty and the Beast – US Official Final Trailer The Chainsmokers - Closer (Lyric) ft. Halsey Carly Rae Jepsen - Run Away With Me

Links and Show Notes: Freetown Christiania - Wikipedia London attack - latest updates as attacker named - BBC News Brexit: All you need to know about the UK leaving the EU - BBC News Article 50: A guide to Britain’s untested plan for Brexit - The Washington Post Goldman Sachs to move hundreds of staff out of London due to Brexit - The Guardian Politicians argue over Brexit and second Scottish referendum - BBC News Awkward handshake moment between Merkel and Trump Who Wins and Loses in Trump’s Proposed Budget - The New York Times Schumer: Democrats will filibuster Gorsuch nomination - The Washington Post F.B.I. Is Investigating Trump’s Russia Ties, Comey Confirms - The New York Times FBI Director James Comey: Trump campaign, Russia ties investigated, no wiretap evidence - CNN Bees are dying -- what can we do about it? - CNN Tomi Lahren of ‘The Blaze’ suspended on abortion views - New York Post Tomi Lahren - Giving a Voice to Conservative America on "Tomi": The Daily Show Trevor Noah Defends Tomi Lahren Over Suspension - Variety Two Major Changes to Disney's Live-Action 'Mulan' Make Us Skeptical - Zimbio

Links and Show Notes: Brian Hamilton (@_brianhamilton) Health Expenditures - CDC U.S. Health Care from a Global Perspective - The Commonwealth Fund Experts: The GOP Health Care Plan Just Won't Work - NBC News The Parts of Obamacare Republicans Will Keep, Change or Discard - The New York Times Who Wins and Who Loses Under Republicans’ Health Care Plan - The New York Times On International Women's Day, a statue of little girl defiantly stares down Wall Street bull - USA Today Women's Strike: 'A Day Without a Woman' Events Take Place Worldwide - NBC News 'A Day Without a Woman': Strikes, rallies, political action - USA Today Ed Sheeran Announces Massive 'Divide' Arena Tour - Rolling Stone Bridge to Terabithia Trailer MIKA - We Are Golden

Links and Show Notes: 5 Key Takeaways From President Trump’s Speech - The New York Times Winners and losers from President Trump’s big speech to Congress - The Washington Post F.B.I. Investigating Kansas Shooting of Indian Men as Hate Crime - The New York Times What Happened During The Yemen Raid? - International Business Times Trump rescinds transgender bathroom rules from Obama era - BBC News Laverne Cox Explains What Bathroom Laws Are Really About - NY Mag G.G. v. Gloucester County School Board - American Civil Liberties Union The imaginary predator in America's transgender bathroom war - USA Today Oscars winners 2017 - CNN.com Why the Casey Affleck Sex Harassment Allegations Won’t Stick - NY Mag Moonlight director Barry Jenkins reflects on best picture win - EW

Links and Show Notes: The 96 hours that brought down Milo Yiannopoulos - The Washington Post Milo Yiannopoulos Resigns From Breitbart News After Pedophilia Comments - New York Times Too Dumb to Fail: How the GOP Went from the Party of Reagan to the Party of Trump - Matt K. Lewis The Downfall Of YouTube’s Biggest Star Is A Symptom Of A Bigger Illness - BuzzFeed News Bo Burnham Edgy Humor Headstones Vandalized At Jewish Cemetery In Missouri - NPR Trump decries anti-Semitic acts as ‘horrible’ amid calls for stronger White House denunciations - The Washington Post New Trump Deportation Rules Allow Far More Expulsions - The New York Times Trump administration widens net for immigrant deportation - BBC News Undocumented immigrants pay up on Tax Day - USAToday The Truth About Undocumented Immigrants and Taxes - The Atlantic Beauty and the Beast – US Official Final Trailer Emma Watson hid books with hand-written notes on the Underground

Links and Show Notes: Timeline: The Events Leading Up To Michael Flynn's Resignation As National Security Adviser - NPR Flynn’s Downfall Sprang From ‘Eroding Level of Trust’ - The New York Times Trump's Mar-a-Lago patio situation room raises security questions - CNN Trump turns Mar-a-Lago Club terrace into open-air situation room - The Washington Post From Trump’s Mar-a-Lago to Facebook, a National Security Crisis in the Open - The New York Times Russia denies breaking treaty after alleged missile deployment - BBC News Rand Paul on Flynn: 'Makes no sense' to investigate fellow Republicans - CNN Donald Trump and Stairs - Jezebel Henrietta Lacks’s family wants compensation for her cells - The Washington Post New Claims Prove the Henrietta Lacks Controversy Is Far From Over - Smithsonian Beyoncé's full Grammys 2017 performance - The Independent Grammys 2017: Adele's win and Beyonce shoutout highlights the show's race problem and fear of progress - The Atlantic Why Chance the Rapper gives his music away for free - Quartz Why did Twenty One Pilots take off their pants? - LA Times

Links and Show Notes: ‘Nevertheless, she persisted’ becomes new battle cry after McConnell silences Elizabeth Warren - The Washington Post 13 Iconic Women Who Nevertheless Persisted - The Huffington Post Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Jeff Sessions Confirmed as Attorney General, Capping Bitter Battle - The New York Times

Update since this episode was recorded

The Unprecedented Opposition to Betsy DeVos's Nomination - The Atlantic Betsy DeVos Confirmed as Education Secretary; Pence Breaks Tie - The New York Times Education in the United States: A Brief Overview American Schools vs. the World: Expensive, Unequal, Bad at Math - The Atlantic The Beautiful Tree: A Personal Journey Into How the World's Poorest People are Educating Themselves: James Tooley Beyoncé's Maternity Photos 2017 Super Bowl 51: The Official Home of the Super Bowl Lady Gaga's Full Pepsi Zero Sugar Super Bowl LI Halftime Show

Links and Show Notes: Donald Trump’s Muslim Ban Is Cowardly and Dangerous - The New York Times Sean Spicer Insists Muslim Ban Is Not A ‘Ban,’ But He And Trump Both Called It One - The Huffington Post Timeline of Turmoil: The Rollout of Trump's Immigration Order - ABC News Chances of a refugee killing you and other immigration stats - CNN Quebec mosque shooting leaves community 'reeling' - BBC News Trudeau's office asks Fox News to retract 'misleading' tweet - Business Insider Trial Balloon for a Coup? – Medium Trump’s America, where even park employees have become enemies of the state - The Guardian America’s system of checks and balances might struggle to contain a despot - The Economist Trump Picks Neil Gorsuch, A Scalia Clone, For The Supreme Court - FiveThirtyEight Neil Gorsuch: Who is he? Bio, facts, background and political views - POLITICO Roe v. Wade - Oyez Fact Sheets & Reports - Planned Parenthood Senate Dems will filibuster Trump’s Supreme Court nominee - POLITICO Ron Swanson's Quotes About Government Republicans aggressively push approval of Trump Cabinet nominees - The Washington Post Protesters decry Trump's immigration policies - CNN The ACLU says it got $24 million in online donations this weekend, six times its yearly average - The Washington Post Trevor Noah on Trump immigration ban - Time

Links and Show Notes: How To Contact Your Representatives Presidential Inauguration 2017 Women’s March Highlights as Huge Crowds Protest Trump: ‘We’re Not Going Away’ - The New York Times The Women's March Left Trans Women Behind - Advocate If Women's March Was 'Beginning of a Resistance,' What's Next? - NBC News Fact check: The controversy over Trump's inauguration crowd size - USA Today Recidivism Watch: Spicer uses repeatedly debunked citations for Trump’s voter fraud claims - The Washington Post Trump Administration Restricts News from Federal Scientists at USDA, EPA - Scientific American Ex-Badlands National Park Employee Hijacked Account to Tweet Climate Data - NBC News Donald Trump's First Six Days in Office: Here's What He's Done - NBC News Every order Trump has signed and what it means - CNN Trump Revives Keystone Pipeline Rejected by Obama - The New York Times Trump advances Keystone pipeline, DAPL with executive actions - CNN Dozens Of Inmates Killed In Another Brazilian Prison Riot - NPR Brazil prison riots: What's the cause? - BBC News Mixed Feelings #10: Sad Burrito With No Guac - Relay FM What has gone wrong in Brazil? - BBC News 2017 Oscar Nominations List - Variety