Update #35: guess who watched the Oscars

Trump:

• Oh, look who watched the Oscars after all. "U up?" Yes. Was it sad?
• How Does Donald Trump Think His War on the Press Will End?
• Trump signed off on checking White House staffers' phones
• The 100 day plan.
• "his is the core to Trumpism. Say nice things about him, he’ll say nice things about you. Say mean things about him, and he’ll go nuclear on you."
• 5 GRAPHICS TO HELP YOU UNDERSTAND PRESIDENT TRUMP’S CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
• "from the Russian point of view, the romance is over. He hasn’t lifted the sanctions, which Russia was very much hoping he would. He’s rapidly becoming the enemy on Russian TV."
• 'Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated' Uh, yes, people knew that. Like Obama knew that.

Related topic: Interview: former Gov. Steve Beshear explains how he sold deep-red Kentucky on Obamacare: "We wanted to get as far away from the word ‘Obamacare’ as we could." "And this guy, I heard him say, “Oh, man. This is great. This is a lot better than that Obamacare.” After he left, I came back to the gal and said, “Did you tell him?” And she said, “Well ... I hesitated. I thought I should. And then I just said, No. I'm just going to sign him up.”

The axis of evil:

• State GOP Chair Opposes Bill To Make It Easier To Vote, Claiming It Will Hurt Republicans: “If you look at the three states that have done it, you can see that populism and direct democracy at its best, all three states — Oregon, Washington and Colorado — they do all-mail-in ballots and they’re all marijuana-all-the-time states too,”
• Oh, screw you, Issa, you backpeddler.
• "Anything can happen, from trudging along as we have been, to a dramatic crackdown on free speech and a major war."
• "Shortly after that, the U.S. State Department’s official Farsi-language Twitter account tweeted a message of congratulations to Farhadi and the people of Iran, but some time later the tweet was deleted."
• We No Longer Have Three Branches of Government

Town halls:

• Have you seen these politicians?

Fear and loathing:

• Planned Parenthood Is Not Sure It’s Going To Be OK: “The truth is, no one really knows what will make a difference anymore,”
• Papers Please.
• "Make America great again?" Well, to them, it means make America white again. And I'm not ready to let that happen, because America is for everybody.
• Hate in the age of Trump.
• We Are Living In the Second Chapter of the Worst-Case Scenario
• From the Trump Story Project: Clippers. "On his walk to work, he checked “white” on the racial quiz he had to fill out to buy his breakfast, a melted mess of egg and cheese on a roll from a street vendor whose cart didn’t look big enough to store the hundreds of racial questionnaires he made people fill out every day."
• What Is Your Name? Where Are We? Who Is President? Oh God. This used to be a routine test. "One elderly woman let out a startling moan, the kind of sound I would have expected if someone had told her that her cat had died. Another blinked twice when I told him. “Really?” he said, in disbelief. “Come on, doc, you’re shaking my leg.” One patient accused me of playing a trick, although I have not yet been accused of bringing fake news."
• Welcome Aboard, But First US Marshals Will Scan Your Retina
• Stop Fabricating Travel Security Advice

Video:

• Conan tries to raise money for the wall in Mexico.
• John Oliver on Obamacare.
• Jon Stewart on breaking up with Trump.
• Seth Meyers on the upcoming speech, god help us.

No idea how to categorize this.

Well, a bit of good news:

• Crappy bill not going on in Arizona now.
• Pro-Trump rallies don't get hordes attending. Sad!
• I Did Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Workout. It Nearly Broke Me.
• Former President George W. Bush said Monday that the media is “indispensable to democracy,”
• Trump Did the White House Press Corps a Favor. Now They Can Fix Their Gross, Corrosive Dinner.

The Resistance:

• What calling Congress achieves: "If you ask your senator to co-sponsor a bill on mud-flap dimensions or to propose a change to the bottling requirements for apple cider or to vote in favor of increased funding for a rare childhood disease, you stand a decent chance of succeeding. This is not a trivial point, since such requests make up the majority of those raised by constituents. (They also represent the underappreciated but crucial role that average citizens play in the legislative process. “I’ve written bills that became law because people called to complain about a particular issue I was unaware of,” Akin, of Senator Wyden’s office, said. It was constituents, for instance, who educated Congress about America’s opioid crisis and got members to dedicate funds and draft health legislation to begin dealing with it.)...If, however, you want a member of Congress to vote your way on a matter of intense partisan fervor—immigration, education, entitlement programs, health insurance, climate change, gun control, abortion—your odds of success are, to understate matters, considerably slimmer. To borrow an example from the C.M.F.’s Brad Fitch, four well-informed doctors might persuade a senator to support the use of a certain surgical procedure in V.A. hospitals, but four hundred thousand phone calls to Senator John McCain are unlikely to change his position on the appropriate use of American military power overseas."... When I asked past and present Congress members and high-level staffers if constituent input mattered, all of them emphasized that it absolutely does. But when I asked them to name a time that a legislator had changed his or her vote on the basis of such input, I got, in every instance, a laugh, and then a very long pause....“We want people to know their voices are being heard,” Phil Novack, the press secretary for Ted Cruz, told me, before going on to say, essentially, that they wouldn’t be heeded: “The senator was elected based on certain values and ideals, and he’s going to keep fighting for those, even though some of his constituents might disagree.”
• In Response To Rising Biased Rhetoric, Muslims Run For Office: "When your civil rights are under attack," McCaw said, "grab hold of the constitution and assert yourself."
• How The Media Are Using Encryption Tools To Collect Anonymous Tips: "We're living in almost a golden age for leaks."
• Federal Court Tells Pine-Richland High School to Let Transgender Students Use the Bathroom
• We're putting the team together...
• NYPD commissioner to officers: Disregard Trump’s immigrant deportation order
• Want to throw a little money at it: Democrat edition
• Rosie O’Donnell Will Lead a Protest Against Trump Before His First Congressional Address
• Oscars political moments.
• Boycott Miami.
• Loving America and Resisting Trump
• Dissent in America.