Update #54: bring on the squirrels 'cause this is nuts.

TrumpLand:

• "I'm president, and you're not."
• "The president may not realize it, but his conduct is making his office less powerful, less relevant and less influential."
• Trump the Destroyer: "The genius of Trump has always been his knack for transforming everyone in his orbit into a reality-TV character. As a candidate, he goaded Lindsey Graham into putting a cellphone in a blender, inspired pseudo-intellectual Rand Paul to put out a video of himself chain-sawing a tax code in half, and pushed Marco Rubio into making jokes about dong size during a debate. He even managed to get into a public spat with the pope. Whatever your lowest common denominator is, Trump will bring it out and make sport of it."
• "It can reasonably be said that our dear leader is now the most ridiculed man on the planet. In fact, he may well be the most ridiculed man in history. For a preening narcissist who takes himself terribly seriously, being the butt of the joke heard round the world has got to hurt."
• Donald Trump Jr. drunkenly wet the bed so much in college they called him ‘Diaper Don’. Headline sounds funny, but this story is pretty nasty.
• Donald Trump Jr called 'a disgrace' for tweet goading London mayor Sadiq Khan

TrumpCare:

• BRING YOUR SQUIRRELS TOMORROW 'CAUSE THIS IS NUTS.
• "House Democrats have a new plan to tank Paul Ryan’s Obamacare repeal: Get out of the way. Democratic leaders in the House know they’re powerless to stop the GOP’s health care bill. So instead, with a repeal vote looming Thursday, they’re executing a strategic retreat." “Republicans now are dealing with the fact that they’ve built a castle on a foundation of lies,” Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), who chairs the moderate New Democrat Coalition in the House, said in an interview. “The last thing we would want to do is get in their way.”
• Kochs pledge 7-figure fund to back anyone who votes against AHCA.

The Evil Empire:

• Among Trump Supporters, Conflicts Of Interest Aren't A Top Concern
• McCain, you're not a maverick.
• "Just remember she’s only sitting in that seat because her daddy let her." Says Cosmo. 
• "I called the switchboard (202-456-1414) and said I'd heard they were providing free office space to young women with no qualifications and I'd like some and they told me to have a good day"
• It's not high treason, it's alternative loyalty.
• Shut it, Sarah. Ain't no way to look good by bitching about a guy who donates to Meals on Wheels. 

Russia:

• More Russia ties.
• Putin has already won.
• Another day, another Putin critic dead.

Fear and loathing:

• 2016 and false memories and this gets disturbing. 
• I dunno if this is really helping your career, Scott Adams.
• “Melania,” a family source alleges, “does not keep hidden from everyone around her how miserable she is.”
• “Events have shown that America is simply not safe enough for this artwork to exist,”
• A Complete Timeline of Shia LaBeouf’s Anti-Trump Art Installation’s Location Changes
• Muslims inside FBI describe culture of suspicion and fear: 'It is cancer'
• "It’s not surprising that Butler, of all dystopian writers, predicted Trump’s campaign slogan to a T."

Television:

• "First of all, if Trump has irrevocably doomed rich, powerful, white characters to a lifetime of two thumbs down, someone needs to alert Marvel and DC fast, because Batman and most of the Avengers are in serious shit. If someone doesn't hold Trump's picture up to the head of Warner Bros. and say "THIS MAN BAD. REAL BAD," then Batman: Dawn Of More Justice is going to be crushed by critics, who apparently attend movies for the sole purpose of becoming angry if every character isn't played by Viola Davis."
• More fake news.
• A Closer Look.
• Samantha Bee. More Samantha Bee. Oh, and Gamify the News to make local journalism survive.
• Here’s the Proof Americans Are Just Not As Happy As They Used to Be

Washington Post:

• Secret Service asked for $60 million extra for Trump-era travel and protection, documents show: "A person familiar with internal Secret Service budget discussions said the requests for additional funding, prepared in late February, were rejected by the Office of Management and Budget, an arm of the White House. That means the agency will likely have to divert other spending to handle the additional burden."
  Before taking office, Trump repeatedly criticized the cost of President Barack Obama’s travel, saying the fact that Obama’s trips were “costing taxpayers millions of dollars” was “unbelievable.” During the campaign, Trump pledged to save public money by working diligently in Washington and skipping out on expensive travel.
  “There’s no time for vacation. We’re not going to be big on vacations,” Trump said at a campaign rally last year. “The White House is this incredible place. It represents so much, and you’re there for a limited period of time. If you’re at the White House and you have so much work to do, why do you fly? Why do you leave so much?”
  The Secret Service has struggled through years of budget short­ages and low morale. Former Secret Service agents said tightening budgets have hit agents hard and that, unlike other agencies, the Secret Service can’t travel less or staff fewer people to keep costs down because full protection for the first family is guaranteed."
• Trump’s visits to Mar-a-Lago are stretching Palm Beach’s budget and locals’ patience:  “We can’t even get UPS deliveries. Every time this happens, it sets us back four days. Customers don’t want to wait that long.”
• Trump won’t allow you to use iPads or laptops on certain airlines. Here’s why.: "Three of the airlines that have been targeted for these measures — Emirates, Etihad Airways and Qatar Airways — have long been accused by their U.S. competitors of receiving massive effective subsidies from their governments. These airlines have been quietly worried for months that President Trump was going to retaliate. This may be the retaliation. These three airlines, as well as the other airlines targeted in the order, are likely to lose a major amount of business from their most lucrative customers — people who travel in business class and first class. Business travelers are disproportionately likely to want to work on the plane — the reason they are prepared to pay business-class or first-class fares is because it allows them to work in comfort. These travelers are unlikely to appreciate having to do all their work on smartphones, or not being able to work at all. The likely result is that many of them will stop flying on Gulf airlines, and start traveling on U.S. airlines instead."
• Donald Trump keeps getting things wrong. And there’s not much we can do about it. "Trump understands that the punitive consequences for continuing to insist that he was wiretapped are relatively minimal. And so he will keep doing it."
• Why does Trump keep making promises he can’t keep? The secret lies in his past. "I’d argue that the answer lies in Trump’s unique experience as a businessman. In his particular corner of the business world, you really can create wealth just by managing public perception — or at least he could. This was the theory of his entire career, that by fashioning a public persona that was as much of a caricature of wealth and success as Scrooge McDuck, he could turn himself into the picture he was painting. The more people saw Donald Trump as the embodiment of wealth, the more they would want to invest in his projects and buy his products, which would in turn make him wealthier. Making ridiculous promises and outright lying were all part of creating the image; one of my favorite examples is how Trump Tower is 58 stories high, but he numbered the floors up to 68 so that everyone would think it was taller than it is."
• The Wall Street Journal editorial board just went off on Donald Trump: “The president clings to his assertion like a drunk to an empty gin bottle, rolling out his press spokesman to make more dubious claims,”
• Pat McCrory says would-be employers think ‘he’s a bigot’ — so Samantha Bee fixed his résumé 

The Resistance:

• Man who attended 45 rallies now opposes Trump
• I Was A Hardcore Conservative: What Changed My Mind
• Will Trump be impeached – or is it just a liberal fantasy?
• Hawaii Republican resigns from party after criticizing Trump: "As a Japanese-American whose grandparents had to destroy all of their Japanese artifacts and items and bury them in the backyard to avoid getting taken and interned, how could I not have said anything?" Fukumoto asked. "And how could my party have not said anything?"
• "we have had presidents who were in favor of open, widespread chattel slavery. We have had presidents who were vocally indifferent to widespread lynching. And before we do that whole "but the police, but the prisons, don't you know that the present is just as bad as the past" - back in those days the police and prisons were also terrible and brutal, and the slavery, sweatshops and imprisonment of dissidents were on top of that. We've had presidents who supported the direct exterminations of Native people by the military.
  What's happening now isn't unprecedented, and it isn't the end of the American project. History is long. Tyrants fall. These people have not installed a thousand year reich, however much they would like to.
  And again, throughout the Americas people have endured the terrible regimes foisted on them by the United States and its collaborators. Some of the most heroic people of the 20th century were the people who resisted those regimes - from Archbishop Romero to Victor Jara to the many less famous.
  US people and others have fought against tyrannical regimes on these continents. They endured terrible things but they didn't give up or go silent.
  The Republicans' day will come and their fall will be a hard one. If you were an American in 1900, you wouldn't have believed in the events of the thirties, forties, fifties and sixties - the struggles for racial, gender and labor justice that were fought and won during those times. You might recognize 2017 and regret that things had come to this, but that doesn't invalidate the victories of the past.
  We may not be able to be permanently victorious, but these people, they will fall - it may take time, but they're not immortal tyrants. Trump is old and he may not live to see it, but many of the Republicans in power today will be alive to witness ourvictories, when we undo everything they've built and take their power away."