Fascism Watch, January 30

.@hankgreen The #MuslimBan goes against everything we stand for in America
To the rest of the world- I'm so sorry. We do not stand for this. pic.twitter.com/u5gfnxUuIc

— ✨JENN!✨ (@TheKeyThief) January 29, 2017

Trump

Acting attorney general Sally Yates declared the Justice Department would not defend Trump’s immigration order

Hours later, Trump fired her.

The acting Attorney General, Sally Yates, has betrayed the Department of Justice by refusing to enforce a legal order designed to protect the citizens of the United States. This order was approved as to form and legality by the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel.

And shortly after that: Trump Replaces Acting Director of Immigration Enforcement

Border Patrol flouted a federal injunction against Trump’s order, barring lawyers from reaching legal U.S. residents detained at Dulles airport.

Marco Rubio says the State Department has been instructed not to answer questions from Congress about the immigration order.

Foreign Service Members Draft Dissent Channel Memo on Trump Refugee and Visa Order

Sean Spicer, in response: “I think they should either get with the program or they can go.”

Koch network slams Trump immigrant ban

Sean Spicer defends detention of 5-year-old: It’s ‘misguided’ to think kids don’t ‘pose a threat’

Officials worry that U.S counterterrorism defenses will be weakened by Trump actions

Angela Merkel explained the Geneva Convention to Trump on Saturday.

Trump is getting payments from foreign governments. We have no idea what they are.

Trump adding CIA chief back to National Security Council

Trump signs executive order requiring that for every one new regulation, two must be revoked. The federal government can’t be KonMari’d! We have those for reasons!

To no one’s great surprise, President Trump prepares to withdraw from the Paris climate change agreement

Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller

Steve Bannon Is Making Sure There’s No White House Paper Trail, Says Intel Source

Steve Bannon NSC seat risks politicizing national security, former officials warn

Here’s how Stephen Bannon and Stephen Miller have been boosters of Islamophobes and white nationalists.

The Troublemaker Behind Donald Trump’s Words (a profile of Stephen Miller)

Here’s Why It’s Fair—and Necessary—to Call Trump’s Chief Strategist a White Nationalist Champion

I swear, Steve Bannon gets his lines from Marvel villains. On Jeff Sessions:

“Throughout the campaign, Sessions has been the fiercest, most dedicated, and most loyal promoter in Congress of Trump’s agenda, and has played a critical role as the clearinghouse for policy and philosophy to undergird the implementation of that agenda. What we are witnessing now is the birth of a new political order, and the more frantic a handful of media elites become, the more powerful that new political order becomes itself.”

Congress

House Judiciary Committee staffers signed NDAs with Trump and worked on his immigration ban without telling their bosses

Paul Ryan Is Defending Trump’s Discrimination. He Is an Embarrassment.

GOP Rep. Chaffetz Pushing Legislation To Sell Off Public Lands

VA Rep. Dave Brat complains that too many women are asking when his next town hall is. ‘The women are in my grill.’ What’s the phrase Trump supports keep throwing at me? Ah, yes: Suck it up, buttercup.