When there is trap set up for you in every corner of this town

[sovay]

So today I basically fell over and slept for most of the afternoon. Three days without sleep will do that to you. This must be the self-care half of the equation.

Tomorrow there is a protest of Trump's anti-Muslim executive order taking place at Copley Square and I will be there. It's early in the afternoon, so I figure I can make it and still get to the active bystanding workshop in the evening.

Trump's Muslim ban is unconstitutional. It is already being challenged by the ACLU. But it was already implemented by officials in U.S. and foreign airports. People have been turned away. People are being detained. Refugees, green card holders, foreign nationals with U.S. visas, original citizens of any of Trump's cherry-picked list of countries (carefully excluding his business interests) now traveling on visas of different countries entirely. People are behaving as though it is legal, as though it is right, as though it is business as usual—or maybe they think it's sketchy and it makes them feel weird, but they must be following their orders anyway, or there wouldn't be anyone in detention or anyone stranded, unable to come home. And I keep coming back to that. It is not a moral act to follow immoral orders. We fought that out sixty years ago, if it hadn't been clear before. Stop making Trump's fantasies a reality. They don't deserve to be.

There are protests at JFK and Logan Airport tonight and those are only the ones that have crossed my friendlist. I hope at other airports. I hope in front of the White House. Anybody going to one of those, stay safe.

This must be what it feels like when people say to one another, "We need to take our country back." What an interesting historical feeling.

[edit] I got home and heard about the nationwide emergency stay of Trump's ban. That is good. So is the list of states with protests. The news about Bannon is not good. The All Lives Matter-ing of the Holocaust, as my husband calls it, is also not so hot. But the other things are also true and they may make a difference yet. And Autolycus has not thrown up once so far today (don't make me a liar, little cat), and that is also a victory.

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[kore]

Still early but from what I can tell, the ACLU filed a habeas corpus for those two guys who were big in the news (one of them an interpreter) and there was an emergency hearing in Brooklyn, in Ann Donnelly's court (an Obama appointee) and she blocked the deportation order. I don't know if people are going to be allowed to come in, but at least they won't be sent back out of the country. The word is that people arriving have been detained, which sucks hard, but at least they can maybe get in and won't be sent back.

[sovay]

The word is that people arriving have been detained, which sucks hard, but at least they can maybe get in and won't be sent back.

"The ACLU said it had won a stay in federal court preventing implementation of the executive order." So it is a small step. But it's not a symbolic one. Get a foothold, get the law in there, get people home. Get Trump out of office. He's trying to insulate himself already. Get all these people out.

[kore]

....yeah, I saw the news about Bannon on the NSC and fucking crashed. Which maybe says more about my psyche than about the state of the world, but idk. Bannon is super fucking crazy. If he's listening in on phone calls with Putin and advising foreign policy....Jesus. War might be if we're lucky.