Day 18: Oh look, a wild Monday appeared!

And you know what that means? The administration has to make up for not doing anything for two days!

• Trump spent the weekend (and today) tweeting. You can look them up if you like, but I'm warning you - they're utterly bullshit and not worth wasting your time on.
• The appeals court asked for submissions regarding the immigration executive order, due today. Here's a short take from the submission against the order, and the Justice department's submission in favor of the order.
• Both Trump and the Press Secretary suggested that the media is purposefully not reporting or under-reporting terrorist attacks. Don't believe a word they say, because they're both pathological liars. Even better: they said they'd release a list of terrorist attacks that were suppressed by the media. Don't hold your breath though.
• Trump has no fucking clue what he's doing, and signs anything that's put in front of him without reading it. Pence is having a field day, and Bannon managed to insert himself into the National Security Council without Trump reading the fucking thing he was signing. The rest of the article goes into detail about Trump's lonely new life moping around the Whitehouse, watching Fox news.
• Protestors at Standing Rock against the Dakota Access Pipeline are being rounded up, arrested, and shoved into metal cages. This includes any journalists in the area. This is utterly, utterly abhorrent.
• The senate confirmation vote on Betsy DeVos, the wildly unqualified nominee for Secretary of Education, is scheduled for tomorrow afternoon. Democrats are unified against her, and even two Republicans have said they will not vote for her. That leaves a 50-50 split, with Pence holding the casting vote. Tomorrow we will find out if any other Republican senators have a spine. Democrats are currently holding the floor of the senate for 24 hours to speak out against her.
• Trump has no idea what he's doing in international relations. The following paragraph is buried in this article: "national security aides have sought information about Polish incursions in Belarus, an eyebrow-raising request because little evidence of such activities appears to exist". The administration is literally trying to manufacture crises to take advantage of.
• Discontent with the fact that nobody likes the administration, they're claiming that all protestors are paid protestors in it for the money. No, literally, that's what they're claiming. This is something that cannot go unquestioned. Step #1: Deligitimize the press. Step #2: Deligitimize protests. Step #3: Embrace totalitarianism.

I've been pointed to this awesome webpage, which is compiling a list some of Trump's lies, along with fact checks. There is obviously far more garbage than one news organization can keep up with, because Trump's statements, once you disregard the nonsensical ones, are primarily comprised of lies.