Weekend link dump for March 5

Six tips for parenting your toddler President.

We may never see another catcher’s balk again.

Now this is what one might call an employment benefit.

Where to find good data.

“In just the last month since the concept of a March for Science went viral online, 287 satellite marches across the globe have been organized with more coming online every day, and more than 50,000 volunteers have responded to offer assistance.”

RIP, Judge Joseph Wapner of The People’s Court.

Is Uber doomed? Maybe.

“I don’t expect people to understand it, but I expect them to respect it.”

The Notorious RBG works out harder than you do.

YOLO is good for you.

How to keep track of legal and policy changes under Dear Leader Trump.

My college classmate Mark Pitcavage talks about tracking hate groups for the Anti-Defamation League.

“Nearly a week has passed since two India-born engineers were singled out and shot at an Olathe bar, presumably because they were immigrants, darker in skin tone and possibly viewed by the shooter as unwanted foreigners. People around the world were immediately and rightfully horrified. But our president? Mum. Not a word has been spoken, tweeted or prepped for Trump’s teleprompter.”

“[M]uch of Trump’s appeal was that, as a businessman and artist of The Deal, he could cut through the dithering and gridlock and partisan bickering. Instead, in his first month, Trump has mostly been the loser in his battles against entrenched institutions. Rather than bend Washington to his will, Trump has, in his first month, mainly bent his priorities to the will of Republicans in Washington.”

Our Central Casting-obsessed Dear Leader.

“We rarely think of tourism as something related to U.S. trade, but we should: Inbound tourism to the U.S. is an export—and outbound tourism from the U.S. is an import. And right now, the policies of the Trump administration are threatening to throw that particular trade balance seriously out of whack.”

“If a revolutionary women’s soccer team, the first of their kind for Tibetans, can’t get a tourist visa to attend a very prestigious soccer tournament as VIP, legit guests, then WHO, may I ask, DOES DESERVE A VISA?”

“Whatever the reason Americans voted for Trump, we know that every one of them chose to support a candidate who made repeated bigoted, xenophobic, and misogynistic statements. They supported a candidate who mocked a disabled reporter, demonized an entire religion, made veiled anti-Semitic comments, scapegoated undocumented immigrants, and bragged about sexually assaulting women. Even if one puts all that aside (though I’m not sure how that’s done), they voted for a candidate who lied on a daily basis and who regularly showed he was demonstratively unqualified to be president.”

“You all had the same choices we all had. You saddled the rest of us with misrule and disaster. Own it. I empathize, but I will not sympathize.”

“Amid the nonstop and increasingly tedious theatricality, Trump is only ever performing the role of the president; he’s never doing the job.”

Turns out Jeff Sessions has a bit of a lying-about-Russia problem, too.

Here’s what happened the last time an AG candidate lied under oath to the Senate.

RIP, Aileen Hernandez, feminist trailblazer and former president of NOW.

“We think the ‘cover up’ is worse than the crime because it’s actually very seldom that the full scope of the actual crime is ever known. The cover up works better than you think. The other reason the cover up is a logical response is that it usually works. You only find out about it when it doesn’t. So it’s a good bet.”

“I don’t think this administration thinks the State Department needs to exist. They think Jared [Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law] can do everything. It’s reminiscent of the developing countries where I’ve served. The family rules everything, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs knows nothing.”

It’s come to this: Alec Baldwin got into a Twitter fight with another Donald Trump impersonator.

The reason Trump has become so vulnerable so quickly is because he’s treating Washington like the pathogen when he’s the infectious agent.”

“Pence attacked Clinton for email while conducting public business using an AOL account that was hacked”. And then he created a new AOL account to replace the one that had been hacked. Aren’t we supposed to lock him up for that?

“If, however, Trump’s goal is stigmatizing a vulnerable class of people, then publicizing their crimes—and their crimes alone—makes sense. It’s been a tactic bigots have used more than a century.”

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