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12:20 PM ET, January 21, 2017

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William Turton / Gizmodo:
National Park Service Banned From Tweeting After Anti-Trump Retweets  —  The National Park service retweeted some sick Donald Trump burns, noting how, uh, lightly attended his inauguration was compared to Barack Obama's in 2009.  But now, the NPS has been ordered by its Washington support office to …
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Lisa Rein / Washington Post:
Interior Department reactivates Twitter accounts after shutdown following inauguration … The Interior Department reactivated its official Twitter accounts early Saturday after an abrupt shutdown following two shares of tweets that were unsympathetic to President Trump during his inauguration.
Forrest Wickman / Slate:
Donald Trump's First Twitter Background as President Was a Photo From the Inauguration of Barack Obama
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Trump's executive order on Obamacare, explained by two health policy experts  —  Shortly after the end of his inaugural parade, President Donald Trump issued his first executive order: instructions for the federal government to dismantle the Affordable Care Act “to the maximum extent permitted by law.”
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump signs ObamaCare executive order  —  President Trump on Friday signed an executive order directing federal agencies to “ease the burden of ObamaCare.”  —  Trump signed the order in front of reporters at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, one of his first official acts as president.
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Trump signs executive order that could effectively gut Affordable Care Act's individual mandate  —  President Trump signed an executive order late Friday giving federal agencies broad powers to unwind regulations created under the Affordable Care Act, including the penalty for people who fail …
CNN:
Trump issues executive order to start rolling back Obamacare
Discussion: The Week
Reuters:
Trump, in Oval Office, signs first order on Obamacare
Discussion: Political Wire
CNN:
White House site updated to remove Melania Trump QVC reference  —  Washington (CNN)The White House edited First Lady Melania Trump's biography on WhiteHouse.gov Friday “out of an abundance of caution” that a reference to her clothing line on QVC could be seen as an endorsement, a spokesperson for Trump told CNN.
Discussion: Mediaite
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Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Washington Post snipes at Melania Trump's bio  —  Is this garbage the kind of story the Washington Post will try to pass off as scandalous during the next four to eight years? … I guess all previous First Ladies who modeled, appeared in a magazine swimsuit issue, and started a jewelry line omitted …
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Jordan Libowitz / CREW:
CREW STATEMENT: TRUMP NOW VIOLATING CONSTITUTION
Discussion: Common Dreams, Shareblue and Politico
Ashifa Kassam / The Guardian:
Canadians traveling to Women's March denied US entry after sharing their plans  —  After telling border agents their plans to march, group's cars were searched and phones examined, and each person was fingerprinted and had their photo taken  —  Would-be protesters heading to the Women's March …
Reuters:
'It's made in Vietnam!'  At inauguration, origin of red Trump hats shocks many  —  One of the biggest cheers President Donald Trump received from supporters watching his inaugural address on Friday was his call to “buy American and hire American.”  —  It was a moment rich in irony.
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Flynn is creating the most military-heavy National Security Council of the modern era  —  President Trump is filling the government's national security leadership with former military officials and businessmen, rejecting the policy and academic types both parties have traditionally relied on.
Joe Concha / The Hill:
ABC reporter: Trump speech carried anti-Semitic ‘overtones’  —  ABC journalist Terry Moran on Friday said President Trump's inaugural address used a “loaded term” that carried “overtones from the 1930s, when an anti-Semitic movement” blamed Jews for global problems.
Discussion: RedState
Washington Post:
A most dreadful inaugural address  —  Twenty minutes into his presidency, Donald Trump, who is always claiming to have made, or to be about to make, astonishing history, had done so.  Living down to expectations, he had delivered the most dreadful inaugural address in history.
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Catherine Thorbecke / ABC News:
Live Updates: President Donald Trump Celebrates at Inaugural Balls
Discussion: Mother Jones and Axios
Bloomberg:
Merkel Scours Trump Archive for Clues on How to Read Him  —  Chancellor aims for early meeting with Trump in Washington  —  German leader to push back on Trump views on EU, NATO, trade  —  German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been poring over old interviews and video of Donald Trump …
Discussion: Political Wire
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
NYT's Dean Baquet rips ‘fairly ridiculous conclusion’ in public editor's column on Russia coverage … Executive editors at the New York Times routinely differ with the public editors who deliver less-than-flattering judgments on the work of their colleagues.  Less routinely do they express their misgivings afterwards.
Ryan Saavedra / The Gateway Pundit:
Trump Referred To Himself Only 3 Times During Speech; We 45 Times; You 24 Times  —  President Trump Shows Complete Humility In Speech  —  For all the criticisms President Donald Trump receives for being a so called narcissist, critics will be unable to point to anything he said in speech as evidence of their claims.
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Washington Post:
Trump's America is a rotten place
Discussion: IJR
Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump Strikes Nationalistic Tone in Inaugural Speech  —  Donald Trump delivered what historians and speechwriters said was one of the most ominous inaugural addresses ever, reinforcing campaign themes of American decline while positioning himself as the protector of the country's ‘forgotten men and women.’
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Churchill bust returns to Trump's gilded Oval Office  —  President Donald Trump has returned a bust of Winston Churchill to the Oval Office—undoing former President Barack Obama's most contentious interior decorating decision.  —  The Oval Office was redecorated in the hours between Obama's exit …
Discussion: Washington Post and ABC News
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump puts Churchill bust back in the Oval Office
 
 
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Associated Press:
FACT CHECK: Trump starts on familiar note: with exaggeration
Andrew Follett / The Daily Caller:
Trump Terminates Obama's Global Warming Website Seconds After Taking Office
Discussion: BizPac Review and RedState
Benjamin Freed / Washingtonian:
Grasping for Metaphor, Reporters Flock to Burning DC Garbage Can
Sarah Pulliam Bailey / Washington Post:
‘God is not against building walls!’  The sermon Trump heard from Robert Jeffress before his inauguration.
Gabrielle Bluestone / The Slot:
Donald Trump Plagiarized Bane in His Inaugural Speech
Discussion: CANNONFIRE, Vox and New York Magazine
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Donald Trump completes hostile takeover of Washington, puts both parties on notice
Sarah Frostenson / Vox:
Photos: President Trump's inaugural parade attracted relatively few people
Discussion: ThinkProgress, ABC News and DCist
 Earlier Items: 
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Democrats block Pompeo CIA confirmation vote amid Trump's feud with intel
Discussion: Daily Kos
#DisruptJ20:
Well, hi there!  Curious about what's going on? …
Discussion: Vox
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The System Has Failed and a Con Artist Has Won
Discussion: Liberal Values and Towleroad
Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
James Mattis is sworn in as defense secretary, pledges to build alliances
David Ferguson / Raw Story:
‘Jesus, Chris’: Rachel Maddow shocked when Chris Matthews suggests Trump might execute son-in-law
Discussion: Occupy Democrats
 

 
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Authentic Brands licenses Sports Illustrated's publishing rights to The Players' Tribune owner Minute Media for 10 years, with plans to keep the print edition

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTuber MrBeast announces a deal with Prime Video for Beast Games, a reality-competition show with 1,000 contestants, promising the winner a $5M cash prize

 
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