10/8/2017

MIKE PENCE/PROTESTS/SPORTS: “Vice President Mike Pence attended and then left Sunday’s Indianapolis Colts game in response to players protesting during the national anthem, he explained in a string of tweets Sunday [10-8-17] afternoon. ‘I left today’s Colts game because President Trump and I will not dignify any event that disrespects our soldiers, our Flag, or […]

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9/25/2017

PROTESTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump praised Nascar drivers early Monday [9-25-17] morning for not protesting the national anthem on Sunday, continuing his weekend tweet storm against the N.F.L. over the league’s refusal to punish players who knelt or sat during ‘The Star-Spangled Banner.’ There appeared to be no protests during the national anthem at a […]

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9/25/2017

PROTESTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Players around the National Football League demonstrated before games Sunday [9-24-17] as part of an escalating feud between President Donald Trump and the professional sports world. The number of protests surged far beyond anything the NFL has seen before, with players on every team making gestures of some sort at stadiums around […]

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8/25/2017

CALIFORNIA/PROTESTS: “Politicians tried and failed to shut down an event dubbed a free-speech rally planned for San Francisco on Saturday [8-26-17], though they did manage to prohibit guns, explosives, tiki torches, selfie sticks and many other items. Across the Bay in Berkeley, police and politicians have urged the public to stay away from a ‘No […]

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8/24/2017

LEGAL/PROTESTS: “A judge in DC handed federal prosecutors a win Thursday [8-24-17] in their ongoing fight over data connected to a website used to organize Inauguration Day protests against the Trump administration. Although web-hosting provider Dreamhost is not required to turn over millions of IP addresses for mere visitors who clicked on the disruptj20.org website, […]

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8/23/2017

PROTESTS: “Thank you Arizona. Beautiful turnout of 15,000 in Phoenix tonight! Full coverage of rally via my Facebook at: https://t.co/s0D12EFs40 https://t.co/WT4D9Vsen1” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 23, 2017 12:18am […]

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8/22/2017

POLICE/PROTESTS/SUPPORTERS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The police used tear gas to disperse crowds numbering in the thousands on Tuesday [8-22-17] night outside the Phoenix Convention Center as tempers flared around President Trump’s divisive speech at a campaign-style rally here. Hundreds of people ran off, streaming into the surrounding streets, coughing and wiping tears from their eyes. Police […]

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8/21/2017

PROTESTS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump called Monday [8-21-17] for peace and an end to bigotry in the U.S., nearly a week after a combative news conference in which he said both sides were to blame for a violent confrontation in Charlottesville, Va., between white nationalists and counterprotesters. ‘The young men and women we send […]

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8/21/2017

PROTESTS/RACISM: “J.P. Morgan Chase (JPM, +0.55%) announced Monday [8-21-7] that it will be giving $1 million to nonprofit groups fighting extremism following the deadly white supremacist protest in Charlottesville, Va. ‘The events in Charlottesville have increased the urgency to confront hate, intolerance and discrimination wherever it exists,’ Peter Scher, head of corporate responsibility at J.P. […]

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8/20/2017

PROTESTS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A group of alumni from one of the country’s most influential evangelical Christian universities is condemning their school’s president for his continued alignment with President Trump. A small but growing number of Liberty University graduates are preparing to return diplomas to their school. The graduates are protesting university President Jerry Falwell Jr.’s […]

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8/19/2017

PROTESTS/RACISM: “I want to applaud the many protestors in Boston who are speaking out against bigotry and hate. Our country will soon come together as one!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 19, 2017 03:41pm […]

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8/18/2017

PROTESTS/RACISM: “The mother of the woman who was run down by a car during violent clashes in Charlottesville, Va., said Friday [8-18-17] that after seeing President Trump’s comments equating white supremacist protesters with those demonstrating against them, she does not wish to speak with him… In an interview on ABC’s ‘Good Morning America,’ Ms. Bro […]

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8/18/2017

BUSINESS/PROTESTS/RACISM: “A prominent Internet rights group has condemned Google and GoDaddy for refusing to manage the domain registration for the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a non-profit organization that defends digital civil liberties, issued a blistering statement on Thursday slamming the domain gatekeepers for using their power to silence speech. […]

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8/18/2017

PROTESTS/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Four charities have pulled their fundraising events from President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, in the wake of his response to a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. The Cleveland Clinic, American Cancer Society, and American Friends of Magen David Adom all said they wouldn’t hold their 2018 galas at […]

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8/18/2017

PROTESTS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Sixteen prominent artists, authors, performers and architects resigned on Friday [8-18-17] from the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, the latest group to protest Donald J. Trump’s defense of white nationalists after the violent demonstrations in Charlottesville, Va. In a letter addressed to Mr. Trump, the committee members blasted his […]

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8/17/2017

PROTESTS: “Last weekend, when a 27-year-old bike messenger showed up at the ‘Unite the Right’ rally in Charlottesville, Va., he came ready for battle. He joined a human chain that stretched in front of Emancipation Park and linked his arms with others, blocking waves of white supremacists — some of them in full Nazi regalia […]

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8/17/2017

PROTESTS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “James Murdoch, the chief executive of 21st Century Fox and the son of a frequent ally of President Trump’s, condemned the president’s performance after the violence in Charlottesville, Va., and pledged to donate $1 million to the Anti-Defamation League. In an email on Thursday [8-17-17], a copy of which was obtained by […]

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8/15/2017

PROTESTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Plenty of fire and fury greeted President Trump along Fifth Ave. in Manhattan on Monday [8-14-17] when he made his first visit home since he took office seven months ago. Thousands of protesters rallied outside the iconic Trump Tower skyscraper where the President is staying, while another group nearby staged a mock […]

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8/15/2017

PROTESTS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Three chief executives resigned Monday [8-14-17] from a manufacturing-advisory council to the Trump administration in an apparent protest of the president’s failure to quickly condemn the white supremacists who marched and engaged in violence in Charlottesville, Va., this weekend. Drugmaker Merck MRK +0.29% & Co. issued a statement Monday morning on Twitter […]

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8/14/2017

POLICE/PROTESTS: “After events in Charlottesville, Va., last weekend showed how much violence white nationalist rallies could provoke, police chiefs from Richmond, Va., to Boston were taking steps to avoid a repeat of a situation in which the police appeared to have little control of the crowd. Texas A&M University canceled a ‘white lives matter’ rally […]

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8/14/2017

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/PROTESTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A Los Angeles-based tech company is resisting a federal demand for more than 1.3 million IP addresses to identify visitors to a website set up to coordinate protests on Inauguration Day — a request whose breadth the company says violates the Constitution… The request also covers emails between the site’s organizers […]

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8/9/2017

PROTESTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP TAXES: “The White House has an unusual onlooker Wednesday [8-9-17] — a large, inflatable chicken with golden orange hair. The inflatable chicken, situated on the Ellipse facing 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, is a visual that organizers of the Tax Day March have used in the past to coax President Trump to release his […]

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7/27/2017

LGBTQ/MILITARY/PROTESTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Demonstrators flocked to a military recruiting station in New York City and gathered at a plaza named for a San Francisco gay-rights icon on Wednesday [7-26-17] to protest President Donald Trump’s abrupt ban on transgender troops in the military. A crowd of at least a few hundred people gathered around the U.S. […]

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7/14/2017

PROTESTS/VOTER FRAUD: “The White House on Thursday [7-13-17] made public a trove of emails it received from voters offering comment on its Election Integrity Commission. The commission drew widespread criticism when it emerged into public view by asking for personal information, including addresses, partial social security numbers and party affiliation, on every voter in the […]

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7/8/2017

FOREIGN POLICY/GERMANY/PROTESTS: “Law enforcement & military did a spectacular job in Hamburg. Everybody felt totally safe despite the anarchists. @PolizeiHamburg #G20Summit” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 8, 2017 01:50pm […]

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5/10/2017

CABINET/EDUCATION/PROTESTS/TRUMP PEOPLE/BETSY DEVOS: “A week after President Donald Trump suggested his administration might cut $25 million in capital funding to historically black colleges and universities, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos told Bethune-Cookman University’s class of 2017 that she ‘is fully committed to your success’ — a line that was met by deafening boos from the students […]

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5/9/2017

CABINET/EDUCATION/PROTESTS/TRUMP PEOPLE/BETSY DEVOS: “A leading civil rights group on Monday [5-8-17] called for the resignation of top leaders at a historically black university where Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is set to deliver the commencement address. The NAACP Florida State Conference is urging the university president and board chairman of Bethume-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida, […]

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5/2/2017

PROTESTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Labor unions and civil rights groups staged May Day rallies in several U.S. cities on Monday to denounce President Donald Trump’s get-tough policy on immigration, a crackdown they said preys on vulnerable workers in some of America’s lowest-paying jobs. Protests and marches challenging Trump’s efforts at stepping up the deportation of illegal […]

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4/19/2017

POLITICS/PROTESTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A march aimed at promoting scientific-based public policy in the Trump era is raising questions about the appropriateness of mixing science with politics. The ‘March for Science’ — whose beginnings reflect the viral birth of the Women’s March on Washington — occurs this Earth Day. It will be comprised of scientists and […]

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04/16/2017

PROTESTS/TRUMP TAXES: “Giving no ground, President Donald Trump dismissed protests calling for him to disclose his tax returns as the work of political opponents unhappy about his election victory. ‘Someone should look into who paid for the small organized rallies yesterday,’ Mr. Trump tweeted Sunday morning. ‘The election is over!’ With Americans’ tax returns due […]

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04/16/2017

CAMPAIGN/LEGAL/PROTESTS/SUPPORTERS: “Donald Trump supporter Alvin Bamberger is accused of assaulting a protester at a 2016 campaign rally in Kentucky. But if the 75-year-old veteran lost his cool at the Louisville rally, he did so at the ‘urging and inspiration’ of his President, Bamberger alleges in a lawsuit against Trump. ‘Trump and/or the Trump campaign urged […]

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04/13/2017

POLITICS/PROTESTS/SUPPORTERS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Republican Rep. Mike Coffman faced angry constituents at a town hall Wednesday [4-12-17] night, in an early sign of the political price he and his colleagues might pay for supporting President Donald Trump’s policies, including the repeal of Obamacare. A moderate hailing from a swing district, Coffman fielded more than 40 questions […]

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3/22/2017

GOP/POLITICS/PROTESTS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A Hawaii lawmaker who says she was pressured to give up her leadership post at the statehouse after criticizing President Donald Trump resigned Wednesday [3-22-17] from the Republican Party. Rep. Beth Fukumoto said members of the GOP refused to oppose racism and sexism including a suggestion by Trump to create a Muslim […]

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3/12/2017

POLITICS/PROTESTS: “[T]hey rallied in support of the International Women’s Day strike, demanding social and economic equality for women. These weren’t liberals. They were card-carrying members of the Democratic Socialists of America, one of the fastest growing groups on the American left. The surge of activism sweeping the U.S. since Donald Trump’s election has energized the […]

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3/12/2017

IMMIGRATION/PROTESTS/TRAVEL BAN: “During spring break, Canadian families used to pile the kids into a tour bus and head to New York to see the Statue of Liberty, Rockefeller Center and other attractions. It was the start of the busy season for Comfort Tour, a Toronto-based firm that usually brought between 200 and 300 tourists to […]

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2/23/2017

LEGAL/POLITICS/PROTESTS: “Republican governors warned conservatives on Thursday that they need to keep up with the resurgent activism from liberals, amid a wave of protests in Washington and at lawmakers’ home-state town halls. Speaking to thousands of conservative activists who gathered here for the Conservative Political Action Conference, Republican leaders urged the audience to pressure their […]

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2/21/2017

POLITICS/PROTESTS: “The so-called angry crowds in home districts of some Republicans are actually, in numerous cases, planned out by liberal activists. Sad!”  – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 21, 2017 06:23pm […]

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2/20/2017

FOREIGN POLICY/PROTESTS/UK: “British lawmakers on Monday debated a call to block President Donald Trump from a state visit, putting Prime Minister Theresa May in an uncomfortable position as she seeks to strengthen ties with the new U.S. administration. The nonbinding debate came in response to a petition signed by 1.8 million people calling for Mr. […]

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2/12/2017

MEXICO/PROTESTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Thousands of demonstrators waving Mexican flags and hoisting signs denouncing President Trump marched through central Mexico City on Sunday, the largest mobilization so far here against what many label an anti-Mexican administration in the White House. ‘We are not against the American people. This is about Trump, who is spreading hate and […]

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2/10/2017

IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/PROTESTS: “Influential Mexicans are pushing an aggressive and perhaps risky strategy to fight a likely increase in deportations of their undocumented compatriots in the U.S.: jam U.S. immigration courts in hopes of causing the already overburdened system to break down. The proposal calls for ad campaigns advising migrants in the U.S. to take their cases […]

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2/3/2017

MISC/PROTESTS: “Professional anarchists, thugs and paid protesters are proving the point of the millions of people who voted to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”  – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 3, 2017 06:48am […]

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6/20/2012

CAMPAIGN/PROTESTS: “SHOCK – @BarackObama’s people are sending paid political organizers to heckle at @MittRomney events http://t.co/TdZTHk2v” [4:05:56 PM]  – 6/20/2012, Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Trumptwitterarchive.com, 6/20/2012 […]

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10/20/2011

PROTESTS: “The OWS protesters are doing nothing to advance the interests of the 99%. Time for them to go home!” [3:15:48 PM]  – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Trumptwitterarchive.com, Oct. 20, 2011 03:15pm […]

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10/19/2011

CHINA/PROTESTS: “Both @BarackObama and China have embraced OWS. All want the decline of America. Time for the protesters to go home.” [12:55:43 PM]  – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Trumptwitterarchive.com, Oct. 19, 2011 12:55pm […]

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10/18/2011

CHINA/PROTESTS: “Now China is publicly supporting the OWS protests http://t.co/CEkR8i40. It’s time for the protesters to go home.” [2:12:03 PM]  – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Trumptwitterarchive.com, Oct. 18, 2011 02:12pm […]

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10/14/2011

ECONOMY/PROTESTS: “If the Wall Street protesters are upset about the economy then they should really be protesting @BarackObama at the White House.” [1:06:51 PM]  – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Trumptwitterarchive.com, Oct. 14, 2011 01:06pm […]

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