Thousands gathered on Ocean Beach the morning of Feb 11 to send a message from the Bay Area to Trump. http://bit.ly/2kHIBO4

The event, dubbed Resist Trump—NOW!, was organized by Brad Newsham, who, in 2007, organized a similar Ocean Beach action calling for the impeachment of then-President Bush.

Al Jarreau passed away today (via Sue).

One of my favorite artists from the '80s.

His website crashed due to load, but here's the message his team posted earlier (via http://bit.ly/2kHJc2l) on the site:

He will be missed. A few days ago, I was asked to describe Al to someone who knew of his success, but did not know him as a person. I responded with this: His 2nd priority in life was music. There was no 3rd. His 1st priority, far ahead of the other, was healing or comforting anyone in...Read more

Source: The Trump administration is not currently planning to appeal the decision blocking its travel ban to the Supreme Court.

30 minutes later, they changed their mind: http://wapo.st/2kBP6SB

Keith Ellison today released his #AAPI engagement strategy, the first of the declared DNC chair candidates to release a plan aimed at engaging the fastest-growing communities in the country.

I love this letter so much.

"What is killing our region is a systemic racism that pervades almost every public and private institution, including your newspaper, and makes it nearly impossible for either North St. Louis or the parts of South St. Louis where African Americans live to get better or safer or healthier or better-educated."

Appeals court ruling on #MuslimBan. http://bit.ly/2lu40YJ

The Republican judge on the #9thCircuit panel that ruled today is aloha shirt-wearing Rick Clifton, a "a well-liked Republican in Democrat-dominated #Hawaii" and former partner at Honolulu's Cades Schutte LLP.

Mahalo David Harada-Stone for moving me to look this guy up.

Here's the order (http://bit.ly/2lu40YJ) via @MartynMcL

A three-judge panel of the #9thCircuit Court of Appeals has ruled against Trump, keeps stay of #travelban in place while lower court determines its constitutionality. 3-0 ruling

Congratulations to Shin Inouye on joining The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights as Director of Communications and Media Relations!