Huddled Masses

First they came for the refugees from Muslim countries…and tens of thousands of people said, not this time. If you want to track the rolling wave of protests happening at airports in America and beyond, check out this page.

Lyft’s co-founders John Zimmer and Logan Green have pledged $1 million to the ACLU in response to Trump’s immigration ban, Neetzan Zimmerman reports for The Hill. “Banning people of a particular faith or creed, race or identity, sexuality or ethnicity, from entering the U.S. is antithetical to both Lyft’s and our nation’s core values,” the co-founders wrote in an email to users. “We stand firmly against these actions, and will not be silent on issues that threaten the values of our community.”

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick is defending his participation on Donald Trump’s business advisory group, telling employees by email and Facebook post that he is proud to serve on the group and claiming that he will use his “seat at the table” to raise concerns about the ban’s impact on “many innocent people.” Not a word from him about the ban’s affront to American values or its unconstitutionality.

The NY Taxi Workers Alliance called a solidarity strike Saturday night to protest the travel ban. Uber stepped in to pick up the slack by shutting off surge pricing. In response, #DeleteUber has started to spread as a trend, as Cora Lewis reports for BuzzFeed.

The Intercept’s Sam Biddle sums up the responses of many other Silicon Valley leaders, noting an equivocal statement from Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and modest statements of concern from Google, Microsoft and Apple. So far, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, Box CEO Aaron Levie, and DropBox CEO Drew Houston have strongly condemned the ban, with Hastings calling it “so un-American it pains us all.” Airbnb’s Brian Chesky went further and promised to provide free housing to refugees and others affected by the executive order.

Sam Altman of Y Combinator says it’s “Time to Take a Stand.” No word, though, if that includes kicking his friend Peter Thiel, one of Trump’s top tech advisors, out of his role as a “part-time partner” at Y Combinator.

Sergey Brin, one of Google’s co-founders, himself an immigrant from the Soviet Union when he was six, showed up at the protest at San Francisco airport Saturday night. “I’m here because I’m a refugee,” he told Ryan Mac of Forbes.

Meanwhile, in Washington, Google’s lobbying arm has been “aggressively” wooing Republicans, Cecilia Kang reports for The New York Times, and chairman Eric Schmidt has met twice with Trump officials at Trump Tower in New York City.

Starbucks CEO Howard Shultz writes his employees: “We are living in an unprecedented time, one in which we are witness to the conscience of our country, and the promise of the American Dream, being called into question….we will neither stand by, nor stand silent, as the uncertainty around the new Administration’s actions grows with each passing day.”

The ACLU says it received about 290,000 online donations totaling $19.4 million since Saturday morning, Alla Dastagir reports for USA Today. A normal year for the ACLU brings in about $4 million online.

Microsoft’s director of tech and civic innovation John Paul Farmer (a longtime friend and member of Civic Hall) was on a plane headed to JFK Saturday when he tweeted this: “I’m 20 minutes from landing at JFK. Pilot just warned us about delays due to #NoBan protests at T4. The passengers’ response? Applause.” Almost 1.3 million Britons have signed a petition to their government seeking to prevent an official state visit by Trump “because it would cause embarrassment to Her Majesty the Queen. Donald Trump’s well documented misogyny and vulgarity disqualifies him from being received by Her Majesty the Queen or the Prince of Wales.” Downing Street has rejected the call, the BBC reports.

SwingLeft.org has now had more than 200,000 people sign up and more than 10,000 volunteer their time and skills, Michelle Finocchi tells Salon’s Paul Rosenberg.

After six frenetic weeks of all-volunteer effort, the team at the core of the The Indivisible Guide has formed a nonprofit and is seeking donations. Their goal: “we want to demystify the hell out of Congress and build a vibrant community of angelic troublemakers. Thursday, Ezra Levin and Leah Greenberg, two of the co-founders, told me that they had more than 5,000 local groups registered in their directory.

A mosque in Victoria, Texas, that was firebombed Friday night after Trump’s executive order on immigration has since raised more than $700,000 in donations from more than 15,000 people on GoFundMe.

Summing up the moment: The one thing to read to understand what White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon is up to: David Atkins in The Washington Monthly.

Your moment of zen: Randy Rainbow Tackles Alternative Facts. (Warning, watching this video may cause a bad ear worm. Here’s the antidote.)