January 30, 2017
MAKING THE ACLU GREAT AGAIN:
The ACLU says it got $24 million in donations this weekend, six times its yearly average (Katie Mettler, January 30, 2017, Washington Post)
In the weeks after the Nov. 8 election, when Donald Trump secured a surprise victory to become president of the United States, the American Civil Liberties Union received so much money in online donations -- more than $15 million -- that an official with the 100-year-old organization called the flood "unprecedented in our history."That was before Trump had even sworn the oath of office. [...]This weekend alone, the civil liberties group received more than $24 million in online donations from 356,306 people, a spokesman told The Washington Post early Monday morning, a total that supersedes its annual online donations by six times.
Posted by Orrin Judd at January 30, 2017 8:24 AM