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Donald Trump’s Monday Night Massacre continues, as he’s now fired the heads of two major federal agencies for refusing to enforce his unconstitutional executive order banning Muslims. First he fired acting Attorney General Sally Yates at around 9pm eastern time on Monday. And now, sometime around 10pm eastern time, he’s fired Daniel Ragsdale, the acting Director of U.S. Immigrations and Custom Enforcement, more commonly known as ICE.

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The second firing was announced on the Homeland Security website on Monday night. Remarkably, his replacement Thomas Homan is not currently listed as being part of the ICE leadership team on its official website at all, as he was previously the executive associate director of ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations — not a senior position

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No mention has been made by anyone in Trump White House as to why Ragsdale was fired. When MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell announced the firing on-air on Monday night, he wasn’t aware of the official reason either. This comes less than two hours after Yates was fired for refusing to abide by Trump’s Muslim ban, which multiple federal judges have already issued stays against.

Trump’s “Monday Night Massacre” tonight gets its name from when a desperate Richard Nixon fired a series of high ranking people during his “Saturday Night Massacre” in one final attempt at covering up Watergate and purging anyone who refused to take part in his criminal conspiracy. The end of Trump’s brief tenure seemingly can’t be far behind.

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It turns out the Department of Justice isn’t the only federal agency defying Donald Trump and his unconstitutional Muslim ban today, as the State Department is also now formally getting in on the action. Hours ago Acting Attorney General Sally Yates announced that she was instructing DOJ employees to defy Trump’s order. And while the State Department is already in the hands of new Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, a Trump-Putin lackey, his underlings are taking formal action against him as well.

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State Department employees formally filed a dissent memo today, a five page document to officially register their objections to Donald Trump’s actions. It’s already been signed by a triple digit number of employees, and in part it reads:

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“A policy which closes our doors to over 200 million legitimate travelers in the hopes of preventing a small number of travelers who intend to harm Americans from using the visa system to enter the United States will not achieve its aim of making our country safer,” before adding that “Alternative solutions are available to address the risk of terror attacks which are both more effective and in line with Department of State and American values.”

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While this dissent memo cannot legally stop Donald Trump from pushing forward with his executive order, it does publicly put the State Department at odds with the Trump administration. It also puts Tillerson in the tenuous position of having hundreds of his own employees openly rebelling against him and his new boss just seven days after he was confirmed as Secretary of State.

Meanwhile White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, who has become so visibly rattled after ten days of having to lie on Donald Trump’s behalf that he’s now mistakenly tweeting everything from his own password to Onion articles about himself, angrily responded to the State Department dissent memo by suggesting that those who signed it should resign. But they’re not going anywhere. The Resistance continues.

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Just two days after Donald Trump issued an executive order aimed squarely at stripping the rights of Muslims, trapping them in airports and setting nationwide protests against him before a federal judge struck him down, he’s is now preparing to go after the rights of gays. Numerous sources have confirmed that Trump is prepping a sweeping executive order aimed at curtailing the rights of LGBT Americans. In other words, mainstream Americans must prepare to fight the next battle already.

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The reports of Trump’s pending anti-LGBT executive order are coming in fast and furious. For instance Josh Rogin from CNN is reporting that it may take away adoption rights nationwide. Imana Gandy of Rewire News is reporting that Trump will frame the order under the guise of “religious freedom” but will be aimed at allowing the government and individuals to discriminate against gays at will, just denying them their most basic rights.

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It’s not clear whether Trump will try to move against gay marriage in his executive order, which has already been declared fully constitutional by the Supreme Court. But what is clear is that he’ll seek to strip away as many civil rights from LGBT Americans as possible, in order to retain favor with the bigoted, extremist, faux-christian conservative base who helped elect him. At a time when Trump’s popularity is already historically low for new president and falling, he appears to be trying to shore up the support he does have. But this will trigger another massive round of protests, while handing his political opponents even more ammunition.

Americans have already taken to the streets in the millions to protest against Donald Trump’s views toward women and his attempted Muslim ban. Now Americans must prepare to take to the streets to protest against his attempted crackdown on LGBT rights. As Trump grows more unconstitutionally out of control, the Resistance grows.

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You can count the Department of Justice among the growing number of federal agencies who are openly defying Donald Trump’s unconstitutional orders – and in this instance it’s officially coming from the top. Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, who is in charge of the DOJ as long as the confirmation of Trump nominee Jeff Sessions remains pending in the Senate, has instructed her employees not to defend Trump’s Muslim ban executive order under any circumstances. This comes two days after four federal judges issued stays against Trump’s order, and it sets up an immediate Constitional crisis.

Trump can fire Yates, but he cannot install Sessions without Senate approval, which he is now far less likely to get after the events of the past three days. But if he does fire Yates, no one will be left at the DOJ with the authority to issue the most top level warrants, meaning she may be essentially unfirable for now.

With federal judges having already issued rulings against Trump’s Muslim ban on the grounds of lack of constitionality, and numerous members of Congress having spent the weekend at airports demanding that federal agents release the Muslim detainees, and now the head of the DOJ refusing to comply, it means all three branches of the federal government are now taking aggressive action against Trump – leaving him increasingly isolated just eleven days into his presidency.

But even with millions of Americans now regularly taking to the streets to protest against Donald Trump’s illegitimate Russian-backed rise to power and his aggressively unconditional actions in office, he can only be impeached if the Republicans in Congress agree to work with the Democrats to make it happen. Meanwhile mass protests continue to grow.

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It turns out Donald Trump’s plans to do away with the branches of government he doesn’t like are going to have to wait a bit. The Trump administration raised eyebrows when it completely removed the Judicial Branch from the White House website last week, listing only two branches of government. And after Trump found himself at odds with a federal court ruling against his Muslim ban on Saturday, the public began asking if the omission was intentional.

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Numerous individuals posted social media screen captures of the “Our Government” section of the whitehouse.gov website, which listed the “Executive Branch” and the “Legislative Branch” but not the Judicial Branch, instead skipping straight to “The Constitution.” Some took it as a sign that Donald Trump was no longer recognizing the sanctity of the court system, and that he was instead asserting that the third branch of government was simply the checks and balances of the Constitution itself, which he would presumably interpret.

The website change was so jarring that some social media observers didn’t even believe the screen captures being posted were real, and had to go look at whitehouse.gov themselves for confirmation. Charles Johnson from Little Green Footballs dug into the Internet Archive at archive.org yesterday and proved that the “Judicial Branch” had been removed from the White House website since Trump took office.

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However, after yesterday’s public uproar, the Judicial Branch has been restored to the White House website. Scroll down to the bottom right hand side of the site, and you’ll find it once again listed under “Our Government” along with the other two branches.

With no word from the White House on the changes, there’s no way to know for certain whether the “Judicial Branch” was removed as an intentional stunt, or whether it was some kind of massive incompetence. But in any case it certainly backfired, convincing even more Americans that Donald Trump can’t be trusted to honor the checks and balances of the Constitution.

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