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After spending all day Friday surrounded by people celebrating the inauguration of Donald Trump, nothing was more needed (by the Jezebel staff included) than todays Womens March on Washington. The marchers were thoughtful, their spirits were high, and it was just the right balm to soothe our broken (now mended) hearts.

Here are some of our favorite, most funny, and poignant protest signs from the day:

Left to right: A protester is ready to become one of Donald Trumps problems, a pithy reminder to protect your sisters reproductive rights, and a warning of what will happen to men who infringe on their reproductive freedom. Snip snip!

Intricate and brilliant signs abound! The woman in the photo on the right spent days cross-stitching her PUSSY GRABS BACK message and is rightfully proud.

Somos las hijas de inmigrantes or We are the daughters of immigrants, says one Chicago Bulls fan.

Tag your friends.

TRUE AND TRUE.

Inanimate! Objects! Support! Women!

A clean water activist comes all the way from Flint, a warning that Republicans are not worth your sexual healing, and a very fun way to resist.

BONUS: A sign I accidentally photographed that read Donald Trump is an anagram for Lord Damp Nut and he is not my president.

Not yet, but we should...

Smart men who know their place.

IUDs set us free and should be free.

Nice of Ruth Bader Ginsburg to show up on her unicorn.

A theory from Julianne Escobedo Shepherd: Protest signs have gotten better because of Twitter. Discuss.

Good accessories on good women.

A glorious display of patriotism. A glorious sign calling Trump Orange Hitler and insulting his tiny hands.

A modern slogan for the pro-choice woman: Before that fetus got in there, your penis got in there.

A couple of cheerfully angry feminists and a woman with a tampon hatto protest the tampon tax.

One of the marchs cutest protesters.

Desecrating steak and making Carly Simon proud.

If you like pee-rfect word play, urine luck.

Next time Trump tries to grab a pussy, hell hopefully encounter vagina dentata; this Broadway show thats gonna be YUGE; an honest woman voicing our needs (because toilets were scarce).

Two women push pussy hats to a new extreme.

Resist every day.

To those who marched: Thank you and dont stop fighting.

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Donald Trump, Republican Party, Syria: Your Friday Evening Briefing New York Times It was a day of pomp and circumstance as dignitaries amassed at the Capitol to witness the transfer of power. In his inaugural address, the 45th president presented a dark vision of a nation exploited by Washington elites, of children trapped in ...

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The election of Donald Trump with a Republican-majority Congress is proving once again that conservative economic policy largely reduces to cutting taxes, mostly for the rich.

But wait a second, arent they also wading into health care reform?

They are, and it proves my point. While much attention is reasonably focused on how theyre all repeal with no replace and how thats likely to reverse the coverage gains weve seen and undermine insurance markets theres something else going on here. And that is a big tax cut for the rich.

The Affordable Care Act has provided health insurance coverage to 20 million people, bringing the uninsured rate to an all-time low of 9.1 percent, from 16 percent before the reform was enacted. And most of the revenue the ACA raised flows from some very rich waters.

If the law is repealed without a replacement, tens of millions of people are expected to lose coverage. But the other side of that is a big tax cut for the wealthiest Americans.

Just how fat of a tax cut? That question is answered in a new report by three of my colleagues at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Using IRS data, they show that the 400 richest Americans, whose average annual income is more than $300 million, each would get an average $7 million kickback from ending two ACA taxes: the 0.9 percent Hospital Insurance tax and the 3.8 percent unearned income Medicare tax.

The base for both taxes are individuals with incomes of more than $200,000 and couples with incomes of more than $250,000, making this a highly progressive revenue source. That also means the 160 million households with incomes below these levels get no tax benefits from repealing those taxes.

As my CBPP colleagues point out, ACA repeal would significantly raise taxes on about 7 million low- and moderate-income families due to the loss of their premium tax credits worth an average of $4,800 in 2017 that help them buy health coverage through the health insurance marketplaces and afford to go to the doctor when needed. In fact, the repeal leads to the richest 400 households getting a $2.8 billion tax break thats bigger than the value of almost 670,000 ACA tax credits worth $2.5 billion going to people in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan.

This isnt just the usual Robin Hood in reverse weve come to expect from Republican tax plans: This is Robin Hood slamming the Batmobile into reverse at 100 mph.

Recent news reports tell of a few Republicans worrying that repeal might be courting more trouble than their colleagues realize. After six years of the fight to kill the ACA, the repealers have few ideas for replacement. The ideas they have floated high deductible plans, health savings accounts, block grants for Medicaid and vouchers for Medicare all shift more costs onto regular people relative to the current system. That is the only possible outcome when you so deeply cut health care resources.

So perhaps the ACA repeal will founder on the shoals of political reality, but I doubt it. Reality isnt exactly constraining this crew.

Jared Bernstein, a former chief economist to former Vice President Joe Biden, is a senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

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