Thursday, September 6th through the weekend. And it’s a bit of a long one.
THE RUSSIAN INVESTIGATION
Papadopoulos
- Papadopoulos Attorney: Trump ‘Hindered’ Mueller Probe More Than My Client Did
- Papadopoulos Reveals He’s “Ready” for Prison; Dodges on Trump Loyalty
- Papadopoulos sentenced to 14 days in jail for lying to FBI in Mueller probe
- George Papadopoulos blames Donald Trump for lying to the FBI during the Russia investigation
- Former Trump adviser George Papadopoulos sentenced to 14 days after lying to FBI about Russia-related contacts
- Former Trump Adviser Papadopoulos To Be Sentenced, Marking Russia Probe Milestone
- Shimon Prokupecz: Judge sentences Papadopoulos to 14 days jail. Finds him remorseful. Will pay a $9500 and 200 hours of community service.
- Spicy Mic: 14 DAYS & 1 year probation..
George Papadopoulos is the first American to serve jail time in the Mueller Investigation. He was originally looking at a month, but the judge felt that he was remorseful, and cut it down to 2 weeks plus a year probation, 200 hours of community service, and a $9500 fine.
Manafort
- Plot Twist: There May Not Be a Second Paul Manafort Trial After All
- Manafort Weighing Plea Deal to Avoid New Criminal Trial, Source Says
- Spicy Mic: The lengths and craven desire to cover up and/or ignore @PaulManafort you know @realDonaldTrump campaign chairman…who was subsequently found GUILTY by a jury of his peers. @GOP will do “anything..begging for campaign donations” One of two and you’re going to be super PISSED
Roger Stone
- Roger Stone associate appears before Mueller grand jury
- Zoe Tillman: New: Jerome Corsi, the conservative author with ties to Roger Stone who was subpoenaed by Mueller’s office to testify before the grand jury today, will *not* be making an appearance, his lawyer says. No further comment. Thread
- Trump: Russia probe ‘really, really unfair for the midterms’
- Trump dares Mueller to subpoena him
- Renato Mariotti: Trump’s team has to expect Mueller will conclude that Trump obstructed justice. So Trump’s team is wise to delay an obstruction report as long as possible. All their prior talk about a “deadline” was just meant to fuel talk of shutting down Mueller’s investigation.
- Dems vow to grab Trump tax returns upon taking majority
- D.C. Wise Man Had Early Access To Trump’s Infamous Pro-Russia Speech
- Donald Trump is a ‘Goddamn Witness’ in the Mueller investigation, lawyer John Dowd told Special Counsel: book
- Court filing just revealed Butina is ready to flip on co-conspirator
COHEN AND NEW YORK
- Michael Cohen says he’ll end hush-money agreement with Stormy Daniels, effectively allowing her to tell-all about her alleged affair with Trump
- Avenatti: Cohen’s offer to tear up agreement with Daniels is attempt to avoid Trump deposition
- Plea Shows Trump ‘in Essence’ a Co-Conspirator With Cohen, Litman Says
- Donald Trump will have to answer questions under oath from sexual assault accuser
- From 2011: Donald Trump Loses Libel Lawsuit Over Being Called A ‘Millionaire’
- Michael Avenatti: I have been practicing law for nearly 20 yrs. Never before have I seen a defendant so frightened to be deposed as Donald Trump, especially for a guy that talks so tough. He is desperate and doing all he can to avoid having to answer my questions. He is all hat and no cattle.
Campaign Finance
- Trump Executives Are Said to Face Campaign-Finance Probe by U.S. – Bloomberg
- Spicy Mic: Trump executives face U.S. campaign-finance probe, source says https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-07/trump-executives-are-said-to-face-campaign-finance-probe-by-u-s … via @bpolitics
- Trump Execs Are Facing A U.S Campaign-Finance Probe In New York
Broidy
- Elloitt Broidy’s Mistress Shera Bechard Says He Demanded She Get Abortion
- Ex-Playboy Model Says RNC Leader Abused Her. Shera Bechard says Broidy liked Trump because of his “uncanny ability to sexually abuse women and get away with it.”
- Broidy Can’t Keep Former Playboy Model’s Claims From Going Public
THE ANONYMOUS OP-ED AND WOODWARD
- Donald Trump nearly declared war on North Korea with proposed tweet, Bob Woodward book reveals
- No way to deny it after New York Times column: America is in a dangerous political crisis
- NYT op-ed enrages Republicans, but not for what it said
- NYT receives complimentary phone calls after White House tweets out number
- Thousands of mental health professionals agree with Woodward and the New York Times op-ed author: Trump is dangerous
- Trump says Justice Department should investigate who wrote anonymous New York Times op-ed, citing national security, AP reports
- Trump tags New York Times with ‘treason’ charge
- Washington consumed by the mystery White House official behind damning New York Times article
- U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo denies writing anonymous New York Times opinion piece on thwarting President Trump
- Omarosa says she thinks anonymous op-ed came from Pence’s office
- ‘The sleeper cells have awoken’: Trump and aides shaken by ‘resistance’ op-ed
- ‘Total Meltdown’: In Hunt For Op-Ed Author, Trump Frets He Can Only Trust His Children
- ‘We See Ourselves as Rebels’: Trump’s Internal Resistance Celebrates
- Analysis | The scariest part about Europe’s reaction to the anti-Trump NYT op-ed? No one is surprised.
- Before the Trump op-ed, another mysterious anonymous author lit up Washington
- Brennan: ‘I see all the warning signs of a looming disaster,’ as does anonymous op-ed author
- It wasn’t me: Trump officials who deny writing the NYT op-ed
- Jared and Ivanka finger NYT’s op-ed writer in ongoing feud with John Kelly: report
- Jim Acosta: Current CNN tally of Trump officials denying they are anonymous NYT writer… Pence, Pompeo, Mattis, Mnuchin, Haley, Coats, Sessions, Azar, Alex Acosta, Wheeler, Nielsen, Haspel, Wilkie, Perdue, Perry, Mulvaney have all released statements personally or through their offices.
- Open Letter to Times Op-ed Writer: Go Public Now, Before They Bust You
- Pence, Pompeo deny authorship of anonymous op-ed on Trump
- Sen. Rand Paul suggests using lie detector tests to find op-ed writer
- That Anonymous Op-Ed Was About Saving the GOP — Not the Republic
- The anonymous NYT op-ed just made Trump’s paranoia a whole lot worse
- The crisis isn’t Trump. It’s his Republican enablers.
- The Dweck: I’m no HR professional but it’s prob a bad sign when an employee writes an anonymous letter calling you a brain-dead asshole and you can’t even narrow it down to 100 people
- The scariest part about Europe’s reaction to the anti-Trump NYT op-ed? No one is surprised.
- Trump wants Attorney General Jeff Sessions to investigate writer of anonymous NYT op-ed
- Trump Wants to Polygraph His Own Staff. That’s Nuts.
- WH narrows search for op-ed writer to a few people, source says
- White House In ‘Total Meltdown’ As Aides Scramble To Contain Op-Ed Fallout: Reports | HuffPost
- Who wrote the ‘resistance’ op-ed? Despite denials, most people are still in the running.
- There is no heroism in covering for an unfit president
- Stop looking for the anonymous writer. Start looking at Trump.
- Mulvaney: Trump regularly asks why Roy Moore lost
- Angry White House Staffer: Breaking news: Rand Paul is still an idiot. Senior Administration Official doesn’t necessarily mean “works at the White House”
- Anonymous ‘resistance’ is weak tea compared with standing up to Nixon
- Trump defends his own mental health — then compares his ramblings to the Gettysburg Address
- Bernstein: Congress should hold hearings on Trump’s fitness for office
Getting a Shrink
- Exclusive: Psychiatrist Bandy Lee says White House officials told her Trump was “unraveling”
- Psychiatrist: Trump admin officials contacted me because president was ‘scaring’ them
- Trump Family Friend Contacted Yale Psychologist With Concerns About President’s Mental Health
- White House officials flagged Trump’s behavior to psychiatrist last year – NY Daily News
25th Amendment
- The Anonymous Trump Op-Ed Writer Worried the 25th Amendment Could Cause a Crisis. Preventing Crisis Is Why It Exists
- Elizabeth Warren Calls for the Cabinet to ‘Invoke the 25th’ and Remove President Trump
- Warren Calls For 25th Amendment to be Invoked Against Trump
- Warren: Time to use 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office
- What You Need to Know About the 25th Amendment
- Claude Taylor: I just spoke to a long time senate staffer I’ve known for 25 years. Discussions by several Senators re 25th Amendment are ongoing and have been reinvigorated by Trump’s recent behavior. Both sides of the aisle. #InYourGutsYouKnowHesNuts
SCOTUS
- Senator Cory Booker: These are the 4 documents marked committee confidential that I brought up in my questioning of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh last night –>
- Booker Confidential – Kavanaugh Hearing
- ‘Kavanaugh Committed Perjury’: New Documents Appear to Show Trump Supreme Court Pick Lied Under Oath Multiple Times
- ‘Bring it’: Cory Booker says he’s releasing a confidential document on Kavanaugh, risking expulsion from the Senate
- ‘Civility’ vs ‘hysteria’ at the Kavanaugh hearings, and what they truly mean
- “Bring the charges”: Cory Booker releases Kavanaugh emails
- Andrew Laufer on Booker/Kavanaugh
- Booker defies GOP warning, releases another batch of ‘confidential’ Kavanaugh docs
- Booker Orders Release of Kavanaugh-Related Email in ‘Act of Disobedience’
- Booker Promises to Release More Confidential Documents: I’ll ‘Use Every Means’ to Stop Kavanaugh
- Booker releases another batch of ‘confidential’ Kavanaugh docs
- Booker Releases Committee Confidential Documents Related to Yesterday’s Testimony
- Booker Releases Committee Confidential Documents Related to Yesterday’s Testimony | Cory Booker | U.S. Senator for New Jersey
- Brett Kavanaugh Is Cherry-Picking the Cases He Says Count as Precedent
- Brett Kavanaugh Perjured Himself. He Should Be Impeached From The D.C. Circuit Soon.
- Brett Kavanaugh Leaked Documents Could Hinder Supreme Court Confirmation
- Brett Kavanaugh Said Roe v. Wade Is Not ‘Settled Law’ In 2003 White House Email
- Brett Kavanaugh won’t say whether he thinks affirmative action is racial entitlement
- Brett Kavanaugh’s perjury avalanche — 50 years in the making
- Carole Lonnig: Update: – Kavanaugh acknowledges close friendship with Kasowitz atty Ed McNally – White House and Kasowitz firm say McNally neither helped prep Kavaugh nor discussed Mueller probe with him.
- Damning Calls For Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Impeachment Come From Author Of Stolen Memos
- Congressman uses old auctioneer skills to drown out protester during hearing
- David Brock: I knew Brett Kavanaugh during his years as a Republican operative. Don’t let him sit on the Supreme Court
- Democrat releases ‘confidential’ emails as Kavanaugh hearing heats up
- Democrats are grandstanding on Kavanaugh? Good. That’s what they should do.
- Democrats force Senate to adjourn to protest Kavanaugh
- Democrats Go Nuclear for Kavanaugh Documents
- Democrats say Brett Kavanaugh may have committed perjury by lying about Republican ‘spying’ in the Senate
- Email Marked ‘Confidential’ by GOP Shows Kavanaugh Pushed for John Yoo, Legal Architect of Bush Torture Program, to Be a Federal Judge
- Five Times Brett Kavanaugh Appears to Have Lied to Congress While Under Oath Fund to Unseat Susan Collins in 2020 Climbs to $500,000 as Leaked Doc Offers New Evidence Kavanaugh Clear Threat to Roe v. Wade
- Five times Brett Kavanaugh appears to have lied to Congress while under oath
- For Susan Collins, A Vote For Kavanaugh Would Be Political Suicide
- GOP’s maneuvering during the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings will seriously damage the Supreme Court’s legitimacy
- Greg Olear: Kavanaugh: 1/ Owes big money to unknown “friends” 2/ Spoke w/Trump’s law firm about Mueller, likely to declare allegiance to 45 3/ Was involved w/Bush II stuff he said under oath he wasn’t 4/ Ignored dad of slain kid 5/ Fine w/white power sign 6/ Anti Roe #WhoOwnsKavanaugh?
- Hirono tweets ‘confidential’ Kavanaugh documents
- I Wrote Some of the Stolen Memos That Brett Kavanaugh Lied to the Senate About
- If I Didn’t Know This Was All Rigged, I’d Think Brett Kavanaugh Is in Serious Trouble
- John Dean: If Kavanaugh’s confirmed, a president who shoots someone on Fifth Avenue can’t be prosecuted in office
- Kamala Harris Asks Kavanaugh if ‘Both Sides’ Were to Blame In Charlottesville
- Kamala Harris Claims She Had ‘Reliable’ Info About Kavanaugh Convo On Mueller Probe Kamala Harris goes viral grilling Kavanaugh on laws restricting the male body Karl Rove: Brett Kavanaugh was central to all policy decisions in Bush White House
- Kamala Harris Stumps Brett Kavanaugh with Marriage Equality Question
- Kavanaugh declines to answer question on whether he’s talked about Mueller probe with people at Trump’s attorney’s firm
- Kavanaugh Hearing: Booker Releases Confidential Documents
- Kavanaugh hearing: John Dean to warn of a ‘pro-presidential powers’ Supreme Court
- Kavanaugh hearing: John Dean to warn of a ‘pro-presidential powers’ Supreme Court
- Kavanaugh protesters take over Sen. Grassley’s office
- Kavanaugh stutters and stammers before admitting there are no laws that govern the male body
- Kavanaugh tried to downplay his involvement in the hacking of Democrats. It was a disaster.
- Kavanaugh’s Campaign Finance Record Shows an Atrocious Disregard for Precedent
- Kavanaugh’s refusal to recuse disqualifies him
- Kyle Griffin: CSPAN has posted the entire nearly 8-minute exchange between Kamala Harris and Kavanaugh on the Mueller probe. It is worth your time.
- Leahy says Kavanaugh was ‘not truthful’ about Democratic documents
- Leaked Documents From Kavanaugh’s Time in White House Discuss Abortion and Affirmative Action
- Leaked Kavanaugh Documents Discuss Abortion and Affirmative Action – The New York Times
- Liberal groups urge Dems to seek perjury probe of Kavanaugh
- Matt Schlapp: Ok wake up: Omarosa, Woodward, kavanaugh hearing antics, Anonymous and now Obama off the beach. This is a carfully scheduled attack on Trump
- McConnell cites possible ethics investigation for Booker – CNNPolitics
- Michael Avenatti: There is a chance that our efforts to depose Trump under oath may end up before the SCOTUS. Under no circumstances should Kavanaugh be permitted to rule on this matter, which was filed long before the nomination.
- Murkowski, Collins face new abortion pressure on Kavanaugh
- New Documents Affirm Kavanaugh’s Hostility Toward Church-State Separation
- Newly released email suggests Kavanaugh did not tell the truth while he was under oath in 2006
- Newly Released Emails Show Brett Kavanaugh May Have Perjured Himself at Least Four Times
- Newly Revealed Emails Raise Fresh Objections to Kavanaugh Confirmation
- Only 5 senators were in the room to hear Parkland shooting survivor’s testimony on Kavanaugh
- Opinion | Confirmed: Brett Kavanaugh Can’t Be Trusted – The New York Times
- Opinion | David Brock: The Brett Kavanaugh I knew shouldn’t sit on the Supreme Court
- Opinion | Kavanaugh’s refusal to recuse disqualifies him
- Opinion | The Republican charade on Roe v. Wade was just unmasked
- People Think They’ve Found Smoking Gun Email that Shows Kavanaugh Lied
- Progressive Groups To Dems: Go Around Chuck Grassley And Release Kavanaugh Records | HuffPost
- Proud Resister: This is the SECOND TIME that Kavanaugh’s former law clerk has made the white-power gesture during the confirmation hearings. We’ve reached the stage of the Trump-Russia-GOP coup where they’re throwing it in our faces and daring us to call them out.
- Ralph Nader: Kavanaugh Is a Corporation Masquerading as a Judge
- Read The Brett Kavanaugh Emails Democrats Defied Republicans To Leak | HuffPost
- Report Finds Judge Kavanaugh Ruled Against Public Interest in Almost All of His District Court Cases
- Ron Wyden says Brett Kavanaugh appears to have lied in 2006 testimony
- Sen. Hirono Tweets ‘Confidential’ Kavanaugh Documents
- Sen. Patrick Leahy Sets ‘Memogate’ Trap for Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh
- Sen. Susan Collins should really read this leaked Brett Kavanaugh email on Roe v. Wade
- Senator Patrick Lehay on stolen mails and Kavanaugh’s role in them
- Wannabe Supreme Brett Kavanaugh red-faced after leaked emails contradict spy testimony
- Tim Kaine: After meeting with him, reviewing his record, and watching his hearing, Judge Kavanaugh has clearly failed to show he would be an independent check against executive power. He would threaten Supreme Court precedent on women’s health, marriage equality, and more. I will vote no. Thread
- The U.S. must settle its constitutional crisis before it confirms Kavanaugh
- Supreme Court Nominee Just Referred to Birth Control as an “Abortion-Inducing Drug”
- Susan Collins Downplays Brett Kavanaugh Email About Abortion Rights And ‘Settled Law’
- Spicy Mic: Thread on Judicial Network and Kavanaugh
- Spicy Mic: KAVANAUGH Financial Disclosures Deeper and perchance better THREAD💲redux💲as previously and quasi meticulously sourced. To the point I am almost sick of retweeting my own tweets. 🔜ALL times I will link to the original data source
- Trump Suggests Banning Protests Following Kavanaugh Demonstrations
- Unable to Come Up with Any Laws Wielding Control Over a Man’s Body, Kavanaugh Dismisses Pro-Choice Movement as One Based in ‘Feelings’
- Confirmed: Brett Kavanaugh Can’t Be Trusted
- Collins’ Office Received 3,000 Coat Hangers Protesting Kavanaugh
- Why Do Conservatives Still Think Contraception Is Abortion?
- What Exactly Does Kamala Harris Have On Brett Kavanaugh?
- With 19 Democrats Still ‘On the Fence,’ Progressives Say That If Schumer Won’t Whip His Caucus to Stop Kavanaugh, They Will
- Yale’s Endorsement Of Brett Kavanaugh Reveals The Legal Establishment’s True Colors
- Jessica Mason Pieklo: Live tweet thread of Cory Booker releasing the emails
- Trump’s Supreme Court nominee faces more questioning
- Section 377 verdict Updates: History owes an apology to LGBT community, Supreme Court says
- Merrick Garland asked to probe perjury allegations against Brett Kavanaugh
TRUMP THE RUSSIAN ASSET
- Trump tags New York Times with ‘treason’ charge
- Donald Trump tries and fails to pronounce ‘anonymous’ during campaign rally speech
- Donald Trump Doesn’t Care About that Obama Speech He Can’t Stop Talking About
- Donald Trump Fabricated A Near-Death Experience, Three Biographies Say
- Trump inauguration crowd photos were edited after he intervened | World news | The Guardian
- Trump might shut down the government because Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh think it’s a good idea
- Trump mocks 14-day jail sentence for ex-aide who lied to FBI
- Trump risks midterm backlash for GOP in six key states if he expands China trade war
- Trump says he won’t protect America because it might hurt his party in the midterms
- Trump tells supporters it’ll be their fault if he gets impeached
- Trump wanted to take a $10 billion missile defense system out of South Korea and “put it in Portland”
TRAITOR TOTS
- Ryan: Author Of NYT Op-Ed Is ‘Living In Dishonesty’ – Talking Points Memo
- Ryan, McConnell try to coax Trump away from shutdown — using props and flattery
- Sarah Huckabee Sanders ‘Should Be Fired’ For Tweeting NYT’s Phone Number After Op-Ed: Bush Ethics Chief
- Perry to visit Moscow: Russian media
Rudy
- Mueller hardens stance on Trump interview in Russia probe, Giuliani…
- Giuliani says deal near for written questions from Mueller – POLITICO
- David S. Joachim: New York (AP) — Trump will not answer federal investigators’ questions, in writing or in person, about whether he tried to block the probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election, Giuliani tells @AP
- Senate Dems want DOJ review of Giuliani’s work for foreign entities
- Seven Senate Democrats Request Immediate DOJ Review of Giuliani’s FARA Compliance
FIGHTING BACK
Obama
- ‘Let’s just remember when this recovery started’: Obama hits back at Trump taking credit for strong economy
- Ana Navarro: I lobbed my share of criticism at Obama. But yeah. I miss a President capable of articulating coherent thoughts in complete and grammatically-correct sentences.
- Barack Obama Endorses “Medicare for All”
- Barack Obama: Republicans Lack ‘Backbone’ To ‘Safeguard The Institutions That Make Our Democracy Work’
- Barack Obama: You need to vote because our democracy depends on it
- Former president Barack Obama, saying President Trump is capitalizing on ‘fear and anger,’ calls on Americans to vote in November
- Obama Calls Out Trump by Name in Most Political Post-Presidency Speech Yet
- Obama offers America reality check on racism: ‘How hard can that be, saying that Nazis are bad?’
- Obama on Trump: How hard can it be to say ‘Nazis are bad’?
- Obama Says He Hopes Trump Has Made People Realize Elections Matter
- Obama slams ‘crazy stuff’ coming out of Trump White House, hits politicizing of Justice Department
- Obama swipes Trump for calling the media ‘enemies of the people’: ‘I complained plenty about Fox News, but you never heard me threaten to shut them down’
- Obama to unveil ‘pointed’ midterm message
- Obama wants Democrats to quit their addiction to the status quo
- Obama warns of voter apathy ahead of November elections
- Obama: How Hard Can It Be to Say ‘Nazis Are Bad’?
Nike
- Nike sales reportedly up 31 percent online after Kaepernick campaign
- Black Cops Aren’t Having Any Of The National Association Of Police Organizations’ Nike Protest
- Black Cops Tell National Police Organization: Nah, Bruh. We Support Kaepernick
- Black police group defends Kaepernick, rips others boycotting Nike
- Despite Outrage, Nike Sales Increased 31% After Kaepernick Ad
Standing Up
- Tara Strong: It is no longer Democrats Vs Republicans. This election is empathy, intelligence, American values and anti corruption Vs Trumpians. #TakeItBack
- Ron Perlman: Godamn you @ChuckGrassley, you are interviewing a man who has already vociferously advocated sending women back to the back allies and not laying a finger on a man who conspired with a foreign enemy and broken 1,000 laws in so doing. Fuck your points of order!!!
- Thomas Paine Knew How to Deal With a Mad King Like Trump
- Republicans: Trump Is a Mad King — Vote for Us to Give Him Unchecked Power
- The madness is pouring out of the White House now, for all to see | Richard Wolffe | Opinion | The Guardian
- We are a superpower run by a simpleton
- We’re in a constitutional crisis. Only voters can save us now.
- Steve Schmidt: Trump is vile, dishonest and corrupt. He is stoking a cold civil war in our land. He is assailing our institutions, traditions, alliances and is a party to the global regression of democracy. He is incompetent and mentally unfit. This is a national emergency. Thread
- It’s About Time Senate Democrats Showed Some Damn Backbone
- The Founding Fathers Would Agree: Trump Can Be Indicted
- Trump will undoubtedly face impeachment, says Watergate attorney
FIXING THE INTERNET
- Apple just permanently banned Infowars from the App Store
- Apple Removes Alex Jones’s Infowars From Its App Store
- Twitter Has Finally Banned Alex Jones
- Twitter permanently bans Alex Jones and Infowars accounts
- ‘The FCC Chair Is Outright Lying to Reporters and Congress’
IMMIGRATION
- Trump administration to circumvent court limits on detention of child migrants
- Outrage over Trump’s ‘sickening’ plans to detain migrant children indefinitely
- Migrant families separated by U.S. are refusing reunification over dangers: ACLU
- State of Virginia Confirms Immigrant Teenagers Were Strapped to Chairs with Bags Over Their Heads
- As Months Pass in Chicago Shelters, Immigrant Children… — ProPublica
- Atlanta Mayor orders city to end relationship with ICE, remove all detainees from city jail
- Ken Paxton draws on debunked figures, says ‘illegals’ committed 600,000 crimes in Texas since 2011
- Federal Judge OKs Refugee Class Action Against Trump Administration
- Ted Lieu: 49 years ago the US government landed a man on the moon and brought him back. The fact that the federal government still hasn’t reunited more than 400 kids ripped away from their parents is not an issue of capability. It is deliberate indifference. @SecNielsen needs to resign.Ted Lieu added,
COLD WAR 2.0
- Putin is a thug and only values the loot, says BILL BROWDER | Express Comment | Comment | Express.co.uk
- Putin’s Killer Spies Have Finally Gone Too Far – Observer
- Europe Goes Harder on Money Laundering With Record ING Fine – WSJ
- Angered Protesters In Basra Torch Iranian Consulate : NPR
- Asha Rangappa: And whose “deep cover” SVR agents, who were arrested in 2010, threw cell phone receipts in the trash, used bright orange bags for brush passes, and freely mentioned “Siberia” in phone conversations. Their tradecraft needs a little work.
- Football Leaks: Kazakh moguls, the pal of Donald Trump, teen models and the yacht of the ‘Father of the Turks’
- Former CNN Contributor Scottie Nell Hughes Joins Russian Network RT America
- Louise Bagshawe: I can assure you that the hit was not “deliberately visible”. In fact @Mod_Russia thought their men were undetected. It is a nasty shock to them to be shown some small fraction of what @GCHQ has. @PutinRF is just a very poor spy who has overestimated himself and his resources.
- Murdered Russian exile survived earlier poisoning attempt, police believe | UK news | The Guardian
- NBC News: US, UK, France, Germany, Canada leaders issue statement on Salisbury attack: “We have full confidence in the British assessment that the two suspects were officers from the Russian military intelligence service” and that it was “almost certainly approved at a senior gov’t level” – Thread
- Russia-Linked Money-Laundering Probe Looks at $150 Billion in Transactions – WSJ
- Russia’s Suez Canal? Ships start plying an ice-free Arctic, thanks to climate change
- Russians charged over Novichok poisoning of Sergei Skripal, daughter
- The Salisbury poisoning is the straw that broke the camel’s back in the UK’s relationship with Russia
- U.S. envoy sees Israel keeping Golan Heights forever
- Trump Administration Discussed Coup Plans With Rebel Venezuelan Officers
- Former KGB officer says Putin could order MORE assassinations because UK is seen as ‘soft touch’
- How Assad Made Truth a Casualty of War | by Muhammad Idrees Ahmad | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books
#NEVERAGAIN
- Shannon Watts: An Idaho man pointed a handgun at a woman and three children after she honked her horn at him. They said they were afraid for their lives and took their seatbelts off and laid on the floor. Road-rage incidents involving guns doubled between 2015 and 2016.
- Police: Burley man pointed handgun at woman and children in traffic | Southern Idaho Crime and Courts | magicvalley.com
- Shannon Watts: A story the @NRA won’t share, but an outcome that’s much more likely than an armed civilian saving the day, “The husband shot his wife accidently. He thought she was a prowler. She was transported to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.”
- Southern California man shoots wife after accidentally mistaking her for prowler: police – NY Daily News
- Shannon Watts: “It includes shoulder pads designed to function as tourniquets, or as body straps to pull wounded children from the line of fire.”
- Should you buy a ‘bulletproof backpack’ for your child? We tested their performance
- Shannon Watts: Reminder that George Zimmerman is still allowed to purchase and own guns – despite a history of shooting and killing a teen, domestic violence, and threats and stalking. Because America.
- George Zimmerman Made Threats Against Beyoncé and Jay-Z
- Shannon Watts: “If you’re tired of politicians who offer only thoughts and prayers after a mass shooting, you’ve got to act. We need politicians who believe your life is more valuable than a check from the @NRA” – President Obama
- Dallas officer goes home to wrong apartment, kills man inside
- Southern California man shoots wife after accidentally mistaking her for prowler: police – NY Daily News
- Shannon Watts: A federal building security officer in Ohio is in custody for fatally shooting the two teen children of his girlfriend after he found out she had texted an ex-boyfriend. Until he pulled the trigger, he was the @NRA’s definition of a good guy with a gun.
- Federal building security officer in custody for fatal shooting of two teens – News 5 Cleveland
THE PROPAGANDA MACHINE
- Sinclair stations have now aired six “must-run” segments pushing for Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation
- Julia Davis: A curious number of people sure seem to be bursting into grateful tears in Trump’s presence. The crying characters in Trump’s stories tend to share three characteristics: they are male, they are “tough” or “strong,” and they do not have names.
- According to Donald Trump, a lot of people are crying around Donald Trump | The Star
- Fox Business Host Calls Former President George W. Bush a ‘Radical’ Liberal
- In Fahrenheit 11/9, Michael Moore spares no one — especially self-satisfied liberals
- Photographer admits editing inaugurations photos.
- Report: Trump’s Inauguration Pics Were Edited to Make the Crowd Look Bigger
- Video surfaces refuting Trump’s claim that he’s never called someone ‘retarded’
- Trump Celebrates and Encourages Violence Against Reporters
- Kurt Eichenwald: That Sarah sanders @PressSec would actually post the phone number of the @nytimes and invite her death-threat-issuing followers to start harassing the times tells you everything you need to know of what kind of horrible, bullying, ignorant person she is.
- On Fox News, a Former CIA Contractor Threatened to ‘Choke’ Barack Obama
- Tucker Carlson went on a rant against diversity on Fox News, and Twitter owned him
Montana Rally
- At Rally, Trump Praises Physical Violence, Warns Impeachment Could Turn U.S. Into “Third World Country”
- At Rally, Trump Says Democrats Would ‘Destroy’ Social Security
- ‘I had to be real’: #PlaidShirtGuy removed from Trump rally after viral facial expressions
- ‘Plaid shirt guy’ ejected from Trump rally says Secret Service ‘told me not to come back’
- ‘Plaid shirt guy’ reacting to Trump at rally becomes viral sensation
- Several People Behind Trump Were Removed, Replaced During Rally In Montana
- High school student removed from Trump rally because he didn’t have a supportive expression on his face
- ColSand42: Trump claims 45,000 were at his rally tonight, the Rimrock Arena only holds 12,000.
- #plaidshirtguy at Trump rally is … a Billings high schooler | 406 Politics | billingsgazette.com
- The President’s Broken Brain Was on Full Display in Montana esquire.com
- Enenamas? Enomynous? Watch Trump Struggle With The Word ‘Anonymous’
Beyoncé
- Eric Garland: Team Treason is running a media play trying to play up George Zimmerman “threatening” Beyoncé. Remember that Russia bought ads about Beyoncé AND Trayvon Martin. Thread
- ‘Pro-Beyoncé’ vs. ‘Anti-Beyoncé’: 3,500 Facebook ads show the scale of Russian manipulation
- George Zimmerman Made Threats Against Beyoncé and Jay-Z
WHITE HOUSE CHAOS
- Trump aides are worried that Obama will rile the President as he obsesses over coverage of his speech
- White House aides frantic return of Obama is getting ‘into Trump’s head’
- Omarosa to release new White House tape on ‘The View’
- Trump has lost control of his White House
- ‘I start off every day in a bad mood’: How Americans grapple with daily drama of Trump White House
- Melania refused to appear on TV with Trump after ‘Access Hollywood’ tape: Woodward book
TRADE WAR AND ECONOMY
- Barclays official: Trump impeachment wouldn’t crash stock market
- A year later, Equifax lost your data but faced little fallout
- After Nabbing Billions In Tax Breaks, AT&T’s Promised Job Growth Magically Evaporates
- Domino’s offered Russians a lifetime of pizzas if they got tattoos of the company logo – and then they had to shut down the offer because too many people got inked
- Exposed: Undercover Reporter at Amazon Warehouse Found Abusive Conditions & No Bathroom Breaks
- How the U.S. economy turned six good jobs into bad ones
- Tesla stock falls as CEO appears to smoke marijuana on video
- Trade War’s Next Salvo to Hit U.S. Shoppers Harder Than Chinese
- It’s Time to Get Billionaires Off of Welfare
- Trump warns he could cause the ‘ruination’ of Canada
GOP: THE PARTY OF LINCOLN IS DEAD
- This GOP lawmaker told a woman his penis was a gun. His apology was no better.
- Republicans: Trump Is a Mad King — Vote for Us to Give Him Unchecked Power
- The Republican charade on Roe v. Wade was just unmasked
- Conservative PAC Ad Features Concerned Mom, Fails to Disclose She’s a GOP Official
- Turns Out the “Local Kansas Mom” in This Conservative Attack Ad Is a Top State Republican Official
- Republicans are preparing to disavow Trump if he fails — then come back and try the same policies
- RNC asks court to keep recount plan for 2020 secret
- Roy Moore drops lawsuit related to U.S. Senate race
- Scott Wagner’s campaign sends anti-trans meme to reporter on accident. It’s bad.
- Kavanaugh, the NYT op-ed, and the failure of Trump-skeptical Republicans – Vox
DRUGS
- The man who made billions of dollars from OxyContin is pushing a drug to wean addicts off opioids
- OxyContin Billionaire to Sell Drug to Get You Off OxyContin
- Mac Miller Dead at 26
- Mac Miller Found Dead of Suspected Overdose at 26
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
- Jury Fines Man $1 For Punching Charlottesville Rally Organizer
- Dallas officer goes home to wrong apartment, kills man inside
- US: 15 people indicted including Indian-origin in massive call centre scam
- Eric Garland: BREAKING: Nation of Georgia extraditing Russian criminal behind JPMorgan hacks to face justice at USAO-SDNY! Thread
- Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Extradition Of Alleged Russian Hacker Responsible For Massive Network Intrusions At U.S. Financial Institutions, Brokerage Firms, A Major News Publication, And Other Companies | USAO-SDNY | Department of Justice
- Justice Department to announce computer hacking charges against North Korean spy in connection with 2014 attack on Sony Pictures
- Louise Neufy: Arkansas Corruption Thread
- Former Arkansas State Senator Sentenced To 220 Months In Federal Prison For Wire Fraud, Mail Fraud And Money | USAO-WDAR | Department of Justice
- Former Oklahoma governor candidate indicted in murder-for-hire plot
- Judge: Couple behind GoFundMe account must appear in court
- Michael Bloch: My client walked out of Rikers Island today after a jury acquitted him of all charges. He waited in jail for his trial for 3 years. He lost his job and missed his son’s first 3 birthdays simply because he couldn’t afford bail. He’s not unique – THIS IS OUR SYSTEM. #reform
- Off to the races: Supreme Court clears dog racing-ban for ballot – Florida Politics
- Ohio Police: Officer violated policy when he used Taser on 11-year-old shoplifting suspect
- Sheriffs who cheered Trump’s attack on press have their own media run-ins
- Southern California man shoots wife after accidentally mistaking her for prowler: police – NY Daily News
- Terry Crews settles lawsuit with the Hollywood agent he says groped him
- As Leslie Moonves Negotiates His Exit from CBS, Women Raise New Assault and Harassment Claims
PRIESTS
- New cardinal: Abuse victims should be ‘ashamed’ to speak due to their own failings
- 5 States Are Investigating Potential Cover-Ups of Sex Abuse in Catholic Dioceses – The New York Times
- New York attorney general issues subpoenas to every Catholic diocese in the state
- Several States Are Launching Their Own Investigations Into the Catholic Church
- Eric Garland: Thread on the Catholics and Jane Sanders
ENVIRONMENT
- BBC admits ‘we get climate change coverage wrong too often’
- Florence is predicted to restrengthen and is a hurricane threat to the East Coast
- The E.P.A.’s Review of Mercury Rules Could Remake Its Methods for Valuing Human Life and Health
ELECTION 2018
- Voting activist says hundreds of illegally rejected ballots gave Kris Kobach primary win
- Top Trump Adviser Says Ted Cruz Could Lose Texas Senate Race
- Ted Cruz falsely says Beto O’Rourke said he was ‘grateful’ for U.S. flag burners
- Ted Cruz may lose his US Senate seat because he’s too ‘unlikeable’ warns top White House official
- Ted Cruz unswayed on NFL anthem protests after off-duty Dallas officer kills man in his own apartment
- Ted Cruz: Beto O’Rourke ‘grateful’ for flag burners
- Cruz fights for political life as O’Rourke attracts voters well beyond liberal base
- Beto O’Rourke campaign says impostor sent text to voters seeking rides to polls for ‘undocumented immigrants’
- Beto O’Rourke gets more attention than any other 2018 candidate. Will it translate to votes?
- Gillum raises eight times more than DeSantis in first week of campaign for governor
- GOP candidate for Kansas House seat charged with election fraud
- White House official to donors: GOP can win midterms despite Trump’s unpopularity
- Kentucky Democrats decry racist tweets by woman featured in GOP ad attacking McGrath
- Cook Revises Iowa House Race Ranking to Lean Democratic
- ‘Don’t boo — vote!’: Democrats hope anger will drive Puerto Ricans to the polls in Florida
- Expert panel calls for sweeping election security measures
- Forget the House. It’s the battle for the Senate that could provide the most drama on election night.
- Science academies urge paper ballots for all US elections
- Their new mission? Foil Trump. Ex-intelligence officials run for Congress as Democrats
- Trump admits he will put his party ahead of national security to win the midterms
- Trump’s reported ‘dumb southerner’ jab at Jeff Sessions could be hurting him in Alabama
- Ted Cruz warns that Beto O’Rourke will bring ‘tofu, silicon and dyed hair’ to Texas
- Pence: ‘Very disappointing’ to see Obama ‘become so political’ | TheHill
PROGRESS IS PROGRESS
- Barack Obama Endorses “Medicare for All”
- Union workers at all 3 U.S. Steel mills in Western Pa. ready to strike
- Whole Foods employees step up efforts to unionize, cite laundry list of grievances under Amazon
- It’s Time to Get Billionaires Off of Welfare
- California bans for-profit charter schools
- Historic India ruling legalises gay sex
IN OTHER NEWS…
- Burt Reynolds changed the way we thought about sex — by getting naked on a bearskin rug
- Burt Reynolds Dead: ‘Deliverance,’ ‘Boogie Nights’ Star Was 82 | Hollywood Reporter
- Burt Reynolds Dead: ‘Smokey and the Bandit’ Star Was 82 – Variety
- Burt Reynolds, Hollywood action star with Southern-fried machismo, dies at 82
- Anarchy: What It Is and Why Pop Culture Loves It
- Trying to trick yourself into exercising more? Good luck.
- Nation Stunned That There Is Someone in White House Capable of Writing an Editorial
- Summer’s over, and things are back to bonkers. Here’s the view from Crazytown, D.C.
- The tiny, thriving restaurant where you can only get reservations by postcard
- This school janitor has quietly been giving homeless students clothes, soap and more
- She made the discovery, but a man got the Nobel. A half-century later, she’s won a $3 million prize.
RUMOR MILL
- Countercheckist: Anyone in the “#resistance,” verified or otherwise, who regularly uses Kremlin media themes & personalities to discredit legitimate anti-tRUmp ppl, is not “resisting” with you. #Provokatsiya is real. Be mindful of it.
- Countercheckist: The swamp monster is very worried this morning… He should be.
- Countercheckist: Watch out for #TeamTreason’s “shiny objects” as they desperately scramble for an outrage du jour to substitute for the current discussion of tRUmp’s mental fitness to lead. Eyes on the prize. Stay focused, patriots. OSC is closing in. And our adversaries know it.
- Tea Pain: If the op-ed cabal has been secretly workin’ over a year to vex Trump’s insanity, why did they pick now to expose their scheme? This sounds like something you do when you know the end is near and your work is no longer needed.
- Spicy Mic: Only going to say this once: Doxing is Criminal Engaging in targeted harassment, is wrong. Bringing people’s children in to a twitter thread, is vile. If an account spends 90% of the time harassing & amplifying Alt Right & Alt Left Ask yourself WHY & what is their real reason
- Eric Garland: He’s on so many Title III and FISA intercepts along with Treasury FinCEN and IRS-CI files, so fuck him. He can just go to prison. Now.
That’s it for now. I’m not a big fan of putting so much into one update, but it was either this or miss a couple really big developments. Butina and Erickson are about to flip on each other, Kavanaugh’s caught in the middle of committing perjury several times, Cory Booker is facing possible explosion from the Senate for showing the lengths of the GOP’s corruption and cover-up, Trump is provably batshit crazy, we have multiple stories showing how close we’ve come to a full-scale war with everyone from North Korea to Canada, and Barack Obama is back in the game.
I’m curious about the timing of all of this. It’s almost like everything coming at once to breach the gates of the White House. And it’s not just these attacks, but combined with ALL of the investigations, lawsuits, inquiries, and protests they’re facing, it’s just a matter of time until something breaks.
I should be back to a semi-regular schedule this week.
Thank you, and have a good one.
“Without Journalists, it’s just propaganda.”
– Katy Tur
