Friday, March 8, 2019 and the weekend.
THE RUSSIAN INVESTIGATION
South Florida Sex Rings
- Trump cheered Patriots to Super Bowl victory with founder of spa where Kraft was busted
- Trump Donor and Spa Owner Li Yang Allegedly Tried to Sell Access to President
- The Mar-a-Lago Connection to the Cindy Yang Affair Raises Huge Security Risks
Okay, this might seem like it doesn’t belong in the top section. And at first glance, it doesn’t. This is where we get to play the most corrupt version of 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon.
Cindy Yang, founder of the massage parlor that got busted on Daily Check-In 02/22/2019, is neck deep in the upper echelons of the Republican Party. She’s using her access to Trump to help Chinese businesspeople get direct access to Trump, bypassing all official channels. These businesspeople almost certainly are working at the behest of the Chinese government. The Chinese are bribing the Trump Family.
I’ll explain this in detail in the #MeToo section.
Erik Prince
- Blackwater founder Erik Prince admits to Trump Tower meeting in disastrous interview
- Blackwater Founder Erik Prince Finally Admits He Attended a Controversial Trump Tower Meeting
- Erik Prince acknowledges 2016 Trump Tower meeting for first time
- Erik Prince acknowledges attending 2016 Trump Tower meeting ‘to talk about Iran policy’
- Erik Prince: Blackwater founder admits Trump Tower meeting with Donald Jr in disastrous interview
- Ex-Mercenary CEO Erik Prince Admits To Trump Tower Meet With Don Jr., Saudi Emissary
- Ex-Mercenary CEO Erik Prince Admits To Trump Tower Meet With Donald Jr. And Saudi Emissary
- Adam Schiff: Erik Prince did not disclose 2016 Trump Tower meeting during testimony
- Kyle Griffin: Remarkable @mehdirhasan interview: Erik Prince admits to meeting with members of the Trump campaign in August 2016 after, according to a public transcript, apparently failing to disclose the gathering during his testimony in front of the House Intelligence Committee last year.
- Ted Lieu: Sure looks like Erik Prince committed perjury.
- 911corlebra777: Yes, Erik Prince lied to Congress, which apparently is a “process” crime according to Donald Trump
Erik Prince, the former CEO of the controversial security firm Blackwater, has admitted in an Al Jazeera interview to attending an August 2016 campaign meeting at Trump Tower with Donald Trump Jr.
The New York Times had reported last year that Prince arranged and attended a meeting with an adviser to the de facto ruler of the United Arab Emirates, who then told Trump Jr. that the UAE and Saudi Arabia wanted to help Trump win the election. But this is the first time Prince has admitted that he was at the meeting and the discussion was about Iran policy. This revelation is more proof that Prince may have lied to Congress during his testimony to the House Intelligence Committee.
Sometimes all it takes to unravel a bullshit cover story is one good interview. Richard Nixon had David Frost. Lance Armstrong had Oprah Winfrey. Erik Prince had Medir Hasan.
Mr. Hasan was able to get Erik Prince to admit on the record that he took part in the August 3rd meeting in Trump Tower where Donnie Jr. met with Erik Prince and George Nader to get help to win the election from the Saudis in exchange for blowing up the Iran Nuclear Deal. (Daily Check-In 05/21/2018 and Daily Check-In 05/18/2018) Keep in mind, Erik did not tell Congress about this when he testified before them.
Manafort
- A mysterious payment to Paul Manafort’s lawyer reveals a hidden chapter of Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign
- Former Fed Prosecutor ‘Stunned’ by 47-Month Sentence: Manafort Wrote the ‘Textbook’ on ‘How to Flout the Justice System’
- How could anyone think Paul Manafort lived an ‘otherwise blameless’ life?
- I’m a public defender. My clients get none of the sympathy Manafort did.
- Is Paul Manafort’s sentence too light? He fared worse than many fraudsters, data shows.
- Kamala Harris calls Manafort’s relatively light sentence unfair
- Legal experts are losing their minds on Twitter over the Manafort sentencing
- Manafort got 47 months for fraud. Lewinsky says she was ‘threatened’ with ‘27 years’ for hiding affair.
- Manafort got a lighter sentence than if he’d been dealing crack
- Manafort juror: Trump should not pardon Manafort
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says Manafort sentencing shows justice isn’t ‘blind,’ it’s ‘bought’
- Edward Snowden rips light Manafort sentence: ‘Your sentence derives from your proximity to power’
- Manafort just escaped a tough sentence, but his lies to prosecutors became more bizarre
- Manafort’s ‘mind-boggling’ 47-month sentence prompts debate over judicial system’s ‘blatant inequities’
- Manafort’s 47 Months: A Sentence That Drew Gasps From Around the Country
- Opinion | U.S. sentencing needs reform, but Manafort’s 47 months was a strange one
- Paul Manafort Gets a 47-Month Taste of What’s Coming for Trump’s Tools
- She Got 5 Years For Voting Illegally Once. Paul Manafort Got Less Time For Years Of Cons.
- Angry White House Staffer: I’m generally a firm believer in letting Justice do its thing, but for the life of me I can’t figure out Ellis’ “blameless life” comment re: Manafort. Everything we know says Manafort has been a crook for *decades* I hope Judge Jackson hits him with the max. Consecutively.
- Did Manafort collude with Russia through ‘Person A’? | Spectator USA
- Tea Pain: Mueller options for Manafort. 1) Sentencin’ before Judge Jackson in D.C. next week. More years served consecutively. 2) 10 existin’ charges he can refile 3) Conspiracy charges to be filed in 3rd fed venue 4) State level charges Manafort will never take another free breath.
- John Schindler: Wherein @TheRickWilson brings the fire on Paulie Walnuts and his entourage of ostrich-jacketed Trumpian crooks, fools and knaves. Excellent.
Manning
- Chelsea Manning sent to jail for refusing to testify in WikiLeaks case
- Chelsea Manning jailed for contempt after refusing to testify in WikiLeaks grand jury investigation
- Brad Heath: Chelsea Manning has arrived at the detention center in Alexandria, Virginia. A judge ordered that she be jailed on Friday after she refused to testify in a grand jury investigation of WikiLeaks.
Clearance
- White House Source Leaks Ivanka/Jared Clearance Docs to House Dems: Report
- Scoop: White House leak to House Dems on Jared and Ivanka’s clearances
- Scott Stedman: George Nader paid Joel Zamel $2,000,000 after the Trump election. Nader doesn’t have $2,000,000 to give away. Someone else paid Zamel. Why? And why use Nader as an intermediary? Also why the hell did Nader/Zamel use a shell company that, after a year of searching, no news org has been able to find? And why does Prince lie about this relationship incessantly?
- Asha Rangappa: The reason we have the Special Counsel regs is that when the Independent Counsel statute expired in 1999 everyone agreed Starr had so abused it it was allowed to expire. Oh, now-Justice Kavanaugh was on Starr’s team and Starr later represented Jeffrey Epstein. 🙄#circleoflife
- Josh Campbell: Just incredible hearing @JoeLockhart describe the differences between Robert Mueller, who has run the most tight-lipped operation in recent memory, and Ken Starr, who used to address the media from the end of his driveway. As Lockhart spoke, Starr sat right across from him…
- It Exists: DOJ Finds Letter Ordering Scrutiny of Uranium One, Hillary Clinton
- Sessions Letter Shows DOJ Acted On Trump’s Authoritarian Demand To Investigate Clinton
- Newly Revealed Letter Shows Jeff Sessions Really Did Order Investigation into Hillary Clinton Matters
- McCabe Investigated Not Just Trump but Sessions Too | RealClearInvestigations
- Justice Dept. to Step Up Enforcement of Foreign Influence Laws
- Lincoln’s Bible: Friday FACT: Weissman was the first person Mueller brought on his team. Don’t despair. And don’t treat Mueller as a catch-all. They’re going to give us the road map to tear it all down. Doing so will take yrs, Congressional hearings, courts, our patience & unflappable will.
- Elderly Americans are dying without getting to read Mueller’s report – and they’re not happy about it
- Harvard Law Professor Predicts Jared Kushner Will Be Exposed as ‘Insatiably Greedy Benedict Arnold’
- Ken Starr: Sitting presidents should be indictable
- Rep. Adam Schiff: Robert Mueller Making ‘Mistake’ If he Doesn’t Subpoena Donald Trump to Testify Under Oath
- Mueller Should Make Trump Testify Under Oath, Suggests Top Democrat
- Mueller Would Err by Not Putting Trump Under Oath, Schiff Says
- How Mueller’s team fears Russia could learn US secrets in court case
- Julia Davis: Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team argued Thursday that if it’s forced to hand over millions of “sensitive” documents to Russian individuals as part of court proceedings, #Russia could mine the material for operational secrets & use them against the US.
- Opinion | The more we learn about Brexit, the more crooked it looks
- Russian Trolls Shift Strategy to Disrupt U.S. Election in 2020
COHEN, NEW YORK, AND THE OTHER LAWSUITS
Pardon Talk
- Trump claims his former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen ‘directly asked me for a pardon’
- Trump’s latest admission: He had an explicit discussion with Cohen about a pardon
- Natasha Bertrand: Cohen said the last time he spoke to Trump was “within 2 months” of the April FBI raid—and that the conversation is “actually something that’s being investigated right now by the Southern District of New York.” Meanwhile, Trump just admitted to speaking to Cohen about pardons.
Stormy Daniels
- Jane Meyer: New: Fox reporter Diana Falzone’s lawyer Nancy Erica Smith has issued a statement demanding that Fox release her from her NDA so she can talk about getting the Stormy Daniels story before the 2016 election.
- Former Fox News writer who was allegedly shut down when reporting on Trump’s payments to Stormy Daniels calls on Rupert Murdoch to lift NDA
- Former Fox News editor who killed piece on Trump payments to Stormy Daniels joins reporter in calling for network NDAs to be lifted
- Police: Stormy Daniels’ arrest at strip club was improper
- Stormy Daniels is now free to talk about Trump as much as she wants
TRUMP THE RUSSIAN ASSET A.K.A. INDIVIDUAL-1
- Rachel Scott: President Trump signed Bibles today while visiting Beauregard, Alabama —a community devastated by two deadly tornadoes.
- Tea Pain: 100s of Alabamans will have the same signature in their Bibles that appears on hush money checks to porn stars.
- Trump “likes” tweet connecting massage parlor owner to Mar-a-lago
- What did the president know and when did he know it? Trump knew it all, from the beginning
- Scoop: Trump lied to RNC donors about “Tim Apple” video
- The 10 personas of Donald Trump in a single speech
- Trump budget to include $100M for daughter Ivanka’s project
- Trump Is Autographing Bibles Now So That’s a Wrap on Humanity, Right?
- Trump is using HIV funds to cage kids & invites Brazil’s anti-LGBTQ president to the white house
- Trump is wrong that Obama White House refused to turn over documents in congressional probes
- ‘The Democrat Party’: Trump needles the opposition by truncating its name
- Yes, Trump is undignified. Demagogues have to be.
- On the 226th try, Trump hopes you’ll simply accept that there was no collusion
TRAITOR TOTS
- Bill Shine abruptly resigns as White House communications chief
- Bill Shine, former Fox News executive, resigns from White House communications role
- Trump Diehards Create Their Own Yelp for MAGA-Friendly Restaurants
- Caroline Orr: Trump fans created a new app that allows them to rate restaurants & other businesses as “safe” or “unsafe” based on a series of 4 questions, including whether the owners make political social media posts & whether they allow customers to carry weapons.
- President Donald Trump or President Sean Hannity? Fox News host has dangerous influence.
- Only One Roadblock on the Road to Reform: Mitch McConnell
- HUD Secretary Ben Carson: I’m not leaving, but I will resign. But maybe stay.
FIGHTING BACK
- Opinion | Trump is barreling toward war with Iran. Congress must act to stop him.
- Vladimir Putin humiliated by his horse at International Women’s Day event
- Louise Mensch: This is SO GOOD. Watch Putin be humiliated in front of Russia and in the middle of a bunch of women police Can’t control his horse What a weakling #ОскорблениеПутина #InsultPutin @Mod_Russia
- Ming Nethery: It likely his tiny penis. Horses sense that. Of course Ming have no problem with Horse…
- Pace: Dotard forced two young female employees of the golf course to have breakfast with him. One person noticed he kept staring at their boobs and making weird faces.
- Claude Taylor: I know many tire of the comparisons but can you imagine if Obama and a who’s who of top elected Dems were photographed with an entrepreneur/sex trafficker?
- She exposed Russian trolling. Her award for her work was rescinded after she criticized Trump.
- Robinson: Perfect Trump re-election slogan: ‘I Don’t Keep Any Promises But My Voters Are Too Stupid to Notice’
- Former Obama Officials Warn Democrats – Stop Playing Nice With Republicans!
- Chris Matthews: Trump’s impeachable crimes were committed in broad daylight
- Donald Trump Won’t Survive ‘Another Week Like the Last,’ Former Superior Court Judge Warns
CONGRESS
- House Democrats pass H.R. 1, their answer to draining the swamp
- House Democrats torn over how aggressively to scrutinize Ivanka Trump, president’s other children
- House Intelligence chairman’s bill would give Congress investigative materials in case of pardon
- House passes bill to require presidents to disclose their tax returns
- House passes sweeping voting rights, electoral reform bill – HR 1 aims to make Election Day a federal holiday, help publicly finance elections, and require presidents to release their tax returns.
- Not Even One Republican Voted for Sweeping House Bill to Improve Democracy, Make Voting Easier
- Republicans freak out over HR1: They don’t want America to have fair elections — Conservatives are in panic mode over HR1, the House bill that would make it easier for all Americans to vote
- A conservative group alleges Ocasio-Cortez and her allies ran a PAC scam. But there’s no evidence of wrongdoing.
- A look back at Clinton’s impeachment reveals the GOP’s searing hypocrisy.
- A witch hunt? House Democrats are just doing the basic oversight Republicans declined to do
- Brett Kavanaugh said Congress should hold presidents accountable. William Barr agreed.
- Would ‘every small dollar donated’ be matched 6 to 1 under the House Democratic plan?
- Republicans terrified at prospect of voting becoming easier and more fair
EMERGENCIES, SHUTDOWN & IMMIGRATION
- Trump to demand $8.6 billion in new wall funding, setting up fresh battle with Congress
- A remote bombing range on the border gets sized up for a piece of Trump’s wall
- Arizona ranchers who supported Trump wall now have doubts about border plans
- In another blow to Trump, judge rules in favor of ACLU in family separations case
- Tea Pain: Have you noticed what tends to be humane and decent is a “blow to Trump?”
- GOP congressman representing 40% of border slams Trump’s emergency
- Homeland Security Is Investigating Immigration Officials’ Secret List Of Journalists, Attorneys, And Activists To Question At The Border
- Pentagon may tap military pay, pensions for border wall
- GOP bracing for Trump to veto Congress’s rejection of his emergency declaration
- Appeals court rules immigrant may seek judicial review of expedited deportation
- DHS plan to share non-citizens’ data with Census Bureau could further spook immigrants, experts say
- Immigrant Advocates Just Got JPMorgan Chase to Stop Financing Private Prisons
- Discovering contemporary Mexico beyond the daily headlines: The images of Graciela Iturbide
- Federal Judge Expands Ruling, Orders All Children Separated After July 2017 Be Reunited
- Pelosi, Schumer — Joint Statement on President Trump’s New Demand for Wall Funding
RACISM, RIGHT WING TERRORISM, & WHITE NATIONALISM
- Judge: Jail time for Florida man who attacked McDonald’s worker over straw
- Fox News host Jeanine Pirro suggests Ilhan Omar’s hijab means she follows Sharia law
- Fox’s Jeanine Pirro Suggested That Ilhan Omar’s Hijab Means She’s Not Loyal to the Constitution – It’s the latest in a string of Islamophobic attacks against the nation’s first Muslim Congresswomen.
- ICE officials under review for social media posts suggesting Rep. Ilhan Omar took ‘terrorism classes’
- ‘This is a sham’: Why did 23 Republicans vote against condemning hatred and bigotry?
- A black man was picking up trash outside his home. Then police confronted him.
- A white couple, a mixed-race baby and a forbidden adoption
- Arrests in domestic terror probes outpace those inspired by Islamic extremists
- Democrats were trying to ‘protect’ Rep. Ilhan Omar with broad resolution denouncing hate, Rep. Liz Cheney says
- House overwhelmingly passes broad measure condemning hate in response to Rep. Ilhan Omar’s alleged anti-Semitic comments
- Leaked chats reveal white nationalist group’s efforts to cozy up to the GOP
- Maine GOP mayor resigns after calling elderly black people ‘antique farm equipment’
- Ocasio-Cortez calls out 23 Republicans who voted against anti-hate resolution
- Ole Miss faculty vote to move Confederate monument off campus
- Poll: Most Republicans think white people face discrimination, Democrats disagree
- The dishonest smearing of Ilhan Omar She didn’t accuse Jews of ‘dual loyalty,’ she called Congress on it
- “I’m coming after you”: Colorado Republican lawmaker warns “ambush” on journalist in profane rant
- 75 Percent of Republicans Say White Americans Are Discriminated Against — Democrats say, not so much
SCOTUS & COURTS
- Supreme Court justices tell Congress they are not considering televising hearings
- Federal judge allows Trump administration’s restrictions on transgender troops
- Hip-Hop Artists Give the Supreme Court a Primer on Rap Music
- Trump’s legacy: conservative judges who will dominate US law for decades
#METOO & WOMEN’S RIGHTS
Florida Sex Rings
- Founder of Florida spa tied to Robert Kraft case offered access to Trump and family at Mar-a-Lago to Chinese clients
- Trump hosted ‘prostitution’ day spa founder for Super Bowl party to watch Robert Kraft’s Patriots play
- Super Bowl selfie emerges of Trump with founder of spa where New England Patriots owner was arrested
- Trump cheered Patriots to Super Bowl victory with founder of spa where Kraft was busted
- Trump Donor and Spa Owner Li Yang Allegedly Tried to Sell Access to President
- The Mar-a-Lago Connection to the Cindy Yang Affair Raises Huge Security Risks
- Trump took Super Bowl party selfie with founder of spa where Patriots owner Robert Kraft was busted: report
- BREAKING: Jupiter Sex Trafficking Madame Attended White House Meetings On Behalf of Trump
- Kraft’s Florida Massage-Parlor Founder Sure Hung Out With Lots of Republicans Besides Trump
- Report: Florida Rubdown Tycoon Gave Thousands to Trump, Is Frequent Guest at Mar-a-lago, and Hangs with POTUS — The Woman Who Founded the Massage Parlor Where Robert Kraft Was Busted Is a Major Supporter of the President.
- A Florida Massage Parlor Owner Has Been Selling Chinese Execs Access to Trump at Mar-a-Lago
- Founder of busted Florida massage parlor chain reportedly ran business promising access to Trump at Mar-a-Lago
- Fox News analyst freaks the hell out after Rick Wilson posts pic of him with accused Florida massage madam
- The Massage Parlor Owner Peddling Access to Trump Has Ties to Chinese Government-Linked Groups
- Trump “likes” tweet connecting massage parlor owner to Mar-a-lago
- Massage parlor magnate helped steer Chinese to Trump NYC fundraiser, attendee says
- Travis Akers: The Miami Herald is reporting that the founder of the chain of massage parlors, including a location where Patriot’s owner Bob Kraft was arrested for soliciting prositution, has previously visited President Trump at the White House and has been a guest at Mar-A-Lago. THREAD
- Kaz Weida: Now that there’s an actual scandal surrounding trafficking underaged girls, the pizzagaters don’t seem super interested. Weird.
- Caroline Orr: ndb, just Cindy Yang — founder of the sex spa where New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft was busted for soliciting prostitutes — hanging out with Donald Trump, Don Jr, Eric Trump, Ron DeSantis, Matt Gaetz, and Rick Scott. At Mar-a-Lago… where she is a member. 👀
- Rick Wilson: Oh for the love of God. Say it with me: All Chinese “spas” that offer happy endings are Chinese organized crime.
- Venture Capital: 🔥BREAKING NEWS🔥@realDonaldTrump w Li Yang, original owner of the Rub and Tug spas where Robert Kraft was busted‼️The founder of the spa that was closed for HUMAN TRAFFICKING and PROSTITUTION is a MAGA and had sold the spa years earlier😳@MingGao26. THREAD
- 3l3v3nth: Ok so… Chinese Massage parlors were involved in a sting operation in Florida recently. The owner of the Patriots was one of the many names found to visit the parlor. If the Chinese government controlled the “database” of clients think of the control “extortion leverage.” What if Trump’s massage parlors in China were supposed to control the “thirsty” in China as a favor for the dirt on Florida (massage parlor visitors) officials?
- Denzican Grimes: Conservatives: Hillary was running a child pornography ring out of the basement of a pizza parlor! Meanwhile, there’s actual sex trafficking at a massage parlor and the owner took pictures with Trump and his family. Republicans are silent.
- Pinche Pi: Pictorial thread on Cindy “No dick goes untugged” Yang and all of her supporters: Traitor tots. THREAD WITH TONS OF PICS
- Scott Dworkin: .@RepMattGaetz-Care to explain how you know the founder of the spa where Robert Kraft bought sex services?
- Caroline Orr: The use of sex as spy craft dates back as far as the book of Judges (the betrayal of Samson by Delilah), and continues to this day. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union ran a school to train young women to become professional “honey pots.” They’ve since perfected the practice. THREAD
- DJ Rothkopf: If the president is letting a Chinese madam sell access at Mar-a-Lago to Chinese business people while his friends are getting serviced at businesses she started, he is exposing himself and the country to massive blackmail risk. Surely the IC and FBI are aware of this. THREAD
- Thread by @djrothkopf: “If the president is letting a Chinese madam sell access at Mar-a-Lago to Chinese business people while his friends are getting serviced at b […]”
- Operation Wolverines: All of the alarms should be going off on this. It’s not just sex trafficking and enslavement, it’s also ripe for political extortion, with enormous national security implications.
- Ming: Don’t be fooled by ppl who say “meh, they were only selfies’. Just like the Russian NRA money the whole GOP knew exactly who and what Li Yang was.
- PostimusMaximus: To be clear, the Kraft/Epstein/Li Yang/Trump thing isn’t a confirmed thing. But its kinda weird for so many sex-ring things to be coming out of the same area, all around people Trump knows who hang out at Mar-a-Lago Something worth investigating.
Li “Cindy” Yang owns a chain of Chinese Massage Parlors that are under investigation for human trafficking. $20 says she has ties to organized Chinese crime. How else do these women get shipped across the border and through checkpoints?
Cindy has ties to everyone in the Republican Party. And I mean EVERYONE. She had more selfies floating around with her and well to do people in the party than Maria Butina. If they’re a Republican that’s been to Florida, she has a pic of them up on her Facebook feed.
She used her access to Trump to set up a communication chain between Chinese business people and Trump. In other words, a backchannel to China.
This is the second sex ring that Trump is connected to in Southern Florida. Though it’s not as direct as his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, this sure is beyond coincidental.
R. Kelly
- Another Tape Appears to Show R. Kelly Sexually Abusing Girls, Says Gloria Allred
- Michael Avenatti: Our investigation has now uncovered significant additional evidence that R Kelly and his handlers transported underage girls across state lines for the purpose of allowing him to sexually assault them. We will be turning over the evidence to law enforcement forthwith.
- R. Kelly Lawyer Says He Changed “Ignition” Lyrics Because They Were About Young Girls
- R. Kelly Released From Jail After Paying $161,000 Debt – XXL
- ‘Saturday Night Live’ takes on R. Kelly in cold open, giving Trump jokes a brief rest
Michael Jackson
- ‘The Simpsons’ pulls Michael Jackson episode, citing child abuse allegations in HBO documentary
- Corey Feldman can ‘no longer’ defend Michael Jackson after ‘horrendous’ abuse allegations
- Louis Theroux criticises “wilfully blind” fans defending Michael Jackson
- 26 women rescued at Seattle massage parlors in human trafficking bust
- ‘A woman needs fries now and then’: Step inside the lives of 8 everyday women – The Lily
- For International Women’s Day, here are 7 of history’s greatest women-led protests
- Today, learn the name of at least one influential woman you’ve never heard of. Here are 31 options. – The Lily
- Virginia Walcott Beauchamp, pioneer of women’s studies, dies at 98
- Women’s soccer players sue U.S. federation for gender discrimination
- With courageous disclosure, McSally becomes new force in debate over military sexual assault
- Sen. Mazie Hirono: Trump Can Call Me ‘Crazy Female’ But He’s An ‘Admitted Sexual Predator’
COLD WAR 2.0
- Endeavor Returns Money to Saudi Arabia, Protesting Khashoggi Murder
- Bill Browder: Not sure why the Russian gov’t is proud that their foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has been on the job for 15 years. It’s just a sign that there’s no democracy in Russia where new leaders come in to replace the old ossified ones. This would never be possible in a normal country
- Countercheckist: Out of all the kook right/left ppl screeching about “American imperialism” in Venezuela, few (if any) seem to care about Maduro trying to move the HQ for PDVSA (the state-owned oil company) to Moscow. And around the same time more Kremlin-funded mercenaries arrived in Caracas…
- ‘Highly likely’ GRU hacked UK institute countering Russian fake news
- ‘The ISIS threat will remain,’ John Bolton says
- Anti-Maduro demonstrators jam Venezuelan streets despite blackouts
- Marco Rubio blames power outage on “German Dam” explosion, doesn’t realize “Germán Dam” is journalist’s name
- In Venezuela, massive blackout continues as Maduro blames U.S. for outages
- A Pakistani man told me he feared he’d be killed for exposing ‘honor killings.’ His worst fear just came true.
- Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson says she will resign
- Attacks by Israeli settlers surge as West Bank tensions boil
- Families of U.S. prisoners in Iran plead with White House to do more
#NEVERAGAIN
- States with stricter gun control regulations have fewer mass shootings: study
- Shannon Watts: There was only one Black lawmaker on the committee this week to review a Stand Your Ground bill in Arkansas. Thank God it was state Senator Stephanie Flowers. The bill failed in committee 4-3. #arleg
- Study: where gun laws are weaker, there are more mass shootings
- Shannon Watts: The @NRA says we haven’t been invaded because other nations are afraid of our armed citizens. I’m sure it has nothing to do with our military, or the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
- New Mexico governor signs law requiring background checks for almost all firearm sales
FIXING THE INTERNET
- Amy Klobuchar suggests taxing companies making money off user data
- Releasing the NSA’s Previously Classified Tool ‘Ghidra’ For Free Is a ‘Game Changer’
- Disney to close “vault” for good as it moves film library to streaming service
THE PROPAGANDA MACHINE
- Jane Meyer: New: Fox reporter Diana Falzone’s lawyer Nancy Erica Smith has issued a statement demanding that Fox release her from her NDA so she can talk about getting the Stormy Daniels story before the 2016 election.
- Former Fox News writer who was allegedly shut down when reporting on Trump’s payments to Stormy Daniels calls on Rupert Murdoch to lift NDA
- Former Fox News editor who killed piece on Trump payments to Stormy Daniels joins reporter in calling for network NDAs to be lifted
- Fox News analyst freaks the hell out after Rick Wilson posts pic of him with accused Florida massage madam
- Howard Dean Equates Fox News With Russian Television, Calls Network ‘Propaganda’ Organization
- Fox News reportedly killed the Stormy Daniels story in 2016. It has played it down ever since.
- Geraldo Rivera Goes Off Script: Defends Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Shreds ‘Bogus’ Fox News Coverage Of Her
- Tucker Carlson Says Awful Things About Women in Newly Unearthed Radio Clips
- Will the Masses Finally See Fox News for What It Is?
WHITE HOUSE CHAOS
- Melania Trump ‘mistook former female Australia foreign minister for partner’
- White House demands GOP support for Trump’s wall plans, won’t say how they’ll affect military construction
- White House presses automakers to back fuel-efficiency rollback
- White House: Jobs Numbers That Make Us Look Bad Are Fake News
- Bill Shine abruptly resigns as White House communications chief
- Bill Shine, former Fox News executive, resigns from White House communications role
TRADE WAR, HEALTH CARE, AND ECONOMY
- Does Elizabeth Warren’s break-up plan for the tech giants mark the end of a political romance?
- Elizabeth Warren Is Going to Keep Dumping Big and Interesting Ideas on You Friggin’ Dolts Until You Pay Attention
- Elizabeth Warren is right – we must break up Facebook, Google and Amazon
- Elizabeth Warren’s new plan: Break up Amazon, Google and Facebook
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says ‘we should be excited about automation’
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says Conservative Groups Are Filing ‘Bogus’ Ethics Claims So Fox News Can Report On Them
- A Restriction on Payday Lenders Was Just Delayed. Democrats Want to Know Why
- Fed Chair Powell: ‘The law is clear,’ Trump can’t fire me
- Household net worth falls by largest amount since the Great Recession, new Fed data shows
- New York Considers Taxing Non-Resident Owners of Luxury Apartment
- Ocasio-Cortez Blasts Capitalism as an ‘Irredeemable’ System
- Ocasio-Cortez: In US ‘if you don’t have a job you are left to die’
- Opinion | A beginner’s guide to stock buybacks (and why they’re not all bad)
- Report: IRS budget cuts have decimated the agency’s auditing ability, slashing taxpayer returns
- Review | When tax prep is free, you may be paying with your privacy
- Super-rich tax cheats can now expect to avoid audits after years of Republican sabotage guts IRS
- ‘There’s No Reason to Obsess’ Over Budget Deficit, President Trump’s Top Economic Adviser Says
- U.S. economy adds just 20,000 jobs in February, well below expectations
STUDENT ISSUES
- ‘If all of that testing had been improving us, we would have been the highest-achieving nation in the world.’ Here’s what does work in school reform.
- A ’staggering’ 30,000 teachers in Oklahoma have left the profession in the past 6 years. Here’s why.
- In a booming state, public schools grapple with asbestos, leaks and four-day weeks
- Billionaires v teachers: the Koch brothers’ plan to starve public education
- Bus driver flips-off students, tells kids to ‘go f**k yourselves’ before abandoning school bus at gas station
- The Art Institute of Pittsburgh closes
- DeVos Illegally Delayed Special Education Rule, Judge Says
- Federal judge rules DeVos illegally delayed Obama-era special education rule
GOP: THE PARTY OF LINCOLN IS DEAD
- CPAC is ‘Woodstock for the Mentally Impaired,’ Evangelicals Made Trump Believe He’s God’s Gift
- The conservative movement was destined to produce Trump
- The Republican Party Has Nothing To Offer American Voters
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
- ‘Empire’ actor Jussie Smollett indicted on 16 felony counts related to allegation that he staged a hate-crime attack
- Exclusive: Grand jury returns 16 felony counts against Jussie Smollett
- FBI Most Wanted murder suspect arrested after over 4 years on the run
- ’It was really stupid’: Jayme Closs kidnapping suspect reportedly admits crime in letter from jail
- Missouri Police Searching for Marijuana in a Stage 4 Cancer Patient’s Hospital Room Incites a Viral Video
- Opinion | Cory Booker: It’s time for the next step in criminal justice reform
- Judge Sentenced To 28 Years In Bribery Scandal
- Grassley demands FBI respond to his questions about Bijan Ghaisar slaying by Park Police
PRIESTS & RELIGION
ENVIRONMENT & SCIENCE
- An unvaccinated child contracted tetanus. It took two months and more than $800K to save him.
- Unvaccinated boy is 1st tetanus case in his state in decades: CDC
- Caroline Orr: An unvaccinated 6-year-old boy in Oregon spent 57 days in a hospital, racking up almost $1 million in medical costs after being diagnosed with tetanus The boy was Oregon’s first case of tetanus in almost 30 years.
- A woman was trying to take a selfie with a jaguar when it attacked her, authorities say
- Alabama’s deadly tornado ripped through homes — and exposed vulnerabilities
- A Native American tribe will cover the costs of the funerals for all of the Alabama tornado victims
- A Trump official said seismic air gun tests don’t hurt whales. So a congressman blasted him with an air horn.
- AI Chips for Self Driving Cars Will a Be $10 Billion Market by 2024 – NextBigFuture.com
- AOC must reset a conversation stolen by the GOP: The Green New Deal is an economic stimulus program
- Bill Nye comes out in support of Green New Deal: Ocasio-Cortez ‘gets it’
- Bill Nye crashes Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s SXSW appearance, voices support for Green New Deal: “AOC gets it”
- Can climate change be the issue that finally spurs heavy youth turnout?
- Chimpanzees develop distinct local cultures, and we’re destroying them
- Congressman blasts air-horn at Trump official who said seismic air gun tests don’t harm whales
- Farms aren’t tossing perfectly good produce. You are.
- FEMA is refusing to pay California more than $300 million to repair the nation’s tallest earthen dam
- Health advocates worry about an FDA without Scott Gottlieb
- In the Netherlands, ice skating is ‘in the DNA.’ A warming climate could change that.
- Ketamine, a new antidepressant, has been blowing minds for decades
- Like Alex Trebek, I was given a dire pancreatic cancer prognosis. I survived.
- McConnell, stop ignoring Kentucky youth who support a Green New Deal
- New Zealand farmers have a new tool for herding sheep: drones that bark like dogs
- Opinion | Butterflies aren’t expendable. Our brittle reality depends on them, too.
- Opinion | Lisa Murkowski and Joe Manchin: It’s time to act on climate change — responsibly
- Republicans are the real threat to hamburgers, not Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. GOP climate inaction will drive megadroughts that make beef a scarce commodity.
- Resurfaced Video Shows Bernie Sanders Criticizing Media for Not Covering Climate Change in 1989
- Snacking can be good for you if you make healthy choices
- She almost became another maternal mortality statistic. What happened instead has left her with many grateful tears.
- The man who developed timeouts for kids stands by his now hotly-debated idea
ELECTIONS
- As Cobb County trends blue, so goes Georgia statewide politics
- Can climate change be the issue that finally spurs heavy youth turnout?
- Texas governor fills courts with GOP judges voters rejected
- Yes, the Republican Party has changed since 2016. You think the Democratic Party hasn’t?
- Ocasio-Cortez outdraws presidential candidates, decries moderates as ‘meh’
THINKING AHEAD
- The 2020 Democratic candidates used the Manafort sentence to talk about criminal justice reform
- Does Elizabeth Warren’s break-up plan for the tech giants mark the end of a political romance?
- Elizabeth Warren Is Going to Keep Dumping Big and Interesting Ideas on You Friggin’ Dolts Until You Pay Attention
- Elizabeth Warren is right – we must break up Facebook, Google and Amazon
- Elizabeth Warren’s new plan: Break up Amazon, Google and Facebook
- Sen. Elizabeth Warren unveils plan to break up Amazon, Facebook and Google in ambitious campaign pledge
- Beto O’Rourke’s campaign comes to life in a darkened theater, for better and worse
- Biden isn’t the only candidate running on bipartisanship. Why aren’t they taken as seriously?
- First-time voters for Bernie Sanders don’t care about his age, say he speaks to what matters to them and would’ve voted for him in 2016
- Former DNC chair Ed Rendell: It was a ‘mistake’ to bar Fox News from covering Democratic debates
- The Trailer: Labor has high expectations for 2020 Democrats
- Warren struggles to gain traction amid Sanders surge
- Are Democrats risking a Rust Belt loss in 2020 by going too far left?
- Jennifer Rubin: Is it “soon” yet? Has Bernie released his taxes? I’ll be asking every day until he does.
- As Bernie Sanders launches his second presidential campaign, big crowds but some doubt in early states
- David Sirota: Howard Schultz derides socialism, after he grew up in public housing, went to public school, and got a college education at a public university with the help of government tuition assistance.
- An entrepreneur who’s running for president explains how he’d give every American $1,000 a month and solve the ‘fake news’ problem
- Opinion | Democrats are still center-left. They’ll stay there if they want to win.
- Opinion | How Democrats can pick a winner who can then govern
- Randy ‘Iron Stache’ Bryce Starts PAC For Working-Class Democrats | The ironworker who took on Paul Ryan wants to help other people of modest means run for Congress.
- The unsurprising, hyperventilating dishonesty of the Trump campaign’s presentation of its opponents
- Trump goes into election season facing a steeper climb than the past three incumbent presidents
PROGRESS IS PROGRESS
- Democrats have united around a plan to dramatically cut child poverty
- Democrats Push to Make Washington, D.C., the Fifty-First State
- Democrats set to pass ethics reform package targeting big money in politics
- New Mexico House votes to legalize marijuana
IN OTHER NEWS…
- Ethiopian Airlines flight bound for Nairobi crashes, all 157 on board killed
- Heard the one about the Johns Hopkins students who studied stand-up comedy?
- Report: Steelers trade Brown to Raiders
RUMOR MILL
- PostimusMaximus: Seeing how its 6pm I’m going to consider this another day where “omg Mueller is reporting on Friday” was wrong yet again. Stop. Trying. To. Guess. When. Mueller. Will. Be. Done.
- Melissa Kester: There reportedly has been disagreement between Mueller & Barr today who had a big pow-wow (who, remember, are longtime friends) about the constitutional status of indicting a sitting POTUS. This may delay things until Monday.
- Mueller vs Barr, and the battle to indict Trump | Spectator USA
- Countercheckist: 🙂
- John Schindler: BOOM! “Several sources tell Cockburn that the Special Counsel has indeed completed his report. It is said to recommend indicting three of President Trump’s children – Don Jr, Ivanka and Eric – as well as his son-in-law, Jared Kushner.”
- Dr. Dena Grayson: 🔥Mueller has “completed his report. It is said to recommend indicting 3 of @realDonaldTrump’s children—Don Jr, Ivanka & Eric—as well as Jared Kushner…Mueller wants Trump himself to be indicted. Barr is said to oppose this.” Hence, the delay…🧐
Remember yesterday (Daily Check-In 03/07/2019) we talked about rumors that something might be incoming? Well, that didn’t happen. According to the rumor’s source, the reason for this was a disagreement at DOJ HQ between Barr and Mueller about indicting Trump.
I suggest we take this with a HUGE grain of salt. I’ll supply my own salt, produced by being a bitter fan of the Pittsburgh Steelers. After years of avoiding buying a home jersey of an active player, I finally pulled the trigger last season on an Antonio Brown jersey. Here was a player who wasn’t failing drug tests, a crazy monster, or an accused rapist. He’s exciting, entertaining, and brilliant on the field.
Then he goes full diva. Never go full diva.
- Tea Pain: In the midst of the continuous cries of “Hoax” and “Witch Hunt” we sometimes forget to ask ourselves simple questions, like “If Trump is innocent and Mueller has no evidence of wrongdoin’ by Trump, why does Trump disparage Mueller every chance he gets?” Trump is guilty.
- Andrew Laufer: Folks, Trump-Russia is about destroying the rule of law so gangsters can continue to make billions unabated. That’s it. It’s all about greed and power. The racism, gaslighting, and provocations are used to distract from that. It’s really that simple.
- Countercheckist: Hey @DevinNunes, You’re a f—king scumbag traitor who sucked face with America’s enemies, and is willing to help them burn down the country to save yourself. Your “everyone colluded but us!” routine won’t erase those transcripts. So, like @donaldjtRUmpjr— sit down and be quiet.
- Chris Vickery: If any crowdsource web sleuths have spare time and want to dig on something, look into victory2016[.].gop Somebody seems to be trying to bury it. Be warned though, if you look into it you’ll notice a connection to projectunity[.]io, and that site is not safe for work or under 18. “nlpcore” was a subdomain if that victory url in the past. And yes, it’s related to the Stanford kind of NLP. To clarify- there is likely no real connection to Stanford other than that site using past, publicly available, Stanford research.
- Ming: Condolences to the republican party and federalist society…. #RICO
- 911corlebra777: Methinks we haven’t heard the last of Cindy Yang 🙂 So many Russians and Chinese in Trumpworld , whatever could it mean?
- Ming: “Junior has the worst judgemnt I have ever seen. I should have choked that little loser out in his crib” -Donald J Trump
- Lincoln’s Bible: In Pepe-Pizza-MAGAland, there is an alchemy of neo-roids + micro-dosing. The resulting lab creatures R reaching an event horizon, when a certain follow-up story hits in coming days. Not sure what emerges on the other side, but just thought you should know.
- Sara Danner Dukic: Speaking of trafficking, remember how Trump brought teens over without papers, then charged them so much for their bunk beds and other expenses that they made nothing or were in debt to him?
- From 1-20-18: High-End Russian-Prostitute Ringleaders Busted Inside Miami’s Trump Towers
- Venture Capital: 🔥‘Russian Dolls’ Prostitute-Escort Ring Busted in Sunny Isles‼️ The Ring Was Run Out of Trump Towers III
- 911corlebra777: I wonder if SoFL spa madame Cindy Yang has any PRC United Front connections? Might want to start identifying any Chinese nationals at Mar a Lago, such as in the bottom right photo
- Thread by @LincolnsBible: “CINDY YANG sex-trafficking scandal: As panicked @GOP readies all PR flacks, Senate staffers, & Pepe propagandists to unleash a deluge of […]”
- Lincoln’s Bible: CINDY YANG sex-trafficking scandal: As panicked @GOP readies all PR flacks, Senate staffers, & Pepe propagandists to unleash a deluge of Clinton whataboutisms, arms-length excuses/ denials, & pizza parlor conspiracies, remember… FOCUS ON THE MONEY. FOCUS ON THE CORRUPTION. THREAD
- PostimusMaximus: To be clear, the Kraft/Epstein/Li Yang/Trump thing isn’t a confirmed thing. But its kinda weird for so many sex-ring things to be coming out of the same area, all around people Trump knows who hang out at Mar-a-Lago Something worth investigating.
That’s it for the last few days. It would be nice to get some time to relax this week. I was completely booked this past week. I’m going to try to take things easy this week, but we know how that works.
I’ve started on the Grand Theory pages. I’m breaking it down into the various aspects of it. There’s a phrase I heard a while back about conspiracies. People assume incorrectly that everyone involved in the conspiracy has to have the same goal. That’s not the case. Here’s an example…
Let’s say Bill and Katie are dating. John wants to date Katie, Lisa wants to date Bill, and Sally doesn’t like that her best friend is spending less time with her. Lisa, John, and Sally don’t have the same motives, but they have the same goal. This is how conspiracies work in the real world.
Thank you, and have a good one.
“Without Journalists, it’s just propaganda.”
– Katy Tur
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