Monday, March 18, 2019
THE RUSSIAN INVESTIGATION
- A Mar-a-Lago Weekend and an Act of God: Trump’s History With Deutsche Bank
- Trump Lied About Assets, Worth to Get Deutsche Bank Loans: Report
- Despite red flags and knowing he lied about his net worth, Deutsche Bank kept giving Trump loans
- Deutsche Bank loaned over $2 billion to Trump: report
President Trump has a long history with Deutsche Bank — one that the bank didn’t want scrutinized after he was elected in 2016, The New York Times reports.
More than 20 current and former executives and board members told the Times that despite Deutsche Bank saying Trump was not a top priority, it’s just not true. Beginning in the late 1990s, Deutsche Bank gave Trump loans despite his business bankruptcies and knowing he overinflated his net worth and the worth of his real estate assets. At the time, the German bank wanted to make a name for itself on Wall Street, so it worked with clients deemed risky by other entities, a former employee told the Times.
In 2008, Trump defaulted on a loan and then sued Deutsche Bank, claiming the financial crisis was a “tsunami” and thus an act of God, preventing him from paying the loan back, the Times reports. In 2010, the bank concluded that he was inflating some of his assets by up to 70 percent, yet still gave him a $100 million loan to buy the Doral Golf Resort and Spa in Miami.
One managing director, Rosemary Vrablic — who’d helped get Trump more than $300 million in loans — tried to get Trump a loan in early 2016 for his golf course in Turnberry, Scotland, the Times reports. An executive, Jacques Brand, opposed the loan because of Trump’s divisive rhetoric, Vrablic appealed, and top executives were aghast that the bank was considering lending him money during the campaign, ending the transaction in March.
After Trump’s election, Deutsche Bank commissioned reports to figure out how the bank became so entwined with him, and employees were told they couldn’t even say “Trump” in public, the Times reports. All told, Trump is believed to have received more than $2 billion from the investment banking and private banking arms. The New York state attorney general and congressional committees are now investigating the relationship between Trump and Deutsche Bank. You can read more about the various loans Trump managed to secure at The New York Times. Catherine Garcia
This is interesting. Not only did Trump lie about his assets to qualify for loans from the only bank that loan to him, but that bank knew he was lying to them and they STILL gave him $2 billion in loans. This was knowing that Trump would screw them over one way or another.
Deutsche Bank, part legitimate bank and part money laundering front, has loaned Trump more than $2 billion over the last 20 years through several different bankers and executives. This included the time he defaulted on loans following the housing crisis. And they still loaned to him after that.
What’s crazy is that they kept giving him money, even though they know that he’s not worth nearly as much as he claims. They have valued him and his assets at around $788 million. Less than a billion. Yet, they still lent him tons of money.
- Trump fundraiser Elliott Broidy’s office was reportedly raided amid money laundering investigation
- Federal Authorities Raided Trump Fundraiser’s Office in Money Laundering Probe
- Feds Raided Trump Fundraiser’s Office Looking for Ties to Foreign Nationals: Report
- 911corlebra777: Claude, our friend Mar a Lago member Guo Wengui has been mentioned in the sealed Elliot Broidy search warrant. I believe you have photos 🙂
- 911corlebra777: Pro Republica have just reported about a sealed search warrant served on Broidy last year, they’ve seen it. Brace for impact Information sought include ; Guo Wengui (Mar a lago member) & China A Miami Party organizer UAE & Qatar 1MDB
- Ted Lieu: Another associate of @realDonaldTrump, Elliott Broidy, gets his office raided. Why does Trump surround himself with so many people that have had their office raided because there is likely evidence of crime? How many people do you personally know that had their office raided?
- Justin Elliot: Here’s a bit more about an intriguing aspects of this story: there are two new names on the Broidy search warrant — Joel Rouseau and Intelligent Resources. There’s a company with that name registered in Miami to a Joel Rousseau. THREAD
The Deputy Finance Chair of the Republican Party had his offices raided last year.
No, not Michael Cohen, the other Deputy Finance Chair Elliot Broidy.
Elliot, who was paid a king’s ransom to try to make the 1MDB money laundering disappear, had his offices raided in association to this and other criminal behavior he participated in last summer.
- Pelosi, Schumer Joint Statement On Bicameral Request For Criminal And Counterintelligence Investigations Into Li “Cindy” Yang
- Congressional Democrats want counterintelligence probe of Chinese American massage parlor founder connected to Trump
- Dems Ask FBI to Investigate Massage Parlor Owner Who Was Selling Access to Trump
- 911corlebra777: Oh, this just got a whole real for Agent Orange. They start opening those fortune cookies they’ll be finding bad omens everywhere 🙂 #Rainfall
- Angry White House Staffer: Big boom. FWIW, this is probably an unnecessary request. Standard operating procedure would have opened up that investigation immediately. I mean, the lady is *advertising* selling access to the President and his inner circle. This is counterintelligence 101.
- Frank Thorp V: The top Ds on the House and Senate Intel AND Judiciary Cmtes are asking the FBI to investigate Li Yang, the founder of the recently raided massage parlor in Florida (which she had sold). Yang was also pictured with Pres Trump at Mar-a-Lago’s Super Bowl party—>
I’d find it funny how fast this has turned from a “Hey, the owner of a rub and tug is partying with Trump” to “This is a potential national security matter.”
- Lobbying Case Against Democrat With Ties to Manafort Reaches Key Stage
- Countercheckist: When this is all said & done, we’re going to find out who among us really meant it when we said “country over party”. Personally, my opinion on foreign influence hasn’t changed. Burn it down. All of it.
- UK government hits out at Trump’s ‘completely false’ suggestion Britain invented Russia’s 2016 election meddling
- 911corlebra777: This will not end well for Mango Mussolini if MI6 & GCHQ are forced to start dropping truth bombs to counter Trump’s accusations
- Rosalind Helderman: When former British diplomat Andrew Wood first told John McCain about the Steele dossier AFTER the 2016 election, Wood recalled that McCain was “visibly shocked.” McCain’s response, per Wood: “My first thought has to be for my country.”
- 911corlebra777: Why did the British approach McCain over this? For the simple fact he was one of the only people left in the Republican Party that hadn’t caved to Trumpism & was a patriot. McCain’s last 18months of life were nothing short of heroic 🇺🇸
- Cambridge Analytica Secrets Allegedly ‘Covered Up’ by Trump Campaign Veterans
- Ex-Putin adviser who died in U.S. had broken neck, report says
- Giuliani Stopped TV Appearances After Suggesting Moscow Trump Tower Talks Continued to Nov. 2016: Report
- Mueller makes history exposing crime spree by former Trump aides
- Opinion | Why there may be much less — and much more — to the Mueller report than people expect
- Why an unbuilt Moscow Trump tower caught Mueller’s attention
COHEN, NEW YORK, AND THE OTHER LAWSUITS
- N.Y. Attorney General Calls For $5.6 Million Fine Against Trump’s ‘Self-Dealing’ Foundation
- Despite red flags and knowing he lied about his net worth, Deutsche Bank kept giving Trump loans
TRUMP THE RUSSIAN ASSET A.K.A. INDIVIDUAL-1
- Trump angrily complains about being ‘blamed’ for far-right terror attack in New Zealand
- Trump Can’t Acknowledge the Dangers of White Supremacy Because His Power Depends on It
- Trump Has Retweeted at Least Four White Nationalist Accounts That Were Later Suspended
- Keith Ellison says ‘objective evidence’ suggests Trump is sympathetic toward white nationalists
- Trump is ‘dangerous’ and ‘may fabricate’ another national emergency to remain in power after 2020, Harvard law professor warns
- “His Condition Is Getting Worse”: Trump Spirals Online As His Presidency Reaches a Crisis Point
- President Trump blasts three Fox anchors, including Shepherd Smith, says they “should be working” for CNN
- White House: Trump’s Unhinged Sunday on Twitter ‘Speaks for’ Itself
- A church service on a blue-skied Sunday interrupts Trump’s weekend of presidential pique
- Trump Again Threatens Violence If Democrats Don’t Support Him
- Trump eyes possible actions against comedy shows that hurt his feelings
- Trump is getting worse. And Republicans’ rationalizations are getting weaker.
- Trump is the pettiest president
- Trump Lied About Assets, Worth to Get Deutsche Bank Loans: Report
- Trump vowed to eliminate the debt in 8 years. He’s on track to leave it at least 50 percent higher.
- Sensor cited as potential factor in Boeing crashes draws scrutiny
- Trump was the face of the 737 probe
- Trump’s relationship with Fox News is unprecedented. Sunday’s tweets prove it
TRAITOR TOTS
- Nunes sues Twitter, some users, seeks over $250M alleging anti-conservative ‘shadow bans,’ smears | Fox News
- Renato Mariotti: This lawsuit is not going to end well for Devin Nunes, but by the time it goes away, no one will care about it anymore. But for now, at least some outlets (like Fox News) are taking it seriously and giving it coverage. No one should do so without offering some context.
- Rick Wilson: Gasping with laughter
- Yashar Ali: New: Devin Nunes sues Twitter, some users, seeks over $250M alleging anti-conservative ‘shadow bans,’ smears
- Threadreader for Yashar Ali about Devin Nunes. INCLUDES A HUMAN CENTIPEDE
This lawsuit will last about 30 seconds before getting thrown out. Parody is protected speech. Dipshit Cowpoke’s gonna Streisand himself.
- Mulvaney says it’s ‘absurd’ to link New Zealand mosque attacks to Trump’s rhetoric
- Opinion | Mick Mulvaney is in over his head
- Chris Wallace presses Mulvaney: Why doesn’t Trump give a speech denouncing ‘anti-Muslim bigotry’?
- Michael Avenatti: We have uncovered substantial evidence that @davidwohl participated in the hoax against Mueller as well as the fabrication of the false death threat by his son Jacob Wohl. We will pursue all available legal avenues to ensure his role in this illegal conduct is fully exposed.
- Mike Pence Slammed By Own Party Over Trump Loyalty: ‘He’s Hanging Everything On The Affection And Allegiance Of A Madman’
CULT 45
- It Isn’t Complicated: Trump Encourages Violence
- If Trump shot someone dead on Fifth Avenue, many supporters would call his murder trial biased
- Here’s another way Trump is different: Flip-flopping doesn’t affect his public approval.
- Poll: Most Americans trust Mueller, Dems in Trump probes
FIGHTING BACK
- Kyle Griffin: George W. Bush at a naturalization ceremony: “Amid all the complications of policy, may we never forget that immigration is a blessing and a strength.” Via CBS
- James Comey: “It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.” — Confucius
- Jim Carrey’s Grief Over New Zealand Turns To Anger Against Trump – “Innocent people are now being slaughtered, families ruined and childrens’ lives destroyed. All in his name.”
- ‘He Will Never Be a Great Man’: Meghan McCain Responds to ‘Pathetic’ Trump Slam of Her Father
- Meghan McCain Hit Trump Right In The Ego After He Criticized The ‘Stains’ On Her Father’s Legacy
- ACLU to U.N.: The U.S. commitment to human rights and rule of law is in serious doubt
- As a top staffer insisted Trump opposes anti-Muslim rhetoric, the president encouraged it
- CNN anchor hits Trump: He didn’t go to Vietnam ‘until he was in his 70s’ with ‘Secret Service protection’
- Dan Rather slams Donald Trump: Public facing a “manure spreader in a windstorm”
- George Conway after Trump’s tweet storm: ‘His condition is getting worse’
- Kansas state employee calls Trump a ‘delusional communist’ on official Twitter account
- Something is terribly wrong with Trump
CONGRESS
- Report’s advice to House Democrats: Investigate Trump with quality probes, not revenge
- Omar fires back at Trump: ‘You can’t #MuslimBan us from Congress’
- Opinion | Ilhan Omar: We must apply our universal values to all nations. Only then will we achieve peace.
- How to ensure we have a more open, accountable government
- The meeting was supposed to ease tensions between Muslim and Jewish Democrats. It ended with tears.
EMERGENCIES, SHUTDOWN & IMMIGRATION
- Manu Raju: Here’s DOD list of $12.9B in military projects that could be cut for $3.6B for border wall, prompting Dem Sen. Reed to say: “He is planning to take funds from real, effective operational priorities and needed projects and divert them to his vanity wall.”
- Wall Project PDF
- Kyle Griffin: George W. Bush at a naturalization ceremony: “Amid all the complications of policy, may we never forget that immigration is a blessing and a strength.” Via CBS
- Americans overwhelmingly want Congress to defy Trump and override his veto of the border wall emergency declaration
- Trump sees immigrants as invaders. White-nationalist terrorists do, too.
RACISM, RIGHT WING TERRORISM, & WHITE NATIONALISM
- Caroline Orr: Robert Mercer is best known as the billionaire who bankrolled Cambridge Analytica & Breitbart, but he’s also behind a multimillion dollar anti-Muslim propaganda industry that’s inciting hate & violence around the world.
- Robert Mercer is Fueling A Multimillion Dollar Anti-Muslim Propaganda Industry
- Rupert Murdoch Is a Relentless Purveyor of Islamophobia
- Iowa Congressman Steve King posts red state-blue state civil war meme on Facebook
- White Nationalist Rep. Steve King Posts Violent Meme About New Civil War: Republican lawmaker shares image claiming “red states” have 8 trillion bullets.
- Steve King deletes Facebook post asking who would win new US civil war
- Steve King’s Modern-Day Civil War Meme Is ‘Treason,’ Says Ex-White House Ethics Lawyer
- George Takei: Why do so many white supremacists invariably look like they got the short end of the genetic dipstick? I mean, claiming to represent white supremacy while looking like a pile of two-day old lumpy mashed potatoes is hardly advancing your cause, repugnant as it is.
- Brian Krassenstein: BREAKING: Steve King just deleted his Facebook post asking who would win a new civil war in America. That’s not enough. Congress must “delete” this white supremacist from the Capitol Building for good. Who’s with me on this?
- Aaron Rupar: .@KellyannePolls is on @foxandfriends urging people to read the New Zealand shooter’s entire bigoted manifesto in which he describes Trump as “a symbol of renewed white identity & common purpose,” because she thinks studying it will somehow prove Trump didn’t really inspire him.
- Lincoln’s Bible: Let me help: The content that he, his oldest son, & their AltRight crew craft & promulgate intentionally 2 white supremacists helped radicalize one into slaughtering 50 innocent people in a house of worship. Their propaganda machine is finally being noticed by global media…/1. THREAD
- Thread by @LincolnsBible: “Let me help: The content that he, his oldest son, & their AltRight crew craft & promulgate intentionally 2 white supremacists helped […]”
- Man in the Hoody: its says a lot about the white house that they want everyone to read a nazi;s manifesto but dont want anyone to see the mueller report
- New Zealand response to massacre puts us to shame
- New Zealand shooting: Prime minister says gun reforms are coming
- The racist theory that underlies terrorism in New Zealand and the Trump presidency
- Trump Has Retweeted at Least Four White Nationalist Accounts That Were Later Suspended
- Warren: ‘White supremacists pose a threat to the United States like any other terrorist group’
- Why won’t Donald Trump talk about white nationalism? Because he enables and supports it
- Five myths about hijab
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Donald Trump is signaling to white supremacists that he’ll ignore their violence
- Former Neo-Nazi: White Supremacy ‘Is Certainly Not A Fringe Movement’
- In Brenton Harrison Tarrant’s Australian hometown, his relatives remember violent video games, trouble with women
- It Could Happen Here: At what point will Americans widely acknowledge that white supremacy can be as big a threat to Americans as Islamism?
- Keith Ellison says ‘objective evidence’ suggests Trump is sympathetic toward white nationalists
SCOTUS & COURTS
- U.S. Supreme Court to hear arguments in appeal of Virginia racial gerrymandering case
- Supreme Court to consider whether Beltway sniper Lee Boyd Malvo deserves new sentencing
- Non-Unanimous Jury Verdicts Draw Review by U.S. Supreme Court
- 2020 Dems warm to expanding Supreme Court
#METOO & WOMEN’S RIGHTS
- Age of victim in prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein, long a source of confusion, eased his obligations to register as a sex offender
- Rosalind Helderman: People thought they knew all the ways that Jeffrey Epstein was given a lenient plea deal. But @bethreinhard @kimberlykindy found one more and it’s a doozy. @bethreinhard and @kimberlykindy figured out the age of the victim in Epstein’s plea deal. She was 16 when his abuse began, not 14 as many had assumed. The older age has eased Epstein’s sex offender registration requirements. “It’s unbelievably upsetting” said the lawyer for the then-14-year old girl who first reported Epstein and always believed she was the victim in his case. Via @bethreinhard @kimberlykindy
- Opinion | The Trump administration’s crocodile tears on human trafficking
- R Kelly married pregnant Aaliyah, then ‘Had Sex with Her MUM’ new claims reveal
- Warner Bros. Chief Quits Amid Inquiry Into Whether He Helped Actress Get Roles
- Kevin Tsujihara Out at Warner Bros. Amid Sexual Impropriety Scandal
- Opinion | She defended Iranian women who removed their hijabs. Now she’s been given 38 years in prison.
- Georgia bill would require men to report every release of sperm to officers
- Children’s museum removes Michael Jackson items following “Leaving Neverland” allegations
- A Fairfax County student was accused of sexual harassment. He says the school system discriminated against him.
- Former Disney Channel Star Kyle Massey Sued for Allegedly Attempting a Lewd Act with a Minor
- Neil deGrasse Tyson Cleared to Return to TV by Fox, Nat Geo
COLD WAR 2.0
- It Wasn’t Just Khashoggi: A Saudi Prince’s Brutal Drive to Crush Dissent
- Russia’s Putin Signs Into Law Bills Banning ‘Fake News,’ Insults
- From 5-31-17: It’s time to realize that Putin is at war with America | Opinion
- Norway says it proved Russian GPS interference during NATO exercises
- Julia Davis: Norway has electronic proof that Russian forces disrupted global positioning system (GPS) signals during recent NATO exercises, which also affected the navigation of civilian air traffic in the Arctic. #Russia
- Opinion | This is not yet a second Arab Spring — but sparks are beginning to fly
- Opinion: The strongmen are back. And we have no idea how to confront them.
- Opinion | We anti-Brexit folks should feel pretty self-satisfied now. Well, we’re not.
- U.S. Has No ‘Credibility’ Criticizing Venezuela, Iran Without Holding Saudi Arabia, Brazil to ‘Same Standards,’ Ilhan Omar Says
#NEVERAGAIN
- Shannon Watts: If you don’t think the Trump administration, the @NRA and Fox News aren’t all working together to juice gun sales, you’re not paying attention.
- Media Matters: Fox host Pete Hegseth tells viewers to stock up on AR-15s: “Go out and get your second AR-15 today. Maybe it’s a good reason to do so.”
- Fred Guttenberg: (1,2) @PeteHegseth, you miserable human being. My daughter was killed in school from a shooter who shot from across the hallway using his AR 15. Shot her in the back, severed her spinal cord, and killed her instantly along with 16 others. How dare you mock this and make a joke. (2,2) of her murder and other victims of AR 15 gun violence. Instead of joking that everyone should go out and buy an AR 15, how about acting responsibly and asking the question on how we can limit the real life casualties. By the way, this is Jaime. She was killed by an AR 15.
- A Republican pushed mandatory AR-15s. After mosque shootings, he says it was a ploy to bait the left.
- Teen dead after apparent accidental shooting with a shotgun
- Shannon Watts: A Utah teen is dead after an apparent unintentional shooting with a shotgun… After every tragedy like this we must ask, “How did these kids access a loaded gun?” #utleg
- New Zealand response to massacre puts us to shame
- New Zealand shooting: Prime minister says gun reforms are coming
- Gun owners in New Zealand brace for big changes to their right to carry
- Shannon Watts: Some gun owners in New Zealand are already voluntarily turning in their semiautomatic rifles after the mass shooting in Christchurch.
- John Hart: Until today I was one of the New Zealanders who owned a semi-automatic rifle. On the farm they are a useful tool in some circumstances, but my convenience doesn’t outweigh the risk of misuse. We don’t need these in our country. We have make sure it’s #NeverAgain
FIXING THE INTERNET
Twitter/FB/Reddit/Youtube could track all the clear racists, conspiracies, etc label and them accordingly or ban them. But they never will. Its a problem that isn’t nearly as hard as they make it out to be. They simply don’t want to seem biased against conservatives.
Reddits problems are super obvious and super easy to solve. It tends to be pretty isolated into bubbles of hatred and conspiracy, with an obvious chunk of users who are the problem. Twitter is the same. You could track key words and key accounts into trash heaps.
FB is largely Pages causing the problem. Almost all the trash on facebook is due to conspiracy-minded family or friends sharing Pages. Not things they go out of their way to post from other sites. Though you could also flag content from specific sites quite easily.
Youtube is I think the hardest one to solve because its much harder to know for sure what the specific content of a video is. But mostly they could look at the titles, tags, and users associated with those videos and probably get a pretty good idea of if its a problem.
And you’d rather have systems that over-correct and let users dispute, than one that completely misses huge chunks of problems. Which is what we currently have.
- Ming: FB just lost two executives. . Contagion will spread.
- Inside YouTube’s struggles to shut down video of the New Zealand shooting — and the humans who outsmarted its systems
- Robo-calls are unstoppable. Why your phone won’t quit ringing.
- Myspace apologizes after losing 12 years’ worth of music
THE PROPAGANDA MACHINE
- Russia’s Putin Signs Into Law Bills Banning ‘Fake News,’ Insults
- Julia Davis: Putin has signed legislation enabling Russian authorities to block websites or Internet accounts that publish what they deem to be “fake news” & penalizing those who post material found to be insulting to state officials, state symbols or Russian society.
- Julia Davis: The law also establishes fines of up to 100,000 rubles for insulting the Russian authorities, government agencies, the state, the public, the flag, or the constitution. Repeat offenders will face bigger fines and can be jailed for up to 15 days. #Russia
- Fox News viewers lose it after network hires Donna Brazile instead of lifting Jeanine Pirro’s suspension
- Former DNC chair Donna Brazile to join Fox News
- Fox News bumps ‘Judge Jeanine’ after remarks about Rep. Omar’s hijab. Trump wants her back on air.
- Fox News struggles to preserve the profits of hatred
- Fox News’ audience may not be what you think, even if the programming often is
- Aaron Rupar: .@KellyannePolls is on @foxandfriends urging people to read the New Zealand shooter’s entire bigoted manifesto in which he describes Trump as “a symbol of renewed white identity & common purpose,” because she thinks studying it will somehow prove Trump didn’t really inspire him.
- Lisa Stark: I don’t get this whole George and Kellyanne thing. If my husband worked for someone who I thought was a piece of shit, we would make a decision together and he would probably quit. Also, I would not go on twitter and embarrass my husband everyday. Somethings fishy.
- Lincoln’s Bible: Let me help: The content that he, his oldest son, & their AltRight crew craft & promulgate intentionally 2 white supremacists helped radicalize one into slaughtering 50 innocent people in a house of worship. Their propaganda machine is finally being noticed by global media…/1. THREAD
- Thread by @LincolnsBible: “Let me help: The content that he, his oldest son, & their AltRight crew craft & promulgate intentionally 2 white supremacists helped […]”
- Adam Schiff: Trump calls press an enemy of the people like a third world despot Wants FCC to take action against SNL Allegedly sought to raise postal rates on Amazon to punish Washington Post May have tried to kill a merger affecting CNN — He’s a clear and present danger to press freedom.
WHITE HOUSE CHAOS
TRADE WAR, HEALTH CARE, AND ECONOMY
- 60% of This Year’s Deficit Is the Result of Tax Cuts and Other Recent Legislation: CRFB
- Average tax refunds are up. And by the way, the IRS says it has $1.4 billion waiting to be collected.
STUDENT ISSUES
- Beyond the scandal: The damage done by our obsession with prestigious college credentials
- College admissions scandal: What did the students know about ‘the side door’ and what should happen next?
- Trump administration proposes $7.1 billion funding cut to Education Department
- University of Tennessee will be free for low-income students starting in fall 2020
GOP: THE PARTY OF LINCOLN IS DEAD
- Opinion | The GOP’s declaration of moral bankruptcy
- Opinion | Trump relishes autocracy. What are Republicans willing to do about it?
- Joe Walsh: It’s so disappointing to see so many of my fellow Conservatives & Republicans perfectly fine with all of this authoritarian behavior coming out of this White House.
- Joe Walsh: It’s getting harder & harder for his supporters to ignore what a horrible human being he is. And this will only continue.
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
- Alleged mob boss killer Anthony Comello scrawls ‘MAGA Forever’ on his hand
- Lincoln’s Bible: Taking a turn here. “Q” follower. Waiting for more details…Whatever Cali’s killer’s motive, this “Q” development is a crossing of the 2 streams I’ve been tracking. And that does not mean a connection. But does point to something more frightening: the rising darkness in each have grown big enough to randomly cross. THREAD
- SC sheriffs fly first class, bully employees and line their pockets with taxpayer money
- He claimed his first wife died from a fall. Now police say he stabbed his second wife to death.
ENVIRONMENT & SCIENCE
- “Scientifically, the right year” to implement Green New Deal “was yesterday,” 2020 hopeful Pete Buttigieg says
- ‘Poppy Apocalypse’: Small California city overrun by thousands of tourists declares ‘public safety crisis’
- Belgium’s Africa Museum reopens, as country confronts its violent colonial past
- Birth order may not shape personality after all
- Einstein’s first wife wasn’t the shadow force behind her famous husband, but she has her own story
- Exercise seems to help alleviate depression, but not for everybody
- New Yorkers in poll want mandated vaccines, regardless of family religious beliefs
- Trump renews call to pull arts, PBS funding
- Two dead, two missing amid ‘historic’ flooding across the Midwest
- Vincent Fournier’s ‘Space Utopia’: Space exploration as humanity’s great adventure
- Whales are facing a big, deadly threat along West Coast: Massive container ships
- The organic food industry is booming, and that may be bad for consumers
ELECTIONS
- Delaware moves to give its Electoral College votes to the popular vote winner
- Elizabeth Warren Calls for Ending Electoral College
- The Latest: Warren supports elimination of electoral college
- Milwaukee does have a socialist past, but Democrats have other reasons to show Wisconsin some love
- Ted Cruz fined $35,000 for not properly disclosing campaign loans from Goldman Sachs, Citibank
- Texas Refuses to Use Voting Machines With a Paper Trail
- Ariana Grande fans can now register to vote during her Sweetener Tour
THINKING AHEAD
- Laurence Tribe: .@BetoORourke appears to be absorbing information like a sponge on the campaign trail. He hears and processes everything, forgets nothing. Reminds me in that way, even apart from the charisma, of my brilliant former student, someone you may have heard of: President @BarackObama
- Beto O’Rourke Raised $6.1 Million Online in First 24 Hours of Campaign
- Beto O’Rourke reports raising more than $6.1 million in first day of campaign, the highest total yet among presidential candidates
- From an emphatic no to an enthusiastic yes: How Beto O’Rourke decided to run for president
- O’Rourke raises $6.1M on campaign’s first day, exceeding all rivals
- RNC links ‘noted Irishman’ Beto O’Rourke’s heritage to 1998 DWI arrest
- The Trailer: Joe Biden has friends in Delaware. Can he make a convincing case elsewhere?
- Trump attacks Joe Biden as ‘another low I.Q. individual’
- Iowa is shaking things up, and the ripples may reach all the way to the White House
PROGRESS IS PROGRESS
- First there was a transgender doll, then one with an amputated leg. Now these dolls with differences are giving kids a boost.
- Many transgender people drive hours to find health care. These advocates are trying to change that.
- The VA Is Socialism in Action. We Must Defend It From Privatization. – The right is hell-bent on dismantling the most progressive agency in government.
IN OTHER NEWS…
- Her image had been buried near a Civil War battlefield for 100 years. Then I found her.
- Here’s what happened when our wine critic opened a bottle of Playboy red
- Homeless people don’t often go to plays. So this woman brought Shakespeare to them.
- Vegas was once where music stars faded away. Now it’s cool enough for Lady Gaga and Cardi B.
- NCAA tournament cheat sheet: Bracket tips, upsets and more
RUMOR MILL
- Reddit: Czech media reports that last year authorities broke up a Russian intelligence hacking operation in Prague… where Cohen may have went in 2016
- Tea Pain: Let’s hope something big is droppin’ tomorrow, cause if it ain’t, Trump’s actin’ insane for no good reason.
- Rick Wilson: I don’t think Trump’s weekend tweetkakke was about Broidy. I think it’s something worse, based on his previous behaviors in times of high stress.
- Countercheckist: Do you know why unilateral US sanctions do so much damage? B/c we’re the engine of the global economy. Europe is free b/c we and our allies kicked the Nazis back to hell, and sent the Soviet Union to the dustbin of history to free the rest. Wake up America. This is who we are.
- Angry White House Staffer: Methinks Trump is about to have a terrible week. These tweets are a whole new level of insanity
- Tea Pain: If Nixon was visibly upset, you knew it was Watergate. But when Trump is upset, we’re left to wonder which of the 18 criminal investigations is botherin’ him.
- Ming: FB just lost two executives. . Contagion will spread.
- MSW Podcast: Just waiting for whatever caused that insane trump meltdown this weekend…
- Man in the Hoody: its says a lot about the white house that they want everyone to read a nazi;s manifesto but dont want anyone to see the mueller report
That’s it for Monday.
Spoiler for Tuesday, Michael Cohen was under Mueller’s radar back in Summer 2017 and DAG Rosenstein is sticking around for a little while longer.
Thank you, and have a good one.
“Without Journalists, it’s just propaganda.”
– Katy Tur
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