Thursday, April 4, 2019 through Sunday April 7.
THE RUSSIAN INVESTIGATION
Mueller Report and Barr Summary
- ‘Dozens’ of Whistle-Blowers Are Secretly Cooperating With House Democrats
- Angry White House Staffer: This is what I was talking about when I said there were a lot of folks doing the right thing, even if you might not see it. Let the record show that “dozens” is a *shit-ton* of whistleblowers.
- Adam Schiff: Questions surrounding Barr are mounting: He auditioned for the job with a memo attacking the obstruction case. He then pronounced his own judgment on obstruction. Now it is reported he may have substituted his own summary for Mueller’s. The only antidote is full transparency.
- Rick Wilson: Oh bless your heart. We’re just getting started.
- Countercheckist: Both NYT and WaPo landing stories on the same day of former Mueller team members expressing their “frustrations” with Barr’s letter is a subtle yet clear warning to tRUmp & Co. The truth is coming one way or another. Stand in its way at your own risk.
- Trump Allies Change Their Tune on Rod Rosenstein
- Natasha Bertrand: New from me and @PeterAtlantic: Trump allies went from bashing Rosenstein to praising him for concluding that Trump did not obstruct justice. But Rosenstein was at least a witness in that obstruction probe, further muddying the legitimacy of that finding:
- Angry White House Staffer: Trump has sent 7 tweets on the Mueller report today. I’m starting to think it’s not a complete and total exoneration. 😏
- ‘Release the Mueller Report. Now’: 300+ Rallies Nationwide to Demand Full Transparency
- A top Republican senator just defied Trump and says he supports the release of the Mueller report
- Barr Looks Like He’s Trying to Protect Trump, Not Get Out the Mueller Report
- Barr not a ‘fair broker’ on Mueller report, Nadler says
- Bill Barr’s Summary of the Mueller Report Is ‘Tainted’ and People Have a ‘Right to Get Angry,’ Ex-Federal Prosecutors Say
- Chicago Attorney Files Suit For Release of Mueller Report
- FBI director says he hasn’t read the Mueller report
- If Mueller report exonerates Trump why hasn’t Barr released it?
- Limited information Barr has shared about Russia investigation frustrated some on Mueller’s team
- Paul blocks resolution calling for release of Mueller report
- Potentially damaging information in Mueller report ushers in new political fight
- Protesters call for release of Mueller report
- Report: Mueller investigators wrote summaries they assumed would be made public
- Robert Mueller will be leaving the Department of Justice in “coming days”
- Scrutiny and suspicion as Mueller report undergoes redaction
- Senate Republicans block resolution to release Mueller report for 5th time
- Senate Republicans can’t explain why they keep blocking a resolution calling for the release of the Mueller report
- Some on Mueller team say evidence against Trump stronger than Barr disclosed
- Suspicion is high as Barr redacts Mueller report
- The Daily 202: Revelations that Mueller’s team is frustrated intensify pressure on Barr to release full report
- The Mueller Report Might Not Be as Good for Trump as His Attorney General Says It Is
- When Trump overruled national security professionals, he betrayed the intelligence community
- William Barr Seems to Be Covering Up Something Bad for Trump
- William Barr Was Just Exposed on His Bullshit Summary of the Mueller Report
- William Barr: From Nixon to Trump, Covering Up Republican Crimes
- William Barr’s stunt has backfired
The cover-up feels like it’s starting to unravel. As mentioned The Last Few Days 04/02/2019, we must make sure that the full, unredacted report comes out.
How? Check out the Congress section.
- Natasha Bertrand: TODAY: Status reports are due for Sam Patten, who has been cooperating with DC prosecutors and Mueller’s team since August. He pleaded guilty to violating FARA and admitted to funneling funds to Trump’s inaugural for a pro-Russian Ukrainian oligarch.
- Tea Pain: So, if… 1) A sittin’ president can’t be indicted, only impeached and… 2) This sittin’ president’s Attorney General won’t release information to Congress necessary for impeachment… Tell us again how “no one is above the law.”
- What we know about the genesis of the Russia investigation
CONGRESS
Mueller Report
- Congress is right to subpoena the Mueller report. It shouldn’t have had to.
- Congress Should Sue for the Mueller Materials Today
- Congress Waits as Barr Blacks Out Parts of Mueller Report
- Congress’ new Mueller fight: Do Dems need to begin impeachment to see secret files?
- House Judiciary requests all communications between DOJ and Mueller’s office
- Mueller report rules were written to give Congress access, say experts. The decision by Trump’s attorney general to draw his own conclusions violates the spirit of federal statutes.
- Mueller team ‘faction’ wanted Congress to decide on Trump and obstruction
- Nadler says Congress “entitled to see all” of Mueller report, vows court fight for grand jury testimony
- Nadler To Barr: Release Public Report Summaries Mueller’s Team Reportedly Wrote
- Nadler: Barr is ‘biased’ and Mueller’s Trump-Russia report must be released
What’s very interesting is that we’re finally hearing from people on the Mueller team. Now that they’re no longer actively on the payroll, they’re free to talk. We’re hearing that they wrote public facing summaries for each section that Barr either ignored or blocked. While Barr is promising to give Congress a redacted version, they have already subpoenaed the unredacted version and all of the associated evidence. If the DOJ attempts to block that, which they almost certainly will, then Congress has another tool up their sleeve which may force the DOJ to comply.
Impeachment.
By initiating impeachment proceedings, Congress can force the DOJ to hand over not just the report, but all evidence and grand jury testimony as well. That might be the only way out of this part of the mess.
But it’s not the only mess.
Trump’s Taxes
- Natasha Bertrand: Trump’s story for years has been that he *couldn’t* release his returns because he’s under audit. Now Mulvaney openly says Trump “could have given” them but chose not to.
- Mulvaney: Issue of Trump’s tax returns ‘already litigated’ in 2016
- Eric Garland: 1. Why would tax returns destroy anybody except…y’know, money launderers. 2. “It’s Nixonian to the core.” Freudian slip much, Chuck? He was a crook. Nixon was a crook with criminals around him and a Soviet advisor. So points to Chuck for accuracy. Now let’s get to the next part of the story.
- Dem on tax returns request: Trump ‘least transparent president in half a century’
- Democrats push for release of full Mueller report, President Donald Trump’s tax returns
- Mulvaney says Democrats will ‘never’ see Trump’s tax returns
- No, Americans are not ‘dumb’ for wanting to see Trump’s tax returns
- Trump Falsely Says Law Prevents Him Releasing Tax Returns Under Audit
- Trump hires law firm to fight bid by Congress to get his income tax returns
- Trump lawyer calls on Treasury to reject Democrats’ demand for tax returns until Justice Dept. weighs in
- Trump Lawyer Warns IRS: If You Give in to the Democrats it Will Cause ‘Lasting Damage to Our Nation’
- Trump’s own lawyers tell Treasury to ignore law, hide tax returns
- White House Chief Of Staff Contradicts Trump, Admits President ‘Could Always Allow’ People To See Tax Returns Despite Audit
- White House maneuvers to block release of Trump’s tax returns
- Manu Raju: House Dems are telling Capital One to turn over a host of financial records about Trump and Trump Hotel, as part of a wide-ranging investigation into potential financial conflicts of interest and whether POTUS in compliance with emoluments Bank says it wants subpoena to comply. Jordan and Meadows not happy with this move, saying: “This type of derivative request is not a best practice and has the veneer of a fishing expedition.”
- Trump’s handpicked IRS chief and IRS legal counsel both have ties to Trump businesses
- Trump reportedly wanted to fast-track his IRS chief counsel’s nomination and prioritized it over his attorney general
- Trump rushed former company lawyer into IRS post ahead of Democrats’ demands
- Fox News and MSNBC agree Trump’s audit excuse is bogus
Trump is fighting tooth and nail to keep his taxes private, but there’s only so much he can do. The IRS is required by law to hand over the requested returns to the Ways and Means Committee. Congress can also subpoena his tax accountant for the records, since they could be held criminally liable for any illicit activity. The tax records would also exist at the state level, too.
COHEN, NEW YORK, AND THE OTHER LAWSUITS
Cohen’s New Documents
- In bid to remain out of jail, Michael Cohen tells Congress he has more to add
- Cohen says he has 14 million files of “significant value” in bid for lighter sentence
- In New Documents, Cohen Says Trump “Instructed” Him To Lie
- Michael Cohen attorneys release new Trump allegations
- Michael Cohen Claims He Has Evidence of Possible Illegal GOP Contributions From China
- Michael Cohen finds hard drive with files he thinks Congress should see
In any normal universe, this would be the biggest news of the month.
Inauguration and Ambassadorships
- Trump has nominated 14 major inauguration donors for ambassador roles
- The increasingly suspicious pattern behind Trump’s nominees
- Private email use by government officials continues to raise suspicions
TRUMP THE RUSSIAN ASSET A.K.A INDIVIDUAL-1
White House Correspondents Dinner
- Kaz Weida: Trump isn’t attending the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and will instead hold a MAGA rally. Because he likes “positive things” like gathering several thousand people to yell hateful slogans, mock other politicans and encourage the harassment of reporters.
- ABC News: NEW: Pres. Trump says he will hold a rally at an undetermined location rather than attend the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, which he called “so boring and so negative.” “I like positive things, okay?”
- Trump Gets Roasted After Declining Third White House Correspondents’ Dinner
- Michelle Wolf: Trump Doesn’t Have the ‘Spine’ to Attend Correspondents’ Dinner
- Trump to skip White House Correspondents’ dinner again
Taxes
- Has Trump Been Grooming IRS Lawyers To Hide His Tax Returns
- Trump Falsely Says Law Prevents Him Releasing Tax Returns Under Audit
- Trump hires law firm to fight bid by Congress to get his income tax returns
- Trump lawyer calls on Treasury to reject Democrats’ demand for tax returns until Justice Dept. weighs in
- Trump Lawyer Warns IRS: If You Give in to the Democrats it Will Cause ‘Lasting Damage to Our Nation’
- The madness of King Donald: is Trump really losing his mind?
- Trump explodes over Mueller report cover-up claims, with baseless suggestion story could be ‘totally illegal’
- Trump Is About to Make the Pork Industry Responsible for Inspecting Itself
- Trump set to announce plans for summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping to reach an end to trade war
- Trump Spends Saturday Tweeting About ‘Witch Hunt,’ Admits He Hasn’t Read It
- Trump’s Latest Deceased Target is Barbara Bush: ‘Look What I Did to Her Sons’
- Trump’s moonshot: The next giant leap or another empty promise?
TRAITOR TOTS
- Andrew Lawrence: Devin Nunes is attacking the credibility of the Mueller report, says he’s calling it “the Mueller dossier (sounds scary, right?),” and says “partisans wrote this”
- Thread by @waltshaub: “This is utter garbage, and Treasury knows it. Treasury knows that a spouse’s financial interests are imputed to the employee for purposes of […]”
- Ivanka, Jared Revised Their Financial Disclosure Forms 10 Times In Last Month
- We already knew Barr’s summary was too easy on Trump. Public records prove it.
- Mnuchin failed to comply with ethics rules in financial disclosure, watchdog says
CULT 45
- Most Republicans don’t accept a basic Mueller finding: That Russia tried to interfere in the 2016 campaign
- Democrat ‘Concerned’ After Getting ‘Windmills Cause Cancer’ to Trend, Because ‘MAGA Folks Appear to Believe Anything’ Trump Says
FIGHTING BACK
- Tea Pain: Democrats’ inherent decency is a weakness the GOP are willin’ and eager to exploit, since they always seem to be fresh out. What do you do when decency is your greatest weakness? You smile and vote harder than the other guy!
- Countercheckist: Decency is the best weapon against indecency. Americans are tired of the cage fight that’s become our national politics. We don’t need to race loudmouths and know-nothings to the bottom, patriots. Stand up for reasonability, good governance, and who we are as Americans.
- Michelle Wolf: Trump Doesn’t Have the ‘Spine’ to Attend Correspondents’ Dinner
- Trump is floundering disastrously on multiple fronts. Stop pretending he’s in control.
- Trump’s 10 most absurd claims
- Watergate’s John Dean Mocks Donald Trump Over Mueller Report: ‘When Was The Last Time You Read 400 Pages Plus Of Anything’
- Donald Trump Has Cheated His Way Through His Entire Life
- Now Trump is fighting with a dead First Lady
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she is ‘proud’ of her past after Trump dismissed her as a ‘young bartender’
- ‘No Celebrities’: Embarrassing Turnout at Trump’s Beverly Hills Fundraiser | Tickets for the event allegedly started at $15,000 and went as high as $150,000.
- Schiff: ‘I don’t regret calling out this President’
EMERGENCIES, SHUTDOWN, & IMMIGRATION
Nielsen Out
- Homeland Security Secretary Nielsen resigns
- Trump: Kirstjen Nielsen is out as secretary of Homeland Security
- Kirstjen Nielsen Out as Trump’s Homeland Security Secretary
- Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen Resigns
- Kirstjen Nielsen out as Trump homeland security secretary
- Kirstjen Nielsen to leave position as secretary of homeland security amid spike in migrant families at U.S.-Mexico border
- Walter Shaub: How does the administration square Nielsen’s statement that “I can say with confidence our homeland is safer today than when I joined the Administration” with its claim that the homeland has descended into a desperate state of “emergency”? (or with POTUS golfing at Mar-a-Lago?)
- Greg Olear: Send her to The Hague. One-way ticket.
- Caroline Orr: #BREAKING: Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen has resigned. Trump reportedly blamed her for not being “tough” enough in enforcing immigration laws. He wants to go in a “tougher” direction — because ripping babies away from their parents was apparently too soft.
- Tea Pain: Nielsen said she wanted to spend more time with her family not in a cage.
- Caroline Orr: Kirstjen Nielsen was horrible as Secretary of Homeland Security. She’s horrible as a human being and should have been gone a long time ago. .. but don’t get too excited about the news. Trump wants to replace her with someone who will be even more cruel and inhumane.
- Walter Shaub: May their cries haunt her dreams.
- Angry White House Staffer: Looks like Nielsen is out. Send her to The Hague.
- Angry White House Staffer: Remember when I said immigration was 100% Miller? Wasn’t kidding. —->
- Josh Dawsey: In recent Oval meeting, Trump told aides that Stephen Miller was in charge of all immigration initiatives. Miller is often critical of Nielsen, questioning whether she is tough enough to the president. Miller was behind ouster of ICE director pick.
- Pelosi Statement on House’s Intention to File Lawsuit to Block the President’s Transfer of Funds for His Ineffective, Wasteful Wall
- Trump Visited The Border To Celebrate His “New Wall.” It Actually Dates Back To The Obama Era.
- Trump backs off threat to close southern border immediately, says he’ll give Mexico ‘one-year warning’ on drugs, migrants
- MSW Podcast: “You have exactly ONE YEAR to address this EMERGENCY!” -President Walkback As predicted
- Trump ditches his nominee to lead ICE, says he wants someone ‘tougher’ for top immigration enforcement role
- Trump Goofs Again: Rips Nonexistent ‘Judge Flores’ For Case Of Teen Migrant Jenny Flores
- Trump’s false claims about Mexico’s immigration system
- US wants 2 years to ID migrant kids separated from families
- Trump travel ban: Thousands of ‘desperate’ families remain separated
- As Trump struggles to curb unauthorized immigration, his rhetoric gets tougher, but quick solutions are elusive
- Fourth person in six months dies in ICE immigration detention center
- 3 Florida congresswomen denied access to largest child detention center in U.S.
- Trump blocks three Florida congresswomen from visiting Homestead child detention center
- Calling for End of US Asylum System, Trump Adds, ‘And, Frankly We Should Get Rid of Judges’ – “If we had a functional legislature, Trump would be removed from office for being a fascist who opposes democracy.”
RACISM, RIGHT WING TERRORISM & WHITE NATIONALISM
Omar Death Threat
- ‘I’ll Put a Bullet in Her F***ing Skull’: Trump Supporter Allegedly Threatens to Murder Rep. Ilhan Omar
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Links Jeanine Pirro’s Attack On Rep. Omar To Death Threat
- Man Who Threatened to Murder Rep. Ilhan Omar Over Muslim Brotherhood Conspiracy Theory Had Weapons: FBI
- New York man charged with threatening to kill Rep. Ilhan Omar
- Ocasio-Cortez on Omar Death Threat: When Fox’s Pirro Rallies People to Think Hijabs Are Threatening, It Leads to This
- Trump mocked Ilhan Omar a day after one of his supporters was arrested for threatening to kill her
- Trump Mocks Muslim Lawmaker Omar a Day After Death Threat Arrest
- Trump says Rep. Omar ‘doesn’t like Israel,’ one day after arrest in threat case
- Trump Supporter Charged With Threatening to Kill Rep. Ilhan Omar: “I’ll Put a Bullet in Her”
Israel and Jews
- Trump spoke to an audience of American Jews and referred to Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu as ‘your prime minister’
- Trump says Rep. Omar ‘doesn’t like Israel,’ one day after arrest in threat case
- Donald Trump, Not Ilhan Omar, Accused American Jews of Dual Loyalty
- In Speech to Republican Jews, Trump Refers to Netanyahu as “Your Prime Minister”
- Republicans to spend millions in effort to split Democrats, Jewish voters: report
- Rep. Adam Schiff on Trump Claim of Democrats’ Anti-Semitism: Only GOP ‘Believes There are Good People on Both Sides of a Nazi Rally’
- ‘Where the grievances lie’: New Zealand attack probes explore links with Europe’s anti-Muslim anger
- Fires burn 3 black churches in southern Louisiana. Authorities say it’s ‘suspicious.’
- Hospital Withdraws Job Offer To Doctor Who Tweeted About Giving Jews Wrong Meds
- Arrest made after racist vandalism incidents in Norman and Oklahoma City
- FBI Director Breaks With Trump And Says White Supremacy Is A “Persistent, Pervasive Threat” To The US
- FBI director says white supremacy is a ‘persistent, pervasive threat’ to the US
- Mayor announces ‘Confederate Memorial Day.’ A city council member says it should cost him his job.
- Right-wing terrorism and violence may actually have declined
- White supremacy feeds on mainstream encouragement. That has to stop
- What the heck does Steve King do all day?
- Emails Show DHS Official Katie Gorka Suggested Anti-Fascists Are ‘The Actual Threats’
SCOTUS & COURTS
- A Third Court Rules That Trump’s Census Citizenship Question Is Illegal
- Mitch McConnell Destroys the Senate so Trump Can Destroy the Judiciary
- Mitch McConnell is destroying the Senate – and American government
- The Republican Senate went nuclear again to speed up confirming conservative judges.
#METOO & WOMEN’S RIGHTS
- Shannon Watts: Reporter: Talk to me about hiring practices in sports. Goddess: Preaches for 2:21 about the ERA, women in lawmaking positions, the lack of women CEOs, and gender biases taught from birth. 👏👏👏
- ‘Death sentence for women’: Alabama proposes law to make abortion punishable by up to 99 years in prison — Bill would even criminalise performing abortions in cases of rape and incest
- 157 Republicans Just Opposed Renewing The Violence Against Women Act
- Bill Cosby accusers settle defamation lawsuits against disgraced actor
- Robert Kraft’s lawyers claim police used fake bomb threat to install cameras in prostitution sting
- These women care for their ailing husbands. They say dating other men is how they take care of themselves. – The Lily
COLD WAR 2.0
- US revokes visa of International Criminal Court prosecutor
- Caroline Orr: Wow. The Trump administration has revoked the visa of Fatou Bensouda, a prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, because of her role investigating possible war crimes, including torture, committed by American forces in Afghanistan.
- YouTube: Has Russia infiltrated the German Parliament? – BBC Newsnight
- Bill Browder: Remarkable new BBC story about leaked emails showing Russia’s attempts to get a German MP to do their bidding for them in the Bundestag in Germany.
- When Putin’s around, GPS goes haywire, study finds
- China pressured Sydney council into banning media company critical of Communist Party – Politics – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
- House joins Senate in passing measure to end U.S. involvement in Yemen, setting up a Trump veto
- Israel’s Netanyahu, a political Houdini, is facing his toughest escape act yet
- In Speech to Republican Jews, Trump Refers to Netanyahu as “Your Prime Minister”
- Kremlin aide dismisses Russian poverty report
- Record 20% of Russians Say They Would Like to Leave Russia
#NEVERAGAIN
- Shannon Watts: .@NRA spokesman calls Parkland gun violence survivor a “disgusting communist tool.” THIS is who too many of our lawmakers are allowing to write our nations gun laws. Keep it classy over there, guys!
- Alex Jones’ Legal Shenanigans Wear Thin in Sandy Hook Suit
FIXING THE INTERNET
- Review | Die, robocalls, die: A how-to guide to stop spammers and exact revenge
- Ironically, Too Many Video Streaming Choices May Drive Users Back To Piracy
THE PROPAGANDA MACHINE
- Reddit: Possible new propaganda “news” outlet being flooded in /r/politics
- Julia Davis: “They’re a bunch of sneaky, unethical leakers,” Rudy Giuliani said on Fox News about the Mueller team. “And they are rabid Democrats who hate the president of the United States.” I’m old enough to remember the time when Mueller and his report were great.
- Julia Davis: The #MuellerReport reportedly includes detailed accounts of Trump campaign contacts with Russia and paints a picture of a campaign whose members were manipulated by a sophisticated Russian intelligence operation. Some of that information may be classified.
- PostimusMaximus: Resident idiot promotes RU propaganda about how the Russia investigation totally had nothing to do with Russia despite the fact that dozens of Russians were indicted. PS : Why does @Twitter allow this account still?
- China pressured Sydney council into banning media company critical of Communist Party – Politics – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
- Ex-Murdoch executive says he quit over Fox News’s ‘relationship with facts’
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Links Jeanine Pirro’s Attack On Rep. Omar To Death Threat
- Tucker Carlson slapped down by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez after complaining that ‘feminists do science’
- White supremacy feeds on mainstream encouragement. That has to stop
- Trumpian rhapsody: Hong Kong opera takes on ping-pong, China and the long red tie
- Jeff Bezos, in divorce settlement, retains 75 percent of the couple’s Amazon stock and all voting power
WHITE HOUSE CHAOS
- Kyle Griffin: Trump now has an: * acting Homeland Security Secretary * acting Defense Secretary * acting Interior Secretary * acting chief of staff
- Adrienne Cobb: Nielsen is the 420th person to leave the Trump administration since the beginning. Full list http://www.45chaos.com Spreadsheet
- Trump Gov Tracking
- 45 Chaos
737
- Additional software problem detected in Boeing 737 Max flight control system, officials say
- Boeing CEO apologizes for lives lost and acknowledges role of company’s flight-control system in two crashes
- Crash report says Ethiopian pilots performed Boeing’s recommendations to stop doomed aircraft from diving
TRADE WAR, HEALTH CARE, & ECONOMY
- How regulators, Republicans and big banks fought for a big increase in lucrative but risky corporate loans
- Liberal California creating most of America’s new jobs – 75% of new February jobs were in liberal California
- Opinion | This 99-year-old federal law is stifling jobs and shifting higher costs to consumers
- Report Finds More Than 47,000 ‘Structurally Deficient’ Bridges In The U.S.
- Small towns are dying everywhere but here
- Wendy’s Owner Gives Big to Trump While Refusing Farmworkers’ Demands
- What Southern dynasties’ post-Civil War resurgence tell us about how wealth is really handed down
- What’s at Risk if the Fed Becomes as Partisan as the Rest of Washington
STUDENT ISSUES
- Absolute Reptile Betsy DeVos Rescinds Student Civil Rights Protections
- Forget rich parents trying to get their kids into college. Focus on students from low-income families.
- Maryland bills would tighten for-profit college regulation amid Trump rollback
- North Carolina Bill would allow “excused absentee days” for students participating in Robot Competitions. Similar to Football, Basketball, Baseball, Track Wrestling, Softball Tennis and Soccer.
GOP: THE PARTY OF LINCOLN IS DEAD
- Report: David Stringer on child sex trafficking, ‘I don’t like to demonize it’
- Eric Garland: THE ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES DIDN’T WANT TO EXPEL HIM AFTER THIS – WHAT THE ACTUAL HELL?
- Angry White House Staffer: So I read this article, hoping this was somehow taken out of context. The article is somehow worse. What the fuck
- Ashton Pittman: Report: Rep. David Stringer on child sex trafficking: “I don’t like to demonize it” “If an uncle takes his niece or nephew to a playground, & they go on the merry-go-round & have some ice cream, & then do their thing, that’s just part of the experience.” THREAD
- ThreadReader Ashton Pittman
- Ex-Congressman’s Russian Bank Loses License for Money Laundering
- Eric Garland: Ex-GOP Congresscritter who worked with Newt Gingrich was 80% owner of A RUSSIAN BANK and just lost the license for money laundering. Yup – Congresscritter from Western North Carolina bought a bank with an “ex” KGB officer WHILE IN CONGRESS. Taylor also made sure Russia could bring plenty of Maria Butinas into NC colleges. EVERYBODY CLEAR ON THE PATTERN HERE?
- Lincoln’s Bible: It’s almost as if something has been going on with Russia, money, & the @GOP… Ps- These two questions – required to inform the American public, continue to elude the press: Why does money need to be laundered? How are those profits made?
- Republicans Freak Out As Data Shows That Their Party Is Dying Off
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
- A teen claimed he was a boy who vanished in 2011. The FBI says otherwise.
- An overdose and a mother’s search for truth
- As a homeless transgender woman, she had turned to sex work to survive. Then she was killed.
- Ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner ordered to register as sex offender
- Former Democratic aide pleads guilty to ‘doxing’ GOP senators, threatening employee
- Jussie Smollett: actor refuses to reimburse city for investigation costs
- K-pop’s innocent image is shattered by the ‘Burning Sun’ scandal
- They were settling into their Airbnb. Then they found a hidden camera.
- Weary of scandal and violence, Baltimore’s residents ask: ‘Why do we stay?’
PRIESTS & RELIGION
ENVIRONMENT & SCIENCE
- Why does Trump seem to tilt at windmills? Experts weigh in
- ABC News: Speaker Nancy Pelosi: “It just seems like every time you turn around, there’s another thing. The president is saying wind power causes cancer. “I associate myself with the remarks of Chairman Grassley: It’s an ‘idiotic’ statement.”
- Lincoln’s Bible: Amazing. I’ve done a complete 180 on her, and will never again underestimate the age in which some warriors come into their prime.
- The Light Triad: Psychologists Outline the Personality Traits of Everyday Saints
- A 23-Year-Old Just Schooled Fox News On The Costs Of The Green New Deal
- As seas rise, the U.N. explores a bold plan: Floating cities
- Bad diets kill more people around the world than smoking, study says
- Engaging talks about disease outbreaks, drug resistance, disabilities and global health challenges
- Environmental News Network – Immunotherapy Kicks, Kills HIV by Exploiting a Common Virus
- Five tips to achieve a better weather photo
- In Japan’s ‘city of whales,’ an uncertain future after last Antarctic hunt
- Judge rules New York county can’t ban unvaccinated children from schools, parks
- Maryland lawmakers approve bill to become first state in the country to ban foam food containers
- Measles outbreak: Legislators move to end religious exemptions from vaccines amid outbreak
- New York lawmakers introduce bill to end religious vaccine exemptions amid measles outbreak
- Often reviled, coyotes start to gain some supporters
- Opinion | The Impossible Burger is a wake-up call to the meat industry
- Survivors of Hurricane Michael in the Florida Panhandle fear they have been forgotten
- The Rise of Right-Wing Nationalism Is Jeopardizing the World’s Health
- Yes, a recent attack concerns me, but I still run the trails in mountain lion country
ELECTIONS
- New Mexico passes law supporting popular vote
- Democrats win special election, flip Pennsylvania state senate seat in Trump country
- Obama says he worries about ‘rigidity’ among liberal Democrats
- Opinion | We need constitutional reform — starting with the electoral college
- Republicans to spend millions in effort to split Democrats, Jewish voters: report
- The electoral college is a failure. The Founding Fathers would probably agree.
- Warren: GOP knows ‘if all the votes are counted, we’ll win every time’
THINKING AHEAD
- Countercheckist: So far, one of the Biden “accusers” has turned out to be a Soviet Sanders flunky, and another one has turned out to be a vocal admirer of Vladimir Putin. … Bernie might as well become tRUmp’s VPOTUS on the GOP ticket at this point. “Make the Kremlin Great Again.”
- Tea Pain: Tea Pain saw Pete Buttigieg for the first time this mornin’ on Meet the Press. He’s a mighty impressive feller!
- ‘It got real gay real quick’: Pete Buttigieg’s rise electrifies the gay community, but he could face a rocky road
- Andrew Yang Calls For Psychologist In The White House: That Much Power Needs ‘Mental Health Professional Monitoring’
- Bernie Sanders Is The Most Popular 2020 Candidate Among Hispanic Voters, New Polling Finds
- Beto O’Rourke: Trump’s rhetoric ‘is something that we might have expected to hear in Nazi Germany’
- Buttigieg blasts ‘hypocrisy’ of evangelicals for supporting Trump
- Buttigieg to Pence: If you have a problem with who I am, your quarrel is with my creator.
- Democrats need a 2020 candidate who inspires. Joe Biden isn’t it
- Elizabeth Warren bets that slew of policy ideas will win over Trump-weary voters
- Generational challenges lie ahead for Biden and Buttigieg
- In Iowa, Bernie Sanders says states should allow felons to vote from behind bars
- Is ‘Mayor Pete’ too good to be true? No, say Buttigieg’s constituents in South Bend, Indiana. He’s the real deal.
- Joe Biden makes joking reference to controversy over touching women
- Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan joins Democrats’ 2020 presidential field
- Opinion | If Pete Buttigieg’s face is his message, it’s not yet complete
- Opinion | We need a philosopher president. Does such a candidate exist?
- Pelosi outlines a path to victory for House Democrats in 2020 — and guarantees it
- Pete Buttigieg Calls For Death Penalty To Be Abolished
- Pete Buttigieg Defends Questioning Trump’s Christianity: ‘Hypocrisy Needs To Be Called Out’
- Pete Buttigieg is winning the Internet, for what that’s worth — which remains unclear
- Pete Buttigieg likes Green New Deal, and nuclear
- Pete Buttigieg: Democracy is more important than capitalism
- Pete Buttigieg’s 2020 agenda: Electoral changes, security challenges and automation’s threat to the workforce
- Presidential candidate Andrew Yang says taxes on tech companies could pay for $1,000 monthly payment to every American adult
- Sen. Amy Klobuchar sees roads and levees as an unglitzy path to the presidency
- Texas Democrats plan multimillion-dollar effort to unseat Cornyn
- The majority of Americans tend to agree with Democrats on top issues, polling shows
- Bernie Sanders declines to say when he will release tax returns
PROGRESS IS PROGRESS
- This Georgetown sophomore wants to change how we view and talk about disabilities
- Yes, Kurt Cobain was a grunge icon. He was also a gay rights hero.
IN OTHER NEWS…
- Baylor edges defending champion Notre Dame for third NCAA women’s title
- Virginia and Texas Tech are bringing old school to the national championship game
- Virginia beats Auburn in Final Four on Kyle Guy free throws with less than a second left
- Does a law meant to keep Native American children with their tribes help or harm them?
- Opinion | The day Martin Luther King Jr. died: ‘Voices of the Movement’ Episode 1
- Review | ‘Killing Eve’ resumes its anxiety-fueled story of two women who can’t resist one another
- This president played more golf than any other. And it’s not Trump.
- An infant did not have any hospital visitors for five months. So this nurse adopted her.
RUMOR MILL
- MSW Podcast: Now that the federal government is taking my job away after 11 years of service, I *could* start using my real name, but I’ve actually grown quite attached to A.G. It’s going to be weird not working for the government after all this time.
- PostimusMaximus: Can Congress write a law that makes shitposting an impeachable offense? Thanks.
- John Schindler: Anybody foolish enough to push AG Barr’s 4-pager as the Last Word on the SCO investigation into Trump and the Russians is going to be sorely disappointed….rather soon.
- MSW Podcast: The grand jury met Friday? Justice porn fantasy: Mueller’s grand jury was disturbed by Barr’s characterization of the Mueller report, so they’ve petitioned Beryl Howell to release their findings to the House judiciary, just like the Watergate grand jury did #superspacebeans
- Angry White House Staffer: Trump has sent 7 tweets on the Mueller report today. I’m starting to think it’s not a complete and total exoneration. 😏
- 911corlebra777: Barns is a legal advisor to Wikileaks & Assange. He confirmed to Australian radio this afternoon Australian time, that Assange has been informed by Embassy staff in London that he is to be expelled from the Ecuadorian Embassy 🙂
- WikiLeaks says Ecuador embassy will expel Assange
- Countercheckist: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Panic time over at Casa de #GRUlian.
That’s it for the last few days. Yes, I’m behind by a few days. The continuous drama is very time consuming and draining on me. I’ve been in a holding pattern for the last couple days for finding a long term housing solution, and I’ve learned a lot of shit about him over the past few weeks. I didn’t think it was possible to have a lower opinion of him than I already had when I started this journey, but just like the rest of my life he’s found new and interesting ways to abuse and disappoint.
That’s the first time I’ve used the a-word to describe his behavior in the written form. It won’t be the last.
My next post should be posted by Wednesday or Thursday covering Monday to posting. I’m still in the fight, just not on the front lines right now.
Thank you, and have a good one.
“Without Journalists, it’s just propaganda.”
– Katy Tur
None of this is Normal 
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