Thursday April 11 to Sunday, April 14, 2019
THE RUSSIAN INVESTIGATION
- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrested by British police after being evicted from Ecuador’s embassy in London
- Assange accused of conspiring with Chelsea Manning in 2010 WikiLeaks release, says unsealed U.S. indictment
- Digging into the details of the indictment against Julian Assange
- How Julian Assange went from First Amendment hero to partisan figure in the eyes of the public
- Julian Assange Evicted and Arrested
- Julian Assange, expelled from his embassy perch, will fight extradition from jail
- WATCH: Rachel Maddow draws a straight line from Wikileaks to Don Jr after Assange arrest
- What we know — and don’t know — about WikiLeaks, Julian Assange and the 2016 campaign
- WikiLeaks Founder Charged in Computer Hacking Conspiracy
- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange accused of conspiring to break DoD password
- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrested by British police after being evicted from Ecuador’s embassy in London
- WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange was arrested on behalf of U.S. authorities, British police say, citing extradition warrant
- Mike Pence Argues Trump’s ‘I Love WikiLeaks’ Wasn’t Actually an Endorsement of Wikileaks
- Trump claims to ‘know nothing about Wikileaks’ despite praising it a dozen times during 2016 election campaign
- Trump lies, says he knows nothing about Wikileaks site he cited 164 times
- Trump in 2016: ‘I love WikiLeaks,’ Trump now: ‘I know nothing about WikiLeaks’
- Trump, who once said he ‘loved’ WikiLeaks, claims to know nothing about the group.
- MSW Podcast: Wowza. The bitcoin Jill Stein fedora PT Cruiser libertarian incel rape apologist Tulsi supporting friends of Assange bots are EVERYWHERE today! I’ve blocked like 40 in the past hour.
- Ecuadorian Embassy Runs Ad Seeking ‘No Drama’ Tenant For Newly Vacant Room: The Onion
- 911corlebra777: Ecuador’s Foreign Ministry has just accused Wikileaks of having operatives on the ground in Ecuador who were going to work with a member of the previous government, to try & destabilize the current one. Pretty wild if true
- Caroline Orr: Trump today: “I know nothing about WikiLeaks.” Trump in 2016: “WikLeaks WikLeaks WikLeaks WikLeaks WikLeaks WikLeaks WikLeaks WikLeaks WikLeaks I LOVE WIKILEAKS …” 2:20 155K views
- Tea Pain: Trump today claimed, “I know nothing about Wikileaks.” He likes co-conspirators that weren’t captured.
- Countercheckist: Assange is not a journalist. He’s an individual who conspired w/ a tyrant to attack democracy. Snowden is not a whistleblower or privacy advocate. He’s a RIS asset hiding out in a country w/ no real privacy protections or rule of law. They’re Kremlin tools. Both of them.
- A Crime A Day: 18 USC §1502 makes it a federal crime to resist a U.S. extradition agent who’s carrying out an extradition.
- Why Ecuador Finally Got Sick of Assange and Threw Him Out
- Rick Wilson: Here come the Trump defenders and revisionists. “Trump HATED Wikileaks. He NEVER mentioned them. EVER. We have always been at war with EastAsia.
- Eric Garland: For anyone squawking the Kremlin line that Assange is a journalist, ask how many journalists actively hope their sources are murdered.
- Julia Davis: #Russia’s state TV: RT’s editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan says that there’s no safe place on earth for anyone who managed to seriously harm the United States of America, except for #Russia. “#Assange should have gone to the Russian embassy,” she says,”I would have told him to.”
- MSW Podcast: These Guy Fawkes mask-wearing Assange supporters are hilarious. IF he’s found guilty, he’ll get like 7 months in a white collar hotel jail. This isn’t Solzhenitsyn. We’re talking about a guy who smears shit on the walls and skipped bail on rape charges. Calm down, edgelords.
- Thread by @gregolear: “Let’s talk about Julian Assange. [THREAD] 1/ Whatever legitimate journalism Assange’s Wikileaks may’ve done previously, by 2016, he was an a […]”
It’s about time. Journalist Hater of democracy around the world Julian Assange was evicted from the Ecuadorian Embassy in Britain on Thursday, and immediately arrested by British police at the request of the Americans. Assange faces up to a year in jail for skipping bail when he fled rape charges in Sweden and hid out in the embassy. Though, in hindsight, his plan was to eventually reach Russia.
Assange was charged with attempting to access DoD computers in a criminal conspiracy with Chelsea Manning (then Bradley Manning). He’s facing 5 years in prison for this crime.
These charges do not include any of his actions from the 2016 election. Rumor has it that those are under seal until he can be certain of being tried without a risk of pardon or other commutation.
- Former White House counsel Gregory Craig pleads not guilty to false statement charges
- Former White House official accused in security clearance dispute to face House committee
- Angry White House Staffer: I hope the MAGATs stretched before this reach. Greg Craig worked for Obama until he was fired in 2010. He was indicted for illegalities with Manafort in 2012 and beyond. “OMG OBAMA’S COUNSEL GOT INDICTED” …for working with Trump’s campaign manager. 🙄
Gregory Craig was indicted for not registering as a foreign lobbyist under FARA for his work with Ukraine and Paul Manafort starting in 2012.
- Lawrence Tribe: It’s hard to call someone in Trump’s orbit even more dishonorable than Trump himself, but Bill Barr might meet that test: unlike the totally unmoored and immoral Trump, this Attorney General clearly knows better. He has to know how badly he is betraying the rule of law.
- Bill Barr Is the Most Dangerous Man in America
- Barr obliterates honest broker persona with ‘spying’ comment
- Barr’s spy talk emboldens Trump’s allies ahead of Mueller report’s release
- Bill Barr, “spy” hunter: Now we know the attorney general is a Trump true believer
- After Barr’s betrayal, DOJ and FBI employees must speak out
- As Attorney General, Barr Engaged in ‘Unauthorized Surveillance’
- Chuck Todd rips Barr on spying remarks: ‘The attorney general gaslit the country’
- CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin: Attorney General Bill Barr ‘Talks Like Sean Hannity’
- Comey: ‘I have no idea’ what Barr meant with ‘spying’ comment
- Congress-Barr conflict shows it’s time to bring back prosecutors with true independence
- Dems Demand Evidence After AG Barr Tells Senators FBI Spied on Trump Campaign
- Dems rip Nunes’ plan for private huddle with Barr to discuss criminal allegations
- Former Watergate prosecutor: Barr is part of ‘one big cover-up’
- Hirono slams Barr use of ‘spying’: ‘When Barr opens his mouth, Trump’s words come popping out’
- Rod Rosenstein stuck his neck out for Trump. Now he’s doing it again for William Barr.
- Trump campaign falsely claims Barr revealed ‘unlawful spying’ in email to supporters
- William Barr Obliterated the DOJ’s Standard for Defending Laws Because Donald Trump Asked
- William Barr shows he’s Trump’s attorney general, not the country’s
- William Barr’s highly questionable use of Trump’s ‘spying’ talking point
- READ: Roger Stone Tells Judge He Needs Copy Of Mueller Report For Defense
- Natasha Bertrand: .@Comey on Trump and Russian interference: “We need to ask why our president will not acknowledge what his intelligence community has found…I don’t think we are adequately prepared, and in many ways we’re inviting it to happen again in virtue of our president’s silence.”
- Inside the Russian effort to target Sanders supporters — and help elect Trump
CONGRESS
- Jerry Nadler Won’t Stop Until the Full Mueller Report is Out
- Angry White House Staffer: I know folks are mad at Nadler for being slow, but this is who he is. He’s going to give Barr a chance to not be an idiot, then he’ll drop the hammer on him.
- Rep. Jerry Nadler: Read our letter to AG Barr reasserting our expectation that Congress receive the full, unredacted Mueller report here:
Nadler seems like he’s going to give Barr just enough rope to hang himself. By my calculations, he only needs another three or four inches.
- Cummings says he will issue ‘friendly subpoena’ to Trump accounting firm
- Cummings to file subpoena for all of Trump’s finances
Here’s the part that slipped through the cracks in Trump’s defenses. They could try to do an end-run by having Mnuchin try to block the release from the IRS, which is illegal, but anyone else who handled Trump’s taxes is also fair game. Further, the only way they could fight this would be with a lengthy court battle that would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and would likely end right back with a court order releasing the tax returns anyway. Who’s going to pay the legal bills for this fight? Certainly won’t be Trump.
- Democrat Sets April 23 Deadline for IRS to Send Trump Taxes
- Donald Trump’s tax returns must be given to House Democrats by 23 April, a committee chair has said.
- Here’s the Law That Requires Mnuchin to Turn Over Trump’s Taxes, or Lose His Office and Go to Prison
- House committee sends new letter to IRS demanding Trump’s tax returns
- House Democrats give IRS hard deadline of April 23 to turn over Trump tax returns, say administration’s concerns ‘lack merit’
- House Oversight threatens Justice Department official with contempt for bucking subpoena
- Pelosi slams Trump’s Fed picks as ‘totally unsuited, unqualified’
- Senate Republicans push White House to stop purge at Homeland Security
- Trump’s odd behavior is reason enough to compel disclosure of his tax returns
- Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren wants to raise $1 trillion in revenue with a new 7% tax on corporate profits over $100 million
- At Oversight Hearing, Republicans Lavish Praise On Wall Street Oligarchs
- Katie Porter’s Questioning of Jamie Dimon Shows Exactly What a Member of Congress Is Supposed to Do: The California congresswoman reminds us the job is to represent your constituents—not Big Banks, not lobbyists, not special interests, and not the president.
- House Democrats confront party divisions at unity-building retreat
COHEN, NEW YORK, AND THE OTHER LAWSUITS
- Trump’s sister quietly retired in February, and it’s actually a really big deal
- Trump’s sister quits as judge, prematurely ending probe into whether she committed tax fraud alongside president
- Trump’s sister resigns judgeship ahead of tax scheme probe: NYT
- Donald Trump Is ‘Financially Compromised’ By Russia. Mueller Didn’t Investigate But Congress Must: Ex-Federal Prosecutor
- Democrats Demand Answers From Secret Service About Mar-A-Lago Security
TRUMP THE RUSSIAN ASSET A.K.A INDIVIDUAL-1
- Trump claims to ‘know nothing about Wikileaks’ despite praising it a dozen times during 2016 election campaign
- Trump lies, says he knows nothing about Wikileaks site he cited 164 times
- Trump in 2016: ‘I love WikiLeaks,’ Trump now: ‘I know nothing about WikiLeaks’
- Trump, who once said he ‘loved’ WikiLeaks, claims to know nothing about the group.
- The mob-boss presidency
- The Tyranny of Donald J. Trump — Two Generations of Tax Cheating, and Now He Holds Himself and His Family Above the Law
- Trump introduces George P. Bush as ‘the only Bush who got it right’
- Trump Refers To Ivanka As ‘Baby’ During Meetings, Thinks She Should Run For President
- Trump says administration giving ‘strong considerations’ to releasing immigrant detainees in ‘sanctuary cities’
- Trump shares an inaccurate graphic on Twitter that overstates his job approval by 12 points
- Trump peace package for Middle East likely to stop short of Palestinian statehood
- Trump pressured Nielsen to release detained immigrants into so-called sanctuary cities
- Trump told CBP head he’d pardon him if he were sent to jail for violating immigration law
- Trump Told Head Of Border Patrol He’d Pardon Him If He Broke Immigration Law
- Trump Touts 55 Percent Approval From Poll That Found 43 Percent Approval
- Trump tweets altered video of Ilhan Omar belittling 9/11
- Trump’s lies about Puerto Rico aren’t just cruel — they’re preventing disaster relief
- Trump’s Plan to Reduce Trade Deficit Falters as it Hits an All-Time High Instead
- If Trump has his way, this major federal agency is on the way out
- Our Commander-in-Troll Does Not Care If He Puts Americans In Danger
- By claiming ‘total exoneration,’ does Trump risk a ‘Mission Accomplished’ moment?
TRAITOR TOTS
- Labor Department found ‘severe’ sexual harassment at company led by Trump’s NOAA nominee
- ‘She’s very good with numbers’: Trump says he considered his daughter Ivanka to lead the World Bank
CULT 45
- Does It Matter That the President Knows Nothing About History? We Asked 3 Historians: Turns out…yeah.
- Donald Trump is sabotaging America’s democracy
- The American Republic Is Crumbling, Piece by Piece. Soon There Won’t Be Anything Left.
FIGHTING BACK
- Robert De Niro tears into Republicans: ‘We’re not going to forget’ about what you did under Trump
- Trump’s Treason Accusations Violate His Oath of Office
- With so many ‘acting’ officials, we need a president who acts like one
- CNN host calls out Trump campaign board member for claiming president “never, ever” incited violence
EMERGENCIES, SHUTDOWN, & IMMIGRATION
- A snapshot of where migrants go after release into the United States
- Nazis ‘Enforced Their Laws As Well’: Houston Police Chief Blasts Order To Deport Child Without Family
- Wait times at U.S.-Mexico border soar as officers are reassigned to deal with migrants
- White House proposed releasing immigrant detainees in sanctuary cities, targeting political foes
- White House: We’re not considering busing migrants to “sanctuary cities.” Trump: Yes, we are!
- After evading gang violence, 11-year-old girl ordered to be deported back to El Salvador
- As Trump pushes Kirstjen Nielsen out the door, liberal groups try to prevent a soft landing
- As Trump Threatens to Ship Undocumented Immigrants to Sanctuary Cities, Those Cities Say: We Will Welcome Them | “Bold move going from ‘We’re getting rid of Sanctuary Cities’ to ‘We will use Sanctuary Cities for their intended purpose.'”
- Chrissy Teigen slams Ivanka Trump for posting pictures of her kids while children are separated at the border
- DHS lawyers signal agency will not send migrants back to Mexico, abiding by court ruling
- Miller and Kushner on a potential collision course in Trump’s border crisis
- Sarah Sanders on sending migrant detainees to sanctuary cities: ‘We’re looking at all options’
- Stephen Miller says tough immigration policies protect Americans. His critics see something darker.
- Trump confirms he is considering placing undocumented migrants only in ‘sanctuary cities’ in revenge against Democrats
- Trump told CBP head he’d pardon him if he were sent to jail for violating immigration law
- Trump Told Head Of Border Patrol He’d Pardon Him If He Broke Immigration Law
RACISM, RIGHT WING TERRORISM & WHITE NATIONALISM
- ‘The president today made America smaller’: Democratic candidates react to Trump’s attack on Rep. Omar
- ‘This puts me in danger’: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez blames GOP groups for death threats
- ‘You can hear the Klan’s lawyers;’ Federal judge likens Trump’s attacks on judiciary to KKK
- “Her Life Is in Danger”: Dems Urged to Speak Out After Trump’s Latest Attack on Ilhan Omar
- A ‘pure racist act;’ N.Y. Post slammed for using 9/11 to attack Rep. Omar over speech on Islamophobia
- A New York Newspaper Ran an Attack on Rep. Ilhan Omar. Now Yemeni American Bodega Owners Are Boycotting It.
- AOC: I’m not going to quote the NY Post’s horrifying, hateful cover. Here’s 1 fact: @IlhanMN is a cosponsor of the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund. She‘s done more for 9/11 families than the GOP who won’t even support healthcare for 1st responders- yet are happy to weaponize her faith.
- Rep. Adam Schiff: The President’s use of 9/11 to attack @IlhanMN is dangerous and irresponsible, and part of a pattern of fanning the flames of hate against Muslims. Using the emotions and tragedy of 9/11 to score political points is beneath the dignity of any president. At least it should be.
- Bodega Owners Boycott New York Post for Attack on Rep. Ilhan Omar
- Democrats defend Omar, rip Trump over 9/11 controversy
- Ilhan Omar has become the target of a dangerous hate campaign | Moustafa Bayoumi | Opinion
- Nadler: Trump has ‘no moral authority’ to talk about 9/11
- Nancy Pelosi: Trump Is ‘Wrong’ to Use Edited 9/11 Footage in ‘Political Attack’
- Now Outraged, Trump Boasted On 9/11 That His Building Was Tallest After Attack
- Ocasio-Cortez backs boycott of the ‘racist New York Post’
- Ocasio-Cortez Says Conservatives Are Inciting Violence Against the Left
- Ocasio-Cortez, Omar say they’re targeted with death threats as critics pile on
- Omar thanks supporters, slams critics: No one can threaten ‘my unwavering love for America’
- FDNY firefighter who survived 9/11 says Texas Republican criticizing Ilhan Omar told him he was ‘too busy’ to talk victim’s compensation
- Pelosi: Capitol Police working to ‘safeguard’ Omar after Trump 9/11 tweet
- Pelosi Statement on President Trump Using 9/11 Imagery for Political Attack
- Suspect in black church fires identified as Louisiana sheriff deputy’s son
- Rashida Tlaib Slams Democrats For Silence On Trump’s Islamophobic Attacks On Ilhan Omar | HuffPost
- Dan Crenshaw has no response after AOC blasts him over his phony outrage.
- Rep. Ilhan Omar Was Right: Threats Against Muslim Americans Are Rising
- Trump blocked renomination of Obama-era UN racism official, won’t pick a replacement
- Trump tweets altered video of Ilhan Omar belittling 9/11
- Trump had an unusual reaction to 9/11 just hours after the attacks
- Unite the whites: Donald Trump now leads a unified party of anti-immigrant racism
- At a hearing, an expert said the FBI should focus on the rise of white nationalism, not ‘black identity extremists’
SCOTUS & COURTS
- Jurors Thought a Gay Man Would Enjoy Prison. So They Sentenced Him to Death.
- Progressive Groups Ask Congress To Investigate Brett Kavanaugh
- Trump’s Nominees Won’t Say if Brown v. Board of Education Was Decided Correctly
- Trump’s immigration policies fail time and again when faced with scrutiny from the federal courts
#METOO & WOMEN’S RIGHTS
- Antiabortion ‘heartbeat’ bills are illegal. Why do Republicans keep passing them?
- Death sentence for abortion? The hypocrisy of US pro-lifers is plain to see
- The Ohio Governor Just Signed a Bill Banning Abortion Before Many Women Know They Are Pregnant
- South Korea legalize abortion after 66-year ban
- ‘It’s Basically Pornography’: Robert Kraft’s Lawyers Have Seen the Massage Parlor Video and Don’t Want it Getting Out
- DA knew Jeffrey Epstein was a dangerous pedophile when arguing for leniency
COLD WAR 2.0
- Swedbank Is Dragged Into Criminal Probe of Danske in Estonia
- Bill Browder: BREAKING: Estonian law enforcement authorities confirm money laundering investigation into Swedbank in response to our criminal complaint and combine it with their Danske Bank investigation opened last year
- Chomsky: Trump Radically Interfered with Israel’s Election to Help Re-elect Netanyahu
- Venezuela’s military, despite U.S. expectations, has not turned on Maduro
- Russia is getting a big financial boost from U.S. sanctions on Iran and Venezuela
- The Russians are screwing with the GPS system to send bogus navigation data to thousands of ships
#NEVERAGAIN
- 6-year-old girl dies days after accidental shooting in Paulding County
- Shannon Watts: These Georgia parents LEFT THEIR CHILDREN ALONE IN A CAR WITH A LOADED GUN and now their daughter is dead. “No charges will be filed in the case, the sheriff said.” Why? Why? Why? #GAPol
- Shannon Watts: Stop with the “Don’t punish the gun owning parents, they’ve suffered enough” comments. That’s the culture that enabled drunk driving deaths for decades. Until we hold gun owners accountable for negligence, these deaths will continue. Over 4.5M American children live in homes with unsecured guns. Only 28 states require gun owners to responsibly store their guns – and even in those states, breaking the law is usually a misdemeanor punishable by a $400 fine. The @NRA opposes child access prevention (CAP) laws. 40 replies 761 retweets 2,706 likes. America: Where leaving your dog in a hot car results in criminal charges, but leaving a loaded gun in your car that kills your child doesn’t.
- David Hogg: Today’s my birthday! All I want today is for everyone who reads this to leave Chase Bank or Wells Fargo and call them at Case:1-800-935-9935 Wells Fargo: 1-800-357-6675 Say your leaving because they give money to gun manufacturers. Thanks 💕
- Gun Control Group’s Report Card on U.S. Banks’ Firearms Ties Has Several Fs
- Colorado Signs ‘Red Flag’ Bill Giving Judges Power to Remove Guns From High-Risk Owners
- McDermott: The struggling NRA doesn’t represent average gun owners. It represents mayhem.
FIXING THE INTERNET
- “Don’t Give Hate a Platform”: Facebook, Twitter Urged to Suspend Trump Following Attack on Ilhan Omar
- ‘Hitler would have loved social media,’ Disney CEO Bob Iger says in sharp rebuke of tech giants
- Twitter Urged To Suspend Donald Trump After President Accused Of ‘Sharing Propaganda Videos Trafficking In Hate Speech’ Over Omar Attack
THE PROPAGANDA MACHINE
- ‘Fox News brain’: meet the families torn apart by toxic cable news
- What I’ve Learned From People Whose Loved Ones Were Transformed by Fox News
- Fox mentions Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for 42 days running – 3,181 times.
- It’s Time to Stop Pretending the Murdochs Are in the News Business
- Joe Scarborough calls Devin Nunes a “dumbass” after FISA conspiracy theory, and a “disgrace to this country”
WHITE HOUSE CHAOS
TRADE WAR, HEALTH CARE, & ECONOMY
- ‘I Felt Americans Needed to Know’: Insurance Industry Whistleblower Gives Glimpse of Effort to Crush Medicare for All
- $2,198,468,000,000: Federal Spending Hit 10-Year High Through March; Taxes Hit 5-Year Low
- 60 Top Corporations Paid $0 Federal Taxes Under Trump Tax Law
- After reports of infant deaths, nearly 5 million Fisher Price Rock ’n Play Sleepers are recalled
- Amazon Shareholders Set to Vote on a Proposal to Ban Sales of Facial Recognition Tech to Governments
- DVD and Blu-ray sales nearly halved over five years, MPAA report says
- Health-care law more popular despite Trump’s repeated attempts to destroy it
- Not just Amazon: 60 big companies paid $0 in taxes under Trump law
- Read Bernie Sanders’s 2019 Medicare-for-all plan. Sanders proposes a generous benefit package that would require almost no out-of-pocket fees.
- Sanders, 14 Senators Introduce Medicare for All
- Socialism for the Rich, Capitalism for the Rest – While the wealthy and powerful are coddled with public largesse, the rest of us are thrown into the jaws of an unforgiving economic system
- Three veterans in five days die by suicide at VA facilities
- Trump administration appeals rulings that blocked Medicaid work requirements
- Trump administration rubber stamps Arizona copper mine. An industry-friendly ruling contradicts years of concerns over potential damage to endangered species, water systems and Native American cultural sites.
- Trump tax ‘cut’ actually increased taxes for 10 million American families, report finds
- Trump’s latest Fed picks have supported the gold standard. It’s one of the worst economic ideas in the world.
- Report: Herman Cain To Withdraw His Name From Federal Reserve Board
- Fourth GOP senator opposes Trump pick Herman Cain for Fed board, effectively ending his path to confirmation
- Twice as many companies paying zero taxes under Trump tax plan
- Warren slams Moore as ‘unqualified and unsuited’ for Fed seat
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to bankers: kids who can’t afford a MetroCard end up in jail, should more folks have gone to jail for the financial crisis?
STUDENT ISSUES
- Internal memo contradicts DeVos on using federal money to buy guns for teachers
- Lori Loughlin Is ’Very Concerned’ About What Pleading Guilty Would Do to Olivia Jade and Isabella
GOP: THE PARTY OF LINCOLN IS DEAD
- GOP grows tired of being blindsided by Trump
- GOP Silent After Trump Tweets Footage Of 9/11 Attacks To Target Ilhan Omar
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
Avenatti Charged
- Avenatti Accused of Hiding $4M Settlement from ‘Mentally Ill Paraplegic’ Client, Faces Up to 335 Years in Prison
- Michael Avenatti charged with 36 federal crimes, including tax fraud and bank fraud
- Michael Avenatti indictment: Charges could bring sentence of more than 300 years
- US: Avenatti deceived to prevent ‘house of cards’ collapse
- Lori Loughlin, Michael Avenatti, Julian Assange and Tekashi 6ix9ine battle for craziest jailbird in SNL cold open
Just when the timeline couldn’t get any more screwed up, Michael Avenatti is accused of extorting Nike and taking money from a crippled person. What’s this world coming to when a dickhead lawyer who rose to fame going after the President’s personal lawyer and who was evicted from his law office and attacked a bunch of people telling him it’s a bad idea to run for POTUS can’t be trusted?
- Minnesota arrests 58 in child sex sting during NCAA Final Four weekend
- Eric Garland: Sting on sex traffickers and child sex traffickers at NCAA Finals in Minneapolis; arrests
- 27 possible graves have been discovered at a reform school with a history of brutality
- A couple vanished on a Caribbean vacation. Their deaths are just as mysterious.
- A seventh-grader’s strange discovery at school: Human bones
- Former officer arrested for animal sex abuse now charged with 31 counts of child porn
- He couldn’t afford a $250 mental health evaluation. Could it have prevented a triple murder?
- He tried to frame his daughter for his wife’s bathtub death. After his conviction, she still believes he’s innocent.
- Nearly 46 years after two teens were killed, a man has been charged with their murder
PRIESTS & RELIGION
- Former Pope Blames Church Abuse Crisis on “Sexual Revolution” and Gay “Cliques”
- Speaking out at ‘this difficult hour,’ a once-quiet ex-pope pens a lengthy letter on sexual abuse
- The plot against America: Inside the Christian right plan to “remodel” the nation | Religious right’s blueprint for theocratic state laws keeps creeping forward. Is the left ready to fight?
ENVIRONMENT & SCIENCE
- ‘Attenborough effect’ leads to 53% drop in single use plastic in 12 months
- As blizzard exits central U.S., severe weather to erupt this weekend from new storm in South
- As the seas rise, Republicans will deserve all the blame their grandchildren assign them
- Fecal transplants result in massive long-term reduction in autism symptoms
- For young adults, colorectal cancer is a growing threat. It’s unclear why.
- House panel launches probe of EPA’s air policy chief
- Inspector General Says EPA Is Lying To The Public About Toxic Chemicals
- Measles outbreak kills more than 1,200 in Madagascar
- NASA Kelly twins study shows harsh effects of space flight and a brutal return to Earth
- New York City vaccination order shines spotlight on insular Jewish community
- Powerful, deadly storms continue to move across South
- Review | Not all iPhones are the same. These cost less and are better for the Earth.
- Science is “a Democrat thing”: Mantra of the Trump administration revealed | Lobbyist turned Trump appointee reportedly defended canceling coal study by saying science was for Democrats
- She went to the hospital for an infection. Doctors found four bees living in her eye, eating her tears.
- This Appalachian town was America’s ‘fattest city.’ Here’s how it slimmed down.
- W.Va. Governor’s Family Owes Millions In Mining Violations, Despite Promises To Pay
- What’s in a name? The battle over alternative meat, milk and rice labeling rages on.
- Why is an MIT alum in Congress pretending he doesn’t know climate change is real?
- With $13 billion in disaster relief still stuck in gridlock, lawmakers head to recess
ELECTIONS
- Republicans are anti-voting and anti-democratic
- This judge resigned by accident. His party had the power to fix it but chose to dismiss him anyway.
THINKING AHEAD
- Inside the Russian effort to target Sanders supporters — and help elect Trump
- Russian accounts targeted Sanders voters to try to boost Trump after 2016 primaries: report
- Bernie Sanders pushes back at critics of his new wealth: ‘I didn’t know it was a crime to write a good book’
- Pete Buttigieg officially announces 2020 presidential campaign
- Pete Buttigieg is emerging as a serious contender for the Democratic nomination
- ‘He knows better’: Pete Buttigieg has made Mike Pence his target, and the vice president isn’t pleased
- Pete Buttigieg Is Not “Feuding” With Mike Pence. He’s Reminding Everyone of the Vice President’s Cruelty.
- Buttigieg slams Electoral College for overruling popular vote ‘twice in my lifetime’
- Pete Buttigieg Kicks Off Presidential Campaign: Live Stream Rally, What Time, How to Watch
- Beto O’Rourke Says Trump’s 9/11 Tweet Incites Violence Against Rep. Omar, Muslim Americans, During South Carolina Campaign Stop
- Cory Booker, a would-be bachelor president, says Americans are ‘open to lots of different types of families’ in the White House
- Elizabeth Warren Has a Novel Idea: Tax Corporations on the Profits They Claim Publicly
- Elizabeth Warren Switched From Republican to Democrat After Watching Banks Destroy Families Through Bankruptcy
- Illinois Democrats to Trump: Show tax returns or be barred from 2020 ballot
- Trump must release his tax returns or be barred from state’s 2020 ballot, Illinois senate votes
- Kamala Harris releases 15 years of her tax returns
- Kamala Harris releases 15 years of tax returns
- Kamala Harris releases 15 years of tax returns, more than any other 2020 candidate
- Poll: Trump has 55 percent unfavorable rating in Georgia
- Research says septuagenarians can struggle with new tasks. That’s bad news for several 2020 candidates.
PROGRESS IS PROGRESS
- Marijuana Testing of Job Applicants Is Barred by City in Groundbreaking Measure
- NYC may ban pre-hire marijuana tests for many job applicants
- ‘I’m a queer black woman in America, and I’m awesome’: These high school students consider what it means to ‘own it’
- These women were elected as democratic socialists. Now they’re trying to figure out what that means.
- Why spend billions to arrest thousands, a Dem and a Republican ponder. Let’s just legalize marijuana already.
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- Tiger Woods completes a Masterpiece of a comeback
- Kim Kardashian West plans to become a lawyer in the same unusual way as Abraham Lincoln
RUMOR MILL
- Signs Of Trump’s Dementia Are Clear As Day, Psychologist Warns
- Angry White House Staffer: At this point, if you’re still on team Tulsi, I can’t help you. She’s now defended: 1. Assad 2. Putin 3. Trump 4. Assange She might as well start Tweeting in Russian TBH. Also, for everyone who has been defending Tulsi’s foreign policy / NatSec chops? She’s defending someone who illegally accessed a DoD computer. If that doesn’t disqualify her to discuss NatSec, I don’t know what does.
- Greg Olear: Play close attention to who is now defending Assange. It’s never been as easy to spot the clowns to the left of me (the jokers to the right are always simple to ID): Tulsi Gabbard, Jill Stein, Jeremy Corbyn, Snowden, etc. Julian is rotten to the core. Assange has his defenders on the other side, too. David Duke, and his BFF Client #3:
- Ale: 1. It’s time to remind everyone what happened to Nixon’s AG John Mitchell. Because Barr is well on his way to the same fate, if he keeps his lying up. I don’t think Barr will get to Mitchell’s levels with his wife but that’s not necessary to go to jail. THREAD
- Thread by @aliasvaughn: “1. It’s time to remind everyone what happened to Nixon’s AG John Mitchell. Because Barr is well on his way to the same fate, if he keeps his […]”
- Reddit: [Speculation]Did Barr shutter the Mueller probe?
- Prepare for Mueller’s long shadow
- Countercheckist: “The ongoing activity appears to indicate that Mueller didn’t simply drop the mic and walk away without ensuring that mechanisms are in place to run out the tentacles of his investigation…” 🙂
- Kas Weida: How Hitler seized power Step 1: Create a crisis Step 2: Demonize opponents Step 3: Declare a state of emergency Step 4: Undermine elections Step 5: Make the rule of law irrelevant Step 6: Rule by decree We’re farther down the authoritarian to-do list than I’d like to be.
That’s it for the last few days. Things are still crazy in my personal life, and it might take me a few days or weeks to get back to normal.
I’m going to add Assange, Craig, and Avenatti to The Indicted.
Thank you, and have a good one.
“Without Journalists, it’s just propaganda.”
– Katy Tur
None of this is Normal 
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