2017

HSIOW. Holy Shit, it’s Only Wednesday.

Today has been especially crazy.

FACEBOOK SOLD RUSSIAN ADS DURING CAMPAIGN

This is big. Huge. Per the Washington Post, Facebook sold campaign ads to a Russian organization. They claim that $100k was spent by at least 470 fraudulent accounts.

It’s been assumed so for over a year, but having them say so to a Senate Committee makes it an even bigger deal than anyone knew.

DAILY CALLER CALLING IT – PAUL MANAFORT WILL BE INDICTED

The Daily Caller released a report that aides inside the White House believe that Manafort is screwed.

Why is this news?

The Daily Caller is a very partisan, right wing site. This would be like ShareBlue or HuffPo saying HRC was guilty of some evil email stuff.

TRUMP OPENLY ACCEPTING BRIBES VIA GOLF COURSE

USA Today did a ton of groundwork tying together foreign diplomats, lobbyists, and federal contractors to golf trips at Donald Trump’s courses while he was there, and that they were seeking favors from the President.

The President is openly accepting bribes. The fact that this isn’t the biggest story of the year just shows how fucked up things really are right now.

HURRICANE IRMA RAMPING UP

Irma is currently a Category 5, and is hitting Puerto Rico tonight. It’s anticipated to hit Florida on Friday.

TRUMP BACKS DEMOCRATIC DEAL ON HARVEY RELIEF, DEBT CEILING

This one is weird. Trump sided with the Democrats today on Harvey relief and the Debt Ceiling deal. I have two ideas why.

First, Trump is mad at McConnell and wants to spite him.

Second, he thinks doing this deal with Chuck Schumer will get them to stop the Russian investigation.

This may be the dumbest thing he’s done. Until tomorrow. Who knows what stupidity will happen then.

FALLOUT FROM DACA

Following the DACA rescinding, 15 states, and several companies, are suing the President. Leading the charge is New York AG Eric Schneiderman. This isn’t by coincidence. Schneiderman is working with Mueller to deliver a Fuck-Your-Pardon Sandwich with a side of RICO Fries to Donald Trump.

Shits getting interesting. Something big is coming tomorrow.

If it feels like this has been a constant drip of information, I think it’s intentional. I’ll write about why this weekend.

Thank you, and have a good one.

Daily Check-In 9/5/2017

Tuesday after Labor Day. I’m going to make this short.

DACA

Trump announced an end to DACA, affecting about 800,000 Dreamers. Trump sent Sessions out to make the announcement that they would end this in 6 months.

It’s a chickenshit move.

The only good that could come out of this is that Congress might get some actual immigration reform done.

GERRYMANDERING

Senators John McCain and Sheldon Whitehouse filed an amicus brief on Gill vs Whitford . This case is scheduled to go before the Supreme Court, and could set a legal standard for partisan gerrymandering.

KEITH SCHILLER FIRED

Keith Schiller, long time head of Trump’s security team, was fired/let go/quit over the weekend. He’s been with Trump for 18 years, and was involved in Comey’s firing, hand delivering the letter to FBI HQ, even though Comey was in L.A.

Keith knows where the bodies are buried. Because he buried them.

MANAFORT IN EDVA THIS MORNING

I don’t have much else, but supposedly Paul Manafort was seen in the courtroom of the Eastern District of Virginia this morning. Could be that he was testifying at a grand jury, offering a proffer, or getting a cool taco recipe. I’ll update when I find out more.

Thank you and have a good one.

Daily Check-In 9/1/2017

It’s Friday. It’s September.

MUELLER HAS THE ROUGH DRAFT OF COMEY’S FIRING LETTERS

At some point in the last few months, Robert Mueller got his hands on the original rough draft of the letter used as justification to fire James Comey. The New York Times reported that the letter, written by Stephen Miller, included references to how Comey would not publicly exonerate him from being investigated. Lawyers said that this was “very problematic” for them. That’s legalese for completely fucked.

ANOTHER RUSSIAN MOTIVATION

As I’m writing this, Eric Garland is laying out one hell of a thread about another Russian motivation behind the election.

Money behind fossil fuels.

Russia’s GDP, which is roughly half of California’s, is based almost entirely on oil and other fossil fuels. They have nothing else. And we’re well past the point of saying fossil fuels don’t have an impact on climate change.

The future is clean energy. Wind, solar, nuclear, these are how we’ll produce electricity from here on out. Transportation is becoming electrified. Only an idiot, someone on the take, or both would push for more fossil fuels.

Enter Donald Trump.

The coal-loving, wind farm hating, climate change is a Chinese conspiracy, Donald Trump.

Look at all of the anti-environmental actions that Trump took after coming to power.

The CEO of Exxon is the Secretary of State.

The head of the EPA is a climate change denier and on the Koch Brothers payroll.

The head of the Energy Department is a fracker from Oklahoma.

The Education Department wants to strip science funding if schools teach climate change.

The Transportation Department wants to relax fuel mileage standards.

By pushing a pro-oil agenda in the United States, the Russians get about ten years of solid oil sales and a thriving economy. If the US goes clean, Russia is bankrupt.

That’s all for tonight, the phone is about to die.

Thank you, and have a good one.

Daily Check-In 8/31/2017

August is finally wrapping up. Big things are happening.

MUELLER INVESTIGATING TRUMP FOR OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE

This isn’t exactly news, but the Wall Street Journal released today that back in June, Trump’s legal team sent memos to Mueller’s team outlining why they don’t think Trump firing Comey was illegal. It was the standard argument from Trump. He’s the President, Comey’s a liar, look at my crowd sizes, etc. The first two were real, but I wouldn’t be surprised at the third.

So, what does this mean?

This means that, as of June, Robert Mueller was investigating Donald Trump for Obstruction of Justice.

This is big.

Why is it coming out today? Good question.

MANAFORT TOOK NOTES ABOUT RNC AND RUSSIAN MONEY

Remember in The Russian Hypothesis where I talked about the Republican National Committee working with the Russians on getting foreign money into the campaign in direct conflict with several U.S laws?

Well, guess who’s notes mentioned “donations” and “convention”?

Yep, Paul Manafort.

At the June 9 meeting.

In Trump Tower.

Weeks before the RNC convention in Cleveland.

I don’t want to say I was right, since I’m reporting others work. But this was rumored months ago. The fact that it’s hitting the mainstream now is big.

STATE DEPARTMENT CLOSES RUSSIAN OFFICES

In a limited response to earlier actions by Russia, the State Department closed three Russian offices in New York, Washington, and San Francisco.

PENCE HAVING DAILY CONTACT WITH PAUL MANAFORT DURING TRANSITION PERIOD

According to a report earlier that I’ll try to link to later, Mike Pence was Paul Manafort’s choice for VP, as well as having had daily contact with him throughout the transition period after the election, even though Paul was fired from the campaign in August.

MUELLER WORKING WITH THE IRS CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION TEAM

Sweet Baby Jesus! This just broke. Mueller working with the IRS is Trump’s worst nightmare. This deserves a greater write up soon, but the IRS CI working with FINCEN means someone is fucked 8 ways to Sunday.

ATTACKS ON TWITTER

A lot of the Resistance members are being attacked on Twitter. Hacking, doxxing, trolls botting up and brigading users to get them suspended, harassing family members. Shit’s heating up. Keep your head down and watch your six.

That’s all for tonight.

Have a good one.